Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Glossary A-movement: argument-movement, the syntactically motivated movement of arguments from argument positions to argument ...

Glossary adjunction: a type of movement where a new position is formed as a result of the movement creating an adjunction struc ...

Glossary anaphoric operator: an operator that behaves like an anaphor, one that is referentially dependent on another constitu ...

Glossary base-generate: to insert constituents into a position reflecting the basic semantic relationships. The arguments of ...

Glossary category variable: in X-bar theory and the rules of X-bar theory X is a category variable that can be substituted by ...

Glossary where for is used not as a preposition but as a prepositional complementiser.) The complement of a CP is an IP, the ...

Glossary DegP: the functional projection on top of APs (similarly to DPs taking NP complements) hosting degree modifiers like ...

Glossary by a wh-element. The meaning is quite clear: it is a request for someone to repeat or confirm the previous statement. ...

Glossary exceptional verb: verbs selecting not a CP but an IP complement when their complement is clausal. The most typical re ...

Glossary finite verb form: a verb form that is inflected for tense in a visible or invisible form. In English this inflection ...

Glossary headless relative: a relative clause that does not appear to be a modifier inside a nominal phrase as it appears witho ...

Glossary present approach, however, it has been argued that the head position of the IP contains only the modal auxiliaries and ...

Glossary agentive arguments in the specifier positions experiencer arguments in the specifier position goal arguments in the do ...

Glossary morphological case: there is a morphologically visible indication of Case on the nominal expression (DP). In English ...

Glossary non-restrictive relative clause: this clause-type is used to add extra information rather than to restrict the applica ...

Glossary Generalisation), so the DP has to move from its base-position to a Case-position. passive voice: the subject of the ...

Glossary predicate: the part of the clause excluding the subject giving information about the subject: Mary [is clever/likes ch ...

Glossary pronominal: those DPs that cannot have a binder within the binding domain. See also anaphor. pronoun: a DP that usu ...

Glossary restrictive relative clause: a clause which modifies a noun by restricting its application to one of a number of possi ...

Glossary specifier rule: one of the three rules of X-bar Theory of the following form: XP  YP X' where the specifier is the p ...