Semantics

Introduction.
8.1. Layers of meaning in a sentence.
8.2. Sentence semantics. Participants.
8.2.1. Participant roles.
8.2.2. Classification of participant roles.
8.2.3. Functional roles and grammatical characterizations.
8.3. Sentence semantics. Speech Acts.
8.4. Sentence meaning and speaker’s attitude. Modality.
Exercises and activities.
Suggested reading for lesson 8.
Annotated references.
General references.
Objetives:
— To understand syntagmatic relations from the point of view of the sentence.
— To understand how sentence meaning can be understood at different levels
of abstraction.
— To understand the roles that entities involve in any situation.
— To study aspect, tense, and modality as semantic systems which operate at
the sentence level.