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Entailment summary Possible to predict when some sentences entail other sentences. Depends on factive matrix verb hypernym vs. hyponym type of sentence:

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1 Entailment summary Possible to predict when some sentences entail other sentences. Depends on factive matrix verb hypernym vs. hyponym type of sentence: positive vs. negative/conditional/'every'

2 Semantics summary Semantics overlaps with Semantic competence
morphology syntax Semantic competence Meaning: sense vs. reference Compositional and non-compositional aspects of linguistic meaning Semantic relations: antonymy, synonymy, hyponymy, entailment, etc.

3 “It’s just semantics” "One of my pet peeves is when people say the school district, instead of our school district. Maybe it's just semantics, but it makes the community sound powerless, and we're not." Russ Wood, president of the Mountain View-Whisman School Board


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