LING 53 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Implicature, Snow Crash, Logical Consequence
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Older people make rules to conserve the language. System of signs that hold things together. Syntax puts together morphemes, studies taking simple forms to make complex ones. Operator words, articles like the, and, a. Declarative sentences make a claim about the world. Meaning of each component regardless of the circumstances of the utterances. Associated with multiple meanings but same form. They both cannot be true at the same time. Quantifiers, some, no, none, every, did not. If we don"t raise the level of troops in afghanistan, we will fail. Tree kills person, not murders person when they fall. Cannot have a statement and then another statement that asserts its opposite. Conditions under which the sentence is true. Use it in a sentence with a negative to determine if one statement entails the other. Answering truthfully but not the real question directly.
