LING202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thematic Relation, If And Only If
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Minimal pairs, (^^ those two examples), all we want to observe is the effective negation. Idea of something being first second or third person a. I= the speaker: you= depends on who you are addressing c. This vs that: depends on how close /far something is from you. Temporal: refers to a specific point in time, ex- show me your weapons now. Wrong- ice lacks agency, not a source or a goal. In order to experience an emotion or see something, it has to have a mental state. Act of screaming is not experienced, rather conciously done. You can say stop that and have her stop screaming. You cant say stop that and have her stop being afraid. Rule i: the meaning of sentence a i. Ex- john saw bill: fill in different (tranisitive) verb and subject and object, first, give meanings for each word. [[saw]]- the set of ordered pairs (x,y) so that x sees y.