[Introduction to Linguistics] Ambiguity, Entailment, Paraphrase, and Contradictions

[@rebeccakocher8860]

I have a question about your examples for entailment. "My dog is cute => I own a dog" is a presupposition, isn't it? Because if you negate that, saying "My dog is not cute" you're still implicating, that you own a dog. But if you say: "I had my baby last night" entailing that you're no longer pregnant and you negate that, then it's no longer necessary that you are pregnant, which is an entailment. Am I confusing this? I'm confused, sorry...

[@salmanrrm118]

I was very happy and content with my understanding but your question confused me. Let's wait for the right answer.

[@Dr_Ali.Aljboury]

Thanks for explanation first! Sir as you said for Paraphrased! actually these of sentences used for semantic similarity and semantic relatedness! SS/SR as which used example: Ali went to the college by automobile.///// Ahmed using Ali car to go to the faculty. So in Paraphrase we can used just the words of the sentences to find the ambiguity of each words.

[@salmanrrm118]

Sir what is the difference between homonym and homograph.

[@Cynamek]

What about usage of sarcasm in the example of entailment? Like if you said that "I love to eat" can't be used if someone is not not capable of eating, then what about sarcasm after all? I mean don't we treat it as an example of it?

[@syubidubidu3193]

Thank you so much! I cant really learn by book so i tried to watch youtube instead. Gonna have exam next week😆 wish me luck

[@Bidilizer]

Can we say this sentence is a contradiction: "My sister is an only child" or do we need two sentences to say that?

[@Bidilizer]

*to say that there is a contradiction

[@englishwithkenzie9895]

Thanks a lot :)

[@shahfuhaid]

Is semantics and formal logic same?

[@Trevtutor]

No, but logic is used within formal semantics.

[@mayrawinan8166]

Thank you very much.

[@sevenpurple2]

What about this sentence? "The banking system, flows, like a river bank." What would this be called, in linguistics?

[@Trevtutor]

A (very terrible) linguistic metaphor.

[@rafatadmajayaid]

I heard comparing two things using word "as" or "like" is simile

[@hafsahafsa2996]

How do we draw a tree for ambiguity ?

[@Trevtutor]

If it's a syntactic ambiguity, it depends where you're attaching the ambiguous phrases. I shot an elephant in my pajamas. "In my pajamas" PP can attach to either "shot", meaning that the shooter was in pajamas, or attach to "elephant", meaning that the elephant was wearing pajamas. I should probably do a video on the trees for this at some point.

[@hafsahafsa2996]

Thank you very much sir. Thanks to you I have passed this subject last year and now I'm preparing to sit again for the exam in linguistics with the help of your videos; I hope I will pass again hihi !

[@AM_FirstGenZ]

in this sentence " Max and Jake ate the big cake in the fridge" it has a noun and a verb can this be ambiguous?

[@Trevtutor]

Yes, that is an ambiguous phrase. Max and Jake ate [the big cake] in the fridge.

[@AM_FirstGenZ]

I know you only covered it briefly, but how would I draw the structural ambiguity for 1.) Max and Jake ate [the big cake] in the fridge 2.] Max and Jake ate [the big cake in the fridge] Thank you

[@Trevtutor]

In the 1st example, "in the fridge" would attach to the VP. In the 2nd example, "in the fridge" would attach to the NP "cake".

[@hibajaber4442]

Thank you so much

[@hamzakriach966]

how can understand very well Linguistics

[@frogsaresodumbtbh1958]

Structurally Ambiguous^

[@YELBUKSMOLUP]

Thanks!

[@نوفم-ع2و]

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[@msrobocco]

I don't understand why "Mary is single" & " Mary is married" sententes cannot have the same meaning

[@Trevtutor]

Because you can't be both single and married at the same time?

[@geminikutie6141987]

Single means "not married", and married means "not single", so it's not possible to be both.

[@robertwilsoniii2048]

TheTrevTutor Does this sort of thing hold for non-empirical things too? How would we check such a thing?