LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: A.D. Vision, Lee Ranaldo, Cleft Sentence
Document Summary
A sentence is made up of phrases not words. lexical categories. He ran. the predicate can only be a verb. In predicate, verb is obligatory, others are optional. He: np. is running: vp. auxiliary is optional. Is eating a pie: vp, a pie: np. Vp= auxiliary+verb+np. (when count verb as a verb phrase, the verb cannot be counted again. ) Verbs can be transitive or intransitive, intransitive verb do not need a object after the verb. e. g. transitive verb: she taught, he met, what and who need object to complete the sentence. By monday, i will have finished this project. I:subject, np. will have finished this project by monday: predicate, vp. (vp=aux+aux+v+np+pp) this project: noun phrase. by monday:prep phrase. A consituent is a group of words that functions as a unit. Movement test. (slide 8: clefting. (would be on exam. ) e. g. john broke [the window. ]
