LINB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Complementizer, Determiner, Preposition And Postposition
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A continuation of chapter 2: functional categories. Determiner, pronoun, tense, conjunction, complementizer, negation: determiners (d): Always occur together with a noun or a category that replaces a noun, but never alone. 1 determiner per noun: subcategories, articles the, a, an, demonstrative determiners this, that, these, those, yon, possessive determiners my, your, his, her, our, their, quantifiers and indefinite every, some, each, any, none, wh-words. A class of words that function as substitutes. Difference between determiner and pronouns is that one requires a noun. Can"t have more then one complementizer per clause. ex. that, if, whether, for. If you conjugate the verb and the for disappears then it is a complementizer: tense (t, tense suffixes. Ed: auxiliaries have, has, had, am, are, is, was, were, do, modals will, shall, should, can, could, non-finite tense marker to, negation not. Many books vs. much books, many sincerity vs. much sincerity: d-deletion on plural nouns.