Week 7

Sentence Semantics

1. Situations:

  • Dynamic and Static situations
  • Tense and Aspect
  • Modality
  • Mood
  • Evidentiality

2.Participants:

  • Classifying participants
  • Thematic roles 1 (Agent, patient, theme, experiencer)
  • Thematic roles 2 ( Beneficiary, Instrument, location, goal, source, stimulus)
  • Identifying Thematic roles
  • Problems with Thematic roles