Predications, Arguments and Predicates

Predications, Arguments and Predicates

1. Predication is the relationship between a subject

   • with its modifiers and a verb with its complements

2. predicates can be divided into: Arguments and Predicates

   • Ex. My uncle owns this car.
     • argument predicate argument

3. three semantics opossiotions are needed

   • --> Direction= Directional contrast between "in front of"
     • + Horizontal= +lateral side to side
       • - Horizontal= vertical -lateral back to back
         • Argumet 1= +human
           • +adult
             • +male
               • +singular

4. Arguments

   • Is an expression that helps complete the emaning of a predicate
     • Arguments sometimes match syntactic elements like subject, berb and object and sometime do not
       • Ex: "My uncle" and "this cars" in sentence My uncle owns this car.
       • "A tall woman" and " the car" in sentence " A tall woman in front of the car"
       • A tall woman Tall +Human +Adult -Male +Singular

5. Predicates

   • Predicate is to modify the subject
     • Logical predicates are expressed in natural language
       • By words of various parts of speech including verbs, including verbs, adjectives and common nouns
         • Ex: "owns" in sentence "My uncle owns this car"
           • "in front of" in sentence "A tall woman in front of the car "

6. Null Arguments

   • Is void of content in the sense that it has the maximum generality of references.
     • It has no syntactic realization, but is detected negatively
       • Ex. Jhon is eating = Jhon is eating something or other.

7. Subordinate Predications

   • In semantics a subordinate Predication may be part of a main predication

8. Downgraded or Featurized Predications

   • One predication may be included in another and that is to reduce its statut in the semnatic herarchy
     • Ex: A man who was wearing a wig entered the room. A man entered he room.