Unit 7
They attribute some property to the entity denoted by the argument.
Predicates.
It is a sentence in which some statement is made about a whole unrestricted class of individuals.
Generic sentence
What are deictic words?
Words which take some element of their meaning from the situation of the utterance in which they are used (context).
They designate some entity or group of entities.
We define________________as the particular world, real or imaginary that the speaker assumes he is talking about.
Universe of discourse.
Define PERSON DEIXIS
It involves personal pronouns, object pronouns, possessive pronouns, etc.
It's a semantic role played by a particular word in a particular sentence as in:
John gave Sarah a flower.
Predicator
Are the following expressions REFERRING EXPRESSIONS? Why?
dementors, dragons, house, tomorrow, 93 million miles, the distance between Earth and the moon
Yes, referring expressions can be used to refer to any entity in the real world or in any imaginary world, they can refer to physical objects or to abstractions.
Provide two examples of words that belong to the SPATIAL DEIXIS category.
Find the arguments, predicates, and predicators in the following sentence:
Brazil is in America.
Brazil is in America.
Is the following a generic sentence? Why?
Find as many deictic expressions as you can:
You, you, and you, please, come with me.
You, you, and you, please, come with me.
Identify the arguments, predicates, and predicator in the following sentence and classify the predicator as 1 place, 2 place, 3 place, etc.:
Tom showed Arthur his new car.
Tom showed Arthur his new car.
Provide an example of a generic sentence.
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Find as many deictic expressions as you can and classify them:
That was very interesting! I wonder what he will say next.
That was very interesting! I wonder what he will say next.