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Lexicology and Semantics (UAL)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

‘The minister pronounced them man and wife’ represents:

a)

Utterance.

b)

Sentence.

c)

Complex-compound sentence.

d)

Lexical item.

2.

Decide which words are function words in the following sentence:


The children will be swimming in the ocean at five o'clock.

a)

The, will be, in, the, at

b)

Children, swimming, ocean, five, o'clock

c)

The children will be

d)

In the ocean at five o'clock

3.

7. Decide which words are content words in the following sentence:


The children will be swimming in the ocean at five o'clock.

a)

The, will be,in, the, at

b)

Children, swimming, ocean, five, o'clock

c)

The children will be

d)

In the ocean at five o'clock

4.

Decide which words are content words in the following sentence:


You'll be happy to know that she's decided to take the position.

a)

Be, happy, know, decided, take, position

b)

You'll, to, that, she's, to, the.

c)

You'll be happy to know

d)

To take the position

5.

Function words give us the most important information while content words are used to stitch those words together. This statement is true or false?

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Click the homophone below that is correct in its sentence:


Would you like a ________ of cake?

a)

Piece

b)

Peace

7.

To which group do the words written in italics belong?:


The driver turned left and left the main road.

a)

Homonyms

b)

Homophones

c)

Homographs

d)

Hyponyms

8.

Words that cannot be used in certain contexts.

a)

Taboos

b)

Tabus

c)

Tautology

d)

Terminology

9.

Indirect expressions that are used in exchange of words or phrases that are considered inappropriate.

a)

Euphemisms

b)

Dysphemisms

c)

Optimisms

d)

Antonymies

10.

The connection of sensory modalities in the understanding of information involves:

a)

Synaesthesia

b)

Metaphor

c)

Metonymy

d)

Blending

11.

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo).

a)

Phonaesthesia

b)

Homophon

c)

Homonym

d)

Onomatopoeia

12.

Attribution of common elements of meaning or connotation to certain sound sequences, especially consonant clusters, for example initial sl-, as in slow, sleep, slush, slide, slip.

a)

Ponaesthesia

b)

Metaphor

c)

Metonymy

d)

Honomatopoeia

13.

The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them.

a)

Semantics

b)

Pragmatics

c)

Linguistics

d)

Grammar

14.

Daisy, rose, carnation

a)

Meronymy

b)

Hyperonym of flower

c)

Hyperonym of flowers

d)

Hyperonym of orchid

15.

Students in this degree have to read William Sakespeare.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Metaphor

c)

Synaesthesia

d)

Blending

16.

It develops the hypothesis that all the information necessary to semantically interpret a sign is in the syntactic structure of the text.

a)

generative semantics

b)

diachronic semantics

c)

synchronic semantics

17.

Grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences (Goldberg 1995).

a)

true

b)

false

18.

Bitter past

a)

Metáfora

b)

Synaesthesia

c)

Metonymy

d)

Blending

19.

It is the study of the linguistic items that are used in a specific time and place.

a)

Diachronic Linguistics

b)

Synchronic Linguistics

c)

Generative Linguistics

d)

Cognitive Linguistics

20.

It argues that language functions in the brain according to general cognitive principles and that constructions are the basic units of grammar which are conventionalised form–meaning pairings.

a)

Synchronic Linguistics

b)

Diachornic Linguistics

c)

Cognitive Linguistics

d)

Gerenative Linguistics