QUIZZ 3- SEMANTICS

The words apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, pears, etc. belong to the semantic field of _________.

• emotional states

• kinship

• genetics

•   types of fruit

Lexical gaps refer to _________ .

• the absence of a word in a particular place in a lexical field of a language.

• the presence of a word in a particular place in a lexical field of a language.

•    the division of a word in a particular place in a lexical field of a language.

•   the modification of a word in a particular place in a lexical field of a language.

What is the problem the question mark refers to?

• Animal gaps

• Dictionary gaps

•     Lexeme lists

• Lexical gaps

A(n) _________ can refer to an entity in the real world.

 

• noun

•   verb

• adverb

• adjective

Teacher and student have __________ .

•   the marital relationship

• the sense relationship

• the material relationship

• the reciprocal relationship

‘A dog is human’ has __________ .

• no entity

•   no animal

•   no sense

• no contrast

‘Your left ear’ is a case of __________ because there are many people with a left ear.

• constant reference

•   co-reference

• variable reference

• auto-reference

‘The sun,’ or ‘the moon’ is a case of __________ because it refers to one and the same referent.

• variable reference

• co-reference

•     constant reference

• auto-reference

UNESCO is a case of __________ because it refers to one and the same referent.

• variable reference

• constant reference

• co-reference

• auto-reference

When the morning star and the evening star both refer to the planet called Venus, this is the case of _________.

•   constant reference

• variable reference

•   auto-reference

• co-reference