A. Explain the following: (6 points)

 

1. The difference between interactional and transactional functions of language?                                                                                              

                                                                                         2. Productivity

3. Coinage

4. Deep structure

5. The difference between homonymy and polysemy

6. conceptual vs. associative meaning

B. Answer the following: ( 9 pints)

 

1. What is the basic lexical relationship between the following pairs of words? (1.5 points)

a) king-crown            b) pail-pale                  c) dog-animal

 

2. Which of the following opposites are gradable, non-gradable, or reversive? (1.5 points)

a) dead-alive             b) fat- thin                   c) lengthen-shorten 

 

3. Explain how the following sentence is odd. (1 point) 

                                                                A chair was talking to the girl.

 

4. In what way is the following sentence ambiguous? (1.5 points)

    The parents of the girl and the boy were waiting. 

 

5. Provide a labeled tree diagram for the following sentence and write down all the phrase structure rules used? (2 points)

  George saw the dog with Mary.

 

6. What word formation process or processes have been used in creation of each of the following italicized words? (1.5 points)

 a) Problems with the projects have snowballed.

 b) Another carjacking has just been reported.

 c) They blueprinted a new peace proposal