scholarly journals The effectiveness of vocabulary teaching using semantically related words: Focusing on the synonymy and thematic relation.

2017 ◽  
Vol null (66) ◽  
pp. 27-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
이민우
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Relation

Variation and change in instrument noun formation in Hebrew and its relation to the verbal system

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lior Laks
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Change ◽  
Morphological Variation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prosodic Structure ◽  
Thematic Role ◽  
Verbal System ◽  
Base Form ◽  
Thematic Relation

This paper examines morphological variation and change in the formation of instrument nouns in Hebrew. The change is always from one of the non-participle templates into a participle template and never the other way around. Nonetheless, not all instrument nouns (INs) change their template. I contend that the transition to the participle templates can be predicted based on systematic criteria. Such a change targets both morphological and thematic transparency between the IN and the related verb. Thematically, the participle IN corresponds to a thematic role that the verb assigns. The IN has to be agentive in order to be thematically transparent and undergo morphological change. The more transparent the thematic relation between the verb and the IN is, the greater the chance for morphological change. Morphologically, the formation of the participle form is also more transparent as it requires fewer changes between the verb and the IN. The only changes that occur are affixation and changing the vowels of the base verb, and the formation in the participle templates preserves the prosodic structure of the base verb. The analysis also provides further support to the stem modification theory and shows that the formation of the instrument noun is based on internal changes on the verbal base form without separate reference to the consonantal root.

scholarly journals Lexical Distributivity and Implicit Arguments

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lasersohn
Keyword(s):  
Argument Structure ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Thematic Roles ◽  
Implicit Argument ◽  
Implicit Arguments ◽  
Atomic Event ◽  
Thematic Relation ◽  
Meaning Postulates ◽  
Logical Representation

Popular assumptions about distributive predicates and implicit arguments interact to predict incorrect truth conditions for sentences in which a predi­cate takes both an implicit argument and an overt distributive argument. This paper argues that the conflict provides evidence for a particular approach to argument structure and in particular to the semantics of implicit arguments: namely, a "neo-Davidsonian" approach, in which thematic roles are analyzed as relations between events and individuals, and existentially interpreted implicit arguments do not appear in the syntax or in logical representation at all. The effect of implicit arguments is produced through the use of meaning postulates guaranteeing that any atomic event of a given type must bear the appropriate thematic relation to some individual.

scholarly journals Referentiality and incompletive reading in Mandarin

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Anqi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Mass Noun ◽  
Mass Nouns ◽  
Count Nouns ◽  
Thematic Relation

As an exception to Krifka’s (1989) famous generalization that a quantized incremental theme always induces an event-homomorphic completive reading, Singh (1991, 1998) observes that in Hindi only the quantized mass noun phrases as the incremental theme entails a completive reading, but unexpectedly quantized count nouns phrases can have an incompletive reading. She proposes that count nouns can introduce a partial thematic relation, whereas mass nouns introduce a total thematic relation. With new data in Mandarin, instead of the mass/count distinction, I argue that referentiality is the crucial factor because the non-culmination readings are only felicitous with the referential objects for consumption verbs in Mandarin.

Remarks on Dionysios Thrax’s concept of ‘Diáthesis’

1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kent Andersen
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Technical Term ◽  
Active Set ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Thematic Relation ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Finite Verb

Summary The purpose of this paper is to present a new interpretation of Dionysios Thrax’s original definition of diáthesis. Diáthesis was regarded as one of seven morphological categories of the (finite) verb of which there were two and only two formal variants, i.e., enérgeia “performance” and páthos “experience” (generally referred to as the active and middle sets of personal endings respectively). Diáthesis was manifested in the personal ending of the verb, whose function was to represent various properties of the ‘subject’, i.e., its person and number as well as its diáthesis “disposition” – or general thematic relation – to the verb. The morpheme for the diáthesis enérgeia “performance” exhibited the active set of personal endings as its ‘form’ and expressed the person and number of the subject as well as the fact that it ‘performed’ the predication as its ‘schematic’ meaning; the morpheme for the diáthesis páthos “experience” exhibited the middle set of personal endings as its ‘form’ and expressed the person and number of the subject as well as the fact that it ‘experienced’ the predication as its ‘schematic’ meaning. Moreover, just as the other Greek (and Roman) grammarians, so too was Dionysios Thrax well aware of instances in which there was a discrepancy between ‘form’ and ‘meaning’. Accordingly, he incorporated such ‘anomalies’ into his definition by mentioning four concrete examples and labeling them with his technical term mesótēs “middle”: the first two examples were active forms which exhibited the meaning of páthos, whereas the second two examples were middle forms which exhibited the meaning of enérgeia.

