Summary Linguistics 2: The Syntax of English - Chapters 1-6 - Quiz 2

Summary

Linguistics 2
Analysing Sentences
Chapters 1-6

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Index 1
Chapter 1 3
What is structure? 3
Tree Diagrams 3
Phrases 3
Establishing constituents 4
‘Phrase’ and ‘constituent’ 4
Chapter 2 5
Subject and predicate 5
Subject 5
Predicate 5
Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase 5
Noun Phrase 5
Verb Phrase 5
Dependency and function 5
Head 5
Modifier 5
Complement 6
Recursive phrases 6
Chapter 3 7
Distribution 7
Categories 7
Lexical categories 7
Phrasal categories 7
Nouns 7
Proper nouns 7
Common nouns 7
Pronouns 8
Lexical and phrasal categories 8
Noun and Noun phrase 8
Verb and Verb phrase 8
Adjective Phrases and Adverb Phrases 8
Representing Adjective phrases 8
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases 9
Coordinate Phrases 9
Chapter 4 10
First look at verbs 10


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, Lexical verbs 10
Auxiliary verbs 10
Complements of lexical verbs 10
Two types of complements to a verb 10
Objects 10
Predicatives 10
Six sub-categories of lexical verbs 11
Transitive verbs 11
Intransitive verbs 11
Ditransitive verbs 11
Intensive 12
Complex transitive 12
Prepositional 12
Six sub-categories of lexical verbs table 13
Chapter 5 14
Adverbials 14
Adjunct adverbials 14
Disjunct adverbials (XP) 14
Conjunct adverbials (XP) 14
Phrasal Verbs 15
Ellipsis 15
Chapter 6 - Part 1 16
Lexical and auxiliary verbs 16
Contrast 16
Tense and Time 16
Subject-verb agreement in complex VPs 16
English has no future tense 16
Tense for first in the sequence 16
Modals must be tensed 16
Distributional division of English verbs 17
Modals 17
Perfect ‘HAVE’ 17
Progressive ‘BE’ 18
‘HAVE’ and ‘BE’ 18
Passive ‘BE’ 18
The Syntax of VPs containing Auxiliary verbs 18
Stacked VPs 18
Auxiliary Verb Phrases and Adverbials 19




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