Semantics

Test 1

  1. Antonyms such as 'small-big, happy-sad, quick-slow, short-long' are different from the sets such as 'dead-alive, above-below, female-male. ' The former are called .......... and the latter .......... antonyms.

Test 2

  1. The lexical relation between 'table' and 'furniture' is ........... the relation between ..........

Test 3

  1. When the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another, the relationship is described as ...........

Test 4

  1. The lexical items 'clever' and 'stupid' are ...........

Test 5

  1. The words 'meat' and 'meet' have the same pronunciation but have different meanings. This is a case of ...........
  1. The sentence, "The fish told me the truth," is ...........
  1. The sentence, "My cat realizes that I'm an honest man." is ...........
  1. The basic essential components which are conveyed by the literal use of a word cover the .......... meaning.
  1. Which of the following sentences has lexical ambiguity?
  2. The expression "bark" (of a dog vs. of a tree) is a case of ...........
  3. The basic essential components which are conveyed by the literal use of a word cover the .......... meaning.
  4. The sentence, "My cat realizes that I'm an honest man," is ...........
  5. Consider the two sentences: a)Even Parvin could swim the length of this pool, and b)Parvin could swim the length of even this pool. Which theory of semantics can account for correct assignment of meaning for the two sentences?
  6. The type of sense-relation between the lexical items "buy" and "sell" is similar to that of ...........
  7. The word "spring" beside meaning, “the first season of the year,” means “beautiful flowers and rains.” This type of meaning is called ...........
  8. Which of the given pairs of words is identical to the pair, “single-married” in terms f the lexical relation between them?
  9. The relationship between "advise” and “advisor” is ...........
  10. The two sentences which have exactly the same set of entailments may be said to be .......... of each other.
  11. The following sentences are ungrammatical: I am knowing him. He is concerning my case. The reason is that the verbs involved are ...........
  12. The relationship between 'melted' and 'melt' is similar to the one between .......... and ...........
  13. The semantic relationship between "educational establishment" and "primary school" is not dissimilar from the relationship between ........... and ……….
  14. A lexical entry is a ...........
  15. The forms "know" and "no" are examples of ...........
  16. The lexical relationship between "furniture” and “chair" is similar to the one between ........... and ……….
  17. Any string of words for which the meaning of the whole expression cannot be determined form the meanings of the individual morphemes that make up the string is called a(n) ...........

Test 26

  1. Expression that attribute qualities to an object not normally associated with those qualities are called ...........

Test 27

  1. The words "mouth" in "mouth of the river" and “a man's mouth” would present an example of ..........

Test 28

  1. Which one of the given pairs of words is identical to the pair ‘single-married’ in terms of the lexical relation between them?

Test 29

  1. The terms banyan' andpine' which share the same higher-up term such as `tree' in a hierarchical diagram are ..........

Test 30

  1. Which of the following pairs is called hyponymy?

Test 31

  1. The word ' mouth ' in "mouth of the river" and 'Ali's mouth' would constitute an instance of ..........

Test 32

  1. The sense-relation between "single-married" is similar to the one between ..........

Test 33

  1. Which one of the following sense-relations is NOT similar to the one between “dinner-meal”?

Test 34

  1. “Summer means picnics by the lake”. The type of meaning involved is .......... meaning

Test 35

  1. An example of two words which are similar in meaning but with restrictions in geographical distribution is .......... and .......... in American English and British English respectively.

Test 36

  1. The expression “mouth ( of a river vs of an animal) is a case of ..........

Test 37

  1. What is the lexical relation between the following pairs of words?

Test 38

  1. The following piece of language is .......... ill-formed: “Mina is my friend. He is a nice man.”

Test 39

  1. The projection rules of the semantic component use .......... to derive the meaning of the sentence.

Test 40

  1. Which of the following is true?

Test 41

  1. From the pairs of antonyms such as 'high/low' and 'tall/short', the one which is used in questions of degree, 'Haw high is it?",for instance, is referred to as the ··········· member.

Test 42

  1. Which of the following pairs of adjectives are NOT complementary antonyms?

Test 43

  1. Generative semantics accounts for meaning through...........

Test 44

  1. The ungrammaticality of the sentence "John put the meat," can be explained on the basis of ...........

Test 45

  1. It is true that in generative semantics ...........

Test 46

  1. The pair "fast/slow" ...........

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Test 47

  1. The rule [+human] --> [+animate] ...........

Test 48

  1. The relationship between "Tom dropped the teapot" and "The teapot dropped" is best explained by ...........

Test 49

  1. The features of "female" and "young" show that girl...........

Test 50

  1. The words son and daughter ...........

Test 51

  1. The sentence "A man is at the door who looks like your father" is an example of ...........

Test 52

  1. Noncompositional meaning ..........

Test 53

  1. "There was a mole in the room.' This sentence exemplifies ..........

