Homework 1

Question 1.

Part i. In each of the following pairs, does sentence (a) entail sentence (b)?
Part ii. For each pair,
• if you said 'yes' to part (i), does sentence (b) entail sentence (a)?
• If you said 'no' to part (i), draw a (very minimal/schematic) picture of the situation in which sentence (a) is true, while sentence (b) is false. Or describe (very clearly) that situation in words.

1.	a. Lucy drives a MiniCooper.	b. Lucy drives a car.
2.	a. Not everyone will show up at the party.	b. Someone will show up at the party.
3.	a. This car is a toy, and it's plastic.	b. This car is a plastic toy.
4.	a. Clinton may return to Arkansas.	b. Clinton was in Arkansas before.
5.	a. This filter removes bacteria from the water passing through it.	b. After passing through this filter, water becomes completely bacteria-free.

Question 2.

a. For each sentence, indicate which (one or more) types of ambiguity it has: lexical, structural, category ambiguity.
b. In cases of lexical and category ambiguity, circle or highlight the word which is ambiguous. For structural ambiguity, provide non-ambiguous paraphrases.

(i)The duchess can't bear children.

(ii)John saw a bee with a telescope.

(iii)Visiting relatives can be annoying.

Question 3.

Underline or highlight all the words that are part of the object language, i.e. those words that are mentioned rather than used in the following sentences.

(i) Soames rhymes with homes.

(ii) She is a linguist.

(iii) She is a personal pronoun.

(iv) The sentence she is a personal pronoun has five words.

(v) Snow is white is true if and only if snow is white.