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Forming sentences (in generative syntax)
- Word order
- VSO (somewhat common), e.g., Irish
- SVO (very common), e.g., English
- SOV (very common), e.g., Japanese
- VOS (rare) , e.g., Malagasy
- OVS (very rare) , e.g., Hixkarayana
- OSV (very rare) , e.g., Apurinã
- Verb types
- tense (past, present)
- aspect (progressive, perfect), (future)
- transitivity
- transitive verbs
- intransitive verbs
- ergative verbs (ergativity)
- causative alternation
- Event types (Vendler, 1957)
- state verbs
- activity verbs
- accomplish verbs
- achievement verbs

- X-bar schema
- [Symbols]
---> consist of
* ungrammatical
?/?? marginally grammatical
% stigmatized variety
# semantically anomalous
[Determiners of English] (adapted from Carnie, 2013)
(1) articles: the, a, an
(2) deictic articles: this, that, these, those, yon
(3) quantifiers: every, some, many, most, few, all, each, any, less, fewer, no
(4) cardinal numerals: one, two, three, four, etc.
(5) possessive pronouns: my, your, his, her, its, our, their
(6) Some wh-question words: which, whose
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