Graduation Examination in Linguistics 35 (NEW) – December 08, 2013 at USSH

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Graduation Examination in Linguistics 35 (NEW) – December 08, 2013 at USSH 

Duration: 150 minutes 

Lizard ©  Jwischka

Part 1: SEMANTICS (6 marks) 

1. State whether the following statements are true or false.

a. An utterance can carry out several illocutionary acts simultaneously.

→ True

(Ex: “Can you open the door?” can be both a question and a request.)

b. Paraphrase is two-way entailment.

→ True

c. Analyticity is a relation between sentences.

→ False

d. The meaning of the hyponym is included in the meaning of the hypernym.

→ True

2. Identify the sense relation between words in each of the following pairs. If the words are antonyms, specify what kind of antonyms they are.

a. reptile – lizard ( bò sát - thằng lằn)

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