Basic English Grammar with Exercises

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Exercise 7 An important difference between natural languages and artificial languages is that natural lang ...

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Chapter 5 Verb Phrases In this chapter we are going to take a detailed look at the structure of the phrase that is in some ways ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (2) a the plane arrived at Heathrow b Lorraine lives in London c the rock eroded In each of these sente ...

Event Structure and Aspect some other point, the time at which a sentence is uttered, for example. With aspect time is important ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases 2 Verb Types Obviously, the Verb Phrase revolves around the head verb, the head being the central eleme ...

Verb Types (10) a there arrived a letter b there departed a train c there spread a disease d there sat a table in the corner e e ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases These objects are clearly strongly related to the verb themselves and are called cognate objects. Unacc ...

Verb Types The position to which the subject moves is typically a nominative position and so we might assume that the movement h ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases argument structure as the main difference here is to do with the number of arguments. The other example ...

Verb Types The thematic relationships are straightforward. In the lower VP we have a situation fairly similar to the VP in the p ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases Note that the complex event structure is mirrored by the complex VP structure. There are two sub-events ...

Verb Types (39) a I broke the window b she closed the door c he shattered the glass d they sank the ship e the police exploded t ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (45) VP DP V' the butler V DP opened the door Unfortunately this is an entirely different set of -role ...

Verb Types (48) a Mike made the ball bounce b Mike bounced the ball How come these structures mean virtually the same thing, esp ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases role. As there is no such visible predicate which can do such things in (48b) our conclusion is that th ...

Verb Types (54) a elmozdította a dobozt away-moved-3.s. the box-acc ‘he moved the box’ b a doboz elmozdult ‘the box moved’ (55) ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (58) vP DP v' () v VP gur 1 v DP V' -ít a labdát V t 1 Thus the main verb stem moves to the causative ...

Verb Types construction in their ‘transitive’ use. Indeed, ergative verbs themselves are identical to unaccusatives, even in cau ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases subject position to get Case. This has led some to the conclusion that the there somehow has a role in ...