This document contains questions about semantics, including: the difference between referent and reference; the number of tokens and types in a sample sentence; the difference between connotation and denotation with examples; labeling example sentences as illocutionary, locutionary, or perlocutionary acts; and providing examples of a superordinate/hyponym and agent/experiencer/locative/temporal terms.
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1. Revision1. What is semantics?2. What is the difference between referent and reference?3. How many tokens and types are there in the following sentence (WORDS): The man and his brother and his brother.4. What is the difference between a connotation and a denotation? Give an example for each category.5. Label the following sentences with illocutionary, locutionary or perlocutionary.Shut your mouth, the boy said.B. It is very warm here, a man at his friends house.C. You are really early to class, a teacher speaking to a student arriving late.d. fire! , the people cried.6. Give an example of a superordinate and a hyponym.7. Give an example of agent/experiencer/locative/temporal.