SEMANTICS

I. Which of the semantic relations (paraphrase (P), entailment (E), contradiction (C)) is
exemplified in each of the following sentences?

1. Flight 20458 arrives and departs at 8:00 a.m. C

2. Cats are vegetables. C
3. That girl is her own mother’s mother. C
4. My brother married a doctor. My male sibling joined in wedlock with a physician. P
wedlock: kết hôn
5. They have love-hate relationship. C
6. My husband is living. I am a widow. C
7. My brother is an only child. C
8. Othello killed Desdemona. Desdemona died. E
9. He descended from the ground floor to the attic. C
10. Jane ate a piece of chicken. Jane ate a piece of poultry. E

II. Consider the pair of words given in (1)-(20) below, and decide which of the following
terms best characterises the relationship: gradable antonyms (G), binary antonyms (B),
converse antonyms(C), homonyms (H), hyponyms (HY) tu thuoc nghia , synonyms
(S).dong nghia

1 behind – in front C 11 captive- free B

2 fast-slow G 12 possible-impossible B

3 fixed- loose B 13 doe-dough H

4 leave-stay B 14 male-female B

5 chair - bed-chair HY 15 deep- shallow G

6 teacher- pupil C 16 use-employ S

7 parent-child C 17 sugar-icing sugar HY

8 aural-oral H 18 bequeath-inherit C

9 in - out B 19 obey-disobey B
 1 moving-stationary B 20 strike- attack S
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III. Use an appropriate word or phrase to complete each of the following sentences.

1. Relatedness of meaning accompanying identical form is technically known

as......................……………………………………………………..
2. Words, phrases, and sentences have sense and can have..................………...
3. “Pilfer” is a hyponym of “………........................................................……”.
4. In most dialects of English, stubborn and obstinate are…………………….
5. Ceiling and sealing are…………………………….………………………..
6. The pronouns in I like her a lot are ………………………………………..
7. A sentence which expresses the same proposition as another is a………...…
of that sentence.
8. In practice, it is difficult to draw a clear line between homonymy and ……..
9. Mary and herself in Mary is different from herself refer to the………referent.
10. The phrase English literature teacher constitutes a case of……....….ambiguity.
IV. Complete the following statements.

1. The shared semantic features of sister, aunt, mother, niece are

2. A paraphrase of “Bachelors prefer red-haired girls” is

3. An entailment of “I cooked an egg” is

4. A superordinate of “rose” is
5. A homophone of “aisle” is

6. Hate and love are

7. Generous and stingy are

8. A superordinate of stroll is
9. Thick and thin are antonyms.

10. A hyponym of “fish” is