Review Semantics 1

Which of the following predicates is individual-level?

• tired

• sad

• surprised

• introvert

Which of the following predicates is ambiguous between an individual-level and stage-level interpretation?

• cat

• lonely

• surprised

• tall

The unacceptability of the sentence *John saw Mary tall reveals that tall is

• an individual-level predicate

• a stage-level predicate

• a collective predicate

• a distributive predicate

Which of the following predicates is distributive?

• write a story

• feel sad

• surround a castle

• solve a problem

What is the semantic type of "extraordinarily" in the sentence "John is extraordinarily clever"?

• <e,t>

• <e,t,e,t>

• <<e,t>,<e,t>>

• <<e,t>,<e,t>>,<<e,t>,<e,t>>

What is the type of "and" in the sentence "John is happy and surprised"?

• <<e,t>,<<e,t>,<e,t>>>

• <t,<t,t>>

• <<e,t>,<e,t>>

• <t,t>

Consider the sentence "John loves Mary and Tom hates Bill". Which of the following formulae represents correctly the meaning of the expression "and Tom hates Bill"?

An expression of type <<t,t>,<e,t>> is a function...

• whose argument is of type <e,t>

• whose argument is of type <t,t>

• whose argument is of type <t>

• is NOT a function

An expression of type <e,<e,t>> is a...

• predicate modifier

• one-place predicate

• two-place predicate

• three-place predicate

Which of the following propositions is True?

• Every predicate modifier is an AP

• Every AP is a predicate modifier

• Every nominal expression is of type e

• A nominal expression can be of different semantic types