LING 3505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Predicative Expression, Adjective
9 Feb 2016
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What we"ve been doing so far is translating english sentences into logic. E: entities, individuals (pete, the dog, simmons) the set of individuals . T: truth value; propositions the set of truth values . Give me mary (e) and i will give you a truth value walks (t) : one place predicates, predicated with one argument. The set of functions from type e to type t . At and is in these syntax trees are semantically empty in the dog is barking dog is a predicate, and cannot be a subject. Some predicates can be turned into individuals dog is a predicate, the dog turns it into an individual. : eat, (is) a cat, walks, (is) happy, doctor, annoying, tin can e: the cat, the tin can, jones, peter, that person, samantha. With nouns, you can add something to them to turn them into individuals, and determiners can turn them into individuals.
