LING 3310/6930 : School of Humanities & Social Science - University of Newcastle

Internal Code : MAS4802 Humanities & Social Science  Assignment : 1. State which relations, if any, hold between the members of the pairs of lexemes given below: opposition, antonymy, complementarity, converseness, non-binary contrast, hyponymy, co-hyponymy, absolute synonymy, cognitive synonymy, plesionymy, quasi- versions of any of these, para- versions of any of these. If more than one of these relations hold, state all of them. If none of these relations holds between the members of a pair, say so. Consider the lexemes in their most common, literal, meanings. Explain your answers (your explanations will not be graded, but they may help to convince me that you are correct, if I disagree with you). a. hate - love (as verbs) b. page - book c. friendly - unfriendly d. taste - salty e. enemy - foe f. married - unmarried g. truck - vehicle h. guitar - music i. two - three j. own - belong to (treat belong to as a single lexeme and own is meant to be a verb) 2. Construct a complete truth table for the following proposition: ~((~p) ? (q v r)). Your table must include truth values for all of the component propositions. (5 points) 3. Translate the following into predicate logic. (3 points) a. All linguists, if they are Albanian, respect Chomsky. b. No elephants are intelligent or purple. 4. Which of the following relations, if any, hold between the members of the following pairs: unilateral entailment, mutual entailment, lexical paraphrase, structural paraphrase, presupposition? If more than one of these relations hold, state all of them. If unilateral entailment holds, state which member of the pair entails which. If presupposition holds, state which member of the pair presupposes which. If none of these relations holds between the members of a pair, say so. Consider all sentences in their literal sense. Explain your answers (your explanations will not be graded, but they may help to convince me that you are correct, if I disagree with you). a.    i. John is pleased that he bought a mandolin. ii. John bought a mandolin. b.   i. Alan owns three mandolins. ii. Alan is an expert mandolin player. c.   i. John gave Mary a tomato. ii. John gave a tomato to Mary. d. i. Be careful with the guitar that Alan bought. ii. Alan bought a guitar. e. i. John’s residence is next to the mandolin shop. ii. John’s home is next to the mandolin shop.