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2022 - Study Notes - Chapters 2-3-4
2022 - Study Notes - Chapters 2-3-4
2022 - Study Notes - Chapters 2-3-4
We went through this part quite quickly in class, so for revision, please complete the summary
below (some words may be used more than once):
-2 most common ICs in a sentence: ____ predicate _____ and _____ subject ______. The
relation between them is _____ two-way dependency.
- The head is the ____ centre _______ ___________ of a phrase. There is only ____ one
_______ head in one phrase. The __ category _________ of the head determines the
___ category ________ of the phrase.
CHAPTER 3: CATEGORIES
1. First, make a distinction between lexcial categories and phrasal categories. Lexical categories
are N, V, A, Adv, P. What are their corresponding phrasal categories?
If you want to know more about each of these categories, read more in the book, pp. 45-55. We
won’t explain these categories in details in class but focus on the phrase markers of AP, AdvP
and PP.
2. Now let’s try to draw some basic phrase markers for these phrases: You start at the top with a
phrasal category. This node, if possible, branches into its immediate constituents. Each
constituent is then labeled with either a lexcial category (if it can’t be analyzed anymore) or a
phrasal category that can be further analyzed.
- What are the immediate constituents of a co-ordinate phrase? Are there any conditions that
must be met to have a grammatical co-ordinate phrase?
Look at examples [31] – [37] (p.57). Pick out the grammatical co-ordinate phrases and then
draw the phrase markers for these phrases. P57
There are 6 sub-categories of lexical verbs. Now please read pp.68-77 and take notes of these
sub-categories: p77 & p78
- how to represent basic VPs with phrase markers for each sub-category.