English Syntax: An Introduction

English syntax : An Introduction Jong-Bok Kim and Peter Sells March 2, 2007. CENTER FOR THE STUDY. OF LANGUAGE. AND INFORMATION. Contents 1 Some Basic Properties of English syntax 1. Some Remarks on the Essence of Human Language 1. How We Discover Rules 4. Why Do We Study syntax and What Is It Good for? 7. Exercises 9. 2 From Words to Major Phrase Types 11. Introduction 11. Lexical Categories 11. Determining the Lexical Categories 11. Content vs. function words 16. Grammar with Lexical Categories 17. Phrasal Categories 19. Phrase Structure Rules 22. NP: Noun Phrase 22. VP: Verb Phrase 23. AP: Adjective Phrase 25. AdvP: Adverb Phrase 25. PP: Preposition Phrase 26. Grammar with Phrases 27. Exercises 32. 3 Syntactic Forms, Grammatical Functions, and Semantic Roles 35. Introduction 35. Grammatical Functions 36.

English Syntax: An Introduction Jong-Bok Kim and Peter Sells March 2, 2007 CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION

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