LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Subcategorization, Preposition And Postposition, 3E
12 Nov 2016
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Quiz 5 will now be due wednesday, november 9th. Final paper will be based on an analysis of your own speech. * i saw the guy at the store: ungrammatical, you have to say where. This suggests that whenever you have a preposition, it must always be followed by a np. * she on the roof sang: ungrammatical. *the on the roof girl sang: ungrammatical. This tells us that we will implement the following new rule: np -> (det)(adj)* n (pp) Complete grammar rules implemented in the class so far: You may have any number of them in between a noun. *incredibly students read the chapter: ungrammatical. Some words have requirements on what type of sentence they can be in. For example, put requires a object, and object and a location. I put the water bottle on the table. There is a subtle difference of the things that the subject is doing in the following three sentences: the dog ran.
