Crash Course Linguistics

Semantics

If you want to know what a word means, all you have to do is look it up in the dictionary, right? Actually, it’s a little more complicated than that. This episode of Crash Course Linguistics is all about semantics, or the area of linguistics concerned with meaning. We learn about different types of semantic relationships, and how different languages define these relationships.

Semantics

10m 49s

If you want to know what a word means, all you have to do is look it up in the dictionary, right? Actually, it’s a little more complicated than that. This episode of Crash Course Linguistics is all about semantics, or the area of linguistics concerned with meaning. We learn about different types of semantic relationships, and how different languages define these relationships.

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