First partial English semantics exam

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First content of the English semantics course of the BA in Teaching English.
Claudia Leyra
Quiz by Claudia Leyra, updated more than 1 year ago
Claudia Leyra
Created by Claudia Leyra about 9 years ago
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Question 1

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Semantics is...
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  • The study of meanign in language.
  • The study of composition of words in a language.
  • The study of sense.

Question 2

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This is what a speaker means when he/she uses a piece of language.
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  • Sentence meaning
  • Speaker meaning

Question 3

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This is what a sentence or word means.
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  • Sentence/word meaning
  • Speaker meaning

Question 4

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A theory is...
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  • The one that deals with semantic facts abput meaning, such as those stated in the true statements above.
  • It is a precisely specified, coherent, and economical framework of independent statements and definitions, constructed so that as large a number as possible of particular basic facts can either be seen to follow it or be describable in terms of it.

Question 5

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Can a semantics theory include the study of syntax (grammar) and phonetics (pronunciation) besides the study os meanig?
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  • Yes
  • No

Question 6

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This is a stretch of talk, by one person, before and after which there is silence on the part of that person. It is the use of a particular speaker, on a particular occasion, of a piece of language, such as a sequence of sentences, or a single phrase, er even a single word.
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  • Sentence
  • Utterance
  • Proposition

Question 7

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Is "Not much" an example of an utterance?
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  • Yes
  • No

Question 8

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It is considered as a strig of words put together by the grammatical rules of a language, it can be thought as the ideal string of words behind various realizations in utterances and inscriptions.
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  • Utterance
  • Sentence
  • Proposition

Question 9

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Is "John" an example of a sentence?
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  • Yes
  • No

Question 10

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It is that part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence which describes some state of affairs.
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  • Sentence
  • Utterance
  • Proposition

Question 11

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Can an utterance be loud and quiet?
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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Can a sentence be loud and quiet?
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  • True
  • False

Question 13

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Can propositions be loud and quiet?
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  • True
  • False

Question 14

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Can utterances be grammatical or not?
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  • True
  • False

Question 15

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Can sentences be grammatical or not?
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  • True
  • False

Question 16

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Can propositions be grammatical or not?
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  • True
  • False

Question 17

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Can utterances be true or false?
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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Can sentences be true or false?
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  • True
  • False

Question 19

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Can propositions be true or false?
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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Can utterances be in a particular regional accent?
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  • True
  • False

Question 21

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Can sentences be in a particular regional accent?
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  • True
  • False

Question 22

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Can propositions be in a particular regional accent?
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  • True
  • False

Question 23

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Can utterances be in a particular language?
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  • True
  • False

Question 24

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Can sentences be in a particular language?
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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Can propositions be in a particular language?
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  • True
  • False

Question 26

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By means of referece the speaker indicates which things in the world (including people) are being talked about.
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  • Yes
  • No

Question 27

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How do we call the relationship between parts of a language and thigs outside the language?
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  • Reference
  • Referent

Question 28

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How do we call the escence of a word or an expression? it also can be described as the description or the meaning of a word or of an expression.
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  • Meaning
  • Sense

Question 29

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This is the description of a word that you can find in a dictionary?
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  • Sense
  • Meaning

Question 30

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Considering the following examples: I have an account in the Bank of Scotland. She banked the furnance up with coke last night. Can a word have more than one sense?
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  • Yes
  • No

Question 31

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In the following example "A man was here looking for you last night"... is "a man" a referring expression?
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  • Yes
  • No

Question 32

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An __________ ______________ is a part of a sentence which could be made into a complete sentence by the addition of a referring expression, but where the addition of different referring expressions, even though they refer to the same thing or person, in a given situation, will yield sentences with DIFFERENT meaning when uttered in a given situation.
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  • EQUATIVE SENTENCE
  • OPAQUE MEANING

Question 33

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Opaque contexst involve typically a certain kind of verb... Which are these verbs? Choose two options.
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  • want, believe
  • smile, refer
  • push, thank
  • think, wonder about

Question 34

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Select the sentences with "equative sentences" in them.
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  • Claudia Leyra is your semantics teacher.
  • Christian's brother is Sofi's brother too.
  • Diego is my semantics student.
  • Toluca is the Capital of the State of Mexico
  • Briseida hit the woman next to her.

Question 35

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This word or group of words make the most specific contribution to the meaning of the sentece.
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  • Utterance
  • Proposition
  • Predicator

Question 36

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Which is the predicator in: Mummy is asleep.
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  • Mummy
  • is
  • asleep

Question 37

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An argument is a role played by referring expressions... So, choose the arguments for the sentence below: Juan arrested Pablo.
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  • Juan, Pablo
  • arrested
  • Juan
  • Pablo

Question 38

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In which of the followng sentences does the predicate male functions as a predicator? Choose the best options.
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  • The male gorilla at the zoo had a nasty accident yesterday.
  • The gorilla at the zoo is a male.
  • The gorilla at the zoo is male.

Question 39

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Choose from the following strings of language the one that is a sentence.
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  • I would like a cup of coffee
  • Coffee, please
  • In the kitchen

Question 40

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Do pavement and sidewalk have the same sense, but in different dialects of English?
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  • True
  • False

Question 41

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Do sofa and coach have the same sense, but in different dialects of English?
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  • True
  • False

Question 42

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Choose from the list below the words that can be used as referring expressions:
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  • The girl next to the window
  • You and me
  • Maria
  • if
  • John
  • I

Question 43

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Choose the words that could refer of things in the world?
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  • We
  • Singing
  • Sleeping
  • The man
  • The clasroom
  • My shoes

Question 44

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The incomplete sentence “Wili thinks… is a smart person” constitutes…
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  • an equative sentence
  • an opaque context

Question 45

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In Claudia is Mexican… the predicator is Mexican, and the argument is Claudia.
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  • True
  • False

Question 46

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Choose the sentence that has a verb with a three-place predicate:
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  • Felipe gave Alfonso
  • Felipe gave a nice present
  • Felipe gave Alfonso a nice present
  • Felipe gave

Question 47

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Choose the generic sentences from the sentences below:
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  • Gentlemen prefer blondes
  • David is a twit
  • The male of the species guard the eggs
  • A bee builds up a honeycomb in a tree
  • A wasp just stung me on the neck

Question 48

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Choose the deictic words from the list below.
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  • I
  • are
  • Leticia
  • there
  • under

Question 49

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Which of the following sentences has a direct quotation:
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  • a) John “I like your trainers”.
  • b) John said he liked my trainers.

Question 50

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Choose the best option of the deictical transformation in the following sentence: Alfonso: “I have too much work to do at the office” He said he had too much work to do at the office.
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  • I-he / have-had
  • He-said/ work-office

Question 51

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Which sentence below shows "definiteness"?
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  • The world is unique in the universe.
  • A planet is part of the solar system.
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