Basic English Grammar with Exercises

The syntax of inflection (53) a I quickly assessed the students – I assessed quickly the students b I did not fail his paper – I ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases As we mentioned previously, the negative element is not so accommodating and it refuses to give ...

Movement to Spec IP 3 Movement to Spec IP Up to this point we have been assuming that the subject of the clause originates fairl ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases (59) IP – I' I vP will v' v vP ∆ DP v' Boris v VP e V' V laugh In this case, the light verb ass ...

Movement to Spec IP (60) vP DP v' they v VP e IP V' I' V I vP think will Larry leave (61) a *they think 1 -e [VP [IP - will La ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases (63) a she can sing b for him to dance Presumably the agreement element is different in both th ...

Movement to Spec IP (66) an element governs everything within its own phrase, but not past a certain point The point of the ‘but ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases 4 Adjunction within IP In the last section of this chapter we will briefly consider adjunction ...

Conclusion (71) IP DP I' AP I' I vP v' v vP Note that both of these positions are higher than those favoured by the VP adverbs a ...

Chapter 6 - Inflectional Phrases Test your knowledge
Exercise 1 Consider the examples below. How do the DPs acquire case? (1) ...

Test your knowledge
Exercise 4 Give the X-bar structure of the following sentences and explain how the DPs receive thematic ro ...

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Chapter 7 Complementiser Phrases In this chapter we continue to present the parts of the English clause, extending it further up ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases In (2a) the clausal complement of the verb know has obviously moved from its normal complemen ...

The structure of CP As the complementiser is a word and the IP is a phrase, we immediately see a potential head–complement relat ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases 2 The Clause as CP Not all clauses are introduced by a complementiser. For example, subordina ...

The Clause as CP Verbs such as wish, prey, plead, demand, indicate, signal, etc. all seem to behave in this way. Obviously, for ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases 3 Interrogative CPs 3.1 Basic positions within the CP So far we have looked mainly at declara ...

Interrogative CPs (21) CP C' C IP was it my fault It makes perfect sense that wh-questions and yes–no questions involve the comp ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases 3.2 Wh-movement Wh-elements come in a variety of forms and functions. All of them contain som ...