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WorksheetsLexicology and Semantics (UAL)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
‘The minister pronounced them man and wife’ represents:
Utterance.
Sentence.
Complex-compound sentence.
Lexical item.
Decide which words are function words in the following sentence:
The children will be swimming in the ocean at five o'clock.
The, will be, in, the, at
Children, swimming, ocean, five, o'clock
The children will be
In the ocean at five o'clock
7. Decide which words are content words in the following sentence:
The children will be swimming in the ocean at five o'clock.
The, will be,in, the, at
Children, swimming, ocean, five, o'clock
The children will be
In the ocean at five o'clock
Decide which words are content words in the following sentence:
You'll be happy to know that she's decided to take the position.
Be, happy, know, decided, take, position
You'll, to, that, she's, to, the.
You'll be happy to know
To take the position
Function words give us the most important information while content words are used to stitch those words together. This statement is true or false?
True
False
Click the homophone below that is correct in its sentence:
Would you like a ________ of cake?
Piece
Peace
To which group do the words written in italics belong?:
The driver turned left and left the main road.
Homonyms
Homophones
Homographs
Hyponyms
Words that cannot be used in certain contexts.
Taboos
Tabus
Tautology
Terminology
Indirect expressions that are used in exchange of words or phrases that are considered inappropriate.
Euphemisms
Dysphemisms
Optimisms
Antonymies
The connection of sensory modalities in the understanding of information involves:
Synaesthesia
Metaphor
Metonymy
Blending
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo).
Phonaesthesia
Homophon
Homonym
Onomatopoeia
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.
Ponaesthesia
Metaphor
Metonymy
Honomatopoeia
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.
Semantics
Pragmatics
Linguistics
Grammar
Daisy, rose, carnation
Meronymy
Hyperonym of flower
Hyperonym of flowers
Hyperonym of orchid
Students in this degree have to read William Sakespeare.
Metonymy
Metaphor
Synaesthesia
Blending
It develops the hypothesis that all the information necessary to semantically interpret a sign is in the syntactic structure of the text.
generative semantics
diachronic semantics
synchronic semantics
Grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences (Goldberg 1995).
true
false
Bitter past
Metáfora
Synaesthesia
Metonymy
Blending
It is the study of the linguistic items that are used in a specific time and place.
Diachronic Linguistics
Synchronic Linguistics
Generative Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
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.
Synchronic Linguistics
Diachornic Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Gerenative Linguistics