Test 54

  1. The “buy” and “sell,” the type of sense relation is similar to ..........

Test 55

  1. The standard theory of interpretive semantics hypothesizes that semantic interpretation ..........

Test 56

  1. The relationship of two words in which the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another is called ..........

Test 57

  1. The lexical relation between apple and fruit is the same as the relation between ..........

Test 58

  1. Conversational principles include all but one of the following ..........

Test 59

  1. The English word "gas," "ad," and "plane" are examples of ..........

Test 60

  1. Which of the following words exemplifies polysemy?

Test 61

  1. The addition of a sound to the beginning of a word is called ......,.... .

Test 62

  1. Death can lead to major ........... effects on the use of names. Often the names of the deed are not to be uttered though this may well be out of fear rather than respect.

Test 63

  1. The English word ‘read’ could be pronounced as [rid], the present tense form, or [red] the past tense form. A single spelling of with two or more meanings is called a ……….

Test 64

  1. Ali: I am impatiently waiting for the summer to come. Parviz: That reminds me ‘picnics by the lakes’. In this dialogue, the word ‘summer’ means ‘picnics by the lake’. This is a case of ………. meaning

Test 65

  1. .......... results from adding up or relating the meanings of morphemes and words within their phrases, and adding up or relating the phrases, phrase by phrase.

Test 66

  1. Idioms are phrases which have ..........

Test 67

  1. The farmer heard the bird's song. The semantic role of the farmer is ..........

Test 68

  1. Verbs 'open', 'eat', and 'fill’ share the semantic roles of ..........

Test 69

  1. A ball-sized egg develops into an ostrich. 'Egg' has a semantic role of ..........

Test 70

  1. The teacher told the kids a story. 'Tel1' is ..........

Test 71

  1. 'I hope he will recover.’ The proposition 'I hope ..........’ is a .......... proposition.

Test 72

  1. Both 'father' and 'daddy' mean 'father' but, in contrast, 'father' has a/an .......... of respect.

Test 73

  1. A list of the other words with which a word may occur is called ..........

Test 74

  1. .......... is the relation between language and its context of use and the study of this relation.

Test 75

  1. A .......... is single spelling with two or more meanings.

Test 76

  1. .......... are morphemes with variable referential meanings, whose specific reference vary with each context of their use.

Test 77

  1. 'Can you lend me some bread?' ‘bread' substitutes for money. This is a case of ..........

Test 78

  1. This is a type of metaphor, in which human characteristics are attributed to something non-human, which shows similar characteristics.

Test 79

  1. That's cute! (said of something not cute at ala. This is a type of ..........

Test 80

  1. Be informative, say neither too much nor too little, otherwise the maxim of .......... has been violated.

Test 81

  1. Principles of language, valid for all languages, reasonably concern features which are essential for the function and / or structure of language.

Test 82

  1. Take the following sentences into consideration: Ali: I apologize for all my misbehaviours. Minister: I pronounce you husband and wife. Sentence 1 and 2 are .......... sentences.

Test 83

  1. John dropped Bill. Bill fell. Sentence 1 .......... sentence 2.

Test 84

  1. When a sign has actual characteristics of its meaning, it is said to be ..........

Test 85

  1. Compare the following sentences: a)How far is Isfahan from Tehran? b) How small is your apartment?

Test 86

  1. Although John forgave his friend, he is still unhappy with him. The sentence consists of .......... proposition(s).

Test 87

  1. Compare the following sentences: a) My book has been torn up by someone. b) My book has not been torn up by anyone. What the two sentences share is ..........

Test 88

  1. The word "spring" besides meaning "the first season of the year" means "beautiful flowers and rains. " This type of meaning is called ...........

Test 89

  1. The words "meat” and "meet" have .......... relations.

Test 90

  1. Words which are written in the same way and sound alike but have different meanings are called ...........

Test 91

  1. The pair "meat meet" is an example of ...........

Test 92

  1. When the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another, the relationship is described as ...........

Test 93

  1. "Lexical meaning" is what we commonly consider the .......... meaning of words.

Test 94

  1. The word "lie" in the sentences "You have to lie down" and "Do not lie, tell the truth," represents an example of ...........

Test 95

  1. Which of the following pairs represents an example for gradable antonyms?

Test 96

  1. The relationship between "carrot" and "vegetable" is a matter of ...........

Test 97

  1. Words with different meanings but having the same spelling and sometimes different pronunciations are called ...........

