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Chapter 5 Exercise

The document contains a series of multiple-choice questions and word completion tasks focused on semantics, including concepts such as sense, meaning relationships, antonyms, hyponymy, and synonyms. It also includes short essay questions that require explanations and analyses of linguistic concepts. Overall, it serves as an assessment tool for understanding various aspects of meaning in language.

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Chapter 5 Exercise

The document contains a series of multiple-choice questions and word completion tasks focused on semantics, including concepts such as sense, meaning relationships, antonyms, hyponymy, and synonyms. It also includes short essay questions that require explanations and analyses of linguistic concepts. Overall, it serves as an assessment tool for understanding various aspects of meaning in language.

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Multiple Choice：

1. Which of the following is NOT the concern of “sense”?


A. It is the study of the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
B. It is the study of what a linguistic form refers to in the real physical world.
C. It is the aspect of meaning dictionary compliers are interested in.
D. It is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form.
2. The meaning relationship between the two words “sheep” and “ewe” is ______.
A. Antonymy B. Homonymy
C. Hyponymy D. Polysemy
3. X: They are going to have another baby.
Y: They have a child.
The relationship of X and Y is ______.
A. synonymous B. inconsistent
C. X entailing Y D. X presupposing Y
4. According to the componential analysis, the words “girl” and “woman” differ in the feature of
______.
A. HUMAN B. ANIMATE
C. MALE D. ADULT
5. The relationship between “violet” and “tulip” is ______.
A. co-hyponyms B. superordinate
C. hyponyms D. antonyms
6. The relationship between “begin” and “commence” is ______.
A. Dialectal synonyms B. Stylistic synonyms
C. Collocational synonyms
D. Semantically different synonyms
7. Predication analysis is a way to analyze ______ meaning.
A. phoneme B. word C. phrase D. sentence
8. “Fall” and “autumn” are ______ synonyms.
A. dialectal B. stylistic
C. evaluatively different D. semantically different
9. Homophones are often employed to create puns for desired effects of ______.
A. humor B. sarcasm
C. ridicule D. all of the above
10. Hyponymy ______.
A. is the relationship which obtains between specific and general lexical items, such that the former
is included in the latter
B. is the relationship that stands between “flute” and “instrument”
C. both A and B D. none
11. We call the relation between “animal” and “horse” as ______.
A. synonymy B. polysemy
C. homonymy D. hyponymy
12. The semantic features of the word “girl” can be expressed as ______.
A. +animate, -human, +adult, +male
B. +animate, +human, -adult, +male
C. +animate, +human, +adult, -male
D. +animate, +human, -adult, -male
13. What is the sentential relation between “He likes skating.” And “He likes sports.”?
A. Presupposition. B. Entailment.
C. Contradiction. D. Hyponymy.
14. The pair of words “borrow/lend” is called ______.
A. relational opposites B. synynyms
C. complementary D. Gradable opposites
15. Which description of the meaning components of the word “father” is right?
A. +human, +adult, -male
B. +human, -adult, +male
C. -human, +adult, -male
D. +human, +adult, +male
16. “Yellow” has different meanings to Chinese or to western people, that is ______.
A. conceptual meaning B. cognitive meaning
C. associative meaning D. stylistic meaning
17. X: He has been to France.
Y: He has been to Europe.
The relationship of A and B is ______.
A. synomymous B. inconsistent
C. X entailing Y D. X presupposing Y
18.The ambiguity in “pass the port” is caused by ____.
A. lexical items B. a grammatical structure
C. homonymy D. polysemy
19. ____ is NOT a pair of homophones.
A. “Rain” (water condensed from atmospheric vapor and falling in drops) and “reign” (exercise of
sovereign power, as by a monarch)
B. “Flea” (any of various small, wingless, bloodsucking insects) and “flee”(to escape)
C. “Lead”(to guide) and “lead”(metal of a dull bluish-grey colour that melts easily)
D. “Compliment”(an expression of praise, admiration, or congratulation) and
“complement”(something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection)
20. The word “luggage” and “baggage” are ______.
A. synonyms differing in emotive meaning
B. dialectal synonyms
C. collocationally-restricted synonyms
D. synonyms differing in styles

21. Componential analysis is a method applied in the field of ______.


A. phonetics B. syntax
C. semantics D. pragmatics
22. “Big” and “small” a pair of _____ opposites.
A. complementary B. gradable
C. complete D. converse

Word completion.
1. Human language is arbitrary. This refers to the fact that there is no logical or intrinsic
connection between a particular sound and the ______ it is associated with.
2. Predication analysis is to break down predications into their constituents: ______ and ______.
3. Antonyms like “husband” vs. “wife” are ______ antonyms.
4. Terms like “desk” and “stool” are ______ of the term “furniture”.
5. According to D. Leech, ______ meaning refers to logic, cognitive, or denotative content.
6. Classify the following pairs of words according to the sense relation. Put the number before
the pair in the space provided in your answer sheet. The first is done for you as an example.
① alive/dead ② buy/sell…
complementary antonyms
1. always/never 2. borrow/lend 3. tail/tale
4. satellite/moon 5. relinquish/retain 6. boot/trunk
7. over/under 8. mercury/quick silver
9. fabric/rayon 10. sole(of a shoe)/sole(the fish)
A. complementary antonyms __ ____
B. synonyms__________
C. relational opposites___________
D. gradable antonyms___________
E. homonyms____________
F. polysemous words____________
G. hyponymy_____________

Short essay questions:


1. Explain with example the various types of antonyms in English.
2. In the sentence “I saw him on the bus”, there can be three interpretations of the
meaning. Try to analyze this sentence to bring out your different
interpretations. Give equivalent expressions in Chinese, if necessary.

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