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The Bear Is A Dangerous Animal. A Bear Is A Dangerous Animal. Bears Are Dangerous Animals

This document contains a true/false quiz on linguistic concepts and multiple choice questions testing understanding of semantics. It addresses topics like compositionality, lexical semantics, connotation, presupposition, propositional logic, and the difference between entailment and presupposition. The key ideas are that presupposition concerns information taken for granted while entailment concerns logical consequences, and that propositions involving and/or can be disambiguated in propositional logic.

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The Bear Is A Dangerous Animal. A Bear Is A Dangerous Animal. Bears Are Dangerous Animals

This document contains a true/false quiz on linguistic concepts and multiple choice questions testing understanding of semantics. It addresses topics like compositionality, lexical semantics, connotation, presupposition, propositional logic, and the difference between entailment and presupposition. The key ideas are that presupposition concerns information taken for granted while entailment concerns logical consequences, and that propositions involving and/or can be disambiguated in propositional logic.

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1.

T or F?
a.
b.

c.
d.
e.
f.

Statements of identity can be genuinely informative when they link two terms with
the same reference but distinct senses. T
The same proposition can be expressed by different sentences of a single
language, but the same propositional content cannot be retained under the
translation from one language to another. F
The learnability of a language is one of the strongest arguments against the
principle of compositionality. F
Not all linguistic signs are fully arbitrary: some are phonologically or semantically
motivated. T
The negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations. T
Non-factive verbs presuppose the falsity of the proposition in the complement
clause. F

2.

Complete the following analogies:


a. linguistic expression meaning : speaker meaning :: semantics : pragmatics
b. semiotics : semiology :: semantics : semasiology

3.

Which of the following is the unit of semantic analysis in truth-conditional semantics?


a. utterance b) sememe c) proposition d) truth value
c)

4.

The meaning of grammatical categories and word classes is the subject matter of
a. syntax b) grammatical semantics c) lexical semantics d) logical semantics

5.

b)

The type of reference related to the general characteristics of the members of a class is
called generic.......... reference.
Provide two examples to illustrate different types of pertinent referring expressions:
The bear is a dangerous animal. A bear is a dangerous animal. Bears are dangerous
animals

6.

The denotative meaning of an omnivorous domesticated even-toed ungulate grown for


its meat corresponds to the lexeme pig
Specify and illustrate connotative meaning of that lexeme.
Youre such a pig. - youre messy( the specify part)

Specify the type of non-descriptive meaning according to which the following lexemes
differ:
a. loch : lake social,meaning,geographical/regional dialect (Scottish/general
English)
b. begin : commence social,meaning,register,style (informal/formal)
8. Provide two lexemes in which expressive meaning is the only element of meaning:
Ouch! Gosh! Wow! bloody.....
7.

9.

Which of the following items belong(s) to the key dimensions of connotative semantic
space established by the semantic differential technique?
a. probability b) potency c) particularity d) polyvalence b)
Provide a corresponding pair of bipolar adjectives (for each of them):
strong -weak

10.

Words that have the same phonological form but different graphological forms and
different meanings are called homophones . Illustrate using the following examples:
a. pain : pane..
b. rite : right..

11.

Provide two examples of sound symbolism:


glitter,slime(rece da je pozeljna paradigma ali nece da zahteva)

12.

Identify the form-meaning relations illustrated by the following examples:


a. alternate : alternative paronymy..
b. long (legs) : long (days) polysemy.

13.

Identify the type of endocentric semantic combination in the following:


a. a huge ant combination with a relative descriptor..
b. a striped tie intersective combination

14.

Which of the following items manifest(s) non-compositional meaning?


a. a house by the sea b) greenhouse c) boathouse d) buying a house

15.

Idioms in which all content words have changed their meanings are called
a. encoding b) decoding c) extragrammatical d) schematic b)
Provide two examples of such idioms:

b)

kick the bucket, shoot the breeze

16.

Identify the semantic relations between the following:


a. Jim regrets leaving early : Jim left early
presupposition
b. Jim owns a Siamese cat : Jim owns a cat
entailment

17.

A proposition whose predicate concept is contained in its subject concept is called


analytic proposition. . For example, A daffodil is a
flower.. .

18.

Disambiguate the following composite proposition by translating it into the formal


metalanguage of propositional logic:
Alice stayed at home and she cooked dinner or she watched a movie.
p and (q or p)
.

(p and q) or r(umesto and i or idu oni znaci )

Did Alice stay home in any case? No (the second interpretation)

19.

Is the following argument form valid or invalid?


p --> q; not p; therefore, not q invalid
Provide an illustration using English propositions:
.

20.

Compare and contrast (100-150 words): ENTAILMENT and PRESUPPOSITION

- 6 poena,
22. i 4. pitanje - 1 poen,
23. 20. 10 poena,
24. sva ostala po 2.
21.

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