“We shall know a word by the company it keeps.” This statement represents _______.

A. the conceptualist view
B. contexutalism
C. the naming theory
D. behaviorism

Words that are close in meaning are called ______________.

A. homonyms
B. polysemies
C. hyponyms
D. synonyms

Decide whether the following statements are true or false.Dialectal synonyms can often be found in different regional dialects such as British English and American English but cannot be found within the variety itself, for example, within British English or American English.

A. 对
B. 错

Behaviorists attempted to define the meaning of a language form as the situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer.

A. 对
B. 错

In grammatical analysis, the sentence is taken to be the basic unit, but in semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is predication, which is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.

A. 对
B. 错

The conceptualist view holds that there is no __________ link between a linguistic form and what it refers to.

__________ analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can be divided into meaning components.

Whether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules called __________ restrictions, which are constraints on what lexical items can go with what others.

A(n) __________ is a logical participant in a predication, largely identical with the nominal element(s) in a sentence.