Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Theoretical Aspects of Movement morphological Case distinctions? There are two things that we might say. One is that Case positi ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory understandable. That (87c) should be ungrammatical is interesting as here we have ...

Theoretical Aspects of Movement possibility that all the grammatical principles involved with Case and its assignment are bundle ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory These representations indicate that the positions marked [DP e] are present in th ...

Theoretical Aspects of Movement As this would alter the lexical nature of the verb, we conclude that it would be impossible. Yet ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory as the moved element. The main way in which the trace differs from the moved elem ...

Theoretical Aspects of Movement There is one more point we need to make in connection with positions involved in movement. Above ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory (103) S PP S on the shelf 1 DP VP Petra V' V PP put t 1 Similarly we might propos ...

Theoretical Aspects of Movement (105) a it seems [Fiona favours dancing] b Fiona seems [to favour dancing] Given the near synony ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory empty it is possible for the moved subject to move into each one in turn, moving ...

Test your knowledge 6 Explain the difference between restrictions imposed by a head on complements and those imposed on specifie ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory (7) X' (8) XP X' X' X YP YP X Y' (9) XP (10) XP ZP X' X' X XP Y' (11) XP (12) XP ...

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Exercise 3 Decide what the syntactic head of the following compounds is and where it is in the structure. ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory (6) a Who do you want to meet? b Who do you want to help? (7) a He took a shower. ...

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Exercise 9 Identify the arguments in the following sentences and state what thematic role they are assigne ...

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Exercise 12 Observe the contrast between the sentences in each pair. Explain wh ...

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Exercise 17 Why are these sentences ill-formed? (1) a *Penny promised. b *The boy slept a car. c *Garry ga ...

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Chapter 4 The Determiner Phrase The time has come to start applying what we have introduced in the previous three chapters to th ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase This is not a good argument, however, as it is not wise to conclude about the syntactic proper ...