Senin, 26 Oktober 2015

General Linguistics Assignment 27th October 2015

Read the following texts and answer the questions.



1. a. Bukit rumah itu mengambil sendiri semua kembalian dari alas kaki besok yang lalu.
    b. These colourless green ideas sleep on no where very soundly silent.
2. a. Eats one apple every morning the man.
    b. Iwan’s Budi car Tom’s drove office to.
Task One.
1.       Do you know the meanings of all words in (1)?
2.       Can you find parts of the sentences in (1) which can be supposed to be functional elements of the sentences (S V O A)?
3.       Write each parts and identify the category (NP, VP, AP, PP).
4.        Based on each category of the phrases, try to identify the meanings. Can you get the meanings of every phrases?
5.       Identify the meaningful phrases and meaningless ones. Try to discuss with your friends and references, why are certain phrases meaningful and not meaningful?
Task Two
1.       Do you know the meanings of all words in (2)?
2.       Without any manipulations, do you get the meanings of the strings of words as a whole?
3.       Without any manipulations, can you identify parts of the strings which are supposed to be elements of the sentences (S V O A)?
4.       Is there any relation between the orders of the words and meanings?
Task Three
1.       Do you find different reasons that cause sentence (1) and (2) meaningless?
2.       Related to the way you think, what makes sentence (1) meaningless?
3.       Related to the way you think, what makes sentence (2) meaningless?
4.       For sentence (1), is it the orders of the words or the combinations that cause meaninglessness?
5.       Or, is it your mental condition that causes meaninglessness?

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    1. a. Bukit rumah itu mengambil sendiri semua kembalian dari alas kaki besok yang lalu.
    b. These colourless green ideas sleep on no where very soundly silent.
    2. a. Eats one apple every morning the man.
    b. Iwan’s Budi car Tom’s drove office to.

    Task One.
    1. Do you know the meanings of all words in (1)?
    Answer: No, I do not.

    2. Can you find parts of the sentences in (1) which can be supposed to be functional elements of the sentences (S V O A)?
    Answer: No, I cannot.

    3. Write each part and identify the category (NP, VP, AP, PP).
    Answer:
    NP: rumah itu, semua kembalian, alas kaki, yang lalu, these colourless, green idea, no where, very souldly, one apple, every morning, the man
    VP: mengambil sendiri, sleep on
    AP: yang lalu, every morning
    PP: dari alas, on no where, drove office to

    4. Based on each category of the phrases, try to identify the meanings. Can you get the meanings of every phrases?
    Answer: Yes, I can but not every phrase.

    5. Identify the meaningful phrases and meaningless ones. Try to discuss with your friends and references, why are certain phrases meaningful and not meaningful?
    Answer: Because some phrases structure are not correct.

    Task Two
    1. Do you know the meanings of all words in (2)?
    Answer: No, I do not.

    2. Without any manipulations, do you get the meanings of the strings of words as a whole?
    Answer: No, I do not.

    3. Without any manipulations, can you identify parts of the strings which are supposed to be elements of the sentences (S V O A)?
    Answer: Yes, I do.

    4. Is there any relation between the orders of the words and meanings?
    Answer: Yes, there is.

    Task Three
    1. Do you find different reasons that cause sentence (1) and (2) meaningless?
    Answer: Yes, I do.
    2. Related to the way you think, what makes sentence (1) meaningless?
    Answer: Sentences in number 1 are meaningless because they have no correct structure and be arranged by some ambiguous words.

    3. Related to the way you think, what makes sentence (2) meaningless?
    Answer: Sentences in number 2 are meaningless because they composition are not true and also no good structure.

    4. For sentence (1), is it the orders of the words or the combinations that cause meaninglessness?
    Answer: Yes, it is.

    5. Or, is it your mental condition that causes meaninglessness?
    Answer: No, it is not.

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