Basic English Grammar with Exercises

A Typology of Word Categories (23) Words thematic categories functional categories V N A P I D Deg C We will introduce these cat ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words Other features that have been proposed include [±N] and [±V], first suggested by Chom ...

A Typology of Word Categories same as the other categories, this is a positive aspect of this proposal. Adjectives can therefore ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words construction. However, an adjective (stupid) and a verb (fishing) cannot occupy this ...

A Typology of Word Categories 3.2 Predicates and arguments To understand the difference between thematic and functional categori ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words exist. Different linguists tend to make use of different -roles and there is very li ...

A Typology of Word Categories Note: Round brackets around an element means that that element is optional. It should be pointed o ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words (49) I asked [if Mary may marry Martin] In the bracketed sentence here, the complemen ...

A Typology of Word Categories (52) sink+ed (= sank) think+ed (= thought) hit+ed (= hit) Virtually all verbs have a past tense fo ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words (57) a I was ready c he was ready d you were ready e they were ready Some languages s ...

A Typology of Word Categories (62) go+en (= gone) drive+en (= driven) hope+en (= hoped) put+en (= put) The progressive aspect is ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words (68) a the villain awaited his trial b the villain waited for his trial (69) a the vi ...

A Typology of Word Categories fly category: [–F, –N, +V]
-grid: subcat: [∆] sleep category: [–F, –N, +V]
-grid: subcat: [∆] ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words (78) a Larry left = sentence b Theodore thinks Larry left From a semantic point of vi ...

A Typology of Word Categories Thus, it is not typical to find plural forms of mass nouns, though, of course, this does not mean ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words In general then, it seems that nouns are a fairly well behaved category and that even ...

A Typology of Word Categories complements, it is connected to the [–N] feature that they both share. The [+N] categories (nouns ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words Another difference between the possessor and arguments is that the semantic relations ...

A Typology of Word Categories This observation, however, will also require modification once we start to consider adverbs and th ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words It seems that adjectives formed with either ‘-y’ or ‘-ly’ are able to take ‘-er’ and ...