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• Argument structure
  ...on about the [[argument]]s of a (generally verbal) [[predicate]] and their semantic and syntactic properties. ...-role]] structure and [[syntactic function|syntactic-function]] structure. Semantic roles have a lot of information that is not (or hardly) relevant for the sy
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• Selectional restrictions
  '''Selectional restrictions''' are the [[semantic restrictions]] that a [[word]] imposes on the environment in which it occur * Chomsky, N. 1965. ''Aspects of the Theory of Syntax,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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• Thematic theory
  ...uments in syntactic structure. Thematic interpretation is only part of the semantic interpretation of natural language sentences, which also encompasses quanti *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Thematic+theory&lemmacode=152 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Serialization (i.e. word order)
  *Bartsch, Renate & [[Vennemann, Theo]]. 1972. ''Semantic Structures.'' Frankfurt: Athenäum. ...s.) ''Lexical specification and insertion.'' (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 197). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 135-164.
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• Logical semantics
  ...mantics]]. [[Montague Grammar]] is the most detailed example of a semantic theory for natural language based on the principles of logical semantics.
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• Suppletion
  '''Suppletion''' is a phenomenon by which the addition of a semantic aspect or grammatical function is expressed by a totally or partially diffe * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Argument linking
  ...used for generalizations about the [[mapping]] between (decompositional) [[semantic structure]]s of [[predicate]]s and the [[syntactic expression]] of the [[ar *[[Nicholas Ostler]]. 1979. ''Case linking: A theory of case and verb diathesis, applied to Classical Sanskrit.'' Ph.D. disserta
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• Endocentric compound
  ...sage restricted, so that ''steamboat'' will be found in basically the same semantic contexts as the noun ''boat''. The compound also retains the primary syntac * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• No Vacuous Application Principle
  ...(= cannot take a direct object) and [-logical subject] (= do not assign a semantic role to an external argument). * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Goal
  ...e for Case,'' in: E. Bach & R.T. Harms (eds.) Universals In Linguistic Theory, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. [[Category:Syntax]][[Category:Semantic role]]
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• Conceptual Structure
  ...aborates the idea that notions of location and movement are central in the semantic analysis of [[verb]]s and [[sentence]]s, see [[localism]]). [[Lexical conce
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• Covert category
  A '''covert category''' is a semantic distinction that is relevant for the morphosyntactic rules of a language, b ...or case.'' In: Bach, Emmon & Harms, R.T. (eds.) ''Universals in linguistic theory.'' New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1-88.
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• Jerrold J. Katz (de)
  ...n dazugehörigen philosophischen Aspekten. Seine Veröffentlichung "Semantic Theory" (Harper & Row, 1972) hatte großen Einfluss auf die Philosophie, Linguisti
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• Affected vs. effected object
  A relatively old semantic-role distinction is that between '''affected objects''', i.e. [[patient]]s ...or case.'' In: Bach, Emmon & Harms, R.T. (eds.) ''Universals in linguistic theory.'' New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1-88.
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• Bracketing paradox
  ...the morphological structure of a word which one would like to propose for semantic reasons does not correspond to the structure one would like to propose for ...es on the basis of level-ordering which are sometimes in conflict with the semantic structure.
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• Theta-role
  '''Theta-role''' is the semantic relationship of an [[argument]] with the predicate it is an argument of is *[[Theta-theory]]
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• Semantic coherence
  '''Semantic coherence''' is a notion introduced in Aronoff (1976) which entails that th [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Semantic+Coherence&lemmacode=212 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Minimalist Program
  It aims to eliminate from linguistic theory anything which is not 'virtually necessary'. For instance, in Chomsky (1992 * a set of (phonological, semantic, and grammatical) features
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• Kontrolle
  *A. Cormack & N. Smith, Compositionality, Copy Theory, and Control. UCLWPL 2002/14. *– Dies., The Semantic Basis of Control. Lg. 2003/79.3, 517–556.
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• Determiner
  * Keenan, E.L. and J. Stavi 1986. ''A semantic characterization of natural language determiners,'' Linguistics and Philoso a relation between two sets taken as the denotation of a determiner in the theory of [[Generalized Quantifier]]s.
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