LIBERDADE E ECONOMIA NA FILOSOFIA DO DIREITO DE HEGEL

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (107) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Arnaldo Fortes Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Thematic Relation ◽  
New Social Order

Este artigo trata da concepção hegeliana de liberdade na sociedade civil. Destaca a parte relativa à liberdade de mercado na qual ficam caracterizados os limites intransponíveis para o exercício da eticidade e, conseqüentemente, de uma combinação real entre ética e economia numa sociedade organizada sob o primado do mercado. Na relação temática entre liberdade e sociedade civil, Hegel formulou de maneira precursora uma Teoria Social de caráter alternativo à experiência de traço liberal. O papel dessa teoria é formular, de maneira integrada, os temas econômico, político e do direito de uma nova ordem social verdadeiramente humanista. Por isso, o paradigma hegeliano de liberdade institui um contraponto radical à concepção de liberdade de mercado com a qual o liberalismo econômico construiu a teoria capitalista de organização de sociedade, incluindo o atual modelo da teoria econômica neoliberal globalizada.Abstract: This article deals with the hegelian conception of freedom in the civil society. It emphasizes the part relative to the freedom of market in which are characterized the insuperable limits for the exercise of the ethicity and, consequently, a real combination between ethics and economy in a society organized under the primate of the market. About the thematic relation between freedom and civil society, Hegel formulated in precursory way a Social Theory of alternative character to the experience of liberal imprint. The role of this theory is to formulate, in comprehensive way, the economic, political and juridical themes of a new social order truly humane. Therefore, the hegelian paradigm of freedom establishes a radical counterpoint to the conception of freedom of market with which economic liberalism has constructed the capitalist theory of society organization, including the current model of the global new-liberal economic theory.

Themes, Cumulativity, and Resultatives: Comments on Kratzer 2003

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 686-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Williams
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
Thematic Relation ◽  
Resultative Construction ◽  
Natural Relation

According to Kratzer (2003), the thematic relation Theme, construed very generally, is not a “natural relation.” She says that the “natural relations” are “cumulative” and argues that Theme is not cumulative, in contrast to Agent. It is therefore best, she concludes, to remove Theme from the palette of semantic analysis. Here I oppose the premises of Kratzer's argument and then introduce a new challenge to her conclusion, based on the resultative construction in Mandarin. The facts show that Theme and Agent are on equal footing, insofar as neither has the property that Kratzer's conjecture requires of a natural relation.

Pindar'sNemeanxi

1979 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary R. Lefkowitz
Keyword(s):  
New Criticism ◽  
Thematic Relation

Pindar, perhaps more than any other ancient poet, seems to demand from his interpreters declarations of their critical premises. In recent years scholars customarily have made initial acknowledgment to the work of E. R. Bundy, as psychoanalysts must to Freud, before they begin to offer their own modifications to and expansions of his fundamental work. Much contemporary scholarship has concentrated on the identification and classification in the odes of the elements whose function Bundy labelled and explained. But useful as this type of analysis has been for exorcising the demon of biographical interpretation, it has, like all orthodoxies, prevented perception of other equally important truths. It constitutes no radical heterodoxy to try to account for the fact that each individual ode, for all its dependence on common conventions of structure and of content, makes a different impression. Nor is it unreasonable to try to explain what makes Pindar's style and approach distinctive.In my own work I have argued, though perhaps not always convincingly, that language as well as structure contributes to an ode's coherence. Scholars trained in America are more willing to assume that repetition of phrase or theme within a poem has significance, and that metaphors can simultaneously bear more than one connotation. The issues at stake have most recently been delineated by Michael Silk, in his discussion of the effect of metaphor in archaic poetry: ‘By “patent”, I mean effects whose existence is not in doubt, though their character may be disputed; by “latent”, those whose effective significance is so tenuous or marginal that one resents the impression of solidity that even mentioning them produces. Such insensitivity is more common than it should be among American classicists, many of whom have also been influenced by the “New Criticism”…’ As illustration of the erroneous American approach Silk cites Cedric Whitman's description of the thematic relation of fires in theIliad.Silk himself avoids the trap Whitman falls into by considering only ‘patent’ metaphors, and these consistentlyout of context, so that there is no necessity to comment on the existence or non-existence of thematic connections among them. But it is possible—at least logically—to frame the question differently, and to ask whether a metaphor cannot have patent and latent associations at the same time.

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