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WorksheetsLexicology and semantics
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name a science that deals with language signs
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Name the fluent Aphasia
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Which inclusive level is the core one for human communication?
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Concepts do not have sharp boundaries. What is this phenomenon called?
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Give the term we use for one word with multiple interrelated meanings (orange, bank, branch etc)
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Give the term for one word having more distinct meanings that are not interrelated. (We have a date x I love the fruit called date)
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How many principles of Cognitive Semantics did we discuss during the course?
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Identify an Aktionsart type of the following sentence:
She ate pasta.
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Identify an Aktionsart type of the following sentence:
He found his keys.
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Identify an Aktionsart type of the following sentence:
We walked to the museum.
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What is the relation between a signifier and a signified called?
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Which semantic element can be identified as semantically simplex but syntactically complex?
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Identify the word formational processes in the following word: second-hand
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Identify the word formational processes in the following initialism:
NATO
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Identify the word formational processes in the following initialism:
USA
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Identify the word formational processes in the following word:
unhappy
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Identify the word formational processes in the following word:
smog
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Identify the word formational processes in the following word:
fridge
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In what way does the Diachronic semantic analysis view language? Give one adjective as your answer:
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Give the full name of the author of the Prototype theory:
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Give the name of the chief author of the book called Metaphors we live by that deals with conceptual metaphors.
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Name one type of bilingualism we discussed in the course: give one adjective as your answer
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Give the full name of the author of the Language Faculty theory.
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Give the full name of the author of the theory of a Signifier and a Signified.
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