LING 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Intransitive Verb, Verb Phrase, Transitive Verb

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 360
• Professor: Brendan S.Gillon

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Verb phrase with a transitive verb in natural language. The name of the model, say, is n. Greeted { 1, 2 , 2, 3 , 2, 3 } Now we assign a value to greeted bill. You start by looking at the ordered pairs where 2 shows up in the second position, because 2 refers to bill and the second position refers to the object of the verb. We see that the only place where 2 shows up in the second position in the ordered pair is in the pair 1, 2 . So, the only way that greeted bill can be true is if alice is the subject in the verb phrase of the sentence. By doing it this way, you don"t have to form a full ordered pair before looking for a corresponding ordered pair in the set greeted.