Sentence Structure: A Comprehensive Guide to Clauses and Modalities
Sentence Structure: Clauses and Modalities
CD: SN, personal pronoun, a + SN: With predicative verbs.
CI: Personal pronoun, a + SN: With linking verbs and predicates.
C Reg: Prep + NP
C Ag: For + NP: Predicative verbs, passive voice. Subj if it goes active.
CC: S adv, SN.
AT: S adj, SN: Linking verbs.
C PVO: S adj, NP: Predicative verbs.
Classification of Simple Sentences
Active, passive, attribute, predicate, transitive, intransitive.
Sentence Modalities
Declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative,
Read MoreSubordinate Clauses: Types and Examples
1. Similarities and Differences Between Juxtaposition and Coordination
Juxtaposition and coordination are two methods of connecting propositions. Juxtaposed propositions have no explicit link. For example: “Yegua, maturity, etc.” Coordinated propositions, on the other hand, are connected by a nexus. For example: “Juan eats, etc.” Coordinated clauses can be copulative, disjunctive, distributive, or explanatory.
2. Types of Adverbial Subordinate Clauses
There are several types of adverbial subordinate
Read MoreSentence Structure, Catalan Dialects, and Literary Masters
Understanding Sentence Structure
Mussitar: whisper / Flatter: flatter, soap (figuratively) / Rebequeries: quirks, rarities / Disabled: damaged, corrupt / Enlletgir: make ugly / Nasty: rude.
A sentence is a linguistic unit with complete sense that relates a subject with a predicate. When a sentence has only one verb in a personal form, the sentence is called simple. If it has more than one verb, it is called a compound sentence. A compound sentence consists of propositions, which are simple sentences
Read MorePhonetics and Phonology: Sounds, Phonemes, Morphology
The Phonic Level
Phonetics is the discipline of linguistics that studies speech sounds. It analyzes their physical nature. There are three areas within phonetics:
- Articulatory Phonetics: Deals with how sound is produced in the speech apparatus.
- Auditory Phonetics: Studies how sounds spread through the air and are perceived by the auditory system.
Phonology
Phonology studies the mental or abstract aspects of sounds in language. The minimum unit of study in phonetics is the sound, while in phonology, it
Read MoreLexicon, Functional Categories, and Clause Structure
Topic 1: A Review of the Lexicon and Constituent Structure
A lexical entry is composed of categorial information, a subcategorization frame, argument structure, and a theta-grid.
Category
There are two types of categorial information:
- Lexical categories: N (noun), V (verb), A (adjective), P (preposition), and Adv (adverb).
a. They have no __ car, conscience, friends… (N)
b. *They have no __ went (V), older (A), conscientiously (Adv)…
a. They can __ stay, leave, hide, starve, die… (V)
b. *They can
Understanding Clause Elements and Embedding
NOUN PHRASE, ADJECTIVE PHRASE, PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE.
When we talk of sensitive elements, we are thinking of the way different kinds of formal phrases FUNCTION, how the same kind of phrase can express different elements.
Noun Phrases
Noun phrases can be: subject, object, object of preposition, and complement.
Adjective Phrases
Adjective phrases can be: complement.
Prepositional Phrases
Prepositional phrases can be: part of a noun phrase, an adverbial.
Semantic Functions of Clause Elements
Subject
- AGENTIVE: