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1. Choose a pair where (i) presupposes (ii): 2. Which of the following sentences expré eee (i) Bob is a vegetarian. (ii) Bob doesn’t eat meat. (i) Jane knows that Bill likes sushi. ii) Bill likes sushi. (i) Susan got married and found a job. Gi) Susan first got married and then found a job. (i) John ate the cake. (ii) John baked the cake. s only deontic modality? It must have been raining hard here. You ought to answer all the questions in an interview. Go and get him a glass of water! If I were you I would never accept their offer. 3. Which of the following statements is true? Metaphors are examples of literal language. Metaphors allow us to understand one domain of experience in terms of another. Metaphors are always conventional. Metaphors are traditionally defined in terms of contiguity. 4. The famous example The king of France is bold was used by Bertrand Russell to illustrate that ao oP definite descriptions presuppose the existence of their referent. definite descriptions behave like proper names. definite descriptions are not considered referential. definite descriptions are noun phrases. 5. Verbs like bet, sentence, name are ee ee typical in requests. typical propositional attitude verbs. typical modal verbs. typical in performative utterances. 6. Consider the following two phras (i) John swam in the lake for halfan hour. (ii) John swam across the lake in halfan hour. Different temporal adverbials (italicized and underlined) in (i) and (ii) are used as a test for . telicity. . durativity. . stativity. . actionality. eaeoe 7. Which of the rows contains only deictic expressions? . she, mother, talked . he, that, there . talked, sister’s, mine . she, this, everywhere eeoe 8. Semantic components are |. primitive semantic elements. . binary features . lexical relations. |. grammatical rules. eeoe 9. Evidentiality is . a special type of deontic modality. . used to express speaker's attitude towards a situation. . used to express a source of information reported in the utterance. |. a special temporal category. eeoe 10. Consider two sentences, (i) and (ii) and four logical representations in (1), (2), 3) and (4), where P = person, S= scared (i) Everyone is scared 1. Wx (P(x) > S(x) (ii) Someone is scared 2. Wx (P(x) A S(x)) 3. Ax (P(x) a S(x)) 4. Ax (P(X) v S(x)) What is the correct pair of representations for (i) and (ii)? b.() c. (i)— 1, (ii) — 3) d, none of the above

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