[SCL] Metalinguistic constructs

[Chris Menzel]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:48:39PM -0500, Bill Andersen wrote:
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> On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 14:44 US/Eastern, Chris Menzel wrote:
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> >On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:36:06PM -0500, Bill Andersen wrote:
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> >>On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 14:16 US/Eastern, Chris Menzel wrote:
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> >>>Thus, "formula", "name", and "comment" all take names of syntactic
> >>>thingies in the language as their values.
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> >>Chris is right here of course.
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> >Except I meant "arguments" instead of "values".
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> But the values are linguistic objects as well no?  

Hm, *which* values, Bill?  The values of quoted names like "'fred" are
of course syntactic things.  But I was simply meaning to talk about the
arguments of a certain predicate, and "values" slipped out instead.  And
in my idiolect, anyway, a predicate doesn't *take* values; it takes
arguments and *has* a (semantic) value, viz., a relation.

-chris