[Introduction to Linguistics] (OLD) Ambiguity, Entailment, Paraphrase, and Contradictions

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1. how can understand very well Linguistics

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3. How do we draw a tree for ambiguity ?

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. Is semantics and formal logic same?

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

10. 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…

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12. 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

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