Chapter 7 (Deixis) – Record a conversation and tag every deictic expression.

Chapters 1–2 (Introduction and the Scope of Semantics) – Master the distinction between linguistic semantics and logic.

Chapters 3–4 (Lexical Meaning and Sense Relations) – Create your own hyponymy trees for a semantic field (e.g., kinship, cooking verbs).

Chapters 8–9 (Time, Tense, and Aspect) – Compare Lyons’ tense system with a textbook on English grammar.

Chapters 5–6 (Sentence Meaning and Componential Analysis) – Practice decomposing man into [+human, +male, +adult].

Chapter 10 (Semantics and Pragmatics) – Write a 2,000-word essay on where semantics ends and pragmatics begins, using Lyons as your primary source.