LING 1000 Lecture 14: Topic 3.3
17 Apr 2017
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Topic 3. 3: syntactic categories: morphological lexical categories include word as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, these are open class words because we can keep adding to their inventory. Adjective phrases: adjective phrases (ap) consist of an adjective, and they may be followed by a noun, and preceded by an adverb, examples, alex walked the cute puppy, this is good, my extremely expensive books. Adverbial phrases: adverbial phrases (advp) contain an adverb, which may come before an adjective, as shown above, or may follow another adverb, it may also come before or after a verb. Adverbs usually say something about how, or where, or when an action took place. They modify verbs, and adjectives: examples, alex walked the very cute puppy, this is highly accurate, my extremely expensive books, she often sleeps / she sleeps often. Prepositional phrases (pp) contain a preposition, followed by a np.
