Semantics: Predicate, Predicators and Degree of Predicate

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1. Semantics Predicator, Predicates, and Degree of Predicates

2. A sentence sometimes contains one or more referring expressions plus other words that do not form part of any of the referring expression. It is the remainder. Ex. I am happy “I” is referring expression “Am happy” is the remainder She have made an appointment “She” and an appointment is the referring expression “have made” is the remainder

3. Predicator From the reminder, we can find the single word or part of a word which carries the specific information The predicator of a simple declarative sentence is the word (sometimes a group of words)which does not belong to any of the referring expressions and which of the remainder, makes the most specific contribution to the meaning of the sentence

4. Example: You are beautiful Remainder: are beautiful “Beautiful” is predicator b. Your hair is curly Remainder: is curly “curly” is the predicator c. He is meeting the girl Remainder: is meeting “meet” is the predicator

5. Predicators can be : All of part of speech except : - Conjunction - Articles - To be Ex. Romeo l ove d Juliet Loved is the remainders Love is predicators

6. The semantic analysis of simple declarative sentences reveals two major semantic roles: Predicators Arguments, played by the referring expression e.g : 1. Dina is an engineer Predicator: engineer Argument: Dina 2. Fany gives him the book Predicator: give Argument: Fany , him, the book

7. P redicate Is any word (or sequence of words) which (in a given single sentence) can function as the predicator of a sentence. Ex. A tall, beautiful woman entered the class Tall, beautiful, woman, and class are predicates

8. predicator vs predicates Predicates can be predicator in other sentence. Ex. From the previous example A tall, beautiful woman entered the class. she is tall She is beautiful She is a woman The building in the corner is a class

9. Degree of predicate Is a number indicating the number of arguments it is normally understood to have in simple sentences. Ex. This movie is amazing Amazing is a predicate of degree one (one place predicate) Shinta brings an apple Bring is a predicate of degree two (two place predicate) The teacher gives me a card Give is a predicate of degree three (three place predicate)