This document discusses several key linguistic concepts: 1. Semantic features examine the meaning and properties of words, such as whether something is animate or canine. 2. Synonyms share a degree of similarity in meaning but can be distinguished from each other. 3. Antonyms are binary opposition pairs where one term is the opposite of the other, such as tall/short or young/old. 4. Polysemy refers to a single word that has multiple related meanings.

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5. Quality
Characteristic
Important part
Trait or property

6. Semantic Features
Example 1:
John likes basketball
“The table likes basketball”
The dog ran across the field
“The refrigerator ran across the field”
The table likes
The refrigerator ran

7. John Table Dog Refrigerator
Animate + + --
Semantic Features
Human
Canine
+
+
-
- -
- -
-

8. Semantic Features
Example 2:
“Dona’s mother has no children”
“The empty bucket is full”
“The meeting will take place three
years ago”
mother no children”
empty full”
will three
years ago”

10. EyesHandsNose Feet
PurpleRedGreen Yellow
Color
Parts of the Body
HogLogDog Fog
Initial Phoneme

11. Buy Purchase-
A degree of sameness [in regards to
meaning] that two terms share.
It often defined and discriminated
synonyms from each other.

12. Tall Short-
Binary opposition pairs
Antonyms can be
gradable or non-gradable
Young Old-
ColdHot
Young Old
FalseTrue
Male Female

13. Same word which has many RELATED
meaning
Poly
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Many
Semy
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Meaning

14. Function
Structure
Location
What it does
The shape it takes
Where can it be found

15. Function Structure Location
head head head

16. Function Structure Location
neck neck neck