Assignment Of Semantics
ASSIGNMENT OF SEMANTICS
Exercise 1: Match the term with their corresponding definitions
1.Lexical meaning
a. The relationship that holds between a word or expression and te objects it refers to.
2. Grammatical meaning
b. the ability of a word to identify all those things or objects that are correctly covered by it.
3. Hononymy
c. The meaning of a word tht depends on its role in a sentence and varies with inflectional form.
4. Polysemy
d. The substitution of one word for anoter with which it is associated.
5. Referance
e. A word that is written and/ or pronounced the same way as another, but has a different meaning.
6. Denotation
f. The individual meaning of each word has in the system of language
7. Metaphor
g. The tranference of meaning from on object to another based on similarities between these two.
8. Metonymy
h. A word that has two or more meaning.
9. Hyponymy
i. A relationship where a proposition must be false because of the meanings of the words involved.
10. Contracdition
k. The relationship between two words in which the meaning of one of the words includes the meaning of the other.
Answer: 1-c 2-f 3-e 4- h 5-a 6-b 7-g 8-d 9-k 10- i
Exercise 2: Decide whether the sentences are true (T) or false (F).
……..1. There are four major components of word meaning: denotation, conotation, structural meaning and categorial meaning.
……..2. Denotation includes conceptual and referential meanings. Denotation exists by virtue of what it refers to.
……..3. Structural meaning of the word includes reflected, collocative, associative and connotational meanings.
……..4.The meaning of a word can be partially defined in terms of semantic features of properties.
……..5. Synonyms are words( two or more) of the same part f speech, similar in their denotational meaning, but different in their phonetic and graphic forms, connotational meaning and combinability.
……..6. If X is a hyponym of Y and Y is also a hyponym of X, then
Exercise 1: Match the term with their corresponding definitions
1.Lexical meaning
a. The relationship that holds between a word or expression and te objects it refers to.
2. Grammatical meaning
b. the ability of a word to identify all those things or objects that are correctly covered by it.
3. Hononymy
c. The meaning of a word tht depends on its role in a sentence and varies with inflectional form.
4. Polysemy
d. The substitution of one word for anoter with which it is associated.
5. Referance
e. A word that is written and/ or pronounced the same way as another, but has a different meaning.
6. Denotation
f. The individual meaning of each word has in the system of language
7. Metaphor
g. The tranference of meaning from on object to another based on similarities between these two.
8. Metonymy
h. A word that has two or more meaning.
9. Hyponymy
i. A relationship where a proposition must be false because of the meanings of the words involved.
10. Contracdition
k. The relationship between two words in which the meaning of one of the words includes the meaning of the other.
Answer: 1-c 2-f 3-e 4- h 5-a 6-b 7-g 8-d 9-k 10- i
Exercise 2: Decide whether the sentences are true (T) or false (F).
……..1. There are four major components of word meaning: denotation, conotation, structural meaning and categorial meaning.
……..2. Denotation includes conceptual and referential meanings. Denotation exists by virtue of what it refers to.
……..3. Structural meaning of the word includes reflected, collocative, associative and connotational meanings.
……..4.The meaning of a word can be partially defined in terms of semantic features of properties.
……..5. Synonyms are words( two or more) of the same part f speech, similar in their denotational meaning, but different in their phonetic and graphic forms, connotational meaning and combinability.
……..6. If X is a hyponym of Y and Y is also a hyponym of X, then