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1 Lennart Lönngren University of Tromsø LOVE

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2 Let us start with a sentence in the active voice and its passive counterpart.

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3 Everybody loves her. She is loved by everybody.

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4 The preposition by in the passive sentence must be marked as syntactic: it does not occupy a node in the semantic representation.

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5 Everybody loves her. She is loved (by) everybody.

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6 Is in is loved, as opposed to was in was loved, is a tense marker, functioning as a predicate. The carrier of the corresponding meaning in the active sentence is a morpheme, which we mark as incorporated.

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7 Everybody love<s> her. She is loved (by) everybody. Alternatively, we could extract a portmanteau morpheme from is: (is)<PRES>, but that would be an unnecessary complication.

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8 This is not a complete representation. The tense markers in both sentences function as a two-place predicate, the first valency position of which is occupied by the implicit speech act verb «say».

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9 Everybody love<s> her. She is loved (by) everybody. «s.» «s.» «s.» = «(I) say»

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10 The implicit verb also dominates the syntactic top node, i.e. love.

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11 Everybody love<s> her. She is loved (by) everybody. «s.» «s.» «s.» = «(I) say»

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12 In the following tense markers and speech act predicates will be disregarded.

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13 Everybody love<s> her. She is loved (by) everybody. «s.» «s.» «s.» = «(I) say»

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14 Everybody loves her. She (is) loved (by) everybody.

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15 Now let us compare an ordinary sentence with its cleft counterpart.

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16 I love Mary. It is Mary that I love.

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17 Three words in the cleft sentence are syntactic. (The topicalization of Mary can be handled by a special implicit predicate, which we disregard here.)

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18 I love Mary. (It is) Mary (that) I love.

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19 He loved his new car. The object of his love was his new car. Paraphrases can also be created by means of certain role-markers:

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20 We mark four of the words in the paraphrase as syntactic.

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21 He loved his new car. (The object of) his love (was) his new car. Note that his in his love is not a predicate, whereas his in his car is a two-place predicate.

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22 The same syntactic function as object can be fulfilled by a derivative of the verb, meaning ’object of love’. Compare:

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23 He loved only Mary. Mary was the only one he loved. Mary was his only love.

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24 He loved only Mary. Mary (was the) only (one) he loved. Mary (was) his only (love)<love>.

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25 In a small shop in Tucson I found the following text:

Choose your love : 

26 Choose your love Love your choice

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27 Instead of buying it and putting it on the wall I decided to analyse it. The first step is to extract the verbs out of the nouns love and choice. After that we can easily establish the subject and object relations.

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28 Choose your love<love> Love your choice<choose>

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29 Finally, let us conflate the two parts into one sentence. The comma separating the clauses represents a two-place predicate with the meaning «then».

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30 Choose your love<love>, love your choice<choose>. , (comma/pause) = «then»

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31 Now we can compare this sentence with a more basic and explicit paraphrase: Choose the person you love, then love the person you chose. … or still more explicitly: Choose the person that you love, then love the person that you chose.

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32 We see that the object relation arrows in each clause now point to two separate words. These are connected by means of the definite article, here with a cataphoric function. Choose the person that you love. The content of the connection is coreferentiality.

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33 Note also in the explicit paraphrase the different tenses: … you love vs … you chose. To account for this we must extract the corresponding tense morphemes: Choose the person you love<PRES>, Love the person you chose<PRET>,

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34 Choose your love<love>«PRES», love your choice<choose>«PRET». In the original sentence this difference is totally implicit, but we can still represent it:

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35 The difference in tense can be traced back to a semantic distinction between the two verbs, namely the opposition athelic / thelic. THE END

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36 Whoops, I forgot overt derivatives, i.e. words formed from love and its equivalents by means of suffixation. cat <lov>er Mary’s <lov>er

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37 In Russian, different nouns are used in this case. <ljubi>tel’ koshek Mashin <ljubov>nik

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38 There are also derivatives expressing the converse relation. <ljubim>ec caricy the queen’s «like» favourite min <älsk>lingsmelodi my favourite tune

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39 Empty verbs in English: Peter (makes) love (to) Mary. Peter älskar (med) Mary. Mary (fell in) love (with) Peter. Mary förälskade (sig i) Peter.

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40 Cf. also the paraphrases: Peter (is) Mary’s (<lov>er). Peter (makes) love (to) Mary.

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41 In Russian, the equivalent of make love cannot realize the second position. Oni (zanimajutsja) ljubov’ju. They (make) love.

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42 Moi <ljubim>ye menja zhdali. The following could be a way of representing substantivized adjectives and participles. My loved ones (were) waiting (for) me.

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43 Now truly: THE END