Quiz3mu

Make-Up Quiz 3

1. Identify all the roots and morphological processes in the data below. Don't forget to give a meaning or function for each root and morphological process.

2. Identify the correct tree for each word below:

a = 2 b = 4

3. Given the following set of English words, please describe their semantic relationships in terms of synonymy (partial and complete), hyponymy, antonymy (gradable, converse, complementary), and meronymy. Discuss any problems you have with this analysis.

Data: cowardly brave heroic courageous foolhardy chicken

One possible answer (by no means the only one) is based on a this analysis:

synonyms

brave <============>courageous (in overlapping registers)

synonyms

cowardly<==========>chicken (in different registers)

gradable antonyms

brave/courageous<---------------------->cowardly/chicken

brave/courageous

/ \

/ \

foolhardy heroic

[+foolish] [+altruistic]

foolhardy is a hyponym of brave/courageous (with the added feature of [+ foolish])

heroic is a hyponym of brave/courageous (with the added feature of [+altruistic])