LING 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Dependent Clause, Gapping, Propositional Calculus
2 Nov 2016
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Section 4 of chapter 8 is quite relevant to this lecture. These types of words differ in both their semantic and syntactic behavior. In english, only conjuncts can intrude a clause. Coordinators are more flexible than subordinators in what they can connect. Only a coordinator allows the verb of the second clause to be elided. Only a subordinator can reiterate in a clause. Unless when she arrives we are home, she will get very angry. In sanskrit, you can have a conjunction at the end of a second clause. Both clauses cannot be true, because if we are home when she arrives (t), she will not be angry (f). The first clause is true and the second clause is false. If we are home when she arrives, then she will not get mad. If both clauses are false, then the whole thing doesn"t work.
