A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

[37] NON-CLEFT a. They think YQM. should leave. ii a. Sue introduced Jim to Pa t. iii a. He signed the bill with this pen. iv a. ...

(^254) Chapter 15 Information packaging in the clause 6 Pseudo-clefts The pseudo-cleft is quite similar to the it-cleft in some ...

7 Dislocation §7 Dislocation 255 The prototypical dislocation construction has an extra NP located to the left or right of the m ...

256 Chapter 15 Information packaging in the clause (^8) Preposing and postposing All the information-packaging constructions con ...

§8 Preposing and postposing^257 In [iib], the others refers to a subset of some set of things already mentioned. The original pr ...

258 Chapter 15 Information packaging in the clause This type of inversion, as the name implies, requires the presence of an auxi ...

9.1 Reduction of NPs 259 In [i] the VP can't is understood as "can't go with you", the missing infinitival complement being reco ...

260 Chapter 15 Information packaging in the clause [52] i I need some ink, but I can 't find mu:. ii I had put some mangoes on t ...

Exercises^261 (c) Pro-forms for predicative complements and locative PPs [55] i She was extremely bright I an excellent manager; ...

262 Chapter 15 Infonnation packaging in the clause v She went swimming and was attacked by a crocodile. 5. For each of the follo ...

personal pronoun in the nucleus that has the dislocated phrase as its antecedent. To my son Ben [leave my collection of antique ...

.-: Morphology: words and lexemes I Inflectional morphology and lexical morphology 264 2 Basic concepts in inflectional morpholo ...

§2 Basic concepts in inflectional morphology^265 Lexical morphology deals with the vertical dimension in [I]: the structure of, ...

266 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes (a) Lexical base The lexical base of a lexeme is the starting-point for describing ...

§2 Basic concepts in inflectional morphology 267 suffixes ·s and ·es for the same purpose in different contexts is called an alt ...

268 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes So what we do here is to continue presenting words and parts of words in ordinary s ...

§3.1 Consonant doubling 269 We call an entire lexeme regular only if ALL its inflectional forms are regular: the general rules m ...

270 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes [6] VERB ii ADJECTIVE iii NOUN stop fa t quiz stoJlJ2ed fa ller quil.l.es stoJlJ2in ...

§3.3 Final y replacement 271 The rule does most of the work, but English spelling is always quite difficult and, sure enough, th ...

(^272) Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes [ 10] TREATMENT OF Y CONTEXT Y is retained before ·ing or. 's 11 replaced by ie ...