Instructor: Adriana Todea atodea@yahoo.com Office hours: Friday 2-3 p.m.‚ Alpha Centre room Introduction to Generative Grammar Course 9: Binding theory Outline1 WEEK 13 How do personal‚ possessive‚ reflexive pronouns and reciprocals acquire reference? (Johni and Peterj are top students) Johni thinks that hei‚j is intelligent. Johni thinks him*i‚j intelligent. The studentsk believed each otherk to be the best. This is not only a semantic issue‚ but also a syntactic issue … solved by Binding
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Elbaum‚ Sandra. 2001. Grammar in Context 3rd ed. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers. Grammar in Context by Sandra N. Elbaum is an interesting approach to teaching grammar. Elbaum encases grammar in a much more useful mantle by using real life examples of U.S. culture and history. Grammar is an important part of language‚ but it is technical‚ abstract‚ and boring. In order for a text to engage a student it must be interesting and relevant to their lives. I think Grammar in Context could be effective
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ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR · Subjects and predicates Large doses of alcohol act as a depressant. doses - A simple subject is the single noun or pronoun which identifies what the sentence is about or produces the action of the sentence act - The simple predicate is the main sentence verb · Types of nouns A noun identifies a person‚ place‚ thing‚ or idea. Nouns are introduced with definite or indefinite articles‚ or with a limiting word (like a number‚ a demonstrative pronoun‚ or a relative pronoun)
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conjunction. **Past can also function as a noun or an adjective. ***Since can also function as a subordinate conjunction Should I end a sentence with a preposition? The so-called "rule" about never ending a sentence with a preposition comes from Latin grammar. In Latin‚ the word order of a sentence didn’t matter; subjects and verbs and direct objects could appear in any sequence. However‚ the placement of prepositions was important. Latin sentences could quickly become confusing if the preposition does
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Transformational grammar – is a linguistic theory also known as transformational-generative grammar. It arose in the 1950’s and considers the most important task of descriptive linguistics to be the construction of a transformational grammar. The theory was founded by the American linguist N. Chomsky; other adherents have included R. Lees‚ C. Fillmore‚ E. Klima‚ E. Bach‚ J. Katz‚ J. Fodor‚ M. Bierwisch‚ and R. Rüzicka. In the late 1960’s the concept of deep structure was reexamined owing to a growing
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Grammar Test Revision Unit 1- Sentence Types A simple sentence has one subject and one predicate (verb) Example: My brother is not a very good basketball player. An independent clause is one which can stand-alone it also has a subject and a predicate. Example: We walk home from school. Building on from this you can make a complex sentence made from an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. A dependent clause in one which cannot stand alone although it to has a subject and
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.COM Failure Marketing and the .COM Bust Why Marketing? The .COM bust‚ the .COM “bubble”‚ the failure of companies that “dot-bombed”‚ happened more than a decade ago‚ but the lessons learned are important for the present tech sector. Many investors argue that we are in a bubble now‚ with companies like Instagram selling for $1 billion and hundreds of others getting million dollar valuations. Looking back‚ it’s clear from a marketing perspective current aspects of the products and websites themselves
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i Research on Prescriptive Grammar and Its Comparison with Descriptive Grammar ii Abstract In English linguistics‚ there are two approaches which are opposite to each other theoretically: prescriptive grammar and descriptive grammar. These two grammars were born in different historical conditions‚ and the application rules involved in has been still under the dispute through the development of English linguistics. It is significant to study the development trend and application in English
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producing of utterance. The units of language form hierarchal levels: Level of the language: 1.phonemic; 2.morphemic; 3.lexemic; 4.phrasymic;5.proposemic; 6.super-proposemic. The unit of level: 1.phoneme; 2.morpheme 3.word form 4.phrasyme(phrase) 5.proposeme(sentence) 6.texteme(text) Meaning and function: 1.No meaning; differential function; 2.Abstract meaning; significative function; 3.Nominative; 4.Nominative/poly-nominative; 5.predication; 6.Forms a textual unity. Every lover level takes into
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Conclusion: All aspects drawn together in a brief‚ concise summary. Consistent with findings‚ no new material introduced but may finish with some implications or a comment on the future of the issue. Presentation: Quality of expression‚ grammar‚ spelling‚ punctuation and proofreading. Format and layout in professional manner – including assessment cover sheet. 60% 10% 10% Referencing: Use of author‐date (APA) referencing system in a consistent and correct manner in the essay itself
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