Keywords - L322.1

Week 1: Logical Structure of Grammar

• Axioms of language (predicate logic)
  • X implies Y
  • Both X and Y are predicates
  • Y is an argument of X
  • Y is dependent on X
• Sentence: Sentence (conceptual) and sentence (syntactic)
• Propositions (Sentence = mood + proposition) = semantic or conceptual term
• Predicates
• Arguments
• Modifiers
  • Operators (Grammatical modifiers)

• Nominal operators(modify nouns)
  • Nouns
    • Count/Mass (±Count)
    • Number (singular/plural = ±Plural)
  • Quantifiers
    • ±Quantified
    • ±Fixed Value
    • ±Plural (singular/plural)
    • ±count/Mass
  • Determiners
    • ±Definiteness
    • ±Demonstrative
    • ±Proximal
  • Universal Quantifiers
  • Case
• Verbal operators
  • Tense
    • ±Past
  • Voice
    • ±Passive
  • Relevance
    • ±Perfective
  • Mood
    • ±Irrealis
    • ±Interrogative
    • ±Imperative
    • ±Conditional
    • ±contrary to fact
  • Negative
    • ±Neg
  • Modal
    • (undetermined)
• Lexical Modifiers
  • adjectives
  • adverbs
  • degree words

• Eventuality (basically semantic, a lexical feature in syntax)
  • State
  • Activity
  • Accomplishment
  • Achievement
• Objects
  • objects are predicates
  • most objects do not take arguments
  • 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
  • Operators: have reference only
• Sense and Reference
  • Reference to unique objects both real and imaginary in the universe and beyond
  • Sense: difference information about the same referent.

Theta Roles

• Names for arguments of verb and prepositions. Other arguments remain unnamed.
• Agent, theme, patient, experiencer, instrument, trigger, goal, source, path (basic ones)

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