Section A
1. Answer the following short questions. (15)
(i) Discuss entailment and presupposition in the following sentences;
(a) Ali's father lives in Karachi.
(b) Pakistan cricket team won the World Cup.
(ii) Write a chart using the + and - system to show the semantic properties of each set of the following words;
woman - girl; mother - father; sister - brother;
(iii) Briefly explain the difference between Lexical Semantics and Structural Semantics.
Section B
2. Answer the following long questions. (45)
(i) What is semantic field theory? Explain.
(ii) What does it mean to mean something? Discuss views of meaning.
(iii) Elaborate on Truth-Conditional Theory of Meaning.
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