Previous week's topic ("Structure") was continued. During the first part of this lecture we looked again on structural relations. After this revision followed the introduction of semiotic relations and of the sign hierarchy. Afterwards we looked at the text structure of several examples (e.g. a recipe, a website, an instruction).

Homework

1. Identify the syntagmatic relations in the following constructions:
• “department store detective”
• “three people saw a woman and her dog in the shop”
2. Identify the paradigmatic relations in the following sets (describe similarities and differences):
• {/p/, /t/, /k/}
• {“object”, “furniture”, “chair”, “table”}
• {“walk”, “drive”, “run”, “ride”}

1. In " department store detective" there is a syntagmatic relation between "department", "store" and "detective". This relation determines the word order: you cannot say e.g. "store department detective" or "store detective department", at least not without changing the meaning.
   The syntagmatic relations in "three people saw a woman and her dog in the shop” "glue" together the nouns and the verb as subject/object and predicate.
2. The items all belong to the same category: {/p/, /t/, /k/} are devoiced consonants. "Paradigmatical relations" mean relations of choice, which in turn means that you can "replace" e.g. /p/ with /t/ and the result would still make sense ("pool" vs. "tool"), however, the meaning can be different. The same is with the other sets: {"object”, “furniture”, “chair”, “table"} and {“walk”, “drive”, “run”, “ride”} belong to the same wordfield ("furniture"/ "verbs of movement") and are replaceable by each other with possible change in meaning.