(1) SEMANTICFEATURES
(COMPONENTIALANALYSIS)
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E.g.
?The ____ is reading a novel.
?N[+ANIMATE, +HUMAN, -MALE, -ADULT]girl6
(1) SEMANTICFEATURES(COMPONENTIALANALYSIS)e.g. MANGIRLANIMATE++WAITRESS+ROOSTER+HUMANMALE+++_+__+ADULT+_++73.SEMANTICANALYSIS(2) SEMANTICROLES
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Huddleston, R. (1984) Introduction to the Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
?According to Huddleston (1984), a set of semantically defined notions semantic rolesis describe the relationships among a to sentence parts, which is also called thematic roles.
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3.SEMANTICANALYSIS(2) SEMANTICROLES
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Most sentences describe situations consisting of an event that involves particular participants, locations, and times.
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Agent
Patient/themeInstrumentExperiencerStimulus
Beneficiary/benefactive
?Location?Source?Goal?Purpose?Direction?Path?causer
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3.SEMANTICANALYSIS(2) SEMANTICROLES
Grammatical relations provide labels for the
different types of structural relationships that hold between a head and its argument.
Subject > Od >Oi > oblique (pp)10