GEOG120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Deixis, Polysemy, Homophone
4 Dec 2017
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The passive counterpart does not have the agent thematic role. Referential linguistic forms whose referents depend on the situational context of the utterance. The identity of the participants in a communicative exchange. 3rd pronoun = neither speaker nor addressee. The position of entities in relation to space. The orientation of events in relation to the time of the communication. E. g. , tomorrow, today, last week, next monday, 3 years ago. Form (the combination of phonemes and how they are pronounced) Words that have multiple meanings that are related conceptually or historically. A baseball field that has that shape. Words pronounced in the same way; words that sound alike. Words spelled in exactly the same way; words that look alike. He bowed to the king vs. a ribbon tied in a bow. Words that are spelled the same and sound alike but have unrelated meanings. Lexical relations the meaning relations between words. Specific-general relationship: an x is a kind of y.
