Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

PREDICTING SYNTAX FROM SEMANTICS 515

Strongest

Nuclear Cosubordination

Nuclear Subordination
Nuclear Coordination

Core Cosubordination

Core Subordination
Core Coordination

Clausal Cosubordination

Clausal Subordination

Clausal Coordination

Weakest

Closest

Causative

Aspectual

Psych-Action

Purposive

Jussive

Direct Perception

Propositional Attitude

Cognition

Indirect Discourse

Temporal Adverbial

Conditionals

Simultaneous Actions

Sequential Actions: Overlapping

Sequential Actions: Non-overlapping

Action-Action: Unspecified

Loosest

Syntactic Relations Semantic Relations

Figure 1: The Interclausal Relations Hierarchy

of mental disposition to act; the most fundamental disposition is wanting,

and in a full decomposition of the various types of dispositions, we

hypothesise that want will turn out to be the basic primitive predicate

underlying all of them. "Direct perception" is exactly what the name

implies: unmediated apprehension of some act, event, or situation through

the senses; it contrasts with what may be termed "indirect perception",

where knowledge of some act, event, or situation is deduced from evidence

rather than directly apprehended. Finally, "cognition/propositional

attitude" refers to mental states which are either knowledge (cognition) or

belief (propositional attitude), or to active mental computation (cognition).

We are now in a position to link the various interpretations of remem­

ber with the semantic relations of the IRH. Rememberint has an intention as

the filler of the something.be.in.mind.from.before y variable, and an inten­

tion is a type of mental disposition to act; therefore, remembermt is

associated with a psych-action semantic interclausal relation. Rememberper

has a perceptual event as its y variable, and accordingly, its semantic rela­

tion is direct perception. Rememberknw and rememberblf take knowledge

and belief(s) as their y variable, respectively, and consequently they are