Lexical semantics

Absolute synonymy are rare because they are ...

Choose absolute absolute synonyms

• chair/sofa

• somebody/someone

• elevator/lift

• noone/anyone

Define plesionyms

• Plesionyms differ in meaning entirely.

• Plesionyms differ in meaning, but sound the same.

• Plesionyms differ in meaning slightly.

• Plesionyms are pronounced differently, but have the same meaning.

What is an example of plesionym?

• rain/fog

• bark/bark

• misty/foggy

• sell/cell

What is an example of near synonymy?

• error, mistake

• bear/bear

• mist/fog

What are cognitive synonymy?

• Illustrate only the difference in time, dialect and intensity.

• Illustrate the difference in style and register only.

• Illustrate the difference in style, register, intensity, semantic analysis, time, dialects and connotations

What is an example of emotive connotation? More than one is correct.

• politician - statesman

• Monday -Mondayitis

• smell - fragrance

• pretty-beautiful

Are CONTRARY antonymy gradable? 

• yes

• no

Complementary Antonyms are ...

• Complementary adjectives ONLY (true-false, open-closed)

• Complementary adjectives (true-false) and Contradictory - The door is open = the door is not closed

• Have rhetorical function. “It is meeting the public need, not private greed”

• Expresses a 'part-of 'relation between the denotations of related nouns

Meronymy and holonymy - choose correct examples

• Trunk and branch are meronyms of tree, tree is a holonym of trunk and branch

• The house has a door, the door has a handle, the handle is a meronym of  a house

• A finger is a part of a hand, a hand has fingers. = fingers are meronym of a hand

• To stroll is to walk in some manner. stroll is a meronym of a walk