Syntax& Semantics 2019
my presentation to the symposiam
the Paradox of translating the untranslatable
Course-outline-of-syntax-semantics 2018
lect 1 Universal-grammar presentation
weak crossover
chapter 2 Prosody and Non- Verbal Communication
Chapter 3
sentence-utterance-proposition-ppt
General exercise on X-bar and case theory
chapter 5
Exercise on denotation and connotation
Chapter 7
Referents and referring expressions
anaphora in English and Arabic
General questions on semantics. 19/5/2019
additional semantic questions 2019
Answer the following questions:
1- English is AGRSP language while Arabic is TP language. Do you agree? why?
2- VSO is the canonical word order of Arabic. Prove!
3- Why does English have one word order while Arabic is of five word orders?
4- What is the syntactic judgment of the argument "zayd" in a sentence like: Zaydun kataba d-darsa? and why?