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|| The expletive ''it'' just redundantly contributes the eventuality variable of the weather verb ''rain''. | || The expletive ''it'' just redundantly contributes the eventuality variable of the weather verb ''rain''. | ||
{Sentence: ''It was snowing.''<br />Logical form: '''snow''' • ''s''<br /> | |||
Which parts of the logical form are contributed by which word? | |||
|type="[]"} | |||
|''s'' ¦ |'''snow''' ¦ | '''snow''' • ''s'' | |||
+-- ''It'' | |||
++- ''was'' | |||
+++ ''snowing'' | |||
|| The copula ''was'' is a CONTENT raiser, i.e., its DR and MAIN values are identical with those of its complement, ''snowing''. | |||
|| The copula also syntactically raises the subject requirement of the verb ''snow''. Therefore, an expletive ''it'' must occur as the subject. | |||
|| The expletive ''it'' only contributes an eventuality variable, and does so redundantly. | |||
</quiz> | |||
=== Other constructions === | |||
<quiz display="simple"> | |||
{Sentence: ''Alex did not call.''<br />Logical form: ¬ (('''call''' • e) • '''pat'''<br /> | |||
Which parts of the logical form are contributed by which word? | |||
|type="[]"} | |||
|''e'' ¦ | '''pat''' ¦ | '''call''' ¦ | '''call''' • ''e'' ¦ | ('''call''' • ''e'') • '''pat''' ¦ | &neg; (('''call''' • ''e'') • '''pat''') | |||
-+---- ''Pat'' | |||
+-+--- ''did'' | |||
-----+ ''not'' | |||
+-+++- ''call'' | |||
|| The auxiliary ''did'' is a CONTENT raiser. | |||
{Sentence: ''It was snowing.''<br />Logical form: '''snow''' • ''s''<br /> | {Sentence: ''It was snowing.''<br />Logical form: '''snow''' • ''s''<br /> |
Revision as of 23:28, 12 November 2013
Exercises for chapter 5: Simple LRS
Functional notation
Semantic types
Basic combinatorics
Basic mechanism with canonical examples
Basic mechanism with copula and argument-marking preposition
Nominal expletives
Other constructions
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