Basic English Grammar with Exercises

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Exercise 2 Determine the subcategory of the verbs in the following sentences. Justify your choice with the ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases
Exercise 4 Some events can be described in two ways: with or without the usage of a light verb. Give ...

Chapter 6 Inflectional Phrases In the previous chapter we detailed the structure of the central part of the clause, the VP and i ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases Note that this is a fundamentally different type of structure than the VP that we investigated ...

The structure of IP In the previous chapter, we analysed the morphemes in (5b) and (c) as light verbs heading a vP and so the st ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases So far we have taken the rather simple (perhaps simplistic) view that the VP is the complement ...

The structure of IP Inflections also impose restrictions on their subjects. Again these restrictions are not thematic in nature ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases (16) a [IP Carl does [VP not have a car]] b [IP we do∆ [VP not have a car]] If we take agreemen ...

The syntax of inflection (17) represents the D- and S-structures of the sentence Sam should phone Fiona. As discussed in the pre ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases 2.1 Inserting auxiliaries into I In the previous chapter, we introduced the idea that dummy aux ...

The syntax of inflection (20) IP – I' I vP ∆ v' v vP -en v' v VP -ing DP V' they V PP stay with my parents ‘they have been sta ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases discuss in the next chapter. In the formation of certain questions an auxiliary verb is moved t ...

The syntax of inflection (27) IP – I' I XP -ed X' X VP not DP V' the glass V shatter We know that the inflectional element takes ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases (29) IP DP I' the glass 1 I vP -ed v' v VP not DP V' t 1 V shatter ‘the glass did not shatter’ ...

The syntax of inflection Besides the bound morpheme status of the negative, these languages differ from English in that verbal s ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases (36) IP DP I' I vP -ed AP vP quickly DP v' he v VP e DP V' his fingers V count ‘he quickly co ...

The syntax of inflection verb cannot escape the VP because of its -assigning properties, pointing to the fact that aspectual au ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases (40c) is of course grammatical, but only with special stress on did and used to assert somethin ...

The syntax of inflection (44) a I think I can go b I thought I could go c *I thought I can go Although I am very much simplifyin ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases that is accompanied by null agreement? For now I will assume that it is a tense element and dem ...