Semantics: a coursebook, second edition
Unit 4 Study Guide and Exercises Directions
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| Unit 4 Study Guide and Exercises
Directions After you have read Unit 4 you should be able to tackle the following questions to test your understanding of the main ideas raised in the unit. 1 You should understand these terms and concepts from this unit: referring expression opaque context inde finite noun phrase equative sentence de finite noun phrase 2 Which of the following could be used as referring expressions? Be able to explain why or why not. a my table e or b a unicorn f Mary c no love g a book d travel h Abraham Lincoln For sentences 3–6 below decide whether the italicized noun phrases are referring expressions or not, and explain why (or why not). If the sentence is ambiguous explain why it is ambiguous. 3 His father married a dancer 4 John wants to marry a dancer 5 The whale is the largest mammal 6 The man who shot Kennedy was Lee Harvey Oswald 7 Explain the ambiguity in: I am looking for a pencil 8 Create a set of circumstances under which the sentence Dan believes that . . . signed the bill is an opaque context. Use the referring expressions George W. Bush and the President of the United States in your answer. 9 Which of the following are equative sentences? Explain why. a Fred is the man with the gun b William the Conqueror is the current King of England c Detroit is a nearby city d Mary is a genius e A box of cookies is what I would like f Detroit is not the largest city in the USA U N I T 4 Referring expressions 43 10 Consider the sentence It’s a tree. Assume that this sentence is uttered by a tải về 1.74 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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