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.
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...
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?
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
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.
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 !
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