Review

Question 1

Baboon is a balloon.
What is “a balloon”?
A) a predicate
B) a property
C) a function from individuals to truth-values
D) all of the above
E) individual

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Depending on the actual syntactic position, “a balloon” can be:
A) a predicate
B) an individual
C) a quantifier
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

I have a dog.
I have dogs.
In these two examples a dog and dogs are:
A) of the same semantic type, namely, e
B) of the same semantic type, namely, 
C) a dog is e but dogs is something else
D) dogs is e but a dog is something else
E) not a cat

Answer 3

A

Question 4

A) quantifiers in the subject position create ambiguity because they must move
B) quantifiers in the object position create ambiguity because they must move
C) systematic ambiguity in the interpretation of quantifiers arises from the interaction of two quantifiers, one of which must move

Answer 4

C

Question 5

Does tense matter?
A) simple future tense creates intensional environments but simple past tense creates extensional environments
B) simple future tense creates extensional environments but simple past tense creates intensional environments
C) both simple future and simple past create intensional environments
D) both simple future and simple past create extensional environments

Answer 5

A

Question 6

Mary might be the tallest girl in the class
A) extensional context
B) intensional context
C) Cannot tell from this example alone

Answer 6

B

Question 7

Grammatical tense expresses the relationship between S and E.
A) always true
B) always false
C) sometimes true, sometimes false

Answer 7

B

Question 8

A) while activities and states are homogenous, achievements and accomplishments are not
B) while achievements and accomplishments are homogenous, activities and states are not
C) all aspectual classes are homogenous
D) no aspectual classes are homogenous
E) I don’t know what homogenous means

Answer 8

A

Question 9

Peter bhould visit Prague.
Imagine that this sentence means that based on the available statistical evidence it is likely that Peter will visit Prague. Bhould is then:
• A: deontic necessity modal
• B: epistemic necessity modal
• C: deontic possibility modal
• D: epistemic possibility modal
• E: circumstantial modal

Answer 9

D

Question 10

Mom, I want to marry an elephant from France.
• Imagine a scenario in which I intend to marry Bruno, my favourite elephant from France.Then we’re looking at:
• A: de re reading
• B: de se reading
• C: de dicto reading
• of the utterance

Answer 10

A

Question 11

• Imagine I come late to the class and I apologize by saying:“I’m sorry I’m late. I had to take my neighbour to the hospital.” You didn’t know I have a neighbour but you don’t find anything peculiar about this sentence.This is a case of:
• A: presupposition
• B: implicature
• C: presupposition accommodation
• D: presupposition failure

Answer 11

C

Question 12

• Imagine I come late to the class and I apologize by saying:“I’m sorry I’m late. I had to drive the horse home.” This is a case of:
• A: presupposition
• B: implicature
• C: presupposition accommodation
• D: presupposition failure

Answer 12

D