LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Circumfix, Inflection, Word Formation
12 Oct 2017
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Sentence: a structural unit that consists of one or more clauses. Clause: a structural unit that contains a subject and predicate. Structure of and english predicate: consists of a lexical verb together with any immediate dependents and/or preceding auxiliaries. S: the focused constituent preceding the predicate. My best friend"s mother is starting a new job next week. The woman down the street visited her sister recently. Wanda"s older sister will be meeting me in seattle next week. The boy read a book: paraphrase: the boy read something. John started a new job recently: paraphrase: john started something (at some point) A verb dependent that corresponds to the person/thing that is v"ed. A verb dependent that corresponds to the recipient in an event involving transfer, or the beneficiary for whom something in intended. A verb dependent that describes a direct object.
