Semantics: Special Topics

1. Semantics: Special Topics

2. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood:

3. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Not the same as grammatical mood (indicative, passive, subjunctive)

4. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Not the same as grammatical mood (indicative, passive, subjunctive) • Semantic mood has major and minor components.

5. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Major moods:

6. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Major moods: • Declarative

7. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Major moods: • Declarative • Bill has a red car

8. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Major moods: • Declarative • Bill has a red car • Imperative

9. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Major moods: • Declarative • Bill has a red car • Imperative • Buy Bill’s red car before he sells it to Sally.

10. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Major moods: • Declarative • Bill has a red car • Imperative • Buy Bill’s red car before he sells it to Sally. • Yes/No interrogatives

11. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Major moods: • Declarative • Bill has a red car • Imperative • Buy Bill’s red car before he sells it to Sally. • Yes/No interrogatives • Is this Bill’s red car?

12. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Major moods: • Declarative • Bill has a red car • Imperative • Buy Bill’s red car before he sells it to Sally. • Yes/No interrogatives • Is this Bill’s red car? • Wh-interrogatives

13. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Major moods: • Declarative • Bill has a red car • Imperative • Buy Bill’s red car before he sells it to Sally. • Yes/No interrogatives • Is this Bill’s red car? • Wh-interrogatives • Who is buying Bill’s red car?

14. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods

15. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods • Tag declarative

16. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods • Tag declarative • You’ve been biting your nails again, haven’t you?

17. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods • Tag declarative • You’ve been biting your nails again, haven’t you? • Tag imperative

18. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods • Tag declarative • You’ve been biting your nails again, haven’t you? • Tag imperative • Leave the room, will you!

19. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods • Tag declarative • You’ve been biting your nails again, haven’t you? • Tag imperative • Leave the room, will you! • Pseudo-imperative

20. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods • Tag declarative • You’ve been biting your nails again, haven’t you? • Tag imperative • Leave the room, will you! • Pseudo-imperative • Move and I’ll shoot! Move, or I’ll shoot!!

21. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods • Tag declarative • You’ve been biting your nails again, haven’t you? • Tag imperative • Leave the room, will you! • Pseudo-imperative • Move and I’ll shoot! Move, or I’ll shoot!! • Alternative question

22. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods • Tag declarative • You’ve been biting your nails again, haven’t you? • Tag imperative • Leave the room, will you! • Pseudo-imperative • Move and I’ll shoot! Move, or I’ll shoot!! • Alternative question • Does John resemble his father or his mother?

23. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods • Tag declarative • You’ve been biting your nails again, haven’t you? • Tag imperative • Leave the room, will you! • Pseudo-imperative • Move and I’ll shoot! Move, or I’ll shoot!! • Alternative question • Does John resemble his father or his mother?

24. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods con’t • Optative

25. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods con’t • Optative • May he rest in peace.

26. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods con’t • Optative • May he rest in peace. • “One more” sentence

27. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods con’t • Optative • May he rest in peace. • “One more” sentence • One more beer and I’ll leave

28. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods con’t • Optative • May he rest in peace. • “One more” sentence • One more beer and I’ll leave • Curse

29. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods con’t • Optative • May he rest in peace. • “One more” sentence • One more beer and I’ll leave • Curse • You pig, bag of wind, ...

30. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods con’t • Optative • May he rest in peace. • “One more” sentence • One more beer and I’ll leave • Curse • You pig, bag of wind, … • Exclamative

31. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Minor moods con’t • Optative • May he rest in peace. • “One more” sentence • One more beer and I’ll leave • Curse • You pig, bag of wind, … • Exclamative • What a nice day!

32. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Mood can be further explained or combined. Examples from the interrogative moods:

33. Semantics: Special Topics • Mood: • Mood can be further explained or combined. Examples from the interrogative moods: • When was the battle of Waterloo? (exam question) • Is the Pope Catholic? (rhetorical) • What should I do now? (request for advice) • Why don’t you go to blazes? (curse) • O Death, where is thy sting (poetic)

34. Semantics: Special Topics • Singular and General quality of words and phrases

35. Semantics: Special Topics • Singular and General quality of words and phrases • General: terms of general use - • red denotes red: a red car, a red letter day, a red faced swain.

36. Semantics: Special Topics • Singular and General quality of words and phrases • General: terms of general use - • red denotes red: a red car, a red letter day, a red faced swain. • Singular • Deictics (now, here, yesterday) • Proper names (Paris, Édith Piaf, Cesaria Evora, Center for Disease Control) • Definite Descriptions (the book on the table, the woman in the red dress)

37. Semantics