Across
- 3. Semantic violations in poetry such as ‘a grief ago’ is an example of _______.
- 6. _______ pronouns need an antecedent inside the same sentence.
- 8. Word pairs such as piece-peace are _______.
- 9. The principle of _______ is the principle that the meaning of an expression is composed of the meaning of its parts and how they are combined.
- 11. If two sentences entail each other, they are _______.
- 12. _______ is the scientific study of the meaning of language
- 14. One aspect of word meaning is _______, the association between a word and the object it refers to.
- 16. When compositionality fails in understanding the meaning of a sentence, listeners look for its _______ meaning.
- 18. If two sentences entail the negation of each other, they are _______.
- 19. Some verbs such as know cannot be used in a command, because they the semantic feature [_______].
Down
- 1. A(n) _______ is what the listener infers from an utterance about what the speaker is trying to convey.
- 2. The truth value of a(n) _______ is always true as defined by the meaning of its words and how they are put together.
- 4. A(n) _______ role refer to the semantic relation between an argument of a verb and the situation that the verb describes.
- 5. Words with opposite meanings are _______.
- 7. _______ refers to a relation between two sentences in which if the first sentence true, the second one is also true in all conceivable circumstances.
- 10. _______ verbs such as walk takes only one argument.
- 13. Both ‘I am sorry that our team lost’ and ‘I am not sorry that our team lost’ _______ that the speaker’s team lost.
- 15. _______ words receive part of their meaning via situational or linguistic contexts.
- 17. As language users, we follow the _______ of discourse to be cooperative in communication.
