Graduation Examination in Linguistics 27 - November, 2008 at USSH

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Graduation Examination in Linguistics 27 - November, 2008 at USSH

Duration: 150 minutes 

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Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks) 

1.

2.

a) pass/fail

→Binary antonymy

b) achieve/attain

→

c) furniture/bed

→Hyponymy

d) taller/shorte

→Relational antonymy

3.

a)

4.

a) I didn't realize it was so complicated.

→It was so complicated.

b) It's ten years since we last met in Paris.

→

c) He's a man of great talent.

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

d) If only she were not so stubborn.

→She were so stubborn.

5.
a) He still has a ray of hope.
→
b) I've never read Shakespeare in my life.
→Metonymy. Shakespeare stands for Shakespeare's works.

6. 
"It'll take ages to complete."