39. complete homonyms            40. hyponymy
41.antonymy                   42 componential analysis        
43.grammatical meaning          44. predication
45. Argument                   46. predicate                   
47. Two-place predication
V. Answer the following questions:
48.   Why do we say that a meaning of a sentence is not the sum total of the meanings of all its components?
49.   What is componential analysis? Illustrate it with examples.
50.   How do you distinguish between entailment and presupposition in terms of truth values?
51.   How do you account for such sense relations between sentences as synonymous relation, inconsistent relation in terms of truth values?
52.   According to the way synonyms differ, how many groups can we classify synonyms into? Illustrate them with examples.
53.   What are the major views concerning the study of meaning? How they differ?

I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:
l.F   2.F   3.T   4.F   5.T   6.T   7.F   8.T   9.T   10.T
II. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given:
11. Semantics 12. direct 13.Reference 14. synonyms 15.homophones 16.Relational 17. Componential 18. selectional 19. argument  20. naming
III. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement:
2l.A 22.B 23.D 24.D 25.B 26.C 27.A 28.C 29.D 30.A
IV. Define the following terms:
31. Semantics: Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning in language.
32. Sense: Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. It is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form; it is abstract and de -contextualised.
33. Reference: Reference 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
34. Synonymy :Synonymy refers to the sameness or close similarity of meaning.
35. Polysemy :Polysemy refers to the fact that the same one word may have more than one meaning.
36. Homonymy :Homonymy refers to the pheno广告网址n that words having different mean-ings have the same form, i.e. , different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.
37. homophones :When two words are identical in sound, they are called homophones
38. homographs :When two words are identical in spelling, they are homographs.
39. complete homonyms.:When two words are identical in both sound and spelling, they are called complete homonyms.

40.Hyponymy :Hyponymy refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word.
41. Antonymy :Antonymy refers to the relation of oppositeness of meaning.
42. Componential analysis : Componential analysis is a way to analyze word meaning. It was pro-posed by structural semanticists. The approach is based on the belief that the meaning of a -word can be divided into meaning components, which are called semantic features.
43.The grammatical meaning : The grammatical meaning of a sentence refers to its grammaticality, i.e. , its grammatical well-formedness . The grammaticality of a sentence is governed by the grammatical rules of the language.
44. predica-tion :The predica-tion is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.
45. ar-gument : An ar-gument is a logical participant in a predication. It is generally identical with the nominal element (s) in a sentence.
46. predicate : A predicate is something that is said about an argument or it states the logical relation linking the arguments in a sentence.
47. two-place predication :  A two-place predication is one which con-tains two arguments.
V. Answer the following questions:
48.   Why do we say that a meaning of a sentence is not the sum total of the meanings of all its components?
    The meaning of a sentence is not the sum total of the meanings of all its components because it cannot be worked out by adding up all the meanings of its constituent words. For example;
           (A) The dog bit the man.
           (B) The man bit the dog.
If the meaning of a sentence were the sum total of the meanings of all its components, then the above two sentences would have the same meaning. In fact they are different in meanings.
As we know, there are two aspects to sentence meaning: grammatical mean-ing and semantic meaning. The grammatical meanings of “the dog” and “the man” in (A) are different from the grammatical meanings of “the dog” and “the man” in (B). The meaning of a sentence is the product of both lexical and grammatical meaning. It is the product of the meaning of the constituent words and of the grammatical constructions that relate one word syntagmatically to another.
49.   What is componential analysis? Illustrate it with examples.
    Componential analysis, pro-posed by structural semanticists, is a way to analyze word meaning. The approach is based on the belief that the meaning of a word can be divided into meaning components, which are called semantic features. Plus and minus signs are used to indicate whether a certain semantic feature is present or absent in the meaning of a word, and these feature symbols are usually written in capitalized letters. For example, the word “man” is ana-lyzed as consisting of the semantic features of [+ HUMAN, + ADULT, + ANIMATE, +MALE]
50.   How do you distinguish between entailment and presupposition in terms of truth values?
Entailment is a relation of inclusion. Suppose there are two sentences X and Y:
    X: He has been to France.
    Y: He has been to Europe.
In terms of truth values, if X is true, Y is necessarily true, e.g. If he has been to France, he must have been to Europe.
  If X is false, Y may be true or false, e. g. If he has not been to France, he may still have been to Europe or he has not been to Europe. If Y is true, X may be true or false, e.g. If he has been to Europe, he may or may not have been to France.
If Y is false, X is false, e.g. If he has not been to Europe, he cannot have been to France.
Therefore we conclude that X entails Y or Y is an entailment of X.
The truth conditions that we use to judge presupposition is as follows:
Suppose there are two sentences X and Y
          X: John' s bike needs repairing.
          Y: John has a bike.
If X is true, Y must be true, e.g. If John' s bike needs repairing, John must have a bike.
If X is false, Y is still true, e. g. If John' s bike does not need repairing, John still has a bike. If Y is true, X is either true or false, e.g. If John has a bike, it may or may not need repairing. If Y is false, no truth value can be said about X, e.g. If John does not have a bike, nothing can be said about whether his bike needs repairing or not. Therefore, X presupposes Y, or Y is a presupposition of X.
51.   How do you account for such sense relations between sentences as synonymous relation, inconsistent relation in terms of truth values?
   In terms of truth condition, of the two sentences X and Y, if X is true, Y is true; if X is false, Y is false, therefore X is synonymous with Y
e.g. X; He was a bachelor all his life.
Y: He never married all his life.
Of the two sentences X and Y, if X is true, Y is false; if X is false, Y is true, then we can say A is inconsistent with Y
e.g.  X: John is married.
      Y: John is a bachelor.
52.   According to the ways synonyms differ, how many groups can we classify synonyms into? Illustrate them with examples.
    According to the ways synonyms differ, synonyms can be divided into the following groups.
i.   Dialectal synonyms
They are synonyms which are used in different regional dialects. British English and American English are the two major geographical varieties of the English language. For examples:
           British English            American English
             autumn                    fall
               lift                     elevator
Then dialectal synonyms can also be found within British, or American English itself. For example, "girl" is called "lass" or "lassie" in Scottish dialect, and "liquor" is called "whisky" in Irish dialect.