Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Adpositional Phrase, Red Riding, Deixis
2 Jun 2020
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Analysis of sentence structure, how words are put together into longer chunks, phrases and sentences. Agrammatical- *love him i: * marks an agrammatical sentence. Word categories revisited: categories combined in particular ways, content words: n, v, a, p, adv, functional categories: det, deg, aux, con, colourless green ideas sleep furiously- makes complete grammatical sense although nonsense, every sentence needs a verb. The head is the most important, you can have just john which would be the head. I give up f this shit this is taking hours. Bottom-up: builds constituents and merges them into a sentence. Top-down: coulee be faster, separates the subject from the predicate early on. In the followingg sentence, identify a pp: the boy with the hat was reading a book: the boy, with the hat, was reading a book. Transitive verbs takes a subject and one object. Ditransitive verbs takes a subject and two objects.
