LINGUIST 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Lexical Verb, Adpositional Phrase, Thai Baht

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Magda Stroinska

Document Summary

If a sentence includes a lexical verb/main verb, then have, be or do in that sentence is likely to be an auxiliary, helping out the lexical verb. Week 3 online module: video module 2c constituents: everytime we draw 2/+ branches to a node, claiming that node corresponds to a unit, all the daughters of that node behave together as a unit. What can i substitute: np -> pronoun: it, they, them, vp -> do (did, does), do so, ap-> another ap, like happy. Pp -> then, there: ex: the students saw their friends, the students did. Evidence for constituency substitution/replacement: replace string of words with something else: movement: move string of words somewhere else in sentence coordination: use and/or/but to conjoin string of words with another phrase of the same category. Your sister might enjoy that new show and should watch it but might not or could hate it. You sister might enjoy a trip to niagara falls.