Week 3 Flashcards
The first member of the ordered pair is the always the _________
sister
What is the type of speech is ‘is short’ in the sentence ‘Mary is short’? What is it’s semantic type?
adjectival predicate;
In the sentence ‘Mary is sleeping’ how does ‘sleeping’ get saturated if ‘is’ is semantically vacuous?
the tree will truncate to create saturation
What combines first in
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complement combines first then subject combines
Nominal and adjectival predicates have the same semantic type as what?
an incomplete proposition which needs exactly one individual, intransitive verbs, transitive verbs without the subject, ditransitive verbs without the subject, a property
Are all nouns of the same semantic type?
no, some NPs are of type e and some NPs are of type
A finite verb is
a form of a verb that has a subject (expressed or implied) and can function as the root of an independent clause; an independent clause can, in turn, stand alone as a complete sentence
What is required in order to create the right semantic interpretation from the syntactic trees of relative clauses and wh-questions?
indexing and a type shift
When do you make a hole (to fill later) in a syntactic tree for sentences involving movement?
when something moves across t, make a hole. Change the t type, so it will create
What is the domain for a function ?
a set of individuals
What is the range for a function ?
whether the function is true or false
The first member of the ordered pair of a function is always the ________.
sister and domain
