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              NP                        VP
         Det          N            Vt          NP
                                          Det          N
        The         boy          likes     the         music.
46. What are the advantages of using tree diagrams in the analysis of sentence structures?
    The tree diagram can not only reveal a linear order, but also a hierarchical structure that groups words into structural constituents. It can, in addition, show the syntactic category of each structural constituent, thus it is believed to most truthfully illustrate the constituent relationship among linguistic elements.
47. What is NP movement. Illustrate it with examples.
NP movement in-volves the movement of a noun phrase. NP-movement occurs when, for example, a sentence changes from the active voice to the passive voice:
    (A)  The man beat the child.
(B).  The child was beaten by the man.
   B is the result of the movement of the noun phrases "the man" and "the child" from their original positions in (A) to new positions. That is, "the man" is postposed to the right and "the child" is preposed to the left.
    Not all instances of NP-movement, however, are related to changing a sentence from the active voice to the passive voice. For example:
    (C) It seems they are quite fit for the job.
    (D) They seem quite fit for the job.
These sentences are identical in meaning, but different in their superfi-cial syntactic representations. It is believed that they have the same underly-ing structure, but (27b) is the result of an NP movement.


Chapter 5  Semantics  
I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:
  1. Dialectal synonyms can often be found in different regional dialects such as British English and American English but cannot be found within the variety itself, for example, within British English or American English.  
2. Sense is concerned with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience, while the reference deals with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.  
  3. Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different references in different situations.
  4. In semantics, meaning of language is considered as the intrinsic and inherent relation to the physical world of experience.  
  5. Contextualism is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from or reduce meaning to observable contexts.  
  6. Behaviourists attempted to define the meaning of a language form as the situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer.  
  7. The meaning of a sentence is the sum total of the meanings of all its components.  
  8. Most languages have sets of lexical items similar in meaning but ranked differently according to their degree of formality.  
  9. “it is hot.” is a no-place predication because it contains no argument.  
10. In grammatical analysis, the sentence is taken to be the basic unit, but in semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is predication, which is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.  
II. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given:
11. S________  can be defined as the study of meaning.
12. The conceptualist view holds that there is no d______ link between a linguistic form and what it refers to.
13. R______ means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world; it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.
14. Words that are close in meaning are called s________.
15. When two words are identical in sound, but different in spelling and meaning, they are called h__________.
16.R_________ opposites are pairs of words that exhibit the reversal of a relationship between the two items.
17. C ____ analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can be divided into meaning components.
18. Whether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules called s________ restrictions, which are constraints on what lexical items can go with what others.
19. An a________ is a logical participant in a predication, largely identical with the nominal element(s) in a sentence.
20. According to the n ____ theory of meaning, the words in a lan-guage are taken to be labels of the objects they stand for.
III. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement:
21. The naming theory is advanced by ________.
      A. Plato                    B. Bloomfield
      C. Geoffrey Leech            D. Firth
22. “We shall know a word by the company it keeps.” This statement represents _______.
    A. the conceptualist view          B. contexutalism
    C. the naming theory             D.behaviourism  
23. Which of the following is not true?
A.   Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
B.   Sense is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form.
C.   Sense is abstract and de-contextualized.
D.  Sense is the aspect of meaning dictionary compilers are not interested in.  
24. “Can I borrow your bike?” _______ “ You have a bike.”
               A. is synonymous with    B. is inconsistent with
     C. entails               D. presupposes  
25. ___________ is a way in which the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components, called semantic features.
   A. Predication analysis               B. Componential analysis
   C. Phonemic analysis                D. Grammatical analysis  
26. “alive” and “dead” are ______________.
   A. gradable antonyms              B. relational opposites
   C. complementary antonyms         D. None of the above  
27. _________ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.
A. Reference                             B. Concept
C. Semantics                             D. Sense  
28. ___________ refers to the pheno广告网址n that words having different meanings have the same form.
A. Polysemy                          B. Synonymy
C. Homonymy                        D. Hyponymy  
29.  Words that are close in meaning are called ______________.
    A. homonyms                    B. polysemy
    C. hyponyms                     D. synonyms  
30.  The grammaticality of a sentence is governed by _______.
A.   grammatical rules
B.   selectional restrictions
C.   semantic rules