110-2 [四技二] W2-Mar 3, 2022-Assignments-Syntax-02
- Zi-chen Edgar Meng
- Feb 9, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 7, 2022
[Quiz]
10Mar2022 - Syntax Quiz 01
[Assignment]
1 複習寒假範圍
2 複習W1
3 畫I ate a burger. 的NP, VP, NP & 整句的樹狀圖 (帶來班上）
4. 畫She did her homework. 的NP, VP, NP (帶來班上）
5. 上傳寒假＆W1-W2筆記 (MS TEAMS)
[Guided questions]
What is a constituent?
What are constituency tests? (What are they for?)
What is 'specifier'?
What is 'head'?
What is 'complement'?
What is difference between SVO and SOV languages in terms of their respective tree structures? (p.91)
[Supplemental reading]
- 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, 1967)
- 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/demonstratives: this, that, these, those
(3) quantifiers: every, some, many, most, few, all, each, any, less, fewer, no
(4) cardinal numerals: one, two, three, four, etc.
(5) possessive case: my, your, his, her, its, our, their
(6) Some wh-question words: which, whose
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