LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Thematic Relation, Vorpal Sword, Yuen Ren Chao
24 Mar 2017
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Today: extension/intension reference (extension) coreference two nps referring to the same individuals (c-command) Linguistics at cornell (she, he, it, myself, themselves) Definite descriptions language requires a syntactic position to be filled. There1 - doesn"t refer to anything, pleonastic (dummy) pronoun. There3 - refers to oakland, deictic pronoun context). the discourse. Born in oakland, ca, the place referred to. Anaphoric pronoun = a pronoun that has a reference that is fixed by an antecedent in. Pleonastic (expletive, dummy) = pronouns that have no reference. Deictic pronouns = pronouns that acquire their reference in pragmatic context (speech. Hortense and herself are always coreferent, but horton and he can be coreferent. Hortonj hoped that hej would hear a who again. *shei thinks that hortensei is a genius. (bad if they are specified to be coreferent) Can get meaning out of it, without understanding all of the words. Slithy = lithe + slimy (blend of two words)
