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Key Practice 1
Key Practice 1
4. Deixis; Definiteness
5. Equative & generic sentences
6. The universe of discourse
7. Extensions; Prototypes; Stereotypes
8. Sense properties (synthetic, analytic, contradiction)
9. Synonymy -
Paraphrase Hyponymy -
Entailment
Antonymy (Binary / Converses/ Gradable/
Multiple incompatibility) - Contradictoriness
Homonymy; Polysemy; Ambiguity (Structural & Lexical)
10. Participant roles
- Agent
- Affected/Patient
- Instrument - Location
- Beneficiary - Experiencer
- Theme
Practice Test: T/F?
1. An utterance can be loud or quiet.
2. A sentence can be true or false.
3. An utterance is tied to a particular time and place.
4. A sentence is tied to a particular time and place.
5. A proposition can be said to be in a particular language.
6. An utterance can be true or false.
7. Our next client is Mrs. Green: is an equative sentence.
8. The whale over there is a mammal is a generic sentence.
9. Reference is a relationship between certain uttered expressions & things in the world.
10. Reference is a relationship between certain uttered expressions & certain things outside
the context of the utterance.
11. All words in a language may be used to refer, but only some words have sense.
12. If two expressions have the same reference, they always have the same sense.
13. The context of an utterance is a part of the universe of discourse.
14. The sentence I hate bananas is more reflective of speaker meaning.
15. Which of the following is NOT a sense property of a sentence?
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.
4. The same expression can be a referring expression or not, depending on the context
5. Mary, an old lady, and in front of could be used as referring expressions. ??
6. Tom is a genius is an equative sentence.
7. In All bachelors are male, the predicate male functions as
a predicator.
8. send is a one-place predicate.
9. The stereotype of a predicate can be thought of as the most typical member of the
dicate.
10. Different prototypes result in cultural differences.
11. Syonymy is to paraphrase as hyponymy is to entailment.