What are deixes? How many types are there? Give examples.

Deixis is reference by means of an expression whose interpretation is relative to the

extralinguistic context of the utterance, such as: who is speaking; the time or place of
speaking; the gestures of the speaker; the current location in the discourse.
There are 3 types: person deixis: I am referring to a different person than you are.
-temporal (time) deixis: "John is arriving tomorrow" -spatial (place) deixis: The spot where I
am standing is here and, from my point of view, where you are standing is there.
What is the function of some in Some man wants to talk with you. -Stressed some
Define stative and resultive complements of copula verbs. Give exampes.
It reflectes a state. E.g. She called him an idiot. – Stative
Subject complement follow a change of state copula verb e.g. marry paints her room pink- R
When do transitive verbs occur w/o an overt direct object. Give examples.
Trans verbs w/o overt DO. When the object Is clearly understood by the context and there is
no need for it. e.g. Mario is reading.
Define the light transitive verbs. Give examples
Light trans. Verbs provide little information and depend on rest of predicate to provide
meaning. E.g. Lana did her homework.
How can determiners float? -All his employees quit. – His employees all quit.
-Both my sisters have been to Paris. – My sisters have both been to Paris.
Indicate grammatically incorrect and correct them
Linda set her coat on the couch.(correct) Ginny set down on a beach towel (sat).
The lumberjack falls the three (fells). She lies her clothes carelessly (lays).
She lies on the bed in silence (correct). A bricklayer lays bricks (correct).
The towel lays on the sand. (lies). The tree falls (correct). The money say there all day(good)
Define the types of copula verbs.
The kids ran willd – restrictive
We are growing old – change of someone/something
The children fell asleep – restrictive Your mom appears upset- stative
The wind sounds loud- sensory Those buildings are ugly- stative
Is the article in the sentence specific or nonspecific
a.spec. b.nonspec. c.spec. d.nonspec. e.spec. f.spec.
a.As it was very expensive. B.The teenage girl had no idea. C.you have a beautiful
daughter.D. I am scared even if I see a dog. E. john has just discovered a rather flatworm. F.
she found a disk of the Bulgarian opera.
Five semantic genitive types. Possesive, subject, object, part/whole, measure