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Time Allowed: 30 Min Exercise I: Give Short Answers To The Following Questions

The document contains two exercises testing knowledge of linguistic concepts. Exercise I asks the applicant to provide short answers to questions about componential analysis, lexical gaps, structural meaning, sense vs. reference, modality features, part-whole relation vs. hyponymy, and causes of meaning change. Exercise II asks the applicant to fill in blanks with suitable words related to collocation, hyponymy, and semantic scope.

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Time Allowed: 30 Min Exercise I: Give Short Answers To The Following Questions

The document contains two exercises testing knowledge of linguistic concepts. Exercise I asks the applicant to provide short answers to questions about componential analysis, lexical gaps, structural meaning, sense vs. reference, modality features, part-whole relation vs. hyponymy, and causes of meaning change. Exercise II asks the applicant to fill in blanks with suitable words related to collocation, hyponymy, and semantic scope.

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Time allowed : 30 min

Exercise I: Give short answers to the following questions.


1. What is componential analysis for?
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2. Give at least two examples of lexical gap.
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3. What is the structural meaning of the sentence?
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4. What makes the difference between sense and reference?
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5. What are the features of the types of modality?
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6. What makes the difference between part-whole relation and hyponymy?
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7. What are the linguistic causes of meaning change? Give example for
illustration.
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8. Present the cases of metaphor.
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Exercise II. Fill in the blank with one suitable word.


1. (1)……………….sense relations are those existing between lexical items of
identical grammatical (2)……………..and they can be used (3)
………………In English as well as in other languages, there are words
which tend to go with others. The relation between these is described as (4)
………………

2. Hyponymy can be defined in terms of (5)………………..which means the


meaning of one member is “in” the other. The hyponym is the one whose
(6)……………. meaning is narrowed enough to (7)…………………….by
that of the (8)…………………………..The (9)………..meaning of this is
more (10)…………………….than that of the hyponym,i.e.it is “in” that of
hyponym.

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