LING 3505 Lecture 6: Class 6 – January 25
27 Jan 2016
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John left yesterday leave (j) yesterday is a modifier adjunct. Sally saw the cat see (s, the cat) Sally was in the kitchen in (s, the kitchen) Sally walked into the kitchen walk (s, into the kitchen) Sally dances in the kitchen dance (s) The cat ate the food eat (the cat, the food) She walked you have to determine the truth value. First, this presupposes that the subject is female. Pronouns are variables, because they can vary within different contexts you have to figure out who they refer to. He, she, are individual variables (now referred to as x,y,z) Variables are open proposition, with no truth value (because you don"t know who she" refers to) Sally saw pete see (s, p) this is a closed proposition, because it has a truth value. Quantifiers have information on the quantity being used. All, some, every, many, few only using the bold ones for now.
