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- 07:46, 15 October 2025 Evidence for Constituents (hist | edit) [3,106 bytes] Gert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span style="color:#cc0000">Evidence for Syntactic Constituents</span> <span style="color:#cc0000">(Based on Radford (1988), Chapter 2)</span> Prof. Gert Webelhuth <span style="color:#f2f2f2">'''Prof. Gert Webelhuth'''</span> <span style="color:#8f0000">'''Evidence for Syntactic Constituents[.5cm]'''</span> <span style="color:#8f0000">'''(Based on Radford (1988), Chapter 2)'''</span> <span style="color:#7a0000">'''1 / 1'''</span> ---- <span style="color:#cc0000"...")
- 07:31, 15 October 2025 Evidence for Syntactic Constituents (hist | edit) [3,745 bytes] Gert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Evidence for Syntactic Constituents[.5cm]''' '''(Based on Radford (1988), Chapter 2)''' Preposing (1) I cant stand your elder sister . (2) a. Your elder sister I can’t stand. b. * Your elder I can’t stand sister . c. * Elder sister I can’t stand your . d. * Sister I can’t stand your elder . e. * Your I can’t stand elder sister . Generalization: '''Only phrasal constituents (i.e. whole phrases) can undergo Preposing.''' '''Prof. Gert Webelhuth''...")
- 07:29, 15 October 2025 Practical Grammar Evidence for Syntactic Constituents (hist | edit) [4,068 bytes] Gert (talk | contribs) (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’t stand. b. * Your elder I can’t stand sister . c. * Elder sister I can’t stand your . d. * Sister I can’t stand your elder . e. * Your I can...")
- 06:31, 25 July 2025 Practical Grammar SubjClauses (hist | edit) [3,399 bytes] Gert (talk | contribs) (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...")
- 06:29, 25 July 2025 Practical Grammar CompClauses (hist | edit) [1,143 bytes] Gert (talk | contribs) (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...")
- 06:27, 25 July 2025 Practical Grammar PPs (hist | edit) [2,720 bytes] Gert (talk | contribs) (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...")
- 04:58, 25 July 2025 Practical Grammar 7 old (hist | edit) [1,812 bytes] Gert (talk | contribs) (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 → V PP ↑=↓ (↑ (↓ PCASE)) = ↓ == 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...")