Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Why the Noun is not the Head of the DP There are syntactic reasons, then, for considering these phrases to be headed by the prep ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase (11) NP NP N' N' AP N' AP N' permanent AP N' noticeable AP N' noticeable N permanent N stain s ...

Why the Noun is not the Head of the DP This same problem dogs the assumption that determiners are specifiers: the specifier posi ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase (18) VP PP AP V' P' A' V P A fly out short These phrases can be found in sentences such as: (1 ...

Why the Noun is not the Head of the DP we to analyse a phrase consisting of just a pronoun as this would appear to be an NP that ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase Of course, the assumption of an empty category must have other motivations than just their nec ...

The Internal Structure of the DP This suggests that there are two different empty determiners: one which is definite and the oth ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase (35) singular plural mass proper complement complement complement complement a man a men a san ...

The Internal Structure of the DP However, the problem in viewing the possessor as the specifier of the DP is that this would pre ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase The contracted auxiliary attaches itself to the end of the subject in much the same way that t ...

The Internal Structure of the DP determiner has no uncontracted form and so we never see it occupying the D position. We thus ha ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase pronounced as ‘’s’. As far as I know there is no explanation as to why this should be and so i ...

Multiple Determiners (57) a this is not the right answer b *not the right answer is 42 (58) a only a fool would think that b *I ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase (63) DP D' D DP all D' D DP the D' D DP many disappointments Unfortunately however this fails ...

Multiple Determiners determiner, the specifier position of the NP complement. Thus, we have the following structure: (66) DP D' ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase Of course, as we saw previously, caution must be exercised in proposing such empty heads to en ...

Multiple Determiners (72) a some of the dancers b a group of the dancers These two constructions are interpreted in very similar ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase (76) DP D' D NP all N' N PP e (of) the people With this analysis then we are able to accommoda ...

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Exercise 1 Determine the internal structure of the following DPs by giving their tree ...

Chapter 4 - The Determiner Phrase (3) DP D' D^0 NP the N' N' AP N' PP new N^0 PP from London students of Mathematics
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