Test 98

  1. Two words that share all but one of their semantic features in common are called ...........

Test 99

  1. The lexical relationship between the words "elephant" and "mouse" is that of ...........

Test 100

  1. A .......... of a word in one language is a word in another language which has a similar form and is or was used with a similar meaning.

Test 101

  1. The information obtained through the study of cognate sets is usually used in ...........

Test 102

  1. The words are .......... if they share the same set of semantic features.

Test 103

  1. The sentence "My carpet sleeps furiously, " is ...........

Test 104

  1. When linguists investigate the meaning of words in a language, they are normally interested in characterizing the .......... meaning.

Test 105

  1. .......... features are the basic features involved in differentiating the meanings of each word in the language from every other word.

Test 106

  1. The term “ ..........” refers to a sentence or a type of sentence which may have two or more meanings.

Test 107

  1. The sentence , "The hamburger ate the man," is ...........

Test 108

  1. Expressions that attribute qualities to an object not normally associated with those qualities are called ...........

Test 109

  1. The standard theory of interpretive semantics hypothesizes that semantic interpretation ...........

Test 110

  1. Generally work in the field of .......... deals with the description of word and sentence meaning.

Test 111

  1. In .........., two or more sentences have the same meaning.

Test 112

  1. The basic essential components of meaning which are conveyed by the literal use of a word are covered by .......... meaning.

Test 113

  1. Features such as [human], [young], [old] and [female] are referred to as .......... features.

Test 114

  1. According to .........., sentence semantics should be analyzed and described by rules that operate on the syntactic structure produced by a grammar.

Test 115

  1. "Overextension" is a part of the process of .......... development in children learning their first language.

Test 116

  1. Those basic, essential components of meaning which are conveyed by the literal use of a word are covered by .......... meaning.

Test 117

  1. One of the primary reasons for the widespread disagreement about the analysis and description of sentence semantics is that ...........

Test 118

  1. One characteristic of many .......... is that they become outdated within a very short period of time.

Test 119

  1. The words "thin, sharp, steel," and "instrument" are components of the .......... meaning of the word needle.

Test 120

  1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of slang?

Test 121

  1. The language phenomenon in which verbs indicate the duration, completion or repetition of an action , sometime with little or no attention to tense is called ...........

Test 122

  1. Unlike the phonetic features which can be defined precisely in terms of physical actions, semantic features must be viewed as .......... -- basic concepts not subject to further division or definition.

Test 123

  1. Which of the following pairs of words have fuzzy borders?

Test 124

  1. The . . . . . . meaning of the color green is peace.

Test 125

  1. The relationship between DAFFODIL and ROSE is . . . . . . .

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Test 126

  1. Which of the following words is polysemous?

Test 127

  1. The two words play (n) and play (v) are . . . . . . .

Test 128

  1. Which of the following pairs is NOT a gradable pair of antonyms?

Test 129

  1. In Italian, the word "attualmente" means "at the present time", whereas the word "actually" in English which belongs to the same word family means "in reality". Therefore, the two words are instances of ...........

Test 130

  1. Words with different spelling but same pronunciation such as "two" and "too" are called ...........

Test 131

  1. Words having a pronunciation different from other words with a similar spelling such as "look" and "two" are called ...........

Test 132

  1. Words with same or similar spellings but different pronunciation are called ...........

Test 133

  1. Which of the following terms is used in semantic analysis to refer to a lexical item which has a range of different meanings?

Test 134

  1. Generally, work in .......... deals with the description of word and sentence meaning and in .......... with the characterization of speaker meaning.

Test 135

  1. "Clarity" is the .......... meaning of "glass."

Test 136

  1. Errors are due to .......... whereas mistakes are due to ...........

Test 137

  1. .......... is the study of meaning and how it is expressed through language and in particular language.

Test 138

  1. "Boy = +human, -adult. This analysis of word into distinctive semantic features is called .......... analysis.

Test 139

  1. In the sentence, "She met her son yesterday, " with regard to the sex, the words “..........” are said to have redundancy.

Test 140

  1. What is the "rheme" in the following sentence, "John gave Mary a gift yesterday."?

Test 141

  1. Which of the following pairs is NOT related to thematic relations or 8-roles?

Test 142

  1. Componential analysis is the analysis of . . . . . . .

Test 143

  1. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct?

Test 144

  1. Generally, semantics deals with the . . . . . . .

Test 145

  1. Case grammar is concerned with the . . . . . . .

Test 146

  1. What are the case relations of the NPs in the following sentence respectively? “The student was afraid of the test.”

Test 147

  1. What are the case relations of the underlined NPs in the following sentence? “The bomb killed the man.”

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