• Levels of Linguistic Analysis II
    Lexical Semantics
  • Welcome
    • Syllabus
    • Contact and Links
    • Weekly Workflow
    • How to set up
  • 1 Introduction and Organization
    • 1.1 Organization
      • 1.1.1 Course Requirements
      • 1.1.2 Structure and Materials
    • 1.2 Aims
      • 1.2.1 Linguistic and academic skills
      • 1.2.2 Skills that go beyond linguistics
      • 1.2.3 Soft skills for Teachers
    • 1.3 Feedback
    • 1.4 Homework
      • 1.4.1 Tip
  • 2 Word Classes
    • 2.1 Intro
      • 2.1.1 More organizational updates
      • 2.1.2 Homework discussion
    • 2.2 Parts of speech
      • 2.2.1 Recap: Open and Closed Word Classes
      • 2.2.2 PoS-Tags
    • 2.3 Types and Tokens
      • 2.3.1 Word boundaries
      • 2.3.2 Word classes in numbers
      • 2.3.3 Considerations
    • 2.4 Outlook
    • 2.5 Homework
      • 2.5.1 Task
      • 2.5.2 Tip of the day
  • 3 The Lexicon
    • 3.1 Intro
      • 3.1.1 Organizational notes
      • 3.1.2 Recap
    • 3.2 Lexemes and lexical fields
      • 3.2.1 Lemma
      • 3.2.2 Distribution
      • 3.2.3 Association
    • 3.3 Frequency and memory
      • 3.3.1 Common and uncommon vowels
      • 3.3.2 Confounding variables
    • 3.4 Homework
      • 3.4.1 Presentations
      • 3.4.2 Task
      • 3.4.3 Tip of the day
  • 4 Categorization
    • 4.1 Intro
      • 4.1.1 Recap
    • 4.2 Models
      • 4.2.1 Simplify, Generalize, Apply
      • 4.2.2 Some Linguistic Models
      • 4.2.3 Short and long vowels
      • 4.2.4 Voiced and voiceless consonants
      • 4.2.5 Expanding the model
      • 4.2.6 Different models for different purposes
  • 5 Collocation
    • 5.1 Homework
      • 5.1.1 Task
      • 5.1.2 Tip of the day
  • 6 Metaphor
    • 6.1 Metaphor and quantitative evidence
      • 6.1.1 Coding
      • 6.1.2 Homework discussion
      • 6.1.3 Frequency and scales
      • 6.1.4 Frequency and scales
      • 6.1.5 How extreme are the differences?
    • 6.2 Metaphor and Cognition
      • 6.2.1 Time is space
      • 6.2.2 Exploring color metaphors
    • 6.3 Homework
      • 6.3.1 Tip of the day
  • 7 Metonymy
    • 7.1 Group 1: Exploration, or ‘get off my Amazon’
    • 7.2 Group 2 and 3, or ‘comparing Apples to Mangos’
    • 7.3 Group 4, or ‘How many are Greenpeace anyway?’
  • 8 Synonymy
    • 8.1 The same meaning and function
    • 8.2 Principle of no synonymy
      • 8.2.1 Dative alternation
    • 8.3 Homework
      • 8.3.1 Tip of the Day
  • 9 Antonymy
    • 9.1 How do antonyms emerge?
    • 9.2 Causal relationships
  • 10 Lexical Patterns
    • 10.1 Multi word patterns
      • 10.1.1 From collocations to syntactic patterns
      • 10.1.2 Lexical variability
    • 10.2 Multiple levels of generalization
      • 10.2.1 Competing motivations
    • 10.3 Homework
  • 11 Lexical Bundles
  • 12 Constructions
  • 13 Final Discussion
  • 14 Term paper guide
    • 14.1 How to hand in
    • 14.2 What makes a good term paper
    • 14.3 Form
      • 14.3.1 Requirements
      • 14.3.2 Typography
      • 14.3.3 Structure
      • 14.3.4 Appendix
      • 14.3.5 Declaration
  • Appendix
    • Academic posters
      • Layout
      • Programs
    • Command line tricks
      • 14.3.6 The shell
      • 14.3.7 Copy & Paste
      • 14.3.8 Colors
      • 14.3.9 Eastereggs
    • Why discord?
  • References
  • Summer Semester 2020
  • Freie Universität Berlin
  • © Alexander Rauhut

8. Synonymy

Contact and Links

  • Alexander Rauhut
  • Email: alexander.rauhut@fu-berlin.de
  • Homepage: https://alexraw.xyz
  • Office Hours (Online): Monday 11-12, or whenever you catch me online.

Links

  • Campus Management: Enrolment, Grades
  • Primo: FU Online library
  • Blackboard: Additional course materials
  • StructEng Wiki: A wiki all about (corpus) liguistics written by my colleagues and me.
    Currently under construction.
  • Oxford English Dictionary — Full access via VPN
  • Prof. Stefanowitsch’s Google Groups
  • Tellonym: Anonymous feedback, suggestions, complaints

… to be continued