rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport) (11/08/89)
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SUNY BUFFALO LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
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GREG N. CARLSON
Dept. of Foreign Language, Literature, and Linguistics
University of Rochester
"OPEN THEMATIC ROLES"
Many verbs have alternative subcategorizations with some categories
apparently "removed". In this talk, I examine such cases and argue that
a subset of these instances should be treated as "open thematic roles"-
-those cases where the removal of a syntactic constituent correspends in
the semantic interpretation neither to removal of the role, nor to some
kind of binding of the role (e.g., by an existential quantifier).
Furthermore, such cases need tobe distinguished from cases of pure
inference, but this can be difficult. In this talk, I attempt to out-
line the issues and problems, and comment on the role of psycholinguis-
tic evidence in possibly resolving these issues.
Tuesday, 14 November 1989
6:30 pm
684 Baldy Hall
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Discussion and refreshments to follow at Donna Gerdts's house,
295 Little Robin Road (Audubon New Community).
For further information, contact Dept. of Linguistics,
SUNY Buffalo, (716) 636-2177