GF Russian Resource Library

• from common nouns by determiners: ”this man”
The Noun module also defines the construction of common nouns. The most
frequent ways are
• lexical noun items: ”man”
• adjectival modification: ”old man”
• relative clause modification: ”man who sleeps”
• application of relational nouns: ”successor of the number”
Verb. How to construct VPs. The main mechanism is verbs with their arguments,
for instance,
• one-place verbs: ”walks”
• two-place verbs: ”loves Mary”
• three-place verbs: ”gives her a kiss”
• sentence-complement verbs: ”says that it is cold”
• VP-complement verbs: ”wants to give her a kiss”
A special verb is the copula, ”be” in English but not even realized by a verb in
all languages. A copula can take different kinds of complement:
• an adjectival phrase: ”(John is) old”
• an adverb: ”(John is) here”
• a noun phrase: ”(John is) a man”
Adjective. How to constuct APs. The main ways are
• positive forms of adjectives: ”old”
• comparative forms with object of comparison: ”older than John”
Adverb. How to construct Advs. The main ways are
• from adjectives: ”slowly”
• as prepositional phrases: ”in the car”
2.4 Modules and their names
The resource modules are named after the kind of phrases that are constructed in
them, and they can be roughly classified by the ”level” or ”size” of expressions that
are formed in them:
• Larger than sentence: Text, Phrase
• Same level as sentence: Sentence, Question, Relative
• Parts of sentence: Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
• Cross-cut (coordination): Conjunction
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