LING 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mass Noun, Linking Verb, The Figurine
15 Jan 2016
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The old clock on the corner table is very valuable. Np: the old clock on the corner table. Languages with more informative morphological variation tend to allow more. Ling 2p10: basic affirmative, interrogative, and passive structures + substitutions. Relatively fixed nature of order of word order in english related to relatively uninformative morphology flexible word order. Noun headword in a np: children like to : prepositional phrases. *some grammarians identify pronouns as potential headwords for np"s. Np: can include pp"s that themselves include other np"s: forms of verb phrase. Phrasal main verb (verb + particle): i picked up tennis as a child. Auxiliary verb + main verb: i have played tennis for years. Main verb + infinitive: i like to play tennis. Main verb + gerund: i like playing tennis. Decapua: a verb + any auxiliaries + negative particle not (if used: adjective and adverb phrases.
