LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Answer Ellipsis, Two Trees Of Valinor, Part Of Speech

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1001
• Professor: Anne Laubstein

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Is a group of words a constituent: pro-substitution, movement, cleft test, answer ellipsis. If so, what kind is it: pseudo cleft, passive/active, coordination, make a tree from this rule: s > np vp, make rules from this tree: Using the tests: prove that my book is not a constituent in the following sentence using i) the pro substitution test and ii) the cleft test: Questions and constituents answer ellipsis: the kids ate the cake. What did the kids eat: the man shot the burglar with the gun. Pp placement: pp modifies verb or noun: modifiers are sisters of what they modify. The boy saw the girl with the binoculars. The girl ate the cake in the fridge. The man struck the burglar with the bat. The girl shot the boy with the arrow: john put np[the book]np pp[on the shelf]pp, john ate the food (with the fork, john poked the girl (with the fork)