Student’s name: ........................................................................

BANKING UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES Student’s ID No:...................................................Class:.............
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SEMANTICS
FINAL TEST – 2018 ____/10 pts
DATE: _________/2018

Part 1 [1pt]

Underline the deictic expressions in the following utterances. If there is none, write NONE. [2 questions]

“Remember that Italian waiter who sang for you on your birthday?”

Underline the predicates in the following sentences. Supply the degree of each predicate in brackets above it. If there
is none, write NONE. [2 questions]

(1) (1) (1)

e.g. “The semantic test is easy.”

“Did the candidate manage to answer all the questions in the test?”

Part 2 [1pt]

Underline the referring expressions in the following utterances. (Imagine normal circumstances for the utterance.) If
there is none, write NONE. [2 questions]

“Did the candidate manage to answer all the questions in the test?”

Identify the predicators in the following utterances. (Imagine normal circumstances for the utterances.) If there is
none, write NONE. [2 questions]

Predicator(s)

“Did the candidate manage to answer all the questions

in the test?”

Part 3: [2pts]

Write short answers.

Are the following sentences analytic (A), synthetic (S), or a contradiction (C)? Write A or S or C. [2 questions]

Everything you hear is a fact, and the opposite is also correct.

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Are the following sentences generic (G), equative (S), or ambiguous (A) or none of these kinds (N)? Write, G, S, A or N.
[2 questions]

Whales are the largest mammal

Identify the relationship (hyponymy, homonymy, synonymy, binary antonymy, gradable antonymy, converseness,
multiple incompatibility, polysemy) of each pair of words. The words given in brackets are to clarify the meaning in
question of the italicized words. [4 questions]

Pair of words Lexical relationship

Employer employee

Part 4 [3pts]

Write a paraphrase of each of the following. [1 question]

There were more than 1000 bicycling deaths last year.

Write a sentence which is entailed by each of the following. [1 question]

Nick was badly injured in the accident.

Write a contradiction of each of the following. (1 question]

The World Cup takes place every four years.

Explain the ambiguity in each sentence below by supplying two possible paraphrases. Identify if each sentence is an
example of structural, lexical or referential ambiguity. (1 question]

They can fish. 1. Paraphrase 1:

 _____________ ambiguity 2. Paraphrase 2:

Part 5 [2pts]

Fill in the gap with ONE missing word. [4 questions] [1pt]

Potatoes contain vitamin C. is a(n) _______ sentence.

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