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1.3. Course design and goals 7
1.4. The intended audience 7
1.5. A Danish version 7
1.6. Why study grammar? 8
1.7. Knowing grammar vs. knowing about grammar 8
Section 3: A CASE STUDY: tagquestions
in English and Danish 8
Section 4: About VISL
4,1. Background 11
4. 2. Some basic principles (P0 – P8) 11
4.2.1, Segmentation and classification (P0) 11
4.2.2. Four basic types of constituent (P1) 11
4.2.3. Two labels – form and function (P2) 12
4.2.4. VISL’s “cafeteria” of word classes with fixed color scheme
(P3) 12
4.2.4.1. The blue/green spectrum (for
noun-related word classes) 12
4.2.4.2. The red/orange spectrum
(for verb-related word classes)
13
4.2.4.3. Other colors 13
4.2.5. The syntactic structure of groups (P4) 14
4.2.6. The syntactic structure of paratagms (P5) 15
4.2.7. The syntactic structure of clauses (P6) 15
4.2.8, Dealing with discontinuous constituents (P7) 15
4.2.9. One system for all VISL languages (P8) 16
4. 3. Syntactic trees 16
4.3.1. About nodes 16
4.3.2. About branches 16
4.3.3. About leaves 16
4.3.4. Relationships among constituents 16
4.3.5. Ill-formed trees 16
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John M. Dienhart