Thematic roles and their role in semantic interpretation*  

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Carlson, Greg N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of The Language Sciences vol. 22 no. 3 (1984), page 259-279.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LING/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The phenomenon of 'case relations' (Fillmore 1968), or 'thematic roles' (Jackendoff 1972) forms a persistent part of generative grammar and is a notion included in several contemporary syntactic theories. But from the standpoint of a system of semantic interpretation as exemplified by Montague (1974), thematic roles would appear to be entirely superfluous elements. In this paper I wish to sketch an alternative system of model theoretic semantic interpretation which requires precisely the type of information thematic roles provide. Such a system takes events and similar objects as basic rather than derived elements of the model. I conclude by considering the status of thematic roles, whether they should be regarded as syntactic or semantic in nature. It is argued that they have an 'intermediate status' instead, and the paper concludes with a speculative account of what this 'intermediate status' might be.

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