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                  SUNY BUFFALO LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM

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                            GREG N. CARLSON
         Dept. of Foreign Language, Literature, and Linguistics
                        University of Rochester

                         "OPEN THEMATIC ROLES"

Many verbs have  alternative  subcategorizations  with  some  categories
apparently "removed".  In this talk, I examine such cases and argue that
a subset of these instances should be treated as "open thematic  roles"-
-those cases where the removal of a syntactic constituent correspends in
the semantic interpretation neither to removal of the role, nor to  some
kind  of  binding  of  the  role  (e.g.,  by an existential quantifier).
Furthermore, such cases need  tobe  distinguished  from  cases  of  pure
inference,  but  this can be difficult.  In this talk, I attempt to out-
line the issues and problems, and comment on the role of  psycholinguis-
tic evidence in possibly resolving these issues.

                       Tuesday, 14 November 1989
                                6:30 pm
                             684 Baldy Hall

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     Discussion and refreshments to follow at Donna Gerdts's house,
             295 Little Robin Road (Audubon New Community).

         For further information, contact Dept. of Linguistics,
                      SUNY Buffalo, (716) 636-2177