1. Consider building a calculus to describe some aspects of the following studies. What elements would you choose to represent with symbols? What kinds of phenomena would your rules of formation describe? Your rules of transformation?
Do your rules of formation describe static relationships and do your rules of transformation describe changes? Such a division is not necessary. This might be illustrated by making the same assignments for the fields of:
2. Would it be easier or more reasonable to divide some of these fields into subfields and have a calculus for each one? How would you relate the description of one subfield to that of another?
3. Point out which meanings in the following sentences are elements introduced by the system of language rather than the concepts behind the system. You should identify those elements that under normal conditions the speaker probably would not really intend to have the listener interpret in its most literal sense.
4. Give three categories of words or word parts (morphemes) for each of the eight traditional parts of speech (except conjunction) and tell characteristics that would possibly justify their having their own part of speech.
5. What MultiNet relation is frequently responsible for the label on most semantic net diagrams? Why is it normally left off of the diagram?
6. What semantic features are most distinctive on the node representing the concept conveyed by a personal pronoun in English? What would be a good way to abbreviate such a common bundle of features?
7. What category of word is usually responsible for carrying the semantic features interpreted by science as “constant” and “instance”?
8. Draw up a simple ontology for the simplest kinship terms in English.