Semantics 2

1- Reference of an expression vary according to …………

• a) the circumstances (time, place, etc.)

• b) the topic of the conversation

• c) both (a) and (b)

2- Reference is ……………………..

• (a) a relationship between expressions and other expressions which have the same meaning.

• (b) the set of all objects which can potentially be referred to by an expression.

• (c) a relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an utterance to pick that object out.

'John is the bank manager'

This is ............................

• Opaque context

• Equative sentence

• Wrong sentence

• Different sentence

'Bill thinks that Smith killed his wife.'

This is ..................................

• Opaque context

• Equative sentence

• Predicator

• True sentence

What would be the referent of the following sentence?

'The present President of the United States in 2021'

• George W. Bush

• Bill Clinton

• Barak Obama

• Joe Biden

Every expression that has meaning has sense, but not every expression has reference.

• True

• False

A word/sentence can have only one sense.

• True

• False

'The chicken is ready to eat.'

This sentence has two different senses.

• True

• False

The hospital is outside the city.

The underlined word is .............................

• argument

• referring expression

• predicator

• referent

'John loves Mary'

Of what degree is the predicate love

• one-place predicate

• two-place predicate

• three-place predicate