Graduation Examination in Linguistics 5 - ? at USSH

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Graduation Examination in Linguistics 5 - ? at USSH
Duration: 150 minutes 

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Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks) 

1. Compare...

Reference/sense

2.

a) own/belong to

→Relational antonymy

b) virtue/honesty

→

c) cat/dog

→Incompatibility

d) enormous/huge

→Synonymy

3.

a) My sick cat is not well.

→

b) The tiger is a reptile.

→

c) Leaves turn yellow in the fall.

→Sythetic

d) The Eiffel Tower is in Paris.

→Analytic

4.

a) I wonder how Steve smashed the television.

→The speaker assumes that the hearer already knows who "Steve" refers to.

→Steve smashed the television.

b) She proved to be a very efficient worker.

→The speaker assumes that the hearer already knows who "she" refers to.

Part 2: WRITING (4 marks)