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SEMANTICS
Samples of Exam Questions
I. Give a complete definition for each of the following terms:
- Proposition
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- Speaker meaning
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II. Define each of the following terms. Then, explain the differences between the terms in
each pair and give examples to illustrate these differences.
-Sense / Proposition
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-Reference / Utterance
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-Equative sentences / Generic sentences

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III. In relation to the semantic notions discussed in the course, what are the following
examples of? Be very specific.
1. Calling customers can be annoying. (Ambiguous)
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2. Left / Elevator
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3. My brother / The supervisor of the Customer Service Department (assuming that we are
talking about the same person)
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4. That woman.
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IV. Give ONE clear and specific example for each of the following. Make the necessary
clarifications to represent your examples.
1. An expression which has constant reference.
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2. An expression which has sense but has no reference.
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3. Two words with the same sense but belonging to different languages.
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4. The gap between sentence meaning and speaker meaning.
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5. A predicator that is a noun.
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6. Two predicates that have the same sense but different parts of speech.
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V. "Semantics is an attempt to set up a theory of meaning". Give two characteristics of
this semantic theory?
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VI. Read each of the following questions. Then, circle the best answer.
1. Which sense of the following expressions is a proposition?
a). Nancy has joined an intensive English language program.
b). Nancy (not understood as an elliptical sentence
fragment)
c). An intensive English language program (not understood as an
elliptical sentence fragment)
2. In which of the following sentence pairs, can one member of the pair be
true and the other can be false?

a). -Omar met Hisham at the coffee shop.
-Omar didn't meet Hisham at the coffee shop.
b). -My friend bought a new laptop.
-A new laptop was bought by my friend.
c). -The technician turned off the machines.
-The technician turned the machines off.
3. Which of the following is correct about 'reference'?
a). a relationship between expressions and other expressions which have
the same meaning.
b). the set of all referents which can potentially be referred to by an
expression.
c). a relationship between a particular referent in the world and an expression used in an
utterance to pick that referent out.
4. In which of the following utterances, is the proposition asserted by the
speaker?
a). "Fix my washing machine, please!"
b). "Have you finished your research paper?"
c). "Successful people work hard to achieve their goals."
VII. Read the following statements and circle either (T)rue or (F)alse.
Statement
T / F
Not all utterances are actually tokens of sentences, but
sometimes only of phrases or single words.
T / F
Propositions can be said to be true or false, whereas
sentences and utterances can not be said to be true or
false.
T / F
Professors of semantics are the primary source of
information about meaning.

T / F
The same proposition can be expressed by different
sentences.
T / F
Many sentences are used by speakers not to give
information at all, but to keep the social wheels turning
smoothly.
T / F
Sentences and utterances can be said to belong to
particular languages and dialects, but propositions can
not.
T / F
Semantics, like other branches of linguistics, is
prescriptive, not descriptive.
T / F
True propositions correspond to facts, but false
propositions do not correspond to facts.
VIII-Could each of the following be used as referring expressions?
-Today yes / no
-God yes / no
-about yes / no
-I yes / no
-Sarah yes / no
-a book yes / no
-6 o'clock yes / no
-the dragon yes / no
-send yes / no
-66 kilometers yes / no
IX-Circle the words which can be predicates ?
He – school – about – not – fat – Mohammed – travel

X-Circle the words which can be referring expressions?
asleep – girl – Suzan – the – whimsical – Dammam – but – send
XII-The naughty boy is behind the tree.
a. Analyze this sentence semantically into a predicator and arguments?
-Predicator: _________________________________________________
-Arguments: ________________________________________________
b. Of what degree is the predicate which functions as a predictor
in this sentence?
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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.
GRADUATION EXAMINATION IN LINGUISTICS
Duration: 150 minutes
PART ONE: SEMANTICS
1. State whether the following statements are true or false. Then write T for true statements
and F for false statements.
a. “Buy” and “sell” form a pair of binary antonyms.
b. An anomalous sentence is a sentence which violates the semantic rules.
c. The use of the part to stand for the whole is called metonymy.
d. A semantic field is a set of formally related words.
e. Unlike denotation, connotative meaning varies from individual to individual.
f. A hypernym is a word whose sense is included in the sense of another word.
g. If a word or an expression can be used in different situations to refer to different entities, it
is said to have variable reference.
h. The absense of a term in a particular place in a semantic field is called is a lexical gap.

