Lexical Semantics Pt. II

The relationship between two words possessing the same wordform is called

Choose a polysemic word

• aunt

• play

• geography

• lucrative

Boundaries separating polysemy from homonymy and underspecification are...

• clear

• spiritual

• fuzzy

• non-negotiable

Lexical decomposition is also called

• generative semantics

• morphological analysis

• structural analysis

• componential analysis

Who came up with the idea of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)?

• Roman Jakobson

• Noam Chomsky

• Anna Wierzbicka

• Louis Hjelmslev

How do you test prototypicality?

Macroroles are

• doctor and patient

• actor and spectator

• actor and patient

• doctor and actor

• actor and sufferer

Name a few localist roles