LIN102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Reflexive Pronoun, Preposition And Postposition, Deep Structure And Surface Structure
6 Mar 2018
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Comparing examples in: 1) to those in, 2) all examples of the caused-motion construction whose syntax is npx v npy pp and whose semantics involves x causing y to go somewhere. A) john pushed the truck off the table. B) mary moved the car into the garage. C) paul pulled the dog into the house. A) bill sneezed the handkerchief right across the room. B) the officer tasered the poor guy into the car. C) the students laughed the poor teacher out of the classroom (showing movement) Structural ambiguity ambiguity caused by syntax; structure affecting meaning. Thematic roles: talking about semantic relation words have the meaning of sentences cannot be determined by adding up the meaning of each content word of the sentences. Thus, the following sentences have very different meaning. The role played by each participant in an event, typically indicated by an np in a sentence, is known as its thematic role.
