LING477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Syntactic Category, Adpositional Phrase, Adjective Phrase

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING477
• Professor: Yaping Tsai

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Combine 1 and 2 by making 2 into a relative clause. Combine 1 and 2 by making 1 into a relative clause. The boy [who ___ is a dancer] helped me. The boy [the boy helped me] is a dancer. The boy [who ___ helped me] is a dancer. Words have categories such as n, v, p, adj, etc. Now we have a phrasal category: np, headed by noun. Other phrasal categories: vp, pp, adjpm, etc. A clause contains a subject and a predicate expression. T: modals, auxiliaries, present tense, past tense, infinitival to. In addition to np, the subject of a clause can be a clause. Noun phrase : [ np1 a big red rose] Noun phrase: [ nps the sound [of music]] [np1 the sound [ pp of [ music ]]] A noun phrase must minimally contain the head noun.