Presentación Semantics
Presentación Semantics
Presentación Semantics
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Lexical
Semantics
Antonymy
Synonymy
Hyponymy
Polysemy
Homonymy
Synonym
y but similar in
• Words that are different in form
meaning
• The semantic relation that expresses the same
meaning
EXAMPLE:
• Beautiful: Attractive
• Create: Make
• See : Visualize
• True: Correct
• False :Wrong.
Antony
my
An antonym is a word having a meaning
opposite to that of another word.
EXAMPLE:
• Hot /Cold
• Short /Tall
• Black/White
• Smart/Stupid
• smart/stupid.
Polysemy
Words that have two or more related
meanings
EXAMPLE:
• Get: Receive/ reach/ understand
• Fix/ Attach/ repair
• Lip/ lip of the cliff or the lip of a cup
Hyponym
y
word whose meaning is included, or entailed,
in the meaning of a more general word
EXAMPLE:
• Apple/Tree
• Tennis/Sport
• Dog/Animal
• Green/ color.
Homonym
y
Words that sound the same but have
different (unrelated) meanings
• Fast
• Modern
• Big
• Reject
• Light
• Slow
• Above
• small
• Accept
• Below
• Ancient
• Dark
let’s practice!
write words related to the central word
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reference
s
• American heritage dictionary of the English language, 4th edn. 2000. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin
• Hurford, J. & B. Heasley. 2007. Semantics: A coursebook, 2nd edn. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Cruse, D. 1986. Lexical semantics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
• Kristin-Denham-Anne-Lobeck-Linguistics-for-Everyone_-An-Introduction-
2012-Cengage-Learning-libgen.
conclusio
To conclude we can say that Semantics is the
n
study of meaning in language, exploring how
words and sentences convey meaning. It involves
understanding how meanings are constructed,
interpreted, and evolve over time.
thank
you!