i. Two sentences are said to be paraphrases when they have the same or nearly the same
meaning.
j. “Lizard” and “snake” are co-hyponyms.
2. Identify the sense relation between the words in each of the following pairs.
a. pass / fail c. furniture / bed
b. achieve / attain d. taller / shorter
3. Identify the performative(s) in the following set of utterances.
a. I warn you not to come any further.
b. I admit I was careless.
c. You are requested to keep off the grass.
d. It is said to be the tallest building in the area.
4. The following sentences make certain presuppositions. Identify them
a. I didn’t realize it was so complicated.
b. It ten years since we last met in Paris.
c. He’s a man of great talent.
d. If only she were not so stubborn.
5. Interpret the following sentences and identify the figure(s) of speech used.
a. He stil has a ray of hone
b. I’ve never read Shakespeare in my life.
6. For the following utterance, give two situations so that the utterance performs two
different types of acts. Interpret the utterance in the light of the situations you provide, and
then classify it according to the acts it performs.
“It’ll take ages to complete”
PART TWO: ESSAY WRITING
Write an essay of approximately 250 words on either topic:
a. Your opinion of the new helmet law.
b. To the jams are getting worse and worse in Ho Chi Minh City. What do you….
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Đề thi 27/05/2012 (150 minutes)

Part I Semantics
1. What semantic feature(s) do the words in each group share ?
a. ice cream, avocado, soup, corn, beef
b. tigress, doe, girl, actress, debutante
c. man, woman, mare, bull, ewe
d. poodle, Alsatian, Labrador, collie, dachshund
2. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that is an entailment of the sentence printed before it.
(=> is used to show one-way entailment and
ó
to show two way entailment).
a. Mama Bear is in front of Papa Bear.
-> Papa Bear is…………………………………
b. Jim borrowed a bike from Ted.
-> Ted ……………….
c. My brother repaired my car.
-> My brother repaired……………
d. Margaret is thin.
-> Margaret is………………………
3. Identify the sentence as analytic (A), synthetic (S), or contradictory (C)
People who run move their bodies.
4. Write down one IMPLICATURE that can be drawn from the second speaker’s response in the following
exchange.
Professor 1: Is Tom a good student ?
Professor 2: He has beautiful handwriting and is neatly dressed.
5. Point out the deictic word(s) in the following utterance and state where the speaker is or is not.
“Mary, I’d like to invite you to come up the stage.’
6. Identify one sincerity condition that must be satisfied for the following utterance to be appropriate.
“Please open your mouth.”
Part 2. Writing (4 marks)
Write an essay of 250-300 words on ONE of the following topics

1. What are the effects of passive smoking ?
2. Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication, such as letters, emails, or telephone
calls. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
KEY - Đề thi 27/05/2012 (150 minutes)
Part I Semantics
1.What semantic feature(s) do the words in each group share ?
a. ice cream, avocado, soup, corn, beef
They share :[- animate], [+food]
b. tigress, doe, girl, actress, debutante
They share :[+ animate], [+female]
c. man, woman, mare, bull, ewe
They share :[+ animate]
d. poodle, Alsatian, Labrador, collie, dachshund
They share :[+ animate], [+ kinds of dog]
2.Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that is an entailment of the sentence printed before it.
(=> is used to show one-way entailment and
ó
to show two way entailment).
a. Mama Bear is in front of Papa Bear.
-> Papa Bear is in behind Mama Bear.
b. Jim borrowed a bike from Ted.
-> Ted lent a bike to Jim.
c. My brother repaired my car.
-> My brother repaired my vehicle.
d. Margaret is thin.
-> Margaret is a woman/girl.
3. Identify the sentence as analytic (A), synthetic (S), or contradictory (C)
People who run move their bodies.
=> This is an analytic sentence. (A)
4. Write down one IMPLICATURE that can be drawn from the second speaker’s response in the following

exchange.
Professor 1: Is Tom a good student ?
Professor 2: He has beautiful handwriting and is neatly dressed.
=> Professor 2’s utterance implies “Yes” or The second speaker’s response may implicate that Tom is a good
student.
5. Point out the deictic word(s) in the following utterance and state where the speaker is or is not.
“Mary, I’d like to invite you to come up the stage.’
=> Deictic word(s): Person: I, you
Place: the stage
Time: simple present (would like)
6. Identify one sincerity condition that must be satisfied for the following utterance to be appropriate.
“Please open your mouth.”
-> The speaker actually wants the hearer to open his/her mouth.
-> The speaker has ability to do the act. It is felicitous. It is a sincerity condition.
Part 2. Writing (4 marks)
Write an essay of 250-300 words on ONE of the following topics
7. What are the effects of passive smoking ?
8. Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication, such as letters, emails, or telephone
calls. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
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