Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Raising and Control (39) evidently *(it) seems that the electrician found a mouse The verb seem is one which takes a clausal com ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses possibly differ from each other. To see how these subjects differ from each other, ...

Raising and Control argument cannot be realised in the two different subject positions as there is only one - role involved. A ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses 2.1 Raising As we have seen, with certain verbs a subject which is generated in one ...

Raising and Control (55) a ... has seem 1 -ed [VP [IP the electrician to have found a mouse] t 1 ] b ... will seem 1 - ∆ [VP [IP ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses (57) IP DP I' e I vP may v' it v VP seem 1 - ∆ CP V' that the mouse was electrocute ...

Raising and Control (59) a it was believed [CP that the electrician was scared of mice] b the electrician 1 was believed [IP t 1 ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses In this example, the subject starts off in the lowest clause as the subject of the ...

Raising and Control referential properties, as it does not appear to behave like other pronouns in this respect. We will conside ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses However, this conclusion is problematic both conceptually and empirically. On conce ...

Raising and Control It seems to work like this. An anaphor must have an antecedent within some domain, say the clause, and canno ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses However, even describing the conditions under which PRO may have arbitrary referenc ...

The Gerund or the object in (81b) as the referential possibilities in this case are grammatically and not pragmatically determin ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses assign Case and hence there is no need to insert of. This can be clearly seen in th ...

The Gerund (90) DP DP D' the patient’s D VP V' V DP refusing the medicine But this cannot be correct as determiners take NP comp ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses circumstances, so there is no reason why it could not happen here. However, the poi ...

Conclusion (97) NP N' N vP ing v' v vP have en DP v' the patient v VP e DP V' the medicine V refuse (96c) is a mystery that has ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses Check questions 1 What is the definition of government discussed in the chapter? Wh ...

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Exercise 2 Determine whether the following verbs have got finite or non-finite clausal complements. (1) a ...

Chapter 8 - The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses
Exercise 5 Are the following sentences problematic for the theta theory? If they ...