LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture 19: LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture 19 - Thematic Roles

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Makes sure they fit phonology of target language. Clicker points updated on avenue 12:30 today. Assignment 2 on avenue will be due nov 22. Semantic properties to identify thematic roles of participants in sentences. Recognize the difference between active and passive sentences. About meaning of the verb, the kind of event that the np or dp is involved in. Meaning properties: grammatical roles: label syntactic positions of nps, thematic roles: label semantic properties of participants referred to by nps. Cause: doesn"t need to be animate, has more power than theme. Instrument: something that is used to do something. Experience: something happens to experiencers that they"re aware of. Practice questions: last year, the manager of the wildlife retreat noticed that indira (a 600-pound bengal tiger), was eating less of her food, agent, her food . Instrument: the manager of the wildlife retreat , experiencer, indira had the beginnings of retinal degeneration.