Basic English Grammar with Exercises

A Typology of Word Categories features and as we have pointed out we cannot just introduce a new category into the system withou ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words (108) a very fondly b as quickly as lightning c too happily to notice d so foolishly ...

A Typology of Word Categories (114) friendly friendlier friendliest lovely lovelier loveliest manly manlier manliest This would ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words (119) a I know him b he knows me When a pronoun follows a verb, it has one form and t ...

A Typology of Word Categories subcategorise in the same way as these adjectives – like the present tense verb subcategorises in ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words But it is obvious that in such cases the stem is not used as a preposition, but as a ...

A Typology of Word Categories 3.5 Functional Categories It is now time we turned our attention to the second main subdivision of ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words This distinction is traditionally called a Case distinction, which has to do with the ...

A Typology of Word Categories non-finite element to are to be analysed as of the same category. While this makes perfect sense f ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words Given that inflection is a functional category and takes no part in thematic structur ...

A Typology of Word Categories about. The second sentence is, however, ambiguous. It could either mean that the speaker was looki ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words (157) a there arrived some letters b there appeared many djinn c *there sat all footb ...

A Typology of Word Categories (164) a he’s not the him she married b I met a him the other day Like the inflections, the lexical ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words (169) a so very boring b quite as fragile c as extremely frustrating This would sugge ...

A Typology of Word Categories Although the accompanying element to most does not look much like a clause, its interpretation is ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words Although the complement of complementisers (the part of the expression that follows i ...

A Typology of Word Categories stands for finite and [–Fin] for non-finite. Thus, we have the following classification of complem ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words inflections, we categorise aspectuals as [–N, +V] elements, but simply leave the [±F] ...

A Typology of Word Categories nouns in (190) are called measure or group nouns and they differ from other nouns in terms of thei ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words Finally, we turn to non-thematic non-functional prepositions. There are elements whic ...