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diff --git a/evans-green-handout.tex b/evans-green-handout.tex index 5640bc6..bf056dc 100644 --- a/evans-green-handout.tex +++ b/evans-green-handout.tex @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\documentclass[9pt,twocolumn,a4paper]{extarticle} +\documentclass[twocolumn,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[top=2cm]{geometry} \usepackage[british]{babel} @@ -18,6 +18,19 @@ \maketitle \summary{ + \subsection*{Perspective: trajector-landmark organisation and deixis} + The perspective from which a scene is viewed has consequences for the relative prominence of its participants\pagenr{541}. + The grammatical functions subject and object are reflections of perspective. + The subject is a trajector (TR); the object, a landmark (LM). + Under passivization, a clause's TR and LM flip, + but the semantical subject (energy source, see below) and object (energy sink) do not. + + Perspective also includes subjectivity: + when a sentence is objectively construed, the ground is made explicit% + \note{I like cats}; + when a sentence is subjectively construed, it is not% + \note{Cats are nice}\pagenr{544}. + \subsection*{Grammatical functions and transitivity} The prototypical action of a transitive verb is an energy transfer from the Agent to the Patient\pagenr{601}. The prototypical action chain can be depicted as in \autoref{fig:action-chain}. @@ -41,7 +54,21 @@ Different semantic roles can be categorised according to a thematic hierarchy (Fillmore 1968). How many roles there are, what labels they should be given, - and if they should be categorised or seen as on a prototypical scale, remain points of debate. + and if they should be categorised or seen as on a prototypical scale, remain points of debate\pagenr{604}. + + Experiencer-Stimulus relations don't display energy transfer, + but often still have a notation of directionality% + \note{e.g. `She loves him'}. + When there is no directionality% + \note{e.g. `He resembles George Clooney'}, + the speaker chooses to focus attention on one particular participant\pagenr{605}. + + Since the subject is upstream in terms of energy flow, + a clause may have a subject and no object, but not vice versa% + \note{the object is meaningless without a subject}. + Such intransitive clauses still profile relations, + since they describe an interaction of the subject with itself + or a change in the world. } \end{document} |