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How do we know who "he" is? And how does "he" differ from "himself" when we interpret it? In this week's episode, we talk about the syntax and semantics of pronouns: how we can place them in sentences, how they link up to variables, and the role of context in how we interpret them.
This is Topic #93!
This week's tag language: Macedonian!
Related videos:
Referential Treatment: The Syntax of Binding - youtu.be/9sqm_cex4kA
Up, Up and Away: The Verb Phrase-Internal Subject Hypothesis - youtu.be/EJoUyPIdu18
Relatively Close: The Syntax of Relative Clauses - youtu.be/Bra5gExyPbY
Last episode:
The Main Event: Event Semantics - youtu.be/lsD0j708xNw
Other of our semantics videos:
Downward Spiral: Negative Polarity Items - youtu.be/vd8cjyxHQdw
Topic of Focus: Information Structure - youtu.be/gZ6o8yFvJYI
Operation Relevance: Relevance Theory - youtu.be/yRv1agt776c
Our website also has extra content about this week's topic, on different kinds of events, at: http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-93
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Sources:
Most of the information for this episode was taken from Heim and Kratzer's 1998 book, Semantics in Generative Grammar, and from Yasutaka Sudo's dissertation, available here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/77805
Here's something else that is available online and is pretty accessible, Elizabeth Coppock's Semantics Boot Camp: http://eecoppock.info/semantics-boot-camp.pdf
Looking forward to next time!
How do we know who "he" is? And how does "he" differ from "himself" when we interpret it? In this week's episode, we talk about the syntax and semantics of pronouns: how we can place them in sentences, how they link up to variables, and the role of context in how we interpret them.
This is Topic #93!
This week's tag language: Macedonian!
Related videos:
Referential Treatment: The Syntax of Binding - youtu.be/9sqm_cex4kA
Up, Up and Away: The Verb Phrase-Internal Subject Hypothesis - youtu.be/EJoUyPIdu18
Relatively Close: The Syntax of Relative Clauses - youtu.be/Bra5gExyPbY
Last episode:
The Main Event: Event Semantics - youtu.be/lsD0j708xNw
Other of our semantics videos:
Downward Spiral: Negative Polarity Items - youtu.be/vd8cjyxHQdw
Topic of Focus: Information Structure - youtu.be/gZ6o8yFvJYI
Operation Relevance: Relevance Theory - youtu.be/yRv1agt776c
Our website also has extra content about this week's topic, on different kinds of events, at: http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-93
Find us on all the social media worlds:
Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheLingSpace
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thelingspace
And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com !
You can also find our store at the website, thelingspace.storenvy.com
We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally.
Sources:
Most of the information for this episode was taken from Heim and Kratzer's 1998 book, Semantics in Generative Grammar, and from Yasutaka Sudo's dissertation, available here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/77805
Here's something else that is available online and is pretty accessible, Elizabeth Coppock's Semantics Boot Camp: http://eecoppock.info/semantics-boot-camp.pdf
Looking forward to next time!
