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Semantic Relations

This document discusses semantics and semantic relations. It provides examples of sentences and pairs of words and asks the reader to identify the semantic relation between them, such as paraphrase, entailment, contradiction, gradable antonyms, binary antonyms, etc. It also asks the reader to complete statements about semantic features, paraphrases, entailments, superordinates, homophones, antonyms, hyponyms and more. The document covers key concepts in semantics like sense, reference, ambiguity and semantic relations between words and sentences.

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Semantic Relations

This document discusses semantics and semantic relations. It provides examples of sentences and pairs of words and asks the reader to identify the semantic relation between them, such as paraphrase, entailment, contradiction, gradable antonyms, binary antonyms, etc. It also asks the reader to complete statements about semantic features, paraphrases, entailments, superordinates, homophones, antonyms, hyponyms and more. The document covers key concepts in semantics like sense, reference, ambiguity and semantic relations between words and sentences.

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SEMANTICS

I. Which of the semantic relations (paraphrase (P), entailment (E), contradiction (C)) is
exemplified in each of the following sentences?

1. Flight 20458 arrives and departs at 8:00 a.m.


2. Cats are vegetables.
3. That girl is her own mother’s mother.
4. My brother married a doctor. My male sibling joined in wedlock with a physician.
5. They have love-hate relationship.
6. My husband is living. I am a widow.
7. My brother is an only child.
8. Othello killed Desdemona. Desdemona died.
9. He descended from the ground floor to the attic.
10. Jane ate a piece of chicken. Jane ate a piece of poultry.

II. Consider the pair of words given in (1)-(20) below, and decide which of the following
terms best characterises the relationship: gradable antonyms (G), binary antonyms (B),
converse antonyms(C), homonyms (H), hyponyms (HY), synonyms (S).

1 behind – in front 11 captive- free

2 fast-slow 12 possible-impossible

3 fixed- loose 13 doe-dough

4 leave-stay 14 male-female

5 chair - bed-chair 15 deep- shallow

6 teacher- pupil 16 use-employ

7 parent-child 17 sugar-icing sugar

8 aural-oral 18 bequeath-inherit

9 in - out 19 obey-disobey

10 moving-stationary 20 strike- attack


III. Use an appropriate word or phrase to complete each of the following sentences.

1. Relatedness of meaning accompanying identical form is technically known


as......................……………………………………………………..
2. Words, phrases, and sentences have sense and can have..................………...
3. “Pilfer” is a hyponym of “………........................................................……”.
4. In most dialects of English, stubborn and obstinate are…………………….
5. Ceiling and sealing are…………………………….………………………..
6. The pronouns in I like her a lot are ………………………………………..
7. A sentence which expresses the same proposition as another is a………...…
of that sentence.
8. In practice, it is difficult to draw a clear line between homonymy and ……..
9. Mary and herself in Mary is different from herself refer to the………referent.
10. The phrase English literature teacher constitutes a case of……....….ambiguity.
IV. Complete the following statements.

1. The shared semantic features of sister, aunt, mother, niece are

2. A paraphrase of “Bachelors prefer red-haired girls” is

3. An entailment of “I cooked an egg” is


4. A superordinate of “rose” is
5. A homophone of “aisle” is

6. Hate and love are

7. Generous and stingy are

8. A superordinate of stroll is

9. Thick and thin are antonyms.

10. A hyponym of “fish” is

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