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Wikipage of Group 2

Overview

Members

Short description of the topic

Our aim is to enlighten the subject of semantic relations. What is a synonym? How can we distinguish polysemy and homonymy? Why are alive and dead complements and not truly antonyms? Those are the questions we want to answer by producing guides and excercises for future students and all those who never understood semantic relations.

References and links

References

  • Cann, R.; Ruth Kempson; Eleni Gregoromichelaki (2009). Semantics - an introduction to meaning in language. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Murphy, M. Lynne. (2003). Semantic relations and the lexicon : antonymy, synonymy and other paradigms. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Lyons, J. (1983). Semantik 2. München: Beck.

Links

Links with non-scientific background (please handle with care)

Our e-learning objects

Our wiki pages

Our podcasts

<mediaplayer>http://youtu.be/M7pvAmLtOSk</mediaplayer>

Our materials for an interactive whiteboard

Our pictures

  • Anna

    Anna

  • Katarzyna

    Katarzyna

  • Verena

    Verena

  • Ulrike

    Ulrike

Our exercises

Example

Meaning relations among words or sentences. Which meaning relation holds between the following words or sentences? Your answer should be of the form: Word/sentence A is an X of word/sentence B.

a. A: I saw Martha at the anniversary party. B: It was Martha that I saw at the anniversary party.
b. A: plane B: cockpit
c. A: piano B: musical instrument
d. A: Vera is an only child. B: Olga is Vera’s sister.
e. A: My cousin Tom is a teacher. B: My cousin Tom teaches at the community collage for living.

Test yourself

The following questions are all about certain category groups within basic semantic relation - either between words or between sentences. Choose your answer wisely as more than one answer could be correct.


Part 1 - Homophones

Which of the following pairs are homophones? Click on the alphabetic character to check your answers and remember, multiple choice question means that there can be more than one right answer.

a) bight (curve in a coastline) - byte (unit of memory size)
b) bear (animal) – beer (alcoholic drink)
c) haw (fruit)- hoar (venerable)
d) fawn (colour) – fawn (little roe deer)
e) read (present tense) - read (past tense)
f) heal (to cure) - he’ll (short form of he will)

Now it's getting a bit hairier. Same question but the answers are not that easy any more...
a) personal pronoun - part of your face
b) to bend down - ribbon
c) to clean very intensely - someone from Poland
d) past tense of 'to eat' – one-digit number
e) sound of a dog – skin of a tree
f) nearby - to shut


Part 2 - Antonyms and Synonyms

Synonyms

Choose the best synonym for the following words:

1)diplomat
a. revolt
b. combatant
c. refugee
d. general
e. ambassador

2) enthusiasm
a. passion
b. goal
c. will
d. entertainment
e. desire

3) result
a. decision
b. cause
c. outcome
d. data
e. reason


Antonyms

Now, it's time for antonyms! Look for the best match for the following:

1) competition
a. contest
b. unification
c. cooperation
d. team
e. sport

2) melt
a. warm
b. thaw
c. cool
d. drip
e. freeze

3) reality
a. channel
b. play
c. reaction
d. death
e. fantasy

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