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Answer the following questions with NO MORE THAN ONE WOR

1. What are the predicators in the following sentences?

a. Donald is proudi of his family.

b. The hospital is outside the city.

c. Edinburgh is between Aberdeen and York.


d. Mummy is asleep.

2. Is each of the following predicate a one-place, two-place, or three-place predie

a. Talk

b. Give

c. Hit

d. Difficult

3. Is each of the following sentences analytic (A), synthetic (S), or contradictory


a. If it breaks, it breaks.

b. Alice is Fiona's sister.

C. Peter's sister is nine years old

d. John killed Bill, who remained alive for many years after.

4. What is the participant role of each underlined expressions in the follc sentences: agent,
affected, beneficiary, instrument, experiencer, locatio? theme?

v O The sense of arn expression is its relationship to semantically equivalent or semantican


related expressions in the same. language. All the 1. Which of the following is a correct
statement about sense? If two. expressions have the same teferençe, they-aļways have the
sane sense. II-Choose the correct answer a, b, or c. 2. Which is the correct rule? Give two
sentences A and B, identical in évery way except that A contains a word X where B contains
a different word Y, and Y is a hyponym ofX, then sentence A entails šentence B. words in a
languagė may be uşed to refer, but only some words have sense. I KB Give two sentences A
and B, identical in every way except that A contains a word X B contains a different word Y,
and X is a hyponym of Y, then sentence À entails where sentence B. c.Give two sentences A
and B, identical in every way except that A contains a word X where B contains a different
word Y, and X is a hyponym of Y, then sentence B entails sentence A. 3, Which of the
following is correct? a. Synonymy is to entailment as hyponymy is to paraphrase. E
Synonymy is to hyponymy as entaiiment is to paraphrase. 4.a.AEsentences which contain
ambiguous words are ambiguous, but some sentences which contain no ambiguous words
are also armbiguous while others are not. ofhers b. Some sentences which contain
ambiguous words are ambiguous while some are not, but all sentences which contain no
ambiguous words are unambiguous. (bg Synonymy is to paraphrase as hyponymy is to
entailment. Seme

otae sontences which contain ambiguous_words are ambiguous while others are n ere oie
sentences which conțain nu anbiguOus words are also ambiguous while nie Which of the
following is a correci description of reference? QA relationship.between a particular obiect in the
world and an expression used in are not. utterance to pick that object out. B. A relationship
between expressions and other expressions which have the sai -c. The set of all objects which
can potentially be referred to by an expression. meaning.
11-Choose the correet answer a, b, or c. 1. Which uf ilhe fottuming is a corroct definition of
the sterentype of a predicate? 1. A.camplete scof all the characteristies of a thing w hich are
necessary to its meaning, bA sentence that is necessarily true, as a result of ahe sense of the
words in it. OA list of thatApical characteristics of things to which the predicate may
be'applied.V 2 Which of ihe falluwing is correți? QAII nten..s nitich contain ambiguou, words
are ambiguus. but sume senteices uhi l. cvitlain ambiguous wurds are also ambiguous while
others are not. b. Some sentences which contain ambiguous wurds are ambiguous wihule
sume are not, bur ail sentence 3 which contain no umbiguous words are unanmbiguous.
Some sentinées úliclt contau ambiguous worda are ainbiguous whule others are iHl, alad sa,
setegs hich coniain no ambiguous words are also ainbiguous while olhers are not. 3. Which
of the folluwing is correct? a- The sense of aiv wórd is its dictionary definition. in the form ef
a complete set of necessary and sufficient Conditiuns tur its use. The sense of a predicate is
a set of all things it can be correctly applied to OThe sense of a predicate is its indispensable
hard core of meaning. b- of the follow ing is .correct for the term "preietype"? Thing
referrecd lo un a purticulai Occasion uf utterance O Thing ty piealiy refeired to using á
particular predicale c. Set of 5.Which of the folkm ing is a correct description of reference" 1.
The relaiion helw een a form and the nun-linguist rc thing it pichs out n a given con1est h.
Singling c ar: particaiai element of a sentence ot an uterance as representing the st imeortut
netw inlirnale OThe link beingun kusguage and lenty fud m cntrely dalferent Langtarge 6.
l'he degreul a peeticzte is a.o numher indicating ihe numher of angumem- it s awally
nlerstenl, t have cen, des:.. b.a nunmber ndicatng the tember of prede atets nlly mderstoond
havin valpie steher Grnumberindig ste smher of aginent- it s relly mnder stesd ti hase in
siiobe sentences things that could be referred to using a particular predicate

Entry 11. II-Choose the correct answer a, b, or 1. Analyticity is which of the foliowing? a. a
sense relation between sentences b. a sense property of predicates
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a sense property of sentences 9 2. How do hearers identify the referent of a referring
expression (other than a proper name) ? a by seeking in the context of the utterance some
object to which the predicates in the referring expressions apply? b. by sharing with the
speaker a conventional system according to which each possible referring expression hås a
single agreed referent? c. by telepathy- reading the speaker's mind? 43. Which of the
following is a correct description of reference? Entuy A relationship between a particular
object in the world and an expression used in an utterance to pick that object out. b. A
rélationship between expressions and other expressions which have the same meaning. c.
The set of all objects which can potentially be referred to by an expression. 4. Which
statement of the relationship between ambiguous sentences and ambiguous words is
correct? a. All sentences which contain ambiguous words are ambiguous, but some
sentences which contain no ambiguous words are also ambiguous while others are not.

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