Semantics-U1

Neither a dragon nor the present king of France has an actual referent in the real world, but both expressions have meaning.

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All expressions are almost always referring expressions no matter what sentences they occur.

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He in 'Henry believes that he is invincible' can refer either to the expression Henry or to some other male in the context of the utterance.

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Word meaning and sentence meaning are not interrelated.

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Ocean is denotatively described as [+saline], [-flowing], and [+large].

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At the sentence level, sometimes only one semantic feature of a word is informative.

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Which semantic feature is distintive feature between two words: teacher and student ?

• [+giving the lessons]

• [+being at school]

• [+/-adult]

• [+human beings]

which word has one distintive feature [+moving on one foot] that makes it different from the others?

• hop

• crawl

• walk

• run

Which word has these features?[+human], [+mature], [+female], [+stay single]

• bachelor

• widow

• spinster

• widower

which word has these semantic features[+way of talking], [+using verbal language to exchange with someone]

• whisper

• mutter

• converse

• holler