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Adjective Meanings
- 1. EBy: Muhammad SyahruddinNawir, Rasynal Tenri Sanna Israkwaty, Putri Purnawati, Moeh. ZaInal Khairul English Language Studies - Hasanuddin University
- 2. Adjective is agood starting point for trying to understand word meaning. OVERVIEW
- 3. Using language togive the meaning of words Sense relations relevant to adjectives Constructions with adjectives Ant Ent Vid
- 4. Using language togive the meaning of words Much – large in quantity Large – ample in extent Ample – large in extent Short – not long, not tall Little – small, not big Small – little in size Big – large in size Tiny – very small Hm
- 5. Using language togive the meaning of words Sense relations relevant to adjectives Constructions with adjectives Ant Ent Vid
- 6. When a singleword in a sentence is replaced by a synonym then the literal meaning of the sentence is not changed. SYNONYM example Hm
- 7. Sentence with thesame meaning are called paraphrases a. You said Andy is cheeky, so that means he is impudent b. You said Andy is impudent, so that means he is cheeky Hm
- 8. COMPLEMENTARIES (absolute antonym) A pairof words with opposite meanings where there is no middle ground and there are only two possibilities, either one or the other is called “complementaries” example Hm
- 9. ANTONYM (graded antonym) Antonym meansany kind of oppositeness. It is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings where the two meanings there is middle ground between them. example Hm
- 10. CONVERSES (relational antonym) The comparative formsof an antonym pair have an interesting sense relation between them, called converses. example Hm
- 11. MEANING POSTULATES Meaning postulateis a way of integrating into logical systems the entailment information that comes from word meaning. example Hm
- 12. Using language togive the meaning of words Sense relations relevant to adjectives Constructions with adjectives Ant Ent Vid
- 13. GRADIBILITY When the languagehas ways of expressing different levels or degrees of the qualities is called gradability (comperative & superlative) example Hm
- 14. ADJECTIVES MODIFYING NOUN Adjectivesas modifier of noun. “Modify” means “change a little”. An adjective changes the meaning of noun by giving more information about it. example Red adjective Red bicycles Bicycles noun Hm
- 15. Sense relation that holds betweenthe meaning of set of words can be larger than pairs. example A yellow rock Black Blue Brown Green Yellow Orange Red Pink Grey Set 1 Circular Triangular rectangular Set 2 Previous Current Next Set 3 LARGER SETS THAN PAIRS Hm
Editor's Notes
- #3 adjectives is a good starting point for trying to understand word meaning. The various kinds of meaning relationship between adjectives are mainly relationship of similarity and oppositeness. And three other topics are meaning postulates, gradability, and how to account for the meanings that arise when adjective modify nouns.
- #16 Sense relation that holds between the meaning of set of word can be larger than pairs. For example: There are 3 larger sets of adjectives, if one told that a particular rock is yellow, so it is not any of the other colors listed in the first set. But it is not true that if something has one adjective, It doesn’t have others. Such as, a yellow rock could be triangular, and it could be previous, current or next specimen in being examined by a geologist.