ENG508 Midterm Quiz

ENG508

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Maha Malik Semantics and Pragmatics

1. " He ran towards the store” which thematic role in it Agent theme instrument goal
2. According to Palmer there are two familiar grammatical categories gender and _ _(Number)
3. It is the study of meaning as communicated by the speaker and interpreted by the listener ___(pragmatics)
4. The context of the text itself is called _ _(co-text)
5. A lexical entry is said to be a combination of __ _ Morphological specification, Syntactic Specification and Semantic Specification
6. The term ___ is used to refer to development and change of meaning. (Semantics)
7. Which of the following distinguish between events in the real world and events in the future/imaginary world ___ (Illusion)
8. Proper noun denotes (Groups; Individuals; All the given options; Societies)
9. the word kill is.... Causative (Extrinsically; Hastily)
10. The theory of linguistic relativity provides explanation for a/an---- experience when dealing with different languages

(Specific) (Exceptional) (Irregular) (Common)

11. Pragmatic study of the people.

(Meaning) (Enormous)

12. According to Grice, it is the knowledge of the maxims that allows hearers to draw About the speaker's intention and applied meanings. (Anticipant; Manner; Plight; Inference)
13. Which is called the process by which an institutionalized lexical diverges from theoratical meanings.. (Bi-directiondity; Recursiveness; Open-ended; Pertification)
14. in Sansikrit, plural belongs to Term system (4; 3; 2; 5)
15. our interest in semantic relation is with (Images; Set; Range; Lexeme)
16. the flower is super ordinate of (Roses; pansies; tulips; all the given)
17. Fillmore has suggested cases of case grammar. Six
18. Connotative meanings compared with conceptual meanings are and open- ended. Indeterminate
19. Different phonological words which have the same or similar meanings. Synonymy
20. Relevance theory emerged in 1980s in the collaborative work of Wilson and Sperber
21. Meaningful utterances may b the products of incomplete utterances
22. The process of creating and interpreting symbols is Semiotics.
23. A sentence is a syntagm of words.
24. Conversion is a change in the syntactic function (and usually the meaning) of an item without a corresponding change in morphological form
25. Exophora is dependent on the context outside the text, e.g. proper nouns,
26. Necessary and sufficient conditions are one traditional approach to describe concepts
27. Hyponymy is always transitive but meronymy may or may not be
28. thinks, loves, like, have, remains etc. are stative verbs and do not contain physical actions
29. Charles J.Filmore suggested the six cases of grammar case
30. He ran towards the store. " Toward the store" shows the goal role
31. The notion of linguistic relativity, associated with Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, is an idea that has spread far outside the fields of anthropology and linguistics
32. Propositions are the meaning, that are mainly expressed by the... sentences. (Declarative)
33. "the idea theory of meaning" explains the pattern in how language expresses meaning in terms of the nature of (Concept)
34. Collocation is a familiar group of words
35. When a presupposition is cancelled by our general knowledge of the world. This characteristic is known as Defeasibility.
36. According to Palmer........., gender and number.
37. Geoffrey leech has given five function of language.
38. Berlin and kay investigated that languages vary in the number and range of their basic color terms and cause inventory of only eleven color categories.
39. Grammatical relations are morph syntactic, whereas sematic roles are conceptual notion.
40. Recursiveness is a lexical entry that is simultaneously the output of one lexical rule and the input of another one.
41. Institutionalized lexical meaning diverges from the 'theoretical' meaning. This process is called petrification.
42. Affective meaning reflects personal feelings of speaker.
43. Several meanings of a single word are called polysemy.
44. Propositional logic is known as propositional calculus.
45. She might have gone. In the sentence auxiliary verb might is a modal verb.
46. The first approach of presupposition sentences is viewed as ….. object.
47. Relationship by which two languages looks onto the world is called (reference)
48. There was a time in linguistics when pragmatic was taken as a ….. of linguistics. [A. Watterpannier B. Watershell]
49. Which among the following is a figure of speech in which meaning is the opposite of what one's word means? [A. Verbal irony B. Situational irony C. Dramatic irony D. All of these]