LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adverbial Phrase, Noun Phrase, Lewis Carroll

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

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Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in you heart adverb. prep. adjective. noun. verb. prep. prep noun verb. adverb. verb. The advantage of being disorganized is always having surprising discoveries. T"was brillig, and the slithy toves adj. adj. noun. Did gyre and gamble in the wabe; verb. verb. noun. Structured phrases: the door, through the door, walked through the door noun / preposition / verb. Xp > any part of speech that can begin a phrase (np = noun phrase, vp = verb phrase, etc. ) Heads: obligatory element of a phrase (nucleus, 4 main types of heads in english, nouns (noun phrases, verbs (verb phrases, adjectives (adjective phrases, prepositions (prepositional phrases) A noun or a group of words that can replace a noun in a sentence is a np example: The boy with the blond hair is my friend. The boy who is talking to sarah is my friend.