LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Part Of Speech, Nonpast Tense, Inflection
26 Jan 2015
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Question: what other phrases can you see in theses sentences: suspect that ocelot is on steroids this can be replaced by do . For example: i do and you do too: a wonderful pet. A simpler blueprint: we are going to assume that phrases have a flat structure: (specifier) xhead (complement, xp, ex: a (specifier) book of poetry (complement) A new book of poetry with a red cover: the head is the nucleus of a phrase. If your head is lexical, your specifier is functional category. The simplest phrases: ex: every librarian likes books, ex: all animals eat, ex: cheryl let the ocelot in, these are phrases that consist of nothing but their heads, np-n-books, vp-v-eat, pp-p-in. Lexical categories are always found in their own phrase. There will never be a lexical category (n, v, adj, p) in your tree that is not the head of a phrase.
