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4. Deixis; Definiteness
A. Analyticity B. Syntheticity
C. Contradiction D. Polysemy
16. Which of the following is an example of hyponymy?
A. Flower & tulip B. animal & flower
C. Broad & wide D. young & old
17. What is the participant role of a screwdriver in Jane opened the tin with a screwdriver?
A. Theme B. Affected
C. Beneficiary D. Instrument
18. Which of the following is a two-place predicate?
A. sister B. genius
C. appear D. put
19. Which of the following predicates could be defined ostensively?
A. table B. sadness
C. war D. care
20. Meal & breakfast is a case of .......
A. polysemy B. homonymy
C. synonymy D. hyponymy
1. Accent and voice quality belong strictly to the
…………………. A. utterance B. Sentence C. Proposition D.
argument
8. which of the following does the definite article the signal definiteness?
A. The dog is a faithful animal.
A. love/hate B. husband/wife
C. Breakfast/ dinner D. true/false
13. Which of the following pairs of the words are binary antonym?
A liquid/gas C. agree/disagree
B. happy/sad?? D. higher/lower
14. emotion- eagerness is a case of...
A. polysemy C. synonymy
B. homonymy D. hyponymy
15. The two sentences (1) Mrs. Green is Mary's mother and (2) Mrs. Green is Mary's
daughter said……………
A. to have the same proposition C. to be paraphrases of each other
B. to be contradictories D. to entail each other
II. Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Blacken the corre Tor F on
the answer sheet.
1. Reference is a relationship between certain uttered expressions & certain things out context
of the utterance. F
2. Every expression that has meaning has sense, but not every expression has
reference.T
3. Referring is an act performed by particular speakers on particular occasions. F
4. The same expression can be a referring expression or not, depending on the contextT
5. Mary, an old lady, and in front of could be used as referring expressions. F??
6. Tom is a genius is an equative sentence. F
9. The stereotype of a predicate can be thought of as the most typical member of the
dicate. F??
6. “Some kids running down the street" entails "Some boys running down the
street". F
33- The indefinite noun phrase a man can be used as a referring expression or not depending on
the context.. T
34- A referring expression is any expression used in an utterance to refer to something
or someone, i.e. used with a particular referent in mind. T
35- The two sentences Harriet wrote the answer down and Harriet wrote down have the same
sense. T??
36- The sense of an expression is a relationship between a particular object in the world and an
expression used in an utterance to pick the object out.F??
37- The two expresions President Ho Chi Minh and Uncle Ho in Vietnam context have the
same referent. T
38- Vietnam is a word which has variable reference F
39- The word to mean can be applied to people who use language with the meaning to intend
to convey. T??
40- Vietnam is a word which has constant reference. T
41- The relationship between the expression My son and the person my son in the sentence My
son is here is called sense. F??
42- By means of reference, a speaker indicates which things in the world (including persons) are
being talked about. T??
43- In talking of reference, we deal with the relationships inside the
language.F
7-T F The sentence They passed the port at midnight is grammatically ambiguous. F??
8- A sentence is ambiguous if it has two (or) more paraphrases which are themselves
paraphrases of each other.
9- Polysemy occurs when two words have the same related meanings.
10- January, February, March belong to the system of multiple
incompatible.T
40- Synonymy is the relationship between two predicates that have the same
sense.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
45- That man is human has the sense property of analyticity. T
46- Alice is a student is a contradiction. F
47- A contradiction is a sentence that is necessarily false. T
48- My watch is a device for telling the time is a contradiction. F
49- No cats like to bath is an analytic sentence. F
50- Sentence meaning is what a speaker means when he uses a piece of language a certain
context. F
51- A synthetic sentence is a sentence that is always false. F
52- Bachelors are lonely is a contradiction. F
53- Cats are roses is an analytic sentence. F
54- An analytic sentence is the one that is necessarily false. F
55- A sky-scraper is the prototype for the predicate building in Vietnam. F
56- A double-decker bus is the prototype of bus in Vietnam. F
57- A prototype of a predicate is the complete set of all the things. F??
58- Extension depends on contexts. F
59- The referent of a referring expression is the thing picked out by the use of that expression on
a particular occasion of utterance. T
60- Extension does not connect language to the world. F