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Name/Std.

Number: ________________________________________________

 Assignment 7: Answer the questions below.


1. What is the lexical relation between the following pairs of words?
a. Shallow-deep d. Table-furniture
b. Mature-ripe e. Move-run
c. Suite-sweet

2. How would you describe the oddness of the sentence below, using semantic features?
The television drank my water.

3. Can you explain how many mismatches of meaning are present in this famous example sentence
by Chomsky: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously?

4. Identify the semantic roles of the seven noun phrases in this sentence
With her new golf club, Anne Marshall whacked the ball from the woods to the grassy area near
the hole and she suddenly felt invincible.

5. Which of the following opposites are gradable, non-gradable, or reversive?


a. Absent/present c. Fail/pass
b. Appear/disappear d. High/low

6. Are these underlined words best described as examples of polysemy or metonymy?


a. The pen is mightier than the sword.
b. I had to park on the shoulder of the road.
c. I love those. I ate a whole box on Sunday!
d. The bookstore has some new titles in linguistics.

7. For each group of words given as follows, state what semantic feature(s) distinguish between
the classes of (a) words and (b) words. If asked, also indicate a semantic feature that the (a)
words and the (b) words share.
(a) bachelor, man, son, paperboy, pope, chief
(b) bull, rooster, drake, ram
The (a) and (b) words are ________________________________
The (a) words are ______________________________________
The (b) words are ______________________________________

8. Riddle: A father and a son are riding a car. The car hits a truck. The father dies and the son is
rushed to the emergency room of a nearby hospital. The doctor comes in and says, “I can’t
operate on this boy. He’s my son.” What is the relationship between the doctor and the boy?
Answer: The doctor is the boy’s mother.
A listener’s inability to answer this riddle rests on his or her semantic representation of the word
doctor. Explain.

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