Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Auxiliary Verb, George Clooney, Inflectional Phrase

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1027A/B
• Professor: Kinga Pozniak

Document Summary

Syntax: component of grammar that enables us to combine words into sentences, grammatical sentences conform to the rules of syntax. *ungrammatical sentences violate rules of syntax (use * to indicate ungrammatical forms) This happened in the past week: functional, abstract meaning, grammatical function. Determiner (det): the, a, these, it, no (no books) Auxiliary verb (aux): helping verbs: will, would, should, be, have, do. Degree word (deg) too, so, very, quite, more. Noun phrases (np: noun phrase (np): contains a noun, common - dog, plate, anger, freedom, proper george clooney, queen elizabeth, pronoun - she, it, i, tests for nps, substitution by a pronoun (she, it) I saw a big black dog and mary saw it, too: co-ordination. I saw a big black dog and a small grey cat: movement. A big black dog is what i saw. Not *a big is black dog what i saw.