LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Lakota Language, Causative, Psycholinguistics
9 Nov 2018
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Goals identify thematic roles of participants in sentences. Psycholinguistic and neurolingistic evidence for how meaning is represented. Agents are often subjects and themes are often objects, but not always. Much more popular in conversation, spoken language. Sanjay got elected class president passive. Tory got a phone call during the meeting regular. Vina got vaccinated against the flu passive. "claire broke the window" claire agent, window theme (cid:1688)the window broke" window still the theme. Pair of sentences with the same verb with a systematically related meaning. Victor opened the door vs the door opened. Noah dropped the ball, the ball dropped. Only causative verbs participate in the causative alternation. Default mapping between syntactic structure and sentence semantics but grammar cold weather froze the pond the pond froze has mechanisms to override the defaults. Wa versus ma morpheme (cid:1684)i(cid:1685) is the agent in the top two rows.
