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(2)  a.  Your elder sister I can\u2019t stand.  b. * Your elder I can\u2019t stand sister .  c. * Elder sister I can\u2019t stand your .  d. * Sister I can\u2019t stand your elder .  e. * Your I can\u2019t stand elder sister .  Generalization:  '''Only phrasal constituents (i.e. whole phrases) can undergo Preposing.'''  '''Prof. Gert Webelhuth''...\""},{"logid":2274,"ns":0,"title":"Practical Grammar Evidence for Syntactic Constituents","pageid":443,"logpage":443,"revid":5631,"params":{},"type":"create","action":"create","user":"Gert","timestamp":"2025-10-15T07:29:44Z","comment":"Created page with \"Evidence for Syntactic Constituents  (Based on Radford (1988), Chapter 2)  Prof. Gert Webelhuth  '''Prof. Gert Webelhuth'''  '''Evidence for Syntactic Constituents[.5cm]''' '''(Based on Radford (1988), Chapter 2)'''  '''1 / 1'''   ----   Preposing  (1)  I cant stand your elder sister .  (2)  a.  Your elder sister I can\u2019t stand.  b. * Your elder I can\u2019t stand sister .  c. * Elder sister I can\u2019t stand your .  d. * Sister I can\u2019t stand your elder .  e. * Your I can...\""},{"logid":2273,"ns":0,"title":"Practical Grammar SubjClauses","pageid":442,"logpage":442,"revid":5609,"params":{},"type":"create","action":"create","user":"Gert","timestamp":"2025-07-25T06:31:04Z","comment":"Created page with \"== Subject Clauses ==  ''That''- and ''whether''-clauses can also act as subjects:  1. That Lilly disappeared sucks<br> 2. Whether Lilly disappeared is unknown  Of course, the complementizers are still bound to their clause types:  3. *Whether Lilly disappeared sucks<br>  <span style=\"color: blue>Exercise 8.2</span>  * Go to <span class=\"newwin\">[https://xlfg.labri.fr/ https://xlfg.labri.fr/]</span>. <!-- * Open your latest grammar or start with a copy of Grammar5-.Ex8.1...\""},{"logid":2272,"ns":0,"title":"Practical Grammar CompClauses","pageid":441,"logpage":441,"revid":5608,"params":{},"type":"create","action":"create","user":"Gert","timestamp":"2025-07-25T06:29:58Z","comment":"Created page with \"<font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> <font size=\"3\">  == Complement Clauses ==  <span style=\"color: blue>Exercise 9 </span>  * Add the words in the following sentences:  (1) Fred thinks that Lilly disappeared<br> (2) Fred enquires whether Lilly disappeared  Implement the following:  # ''that'' and ''whether'' belong to the part of speech C (= complementizer).  # Complementizers head CPs. # CPs take two daughers: a C and an IP. The two daughters are co-heads of the...\""},{"logid":2271,"ns":0,"title":"Practical Grammar PPs","pageid":440,"logpage":440,"revid":5607,"params":{},"type":"create","action":"create","user":"Gert","timestamp":"2025-07-25T06:27:46Z","comment":"Created page with \"<font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> <font size=\"3\">  So far, the arguments of verbs have all been determiner phrases (= DPs) like names, pronouns, or Det-N (''the cat'') configurations. But verbs can also take complements of other parts of speech. This week, we will encounter a new case: namely, complements which are prepositional phrases (= PPs).  == Prepositional Phrases ==  We want our grammar to generate sentences like the following:  (1) The cat sat under the...\""},{"logid":2270,"ns":0,"title":"Practical Grammar 7 old","pageid":439,"logpage":439,"revid":5586,"params":{},"type":"create","action":"create","user":"Gert","timestamp":"2025-07-25T04:58:35Z","comment":"Created page with \"<span style=\"color: red>'''Note: this page has changed! It provides a different treatment of PPs than the textbook!'''</style>  == Prepositional Phrases ==  The textbook contains a c-structure rule for VP like the following:   1. VP \u2192 V          PP         \u2191=\u2193   (\u2191 (\u2193 PCASE)) = \u2193  == Thematic Roles ==  So far, we have completely ignored semantics. But xlfg is capable of representing the assignment of thematic roles to the arguments of predicates. The textbook...\""}]}}