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Grammatical Relations
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How is GR identified?
Agreement
Case
Reference
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Semantic Roles
Role of the noun phrase in relation to action
and state described by the verb.
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Semantic Roles
Agent : deliberately, intentionally.
John hits Sam.
Involuntary causer: The water destroyed mycomputer.
Instrument: John broke the window with
hammer. Experiencer: Sensory or emotional input.
John heard a train coming.
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Patient: Change the state:
The falling rocks crushed the car.
Theme: Does not change stateJohn saw the ball.
Recipient: John sent a letter to Sam.
Benefactive: He built a car for me.
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Mapping
Is one to one mapping possible?
How is grammatical relation/role different
from thematic roles.
What are the challenges?
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Language Universals
Absolute Universal: Refers to the properties
found in all languages.
Example: All languages have vowels and
consonants.
Statistical universal : Important features which
are found in most of the languages but not in
all the languages.
Example: Subject tend to precede object.
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Implicational Universal
If a language has property A then it must have
property B. Conditional.
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Greenbergs Universals
In declarative sentences with nominal subject
and object, the dominant order is almost
always one in which the subject precedes the
object. ( Universal 1)
In languages with prepositions, the genitive
almost always follows the governing noun,
while in languages with postpositions italmost always precedes it. ( Universal 1)
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Languages with dominant VSO order are
always prepositional. (Universal 3)
With overwhelmingly greater than chance
frequency, languages with normal SOV order
are postpositional. (Universal 4)
If a language has dominant SOV order and the
genitive follows the governing noun, then the
adjective likewise follows the noun. (Universal
5)
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All languages with dominant VSO order have SVO
as an alternative or as the only alternative basic
order. (Universal 6)
If in a language with dominant SOV order, there
is no alternative basic order, or only OSV as the
alternative, then all adverbial modifiers of the
verb likewise precede the verb. (Universal 7)
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When a yes-no question is differentiated from
the corresponding assertion by an intonational
pattern, the distinctive intonational features of
each of these patterns are reckoned from theend of the sentence rather than from the
beginning. (8)
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With well more than chance frequency, when
question particles or affixes are specified in
position by reference to the sentence as a
whole, if initial, such elements are found inprepositional languages, and, if final, in
postpositional. (9)
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Question particles or affixes, when specified in
position by reference to a particular word in
the sentence, almost always follow that word.
Such particles do not occur in languages withdominant order VSO. (10)
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Inversion of statement order so that verb
precedes subject occurs only in languages
where the question word or phrase is
normally initial. This same inversion occurs inyes-no questions only if it also occurs in
interrogative word questions. (11)
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In languages with dominant order VSO, an
inflected auxiliary always precedes the main
verb. In languages with dominant order SOV,
an inflected auxiliary always follows the mainverb. (16)
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With overwhelmingly more than chance
frequency, languages with dominant order
VSO have the adjective after the noun. (17)
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If the pronominal object follows the verb, so
does the nominal object. (25)
If a language has inflection, it always has
derivation. (29)
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Whenever the verb agrees with a nominal
subject or nominal object in gender, it also
agrees in number. (32)
No language has a trial number unless it has a
dual. No language has a dual unless it has a
plural. (34)
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A language never has more gender categories
in nonsingular numbers than in the singular.
(37)
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If in a language the verb follows both the
nominal subject and nominal object as the
dominant order, the language almost always
has a case system. (41)
All languages have pronominal categories
involving at least three persons and two
numbers. (42)
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If a language has gender categories in the
noun, it has gender categories in the
pronoun.(43)
If there are any gender distinctions in the
plural of the pronoun, there are some gender
distinctions in the singular also. (45)