CHAPTER 6 ANT 3610 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
Semantics is the study of - Answers the meaning of linguistic expressions such as morphemes, words,
phrases, clauses, and sentences
A__is something, a word, a gesture, a sign, or other representation that signifies or represents
something else that is not intrinsically (casually) related to it - Answers symbol
The meaning of the symbol and what it signifies must be - Answers learned
Unlike a symbol, an _____ has a casual relationship to what it indicates - Answers index
Lexical semantics is the study of - Answers the meaning of words
In the brain is a __ containing the definitions of all the words that a person knows - Answers lexicon or
dictionary
Some words have an actual concrete item or concept that the word refers to. That item is its -
Answers referent
Sometimes a word means a particular object that the speaker has in mind, but sometimes the
referent is the mental___of the __object - Answers image, typical
Words can also refer to __things, such as Santa Claus, mermaids, or Mickey Mouse, which do not exist
in the real world - Answers prevaricated(note real things)
Love, truth and justice are __ that do not have concrete referents - Answers abstract concepts
The purpose of the words "is", "the", and "of" is to tell us about___of one word to another - Answers
the relationship
The personal pronouns, such as I, you, he, she, it, and they, have concrete referents which can vary
according to__ and __ - Answers each speaker, each sentence
One of the ways in which the meaning of a word can be analyzed is to determine its___ - Answers
semantic properties
The semantic properties of a word are often analyzed by using a system of ___ - Answers + and -
The system where semantic properties are analyzed is called_ - Answers semantic property analysis
Semantic property analysis if also used to analyze the features of - Answers phonemes
Words that share semantic properties can be considered - Answers a semantic domain
___ is the concept that some members of a semantic domain are more common than others -
Answers markedness
The members of a semantic domain that are more common are considered - Answers less marked
The more uncommon or unusual members of a domain are considered - Answers more marked
English has a bias toward males that is demonstrated by the fact that____ - Answers most often the
unmarked, simple version of a word has the semantic property of maleness
The more specific terms are the ___terms - Answers more marked
The -nyms are words that are similar to each other in meaning or in sound. They include ___, ___,
___, and ___. - Answers hyponyms, synonyms, homonyms, antonyms
Words that form a subclass of another word are - Answers hyponyms( spoon is a hyponym of cutlery)
Words that have similar meanings that share the same semantic properties, are called___ - Answers
synonyms
When you ___ a sentence that you have read or heard, you are using synonyms. - Answers
paraphrase or restate
The denotation of a word is the___ - Answers first definition in the dictionary
The connotation of a word is the __ - Answers shade of the meaning ( feeling or addition that a word
has in addition to its literal meaning) ( childlike and youthful have the same donation but different
connotations)
__ are words that sounds the same but have different meanings - Answers homonyms (hoarse vs
horse)
___ words have more than one meaning. - Answers polysemous
Words that have the opposite meaning are called - Answers antonyms
__ are antonyms that express a binary relationship in which there is no middle ground - Answers
complementary pairs
Since old means less young and young means less old, young and old are referred to as a - Answers
gradable pair
__ are antonyms that express a symmetrical relationship between two words - Answers relational
opposites (ex. teacher vs student)
Semantics is the study of - Answers the meaning of linguistic expressions such as morphemes, words,
phrases, clauses, and sentences
A__is something, a word, a gesture, a sign, or other representation that signifies or represents
something else that is not intrinsically (casually) related to it - Answers symbol
The meaning of the symbol and what it signifies must be - Answers learned
Unlike a symbol, an _____ has a casual relationship to what it indicates - Answers index
Lexical semantics is the study of - Answers the meaning of words
In the brain is a __ containing the definitions of all the words that a person knows - Answers lexicon or
dictionary
Some words have an actual concrete item or concept that the word refers to. That item is its -
Answers referent
Sometimes a word means a particular object that the speaker has in mind, but sometimes the
referent is the mental___of the __object - Answers image, typical
Words can also refer to __things, such as Santa Claus, mermaids, or Mickey Mouse, which do not exist
in the real world - Answers prevaricated(note real things)
Love, truth and justice are __ that do not have concrete referents - Answers abstract concepts
The purpose of the words "is", "the", and "of" is to tell us about___of one word to another - Answers
the relationship
The personal pronouns, such as I, you, he, she, it, and they, have concrete referents which can vary
according to__ and __ - Answers each speaker, each sentence
One of the ways in which the meaning of a word can be analyzed is to determine its___ - Answers
semantic properties
The semantic properties of a word are often analyzed by using a system of ___ - Answers + and -
The system where semantic properties are analyzed is called_ - Answers semantic property analysis
Semantic property analysis if also used to analyze the features of - Answers phonemes
Words that share semantic properties can be considered - Answers a semantic domain
___ is the concept that some members of a semantic domain are more common than others -
Answers markedness
The members of a semantic domain that are more common are considered - Answers less marked
The more uncommon or unusual members of a domain are considered - Answers more marked
English has a bias toward males that is demonstrated by the fact that____ - Answers most often the
unmarked, simple version of a word has the semantic property of maleness
The more specific terms are the ___terms - Answers more marked
The -nyms are words that are similar to each other in meaning or in sound. They include ___, ___,
___, and ___. - Answers hyponyms, synonyms, homonyms, antonyms
Words that form a subclass of another word are - Answers hyponyms( spoon is a hyponym of cutlery)
Words that have similar meanings that share the same semantic properties, are called___ - Answers
synonyms
When you ___ a sentence that you have read or heard, you are using synonyms. - Answers
paraphrase or restate
The denotation of a word is the___ - Answers first definition in the dictionary
The connotation of a word is the __ - Answers shade of the meaning ( feeling or addition that a word
has in addition to its literal meaning) ( childlike and youthful have the same donation but different
connotations)
__ are words that sounds the same but have different meanings - Answers homonyms (hoarse vs
horse)
___ words have more than one meaning. - Answers polysemous
Words that have the opposite meaning are called - Answers antonyms
__ are antonyms that express a binary relationship in which there is no middle ground - Answers
complementary pairs
Since old means less young and young means less old, young and old are referred to as a - Answers
gradable pair
__ are antonyms that express a symmetrical relationship between two words - Answers relational
opposites (ex. teacher vs student)
