LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Preposition And Postposition
17 Apr 2017
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As was mentioned earlier, every phrase has a head; we can then add elements to the head. For example, the np bananas in a) is headed by the noun bananas, which projects the np. Then the np merges with the v to become the vp buy bananas in b). We can also add a pp to the np as in c). On page 93, your textbook shows a structure tree with various elements including all the constituents we talked about in the previous topic. The child put the puppy in the garden. First, we have a sentence s, which is the entire string of words. This sentence consists of a noun phrase np and a verb phrase vp. All sentences have a tense, that we call aux. The np before the verb consists of a det (the) and a n (child).
