SEMANTICS CHECKLIST

UNIT 1
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☐1 Remember the definition of semantic features.
☐ 2 List some semantic features of a word.
☐ 3 Identify some common semantic features among a group of words.

☐ 4 Remember the definition of semantic fields.

☐ 5 Group words into different semantic fields.

☐ 6 Remember the definition of lexical gaps.

☐ 7 Remember the definition of denotation and connotation.

☐ 8 Determine whether a meaning is denotative or connotative.

☐ 9 Determine whether a connotation is positive, negative or neutral.

☐ 10 Remember the definition of primary meaning and secondary meaning.
☐ 11 Determine whether a meaning is primary or secondary.

☐ 12 Remember the definition of literal meaning and figurative meaning.

☐ 13 Determine whether a meaning is literal or figurative.
☐ 14 Remember the definition of utterance, sentence and proposition.

☐ 15 Distinguish between utterance, sentence and proposition.

UNIT 2
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☐1 Remember the definition of referent, referring expression and reference.
☐ 2 Determine whether an expression has variable reference or constant
reference.
☐ 3 Determine whether two expressions have co-reference.
☐ 4 Remember the definition of sense.

☐ 5 Distinguish between reference and sense.

☐ 6 Remember the definition of equative sentence.

☐ 7 Determine whether a sentence is equative.

☐ 8 Remember the definition of generic sentence.

☐ 9 Determine whether a sentence is generic.

☐ 10 Remember the definition of deixis.

☐ 11 Determine whether an expression is deitic.

☐ 12 Remember the definition of universe of discourse, context of utterance, and
immediate situation of utterance.
☐ 13 Remember the definition of definiteness.

☐ 14 Determine whether a noun is definite.

UNIT 3
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☐1 Remember the definition of synonymy.
☐ 2 Give the synonym of an expression.

☐ 3 Remember the definition of hyponymy.

☐ 4 Determine whether a word is a hyponym or a superordinate in a pair of words.

☐ 5 Draw hierarchies of hyponymic relationships.

☐ 6 Remember the definition of antonymy.

☐ 7 Remember the definition of four types of antonymy.

☐ 8 Identify the type of an antonymy.

☐ 9 Remember the definition of homonymy, homophony and homography.

☐ 10 Distinguish between homonymy, homophony and homography.

☐ 11 Remember the definition of polysemy.
☐ 12 Determine whether a word is polysemous.

☐ 13 Remember the definition of structural ambiguity and lexical ambiguity.

☐ 14 Determine whether a sentence is structurally ambiguous or lexically

ambiguous.
☐ 15 Remember the definition of anomaly.
☐ 16 Explain the anomaly of a sentence.

UNIT 4
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☐1 Remember the definition of three sense properties of sentences.

☐ 2 Identify whether a sentence is analytic or synthetic or is a contradiction.

☐ 3 Remember the definition of paraphrase.
☐ 4 Determine whether two sentences are paraphrases of each other.

☐ 5 Paraphrase a sentence.
☐ 6 Remember the definition of entailment.

☐ 7 Determine whether one sentence entails the other.

☐ 8 Use the Basic Rule of Sense Inclusion to determine which sentence entails the
other.
☐ 9 Remember the definition of contradictoriness.

☐ 10 Determine whether two sentences are contradictory.