Semantics / situations

Semantics / situations

1. Classifying situation

   • Tense
     • Marking time
   • Aspect
     • Information
       • Internal structure
   • Situation
     • Typology
       • Situation encoded
   • Dynamic
     • Change over time
     • Have internal phrases

2. Verbs and situation types

   • Statives verbs
     • Use present simple
     • Not present continous
     • Thougths and opinions
       • Agree / Believe
     • Feelings and emotions
     • Sense and perception
     • Possession
   • Dynamic verbs
     • Classified by
       • Semantic distinctions
       • Punctual
       • Telic/attelic
     • Distinction between
       • Events
         • Situation as a whole
       • Process
         • as it were
           • Internal structure
         • Divided in
           • Inchoactives
             • Attention is direct
               • At the beginning of a state
           • Resultatives
             • View as having a final point
               • Direct attention
                 • End of a process

3. Tense and aspect

   • Allow to relate
     • Situation
   • Offers differents
     • Slants
     • Angles
       • On time
     • Slopers
   • Combining situation types and aspects
     • Complex area
       • Describe
         • Speaker`s aspectual choices
           • Between
             • Real dimension
             • Ways of view in
               • Internal structure
             • Sytuation type lexically

4. Modality

   • Cover terms
     • Allow speakers to
       • Express degrees
   • Epistemic modality
     • Speaker is
       • Significanty degrees
         • Of knowledge

5. Moods

   • Distinctions marked
     • By verb endings
     • Describe as between
       • Relais mood
       • Irreails mood
   • Subjuntive mood
     • Use in differents languages
       • Identify opposite
         • Roles of use
           • Grammatical role
             • Syntactic subordination
           • Semantic pole
           • Syntactic pole