Students: Chapter Resources
Chapter 5
Checklist of Key Notions
5.2 Predicate terms and argument terms, predicates and arguments
- predicate
- one-place etc., arity
- predicate term
- argument
- argument term
- complement
- referential argument
- argument sharing
5.3 Verbs
5.4 Nouns and adjectives
- one-place nouns
- relational nouns
- possessive construction
- alienable vs. inalienable possession
- predicative use
- one-place adjective
- two-place adjectives
- comparative
- attributive vs predicative use
5.5 Predicate logic notation
5.6 Thematic roles
- thematic roles
- participants: agent, theme, patient, experiencer, instrument, locative, goal, path
- argument structure
- linking
- case
- agreement
- word order
5.7 Selectional restrictions
- selectional restrictions
- fusion
- elimination of meanings
- meaning shifts
- metaphor, metonymy
- semantic (ir)regularity
Artwork
- Figure 5.1 Grammatical structure of the sentence in (1)
- Figure 5.2 Predication structure of sentence (1)
- Figure 5.3 A predicate term and its complements
- Figure 5.4 Levels involved in a predication by means of a verb
- Figure 5.5 Levels involved in a predication by means of a noun
- Figure 5.6 The semiotic triangle for predication
- Figure 5.7 Predication structure of sentence (10)
- Figure 5.8 The mechanism of argument description
- Figure 5.9 The sentence as a complex predication
- Table 5.1 Predications contributed by the words in (1)
- Table 5.2 Predications and determination of names and pronouns
- Table 5.3 Types of predicate terms and how their arguments are specified
- Table 5.4 Thematic roles
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