语言学Chapter 5 Meaning 练习.doc

Chapter 5 MeaningI. Choose the best answer (20%). 1. We shall know a word by the company it keeps.” This statement represents _______. A. the conceptualist view B. contextualism C. the naming theory D. behaviorism2. Which of the following is NOT true? A. Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. B. Sense is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form. C. Sense is abstract and decontextualized. D. Sense is the aspect of meaning dictionary compilers are not interested in.3. ___________ is a way in which the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components called semantic features. A. Predication analysis B. Componential analysis C. Phonemic analysis D. Grammatical analysis4.Alive” and “dead” are ______________. A. gradable antonyms B. relational antonyms C. complementary antonyms D. None of the above5. _________ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience. A. Reference B. Concept C. Semantics D. Sense6. ___________ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form. A. Polysemy B. Synonymy C. Homonymy D. Hyponymy7. Words that are close in meaning are called ______________. A. homonyms B. polysemies C. hyponyms D. synonyms8. The grammaticality of a sentence is governed by _______. A. grammatical rules B. selectional restrictions C. semantic rules D. semantic features 9. The pair of words “lend” and “borrow” are ___（　　） 　A. gradable opposites　　　B. relational opposites 　C. co-hyponyms　　　　　D. synonyms 10.The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as __.（　　） 　　A. +animate， +male， +human， -adult 　　B. +animate， +male， +human， +adult 　　C. +animate， -male， +human， -adult 　　D. +animate， -male， +human， +adultII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.(10%)11.Dialectal synonyms can often be found in different regional diale