Semantics

KEY TO THE EXERCISES 237
4. Criket ball, size, net, service, fault.
5. Bachelor: [+ human] [+ adult] [+ male] [+ unmarried]. Spinster:
[+human] [+ adult] [- male] [+ unmarried]. Cat: [+ feline] [- fierce].
Tiger: [+feline] [+ fierce] [+ male]. Tigress: [+feline] [+ fierce] [- male]
7. a, b, c, f: unbounded; d, e, g: bounded.
8. The following monopolar chain (egg, larva, pupa, butterfly) is an
example of:
a) degree
b) stage
c) sequence
d) rank
(Ver Saeed, 2004: 185)
Lesson 7. SYNTAGMATIC RELATIONS I
1. a) Arguments: John (obligatory), the door (obligatory), with a key
(optional).
b) Arguments: the key (obligatory), the door (obligatory).
c) Argument: the door (obligatory).
2.
a. States: know, believe, desire, love, hate, want.
b. Activities: (unbounded processes) Drive a car, run, swim, push a cart.
c. Accomplishments: (bounded processes). Recover from illness, grow up, run a
mile, walk to school, deliver a sermon, draw a circle, paint a picture.
d. Achievements: (point events). Spot someone, reach the top, win the race, stop.
3. The difference is related to the state of affairs each of these sentences
expresses: while the former is an accomplishment, the latter is a
state.
Know has a resultative character since someone knows something after
a process of learning. This is the reason why it cannot be used in the
progressive form.
4. The workmen spoiled the carpet with their boots.
Spoil (w, c, b)
The boots spoiled the carpet
Spoil (b, c)