Keywords - L322.1

Week 1: Logical Structure of Grammar

• Sentence: Sentence (conceptual) and sentence (syntactic)
• Propositions (Sentence = mood + proposition) (semantic only)
• Predicates = heads
• Arguments = arguments
• Operators

• Nominal (modify nouns)
  • Quantifier (semantic source)
  • Definiteness (pragmatic source)
  • Universal Quantifier (semanatic source)
  • Case (grammatical: syntax)
  • Negation (semantic)
• Verbal
  • Time = Tense
  • Aspect = Aspect
  • Voice (grammatical: syntax)
  • Relevance = Relevance
  • Mood = Mood
    • Interrogative
    • Imperative
    • Conditional
    • contrafactual
  • Negative
  • Modal

• Eventuality (basically semantic, a lexical feature in syntax)
  • State
  • Activity
  • Accomplishment
  • Achievement
• Objects
  • objects = things
  • most objects/things do not take arguments (terminal objects)
  • those that refer to some kind of relationship do take arguments
    • container
    • relation
    • ruler
    • part-whole
    • property of
    • nominalizations
    • and so forth
• Modifiers
  • Lexical: have sense and class reference, play no role in other grammatical rules, optional.
  • Operators: grammatical term, required
• Sense and Reference = semantic only
  • Reference to unique objects both real and imaginery in the universe and beyond
  • Sense: difference information about the same referent.

Semantic roles = Theta Roles

• Names for arguments of predicates or heads (syntax). Some arguments remain unnamed depending on the linguist.
• Agent, theme, patient, experiencer, instrument, trigger, goal, source, path (basic ones)

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Theta roles