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Predicators; Predicate
4. Deixis; Definiteness
9. Synonymy - Paraphrase
Hyponymy - Entailment
- Agent
- Affected/Patient
- Instrument - Location
- Beneficiary - Experiencer
- Theme
world.T
10. Reference is a relationship between certain uttered expressions & certain things
11. All words in a language may be used to refer, but only some words
have sense. F 12. If two expressions have the same reference, they always
have the same sense.F 13. The context of an utterance is a part of the
universe of discourse. T
property of a sentence?
A. Analyticity B. Syntheticity
C. Contradiction D. Polysemy
17. What is the participant role of a screwdriver in Jane opened the tin with a
C. Beneficiary D. Instrument
18. Which of the following is a two-place predicate?
A. sister B. genius
C. appear D. put
A. table B. sadness
C. war D. care
A. polysemy B. homonymy
C. synonymy D. hyponymy
A. love/hate B. husband/wife
B. happy/sad?? D. higher/lower
A. polysemy C. synonymy
B. homonymy D. hyponymy
15. The two sentences (1) Mrs. Green is Mary's mother and (2) Mrs. Green is
II. Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Blacken the corre
2. Every expression that has meaning has sense, but not every expression has
reference.T
occasions. F utterance
the contextT 5. Mary, an old lady, and in front of could be used as referring
expressions. F??
predicator.T
2. “Lia baked the cake” entails "Lia did something to the cake”.T
5. “The thief was chased by someone" does not entails "The police
TRUE/FALSE
3- An utterance is any stretch of talk, by one person, before and after which there is
meaning. T
5- The expression The man in The man over there is my friend is a definite
12- A deictic word is one which takes some elements of meaning from the context
15- The sentence That whale over there is a mammal is a generic sentence F
16- A generic sentence is a sentence in which some statements is made
particular individual.T
17- Two important meanings of the verb to mean are a-to go away and b-to
18- Alive as She is still alive is a predicate of degree two (or two-place
predicate).F
22-A predicate is any word which (in a given single sense) can function as the
23- In the sentence He wrote a book, WRITE is the argument and the two
26- The semantic analysis of simple declarative sentences reveals two major
28- Sentence meaning (or word meaning) is what it counts as the equivalent of in the
referents of two expressions, i.e. to assert that two expressions have the same
referent. T
expression.F
33- The indefinite noun phrase a man can be used as a referring expression or not
35- The two sentences Harriet wrote the answer down and Harriet wrote down have
37- The two expresions President Ho Chi Minh and Uncle Ho in Vietnam
39- The word to mean can be applied to people who use language with the
41- The relationship between the expression My son and the person my son in the
42- By means of reference, a speaker indicates which things in the world (including
language.F
48-The two sentences John can go and Can John go? have different propositional
contents. F??
49- The two sentences Harry took out the garbage and Harry took the garbage
50- The word to mean can not be applied to words and sentences with the
51- The two sentences George danced with Ethel and George didn't dance with
proposition. T
54- The two sentences Hellen rolled up the carpet and Hellen rolled the carpet
56- What is written between two single quotation marks represents a sentence
languguage.
9- Polysemy occurs when two words have the same related meanings. F
incompatible.T
18- Two predicates are gradable antonyms if they are at opposite ends of a
continuous scale of values (a scale which typically varies according to the context
of use). T
19- If a predicate describes a relationship between two things (or people) and
some other predicate describes the same relationship when two things (or
people) are mentioned in the opposite order, then the two predicates are
20- Binary antonyms are predicates which come in pairs and between them
23- John saw a pound of beef entails John took a pound of beef. F
31- Hyponymy is a sense relation between predicates such that the meaning of one
32- The two sentences John is the parent of James and James is the father
33- The two sentences The fly is on the wall and The wall was under the fly are
35- Ripe and mature are partially synonymous when they are used with the
word cheese.F
37- Profound and deep are syn onyms when they are used with the noun
sympathy.T
38- Large and Ripe are synonyms when they are used with the word
tomatoes. F
40- Synonymy is the relationship between two predicates that have the
same sense.T
meaning. T
42- A stereotype is related to prototype in that they refer to the relationship between
language and the world and they are the same in every aspect.
43- The stereotype of a predicate is the set of all the things. F??
44- That man is a woman has the sense property of being synthetic. F
57- A prototype of a predicate is the complete set of all the things. F??
59- The referent of a referring expression is the thing picked out by the use of that