Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Grammatical Functions In (49) the situation is exactly like the subject of the finite clause and the expletive subject must be p ...

Chapter 2 - Grammatical Foundations: Structure However, it might be claimed that these are special cases (the nature of their st ...

Grammatical Functions (60) a we all saw Wendy b Wendy was seen – This process is restricted to object and does not happen to oth ...

Chapter 2 - Grammatical Foundations: Structure The clausal complement of certain verbs have some properties in common with objec ...

Testing for Structure Restricting ourselves to the discussion of the standard dialect, we find the two objects also differ in te ...

Chapter 2 - Grammatical Foundations: Structure the bull is a constituent, specifically a DP as, as argued above, pronouns are de ...

Testing for Structure (85) a [under his mitre] disappeared b the bishop was hiding [under his mitre] (85b) is ungrammatical if w ...

Chapter 2 - Grammatical Foundations: Structure (89) S DP VP The NP was VP bishop S hiding DP PP that just left a gun under DP hi ...

Testing for Structure As we can see the pronoun for APs is so, though as it is restricted to predicative APs and it also plays a ...

Chapter 2 - Grammatical Foundations: Structure Obviously, such movement processes determine aspects of the distribution of an el ...

Testing for Structure (103) a where did they find the gun (A = under the bishops mitre) b how did the judge find the bishop (A= ...

Chapter 2 - Grammatical Foundations: Structure This sentence is no longer ambiguous between the two meanings. This is because we ...

Testing for Structure string of words, the bank manager with the gun with the DP the security guard, the ambiguity is resolved: ...

Chapter 2 - Grammatical Foundations: Structure This might sound contradictory, but it is not. The fact is that phrases can consi ...

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Exercise 1 List the rewrite rules used in generating the following structure: S DP VP ...

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Chapter 3 Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory 1 X-bar Theory 1.1 Rewrite rules and some terminology We will start by looking at s ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory Whether it precedes or follows the complement, the head is the central element of ...

X-bar Theory Note that the X' and the phrase share the same categorial status (X) and so if X' is P' XP will be PP, etc. As X' i ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory same as an adverb. For example, even when PPs are used adverbially, they still ha ...