KEMENTERIAN PENDIDIKAN NASIONAL
UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG
PROGRAM
PASCA SARJANA
Kampus Universitas
Negeri Semarang Bendan Ngisor Semarang 50233
FINAL
EXAMINATION
Subject :
Semantics
Program :
S2 English Education
Semester :
2
Acad. Year :
2015/2016
Instruction: This is a
take-home examination; you can use any references available to you in answering
the following questions. Answer the questions clearly and as detail as
possible, do not include things that are not relevant to the questions. You
have 10 days to finish your examination, beginning Monday, May 23rd
, until Thursday, June 2nd , 2016.
Your answers, in the form of hard copy, are due on Thursday, 2nd June 2016. The chairperson of the class is
responsible for collecting the answers and sending them to my house.
1.
Read
the following text carefully, then analyze each of the sentences/clauses in the
text based on the participant roles: AGENT, AFFECTED, INSTRUMENT, BENEFICIARY, LOCATION,
etc.
Here is the text :
We are usually very careful when we buy
something for the house! Why? Because we have to live with it for a long time.
We paint a room to make it brighter, so we choose colours carefully. We buy new
curtains in order to match the newly-decorated room, so they must be the right
colour. We move the furniture round so as to make more space – or we buy new
furniture – and so on! It’s an endless business.
Rich or poor, we take time to furnish a room. Perhaps some people buy
furniture in order to impress their friends. But most of us just want to enjoy
our surroundings. We want to live as comfortably as we can afford to. We spend
a large part of our lives at home. We want to make a small corner in the world
which we can recognize as our own.
2.
What
is derivation? What are the three simultaneous processes that are involved in
the process of derivation? Give five examples of words for which
‘zero derivation’ has occurred.
3.
Find
five
examples of derived words that can be categorized as INCHOATIVE forms.
Use each of them in a sentence of your own!
4.
Find
five
examples of derived words that can be categorized as CAUSATIVE forms. Use each
of them in a sentence of your own!
5.
Find
five
examples of derived words that can be categorized as RESULTATIVE forms. Use
each of them in a sentence of your own!
6.
Write
three
sentences of your own (do not copy from your textbook), each of which has the
elements that can fill in each of the boxes in the following chart:
Subject
|
Object
|
Complement
|
||
Agent
|
||||
Affected
|
||||
Instrument
|
7.
What
roles must be and may be mentioned in connection with the following verbs?
Write the optional roles in between brackets! Example: OPEN: (AGENT) AFFECTED
(INSTRUMENT). Write the examples of the possible sentences using each of the
verbs!
a.
HURT
b.
RING
c.
GIVE
d.
SHAKE
e.
BUY
8.
Find,
in the following conversation, DIRECTIVE and COMMISSIVE expressions, and also
say whether they are DIRECT or INDIRECT.
Mr Kent, Julia’s boss, is talking to
Julia on the office phone
MR KENT: Do you think you could possibly
work late this evening, Miss Frost?
JULIA: Work late? I . . . I suppose so,
if you really think it’s necessary.
MR KENT: Thank you. We’ll have to work
about an hour’s overtime. That’s all. (hangs
up)
JULIA: (to herself while dialing) Oh,
dear. Now I’ll have to ring Jim and tell him. He
won’t like it.
JIM : Hello?
26721.
JULIA: Is that you, Jim? This is Julia.
Look . . . I’m afraid I won’t be able to meet you at
7 this evening. I’ll have to come
later. I’ll have to work late this
evening and
then I’ll have to go home. I can’t possibly
go to the restaurant straight from work.
JIM: It’s always something, isn’t it?
When will you be able to come, then?
JULIA: Don’t worry. You won’t have to
wait long. I’ll be there at 8.
JIM: At 8? But we’re going to a film
after dinner. Remember?
JULIA: I know . . . and it starts at
8:30. We’ll just have to miss it this evening, that’s
all. We’ll be able to see it some other
time.
JIM: Oh, no we won’t! Tonight’s the
last night!
JULIA: Oh, dear . . . I suppose I’ll
just have to come straight from work, that’s all.
JIM: Yes. You will. Meet me at the
restaurant at 7!
JULIA: All right, Jim. I’ll be
there.
9.
Mention
five PERFORMATIVE VERBS and use them in sentences of your own!
10.
Explain
the difference(s) between presupposition, inference and entailment.
Give two pairs of sentences in each of which the first sentence entails the
second!