SEMANTICS THEORY GAP FILLING

A set of words with identifiable semantic affinities

The smallest units of meaning in a word

An object, an entity in the real world/ in the world of our imagination

Linguistic expression in the relationship b/w that word/ expression and the thing/action/event … it refers to

Internal relationship b/w that word and others in the vocabulary of a language

1. One of an ambiguous word whose different senses are far apart from each other and not obviously related to each other in any way with respect to the speaker’s intuition.

one where a word has several very closely related senses. In other words, a native speaker of the language has clear intuitions that the different senses are related to each other in some way.

Any ambiguity resulting from the ambiguity of a word is a ________________.

Semantic oddness (as opposed to grammatical oddness) that can be traced to the meanings of the predicates in the sentence concerned.

_____________ ambiguity occurs when a phrase or sentence has more than one underlying structure