10.) Semantics 3

Lexical ambiguity

examples

lexical ambiguity in terms of meaning?

Mismatches of meaning

Semantic role?

Also called ___ or ___

Semantic role example

The woman at the apple.

The man took the food from the kitchen to the dining room.

Can we just say that the agent is the subject of the sentence and the theme is the object?

Semantic roles

Agent

Theme

Experiencer

Instrument

Source

Goal

Location

semantic roles

how many roles per entity?

What is a corpus?

What is corpus linguistics?

Why are corpora relevant to semantics?

Sentence meaning:

What is a lexicon?

finite or infinite?

Sentence meaning

Sentences?

Syntactic/structural ambiguity

sentence meaning vs. speaker meaning

Semantics

Pragmatics

sb opens the window and it's really cold outside

what do you say?

There is a conflict between sentence meaning (semantics) and speaker meaning (pragmatics)

representing sentence meaning

proposition

Truth value?

Semantic relations among sentences

What is a paraphrase?

Semantic relations among sentences

What is entailment?

What conclusions can we draw from the following sentences?
(i.e. what is entailed in these sentences?)

• Sandra dropped her phone in the pond.
• This is Wendy, she is Jacob’s wife.
• Sorry, I can’t talk, I’m running late for work!

Semantic relations among sentences:

What is contradiction?