2011 Descriptive Grammar of English Marcin CinciaÅa - Serwis ...
2011 Descriptive Grammar of English Marcin CinciaÅa - Serwis ...
2011 Descriptive Grammar of English Marcin CinciaÅa - Serwis ...
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PHRASES<br />
Constituents and constituency<br />
1. What is a constituent<br />
2. Tests for constituency:<br />
• Pronominalisation<br />
• Do-so test<br />
• Elypsis<br />
• Passive<br />
• Topicalization<br />
• Questions<br />
• Pseudo-cleft formation<br />
• Cleft test<br />
• Adverb Placement<br />
• Sentence fragment test<br />
Phrase Structure<br />
1. Head/pre-head/post/head<br />
2. Endocentricity<br />
3. Complements vs. adjuncts<br />
Noun Phrases<br />
1. Modifiers within NPs<br />
• Determiners<br />
• Pre-/post-determiners<br />
• Adjectives and their order<br />
• Nouns<br />
• Adverbs<br />
• PPs<br />
• Relative/appositive clauses<br />
2. The relation between meaning and position<br />
A man accused <strong>of</strong> the crime vs. *an accused <strong>of</strong> the crime man<br />
Someone intelligent vs. an intelligent person<br />
Verb Phrases<br />
EXERCISES<br />
1. Grammatical systems within the VP<br />
• Tense<br />
• Aspect<br />
• Voice<br />
• Modality, types <strong>of</strong> modality<br />
• Polarity<br />
2. The Structure <strong>of</strong> VPs<br />
• Complements and Adjuncts<br />
1. Draw Phrase markers <strong>of</strong> the following phrases:<br />
• Your reply to my letter<br />
• A student <strong>of</strong> <strong>English</strong> with long hair<br />
• A French <strong>English</strong> teacher<br />
• The fight after the match<br />
• Her dislike <strong>of</strong> men with big egos<br />
• The house in the wood near the park<br />
• Wrote the letter in the morning<br />
• Hit the man with an umbrella<br />
2. Label the functional projections<br />
• The fence may have been being painted<br />
• He may have been painting the fence
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