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As we have had occasion to notice m
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FIGURE SEVEN: PHONOLOGICAL AND PHON
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In addition to specific phonotactic
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2.5 THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF PHONOLO
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This issue is important enough to r
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Clearly, a rule like (36) will be n
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2.5.3 THIRD SET OF OBSERVATIONS Sum
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To these forms, various stress rule
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2.8 SUMMARY OF RULE FORMALISM SYMBO
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NASALS: SUMMARY OF ENGLISH SOUNDS A
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weird feared veered cared cord meat
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3. Transcribe the following words i
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6. In each of the following, supply
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. [k], [õ], [h], [g] Choice: Class
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11. In Classical Latin, nouns have
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APPENDIX A: ANSWERS TO TRANSCRIPTIO
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2. music physics psychic sonic heli
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endevous residue peekaboo honeydew
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5. a. Palatalize all alveolar stops
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1. Data. APPENDIX C: SLASH-DASH NOT
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APPENDIX E: MORPHOLOGY PROBLEM Cons
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(1) Root /æg/ ‘do’: APPENDIX G
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CHAPTER THREE: SYNTAX 3.1 LINGUISTI
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pronoun. We know that is correct be
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Given these examples, it appears th
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(27) a. *My niece hit the busses st
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(34) a. John has the Spanish histor
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Given the reality of the chunk in p
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If AUX is part of the VERB PHRASE,
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(51) a. Generally the passengers mu
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A categories like VP (Verb Phrase)
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Additional facts about tense that n
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3.5 DETERMINERS AND THE INTERNAL ST
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The grammar we are developing must
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noun like John or child can only be
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indicating that the change is justi
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3.6 THE ENDOCENTRICITY CONSTRAINT P
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3.7 THE LEXICON In order to generat
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y quantifier nouns and POS can only
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center are due to Copernicus (1473-
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analysis ignores the fact that NP
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Note that each bracket on the left
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The data that we have observed and
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Given these structures, we can make
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The problem with the structures (14
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. He decided on the boat. (on the b
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With this revision, we can diagram
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With all the above revisions, it is
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Summarizing, we have the following
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The feature [+VBL] specifies those
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(history in teacher of history and
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(185) a. b. (186) a. b. The structu
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(191) a. *The school show play here
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The representations in (194) and (1
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Observe again that, by convention,
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FIGURE EIGHT: FEATURES FOR ENGLISH
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As the above diagrams show, the mos
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(212) a. the Spanish Spanish teache
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The existence of V1 (direct object
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3.13 TRANSFORMATIONAL GENERATIVE GR
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(230) This produces the sentence (2
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discussion, we have been trying to
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In (241), the empty N3 most immedia
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(250) THE EMPTY CATEGORY CONDITION
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Consider now a sentence like (268),
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3.16 THE ENGLISH AUXILIARY 3.16.1 T
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(277) TNS + V PST + hunt .)))0)))hu
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(284) An negative (not) can modify
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(294) The PROG and PASS can occur,
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(300) a. The lady was imposing (PRO
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(312) The order must be V1 level el
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(321) a. All of the men could have
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3.16.4 SUMMARY OF NOMINALS AND VERB
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(338) Future Tense: he will intervi
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(342) Past Tense + Passive Voice: t
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(344) Conditional Tense + Perfectiv
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(346) Conditional Tense + Perfectiv
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EXERCISES FOR CHAPTER THREE 1. Draw
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Provide disambiguating diagrams for
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APPENDIX A: ANSWERS TO EXERCISES 1.
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h. The boy could take the garbage o
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4. All of the following sentences h
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(2) = The man will look the street
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7. Draw RG diagrams for the followi
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h. The boy could take the garbage o
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c. They will probably read the assi
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. Ron left the house messy. (1) = T
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d. The prisoner of war spoke foolis
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APPENDIX B: LATIN SYNTAX Latin verb
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APPENDIX C: SUMMARY OF TREE STRUCTU
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7. Sentence with an intransitive (J
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4.1 PRELIMINARY REMARKS CHAPTER FOU
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(3) a. We were shooting the breeze.
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. The baby is too young to stand up
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The role of a noun phrase in relati
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e. If all three cases occur, either
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Unfortunately, there is even furthe
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In ancient Greek, which has no abla
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(40) Latin (same grammatical case,
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(46) Finnish (same grammatical case
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4.12 POSITIONAL THEMATIC RELATIONS
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To account for the differences betw
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-DSJ -CNJ +DSJ +CNJ -DSJ +CNJ +DSJ
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(56) a. He turned into a street. [+
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The definitions for the major nonpo
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(72) AFFERENTIAL (AFR): The quasi-p
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(80) a. ATTRIBUTIVE: He is black. b
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(89) a. BIRD4: robin A robin is a b
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cannot be derived from the (literal
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(97) [PST2]: live in luxury 291 a.
