Ch 5 Meaning

Employer and employee are complementary antonyms.

• True

• False

One merit of componential analysis is that by specifying the semantic features of certain words it will be possible to show how these words are related in meaning.

• True

• False

The pairs of words dead/alive, male/female are examples of antonyms which are named contrary terms.

• True

• False

“He broke the cup” entails “the cup was damaged”.

• True

• False

“His daughter is a teacher” entails “He has a daughter”.

• True

• False

The sense relationship between “parent” and “child” is ________.

• complementarity

• relational opposites

• gradability

• hyponymy

The relation between the sentence “The girl he married was an heiress” and the sentence “He married a girl” is called ________.

• entailment

• presupposition

• implicature

• synonymy

“Rose”, “lily”, “violet” and “peony” are ________ of “flower”.

• superordinates

• relational hyponyms

• gradable opposites

• co-hyponyms

Which of the following is a pair of relational opposites?

• single vs. married

• hot vs. cold

• alive vs. dead

• husband vs. wife

________ is the name for opposite relation of words which include three main sub-types.

• Hyponymy

• Antonymy

• Polysemy

• Synonymy