LING202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent Clause, Sentence Clause Structure, Falsifiability

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING202
• Professor: Tsai Ya- Ping

Document Summary

What does each other refer to in a sentence. It needs a pronoun to speak about. Clause subject + predicate expression: sally+smokes, billy + runs. Clause is an expression which contains a subject and a predicate expression. Arguments are the entities participating in the event/state/situation specified by the predicate. Argument"s saturate the meaning of a predicate. Arguments are not optional elements in a sentence. Expression that services to provide optional, additional information about a predicate, e. g. time, place, manner, purpose. Mads smokes a cigar in his study. Arguments are the required elements of a predicate. They saturate the meaning of a predicate. Arguments are obligatory, the participants of the event described by the predicate. Adjuncts are optional, there are no limit on the number of adjuncts. External because it is outside the predicate expression. Internal because it is inside the predicate expression. They occupy different positions within the clauses.