[SCL] Metalinguistic constructs

[Bill Andersen]

On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 16:24 US/Eastern, Chris Menzel wrote:

>> 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.

Ah, gotcha.  I was confused about the point you were making, thinking 
you were talking about semantics when you were talking about syntax.

   .bill

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