SEMANTICS QUESTIONNAIRE UNITS 1,2,3

SEMANTICS QUESTIONNAIRE------------- UNIT 1,2,3

1.- WHAT IS SEMANTICS?

2.- WHAT IS MEANING?

3.- WHAT IS CONCEPTUAL MEANING? WRITE THREE EXAMPLES

4.- WHAT IS ASSOCIATIVE MEANING? WRITE THREE EXAMPLES

5.- WHAT IS A SIGNIFIER?

6.- WHAT IS A SIGNIFIED?

7, WHAT IS ARBITRARINESS?

8.- WHAT IS A SYMBOL?

9.- WHAT IS A SYNONIMY? WRITE THREE EXAMPLES

10.- WHAT IS HOMONIMY? WRITE THREE EXMPLES

11.- WHAT IS POLYSEMY? WRITE THREE EXAMPLES

12.- WHAT IS HYPONYMY? WRITE AN EXAMPLE

13.- WHAT ARE HOMOPHONES? WRITE AN EXAMPLE

14.- WHAT IS METONYMY? WRITE AN EXAMPLE

15.- HOW MANY TYPES OF ANTONYMS ARE THERE? DEFINE THEM AND WRITE ONE EXAMPLE OF EAC

16.- WHAT IS COLLOCATION WRITE THREE EXAMPLES

17.- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN UTTERANCE AND A SENTENCE?

a) write an utterance b) write a sentence

18.- WHAT IS A PROPOSITION?

19.- ARE ALL PROPOSITIONS TRUE?

20.- WHAT TYPE OF PROPOSITION IS A FACT?

21 WHAT TYPE OF PORPOSITION IS A LIE?

22.- WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT TYPE OF SENTENCE RELATION?

23- WHAT IS A PARAPHRASE?

24.- PARAPHRASE THE NEXT SENTENCE.

Alan survived because people were merciful with him

25.- what is entailment?

Determine if the first sentence of the next paragraph is entails the second one;

I enjoy sports, I swim every day in my pool.

Now you write an example ;

26.- write two sentences illustrating a contradiction.

27.-Mention the semantic roles

28.- what is the difference between Agent and Patient?

29.- what is an experiencer ?

30.- what is an instrument?

31:- Write three sentences using agent , patient and instrument.

32.- In describing an entity we can say where it is, where it comes from, where it goes to; according to semantics they are a) _____________b)________________c)____________

33.- what is the difference between an argument and a predicate?

34.- write Three sentences signaling the argument or arguments

35 Write three sentences signaling the predicate.