Syntax: A Generative Introduction
Andrew Carnie
Language: English
Pages: 544
ISBN: 0470655313
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Andrew Carnie’s bestselling textbook on syntax has guided thousands of students through the discipline of theoretical syntax; retaining its popularity due to its combination of straightforward language, comprehensive coverage, and numerous exercises. In this third edition, topics have been updated, new exercises added, and the online resources have been expanded.
- Supported by expanded online student and instructor resources, including extra chapters on HPSG, LFG and time-saving materials for lecturers, including problem sets, PowerPoint slides, and an instructors’ manual
- Features new chapters on ellipsis, auxiliaries, and non-configurational languages
- Covers topics including phrase structure, the lexicon, Case theory, movement, covert movement, locality conditions, VP shells, and control
- Accompanied by a new optional workbook, available separately, of sample problem sets which are designed to give students greater experience of analyzing syntactic structure
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Criticizing them. You are invited to be skeptical and critical of them if you do the Challenge Problem sets. Let’s start with premise (i). Language is a productive system. That is, you can produce and understand sentences you have never heard before. For example, I can practically guarantee that you have never heard the following sentence: 18) The dancing chorus-line of elephants broke my television set. The magic of syntax is that it can generate forms that have never been produced before.
Compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had entrusted to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her.
Identify all the adjectives and adverbs. GPS4. PREPOSITIONS [Application of Skills; Basic] Using the passage above in question 1, identify all the prepositions. 13 GPS5. PART OF SPEECH 1 [Application of Skills; Basic] Identify the main parts of speech (i.e., Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives/Adverbs, and Prepositions) in the following sentences. Treat hyphenated words as single words: a) The old rusty pot-belly stove has been replaced. b) The red-haired assistant put the vital documents through the new.
We’ll be able to give a precise description. Second, it turns out that there are many syntactic phenomena that make explicit reference to the geometry of trees. One of the most obvious of these refers to anaphors. Anaphors can only appear in certain positions in the geometry of the tree. The distribution of anaphors and other types of nouns is the focus of the next chapter. 1. THE PARTS OF A TREE Let’s start with a very abstract tree drawing: 1) M N D E O F H I J This tree would be.
The definition: 34) [N clown] or some node dominating [N clown] (in this case NP) sisterprecedes [V kissed] or some node dominating [V kissed] (in this case VP). This means that [N clown] precedes [V kissed], because NP precedes VP. Note that precedence holds over all nodes, not just terminals. So [N clown] also precedes [NP the doberman]. The second clause of the definition also allows us to explain an important restriction on syntactic trees: You cannot allow branches to cross. Trees like (35).