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Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 13mins
Lyons 1995, how do you define semantics?
As the study of sintax.
As the study of meaning and linguistic semantics as the study of meaning in so far as it's systematically encoded in the vocabulary and grammar of natural language.
As the study of meaning and linguistic semantics.
All the above.
For Cruce the semantics was divided into 3 subfields, these are:
Lexical semantics, grammatical semantics and logical semantics.
Lexical syntax, grammatical syntax and logical pragmatic.
Lexical semantics focuses on "content" words (tiger, daffodil, inconsiderate) rather than "grammatical" words (the, of, and).
True.
False.
What does grammatical semantics study?
Studies the aspects of meaning that have direct relevance to English.
Studies aspects of meaning which have direct relevance to syntax.
All the above.
None.
What does logical semantics study?
Studies the relations between syntax and morphemes such as propositional and predicate calculi.
Studies the relations between natural language and formal logical systems such as propositional and predicate calculi.
“Semantics deals with conventional meaning, that is to say, with those aspects of meaning which do not vary much from context to context”.
True.
False.
What is the difference between utterances, sentences, and propositions?
The three terms are used to describe a single level of abstraction in the language.
The three terms are used to describe different levels of abstraction in language, to identify different units of analysis in relation to meaning.
The pair intension/extension are used to refer to similar concepts where…
Extension is the concept / Intension are the features.
Extension are the features / Intension is the concept.
Intension are the concepts / Extension is a feature.
The relationship by which language engages the world is called…
Sense.
Denotation.
Reference.
The difference between reference and denotation has to do with abstraction as well.
True.
False.
Grammatical meaning refers to:
A closed set class of items or grammatical words.
An open set class of items or content words.
According to the text, to come to an appropriate interpretation it is necessary to take into account:
An extensive variation of meanings.
The linguistic context.
The grammar rules
All the options above.
We can say a word is polysemous when:
The lexicographer gives different entries.
There's a connection between senses.
The translation to Spanish has multiple choises.
There are two or more words that sound the same.
Quality is not the most important dimension of variation within descriptive meaning and it is this which constitutes the difference between black and white, pear and banana, here and there, walk and run, and eat and drink.
True.
False.
Nonliteral uses of language are traditionally called figurative and are
described by rhetorical terms such as:
Metaphor and irony
Metonymy and synecdoche
Hyperbole and litotes.
All the options above.
Ambiguity is a problem that is becoming more and more relevant
because of the pervasive use of all kinds of computational devices where natural language in involved. While the human mind is able to
disambiguate words, using information obtained from the context or from his/her sensory input, a machine cannot do this unless it is adequately trained.
True.
False.
