LINGUIST 1ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sotho Parts Of Speech, Pupa, Grave Goods
16 Apr 2018
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Syntax provides the infrastructure on which the english language is built: recall: semantics is separate from syntax, meaning is encoded in the deep structure, ambiguities arise when syntactic structure is same, but meaning is different. Identical syntactic structures can have very different meanings: e. g. Different syntactic structures can have the same meaning: e. g. He wrote the essay the essay was written by him. There has to be another component to make english work: semantics the study of meaning. Chapter 6: meaning of the word or lexical semantics. Chapter 10: meaning of the sentence or sentence semantics. The nature of propositions and arguments (pg. The roles of np within sentences (pg. Same proposition may be expressed in several different syntactic forms: canada defeated sweden at hockey, sweden was defeated by canada at hockey. It was canada that defeated sweden at hockey it was sweden that was defeated by canada at hockey.
