George Yule Part 4


1. When describing the meaning of words in terms of +animate, -human etc. we describe …




 

2. The … meaning of the word December is ´the twelfth month of the year´




 

3. Words which are very closely related in meaning (such as answer and reply) are …




 

4. Penguin is a … of bird.




 

5. The words … are non-gradable antonyms.




 

6. The words so and sew are …




 

7. The tendency of one word to occur in the company of another word (such as fresh and air) is referred to as …




 

8. Pragmatics deals with … .




 

9. Words the meaning of which depends on the physical context (such as here or yesterday) are referred to as …




 

10. What a speaker thinks is known by the hearer without explicitly saying so can be described as …




 

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12. Besides quantity and quality, … constitute the maxims of the co-operative principle.