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(101) a. +PST POSITIONAL INVOLVING
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As a further example, consider the
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EXERCISES FOR CHAPTER FOUR In many
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4. What other tests than those in E
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10. The following uses of the ABLAT
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2. RG SEMANTICS: a. [+POSITIONAL] [
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CHAPTER FIVE: LANGUAGE, PEOPLE, AND
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(5) all those many young philosophe
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number is, interestingly, the lower
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(12) I know that (CPL) that (DET) m
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Given the above data, the RG analys
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(25) a. John called a former girl f
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In V3, complementizers are also a B
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(32) a. If a barrier is a free resi
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Given the Ø-analysis, we say that
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Summarizing, we have the following
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educes all phrases and clauses to v
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(60) a. C-command: a category α C-
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(69) a. Bob told himself that Ann l
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e. Bob told Ann that Sue liked her.
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(74) The behavior of floating quant
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Also: N3 w is the subject of both w
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EXERCISES FOR CHAPTER FIVE 1. Accou
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SUPPLEMENT ONE: THE NATURE OF HUMAN
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B. The GRAMMATICAL REALIZATION PROB
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(2) The differentiation of word cla
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II. THEORIES OF LANGUAGE. A. Myths.
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III. The theory of LINGUISTIC UNIVE
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B. FORMAL UNIVERSALS: stipulations
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2. MORPHOLOGY. a. (1) [t]: kicked,
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D. The generality of linguistics un
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3. Ellipsis. a. Linguistic. (1) Joh
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5. Complexity. a. Linguistic. (1) P
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6. Incongruity. a. Linguistic. (1)
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E. Linguistic universals and human
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IV. TYPES OF LANGUAGES. A. Classifi
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. PARAPHRASE (one meaning, more the
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B. Innovations in the STRUCTURE of
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C. Innovations in the FUNCTIONING o
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SUPPLEMENT TWO: GRAMMAR REVIEW SYNT
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CONJUNCTION: A conjunction is a wor
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SOME INFLECTIONAL CATEGORIES PERSON
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SUPPLEMENT THREE (PART II): TYPOLOG
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ALTAIC: SUPPLEMENT FOUR (PART II):
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SUPPLEMENT FIVE (PART II): AMERICAN
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SUPPLEMENT FIVE (PART IV): LANGUAGE
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SUPPLEMENT SIX: LANGUAGES AND LANGU
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SUPPLEMENT SEVEN: SOME ALPHABETS RO
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SUPPLEMENT EIGHT: SAMPLE PARSES FRO
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(3) COPULATIVE (PREDICATE COMPLEMEN
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(5) INTRANSITIVE WITH A MANNER ADVE
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(7) TRANSITIVE (DIRECT OBJECT + MAN
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(9) fred left the country happy a.
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(10) TRANSITIVE (DIRECT OBJECT + IN
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(12) TRANSITIVE (DOUBLE OBJECT): sh
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(14) TRANSITIVE (SENTENTIAL COMPLEM
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(16) TRANSITIVE (SENTENTIAL COMPLEM
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(17) TRANSITIVE (SENTENTIAL COMPLEM
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(19) TRANSITIVE (SENTENTIAL COMPLEM
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(21) TRANSITIVE (DIRECT OBJECT + S
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(23) TRANSITIVE (DIRECT OBJECT + S
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(25) TRANSITIVE (DIRECT OBJECT + S
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(27) TRANSITIVE (PREPOSITIONAL PHRA
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(29) TRANSITIVE (PREPOSITIONAL PHRA
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(31) TRANSITIVE (DIRECT OBJECT + PA
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(33) TRANSITIVE (COMPLEMENTARY INFI
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(35) TRANSITIVE (PREPOSITIONAL OBJE
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SUPPLEMENT NINE: SAMPLE PARSES FROM
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(4) All those many nosey house gues
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SUPPLEMENT TEN: SAMPLE PARSES FROM
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(3) Saturn’s rings are believed t
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(2) Passive Participles (-en) and D
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(4) Summary of Verbal Structures. a
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(6) TRANSITIVE (DIRECT OBJECT + PAS
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(8) AMBIGUITY: i heard the tenor si
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INDEX Abstract Noun ...............
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Denotation ........................
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Low ...............................
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Phrase Structure Filter ...........
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Trace .............................
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NOTES 453
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NOTES 455
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NOTES 457