LIN102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hyponymy And Hypernymy, Logical Consequence, Presupposition
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Ex: john pushed the truck off the table. Ex #2: mary moved the car into the garage. Ex #3: paul pulled the dog into the house. Mary cannot be an antecedent because mary c-commands herself. A pronominal must not have an antecedent that c-commands it and its in the o same clause. Thematic roles o o o o o o o door) o o o o o o o o. Source/goal: where an entity moves from and where it moves to. Instrument: what is used to do the action. Just because it"s a subject doesn"t make it an agent (ex: the key opened the. The wind opened the door = the wind = agent or the cause. The door opened easily = the door = theme. Passive sentences reduce the importance of the agent. The agent is denoted in the passive sentences. The agent is eliminated (esp. when doing the syntactic tree)
