Important Flashcards
General adjectives, quantifying adjectives, participle-based adjectives
Categories of pre-modifiers
The sleeping baby, a discarded theory, the faded jeans
Participle-based adjective as premodifiers
Which category are PPs, adjective phrases, relative clauses in?
Post-modifiers
What is one replacement test evidence for?
The number of N’ nodes in a NP.
Changing the number (sg/pl) of the verb helps us to identify…
The head N of the NP subject.
How to find a NP?
Substitute with “it” or other pronoun.
Use for declarative
Asserting, claiming
How to make a declarative sentence interrogative?
Apply SAI
The process of WH-moving a phrase containing more material than just a WH-word
Pied-piping
Declarative and interrogative subclauses can only be…
Complements or subjects
That encodes… and whether encodes…
A declarative clause-type.
An interrogative clause-type.
Subclauses that are modifiers
Relative and adverbial clauses
The steps to identify the functions of subclauses
- How many finite verbs are in the main clause?
- Is there a that-clause with unrealised ‘that’ (Ø)?
- Coordination?
- Does a subclause function as a relative clause (e.g. where they tell you).
- Subject extraposition.
- Does a subclause function as a…
- A direct object? Sister to…?
- A subject complement (sister to…)?
- An adverbial (e.g. when you get older,).