Semantics Practice – Exercise 1 Synonymy or antonymy? a) flourish – thrive b) intelligent – stupid c) casual – informal d) young – old e) uncle – aunt f) intelligent – smart g) flog – whip h) drunk – sober synonymy antonymy synonymy antonymy antonymy synonymy synonymy antonymy

Semantics Practice – Exercise 2 Homophony or polysemy? a) grass: marijuana; herbage animals eat b) leech: bloodsucking worm; a hanger-on who seeks advantage c) range: mountains; stove d) key: instrument that unlocks a lock; answer sheet e) steal/steel: rob; metal f) race: running competitively; people belonging to the same genetic group g) flower/flour: plant, finely ground wheat polysemy polysemy homophony* polysemy homophony homophony homophony *Creative argument could be made for polysemy in that they both have rows of something

Semantics Practice – Exercise 3 Paraphrase, contradiction or entailment? a) Timothy at the party b) Mary’s marital status c) Fudge eating cobra d) Vera e) 50 miles to the gas station f) My cousin Bryan paraphrase entailment paraphrase contradiction paraphrase entailment

Semantics Practice - Exercise 12 Label the thematic role of each NP and identify the assigner of each thematic role. a) The man chased the intruder a) The man chased the intruder <ag, th> b) The cat jumped from the chair onto the table. b) The cat jumped from the chair onto the table. <ag> <source> <goal> c) Aaron wrote a letter to Martin. c) Aaron wrote a letter to Martin. <ag, th> <goal>

Semantics Practice - Exercise 12 Label the thematic role of each NP and identify the assigner of each thematic role. d) The president entertained the guests in the Blue Room. d) The governor entertained the guests in the lounge. <ag, th> <loc> e) Nancy mailed the manuscript from Atlanta. e) Helen mailed the manuscript from Boise. <ag, th> <source>

Pragmatics – Exercise 18 What is the implicature in the following exchanges? a. Have you washed the floor and done the dishes? b. I’ve washed the floor. a. Did you get a hold of Carl? b. I tried to call him yesterday. a. What did you think of the movie? b. Well, the supporting actor was great. a. Do you have any pets? b. I have a goat. I have not done the dishes I have not contacted Carl. I haven’t tried to call him today. I didn’t really like the movie. The main actor sucked. This is the only pet I have.