LIN 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: President Of The United States, Multiple-Image Network Graphics, Polysemy
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Semantic roles - role that a n entity plays in an event. Both have the same syntactic role = subject. The entity in the external world to which a linguistic expression relates. Real world thing that an utterance refers to. The meaning of an expression by virtue of how it is said. The referents of cat are all of the instances of cat in the world. The sense of cat is all of the mental knowledge associated with cat in the mind of a listener. The book mentions garfield as a referent for "cat" This indicates that referents don"t need to be real-life places, ppl, or things. Can also be ideas, concepts, or historical/fictional figures that ppl share. The current president of france - makes sense, has reference. The current king of france - makes different sense, has no referent. Actually, an expression have have senses without making any reference.
