Keywords - L322.1 F98

Intermediate Syntax

Week 1: Logical Structure of Grammar

• Sentence: Sentence (conceptual) and sentence (syntactic)
• Propositions (Sentence = mood + proposition) = semantic or conceptual term
• Predicates
• Arguments
• Operators

• Nominal
  • Number
  • Definiteness
• Verbal
  • Tense
  • Aspect
  • Voice
  • Relevance
  • Mood
  • Interrogative
  • Negative
  • Modal

• 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 imaginery 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 (basic ones)

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Keywords.322.S98

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