2012- 4- 23
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أكـاديـمـي ألـمـاسـي
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رد: ~||Last semester of Senior Year ||~
9 Semantics (Study Questions)
1 The prototype is the characteristic instance of a category, as in the case of “robin”
being the clearest example, or prototype, of the category “bird” for many American
English speakers.
2 (a) The verb drink requires a subject with the feature [+animate] and the noun
television has the feature [-animate]. (b) The verb write requires a subject with the
feature [+human] and the noun dog has the feature [-human].
3 Instrument (her new golf club), Agent (Anne Marshall), Theme (the ball), Source
(the woods), Goal (the grassy area), Location (the hole), Experiencer (she)
4 (a) synonymy, (b) antonymy, (c) hyponymy, (d) antonymy, (e) hyponymy, (f)
homophony (or homophones)
5 (a) non-gradable, (b) reversive, (c) non-gradable, (d) gradable, (e) reversive, (f)
gradable
6 (a) metonymy, (b) polysemy, (c) metonymy, (d) metonymy, (e) polysemy (f)
metonymy
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