B Words and Sentences

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Decks in this class (28)

Intro to Syntax
What differentiates written langu...,
What word order does english foll...,
What percentage of the world s la...
23  cards
Thematic Roles of Nouns
Name all 9 thematic roles 1,
What do thematic roles show 2,
What is an agent 3
11  cards
Nouns
What are nouns generally 1,
What is a noun phrase 2,
What are exceptions to general no...
12  cards
Types of Categories
What are the four types of catego...,
Define an open class 2,
Define a closed class 3
6  cards
Identifying Word Classes
What are the two different types ...,
What does distributional evidence...,
What does morphological evidence ...
3  cards
Verbs
Give 5 distributional qualities o...,
Give some morphological qualities...,
Explain the three types of verbs ...
21  cards
Adjectives
Give a morphological property of ...,
What are the two basic functions ...,
What are predicative adjectives 3
6  cards
Prepositions
What is the only english post pos...,
What information do prepositions ...,
Give some examples of prepositions 3
5  cards
Heads and Dependents
What is a head 1,
How does the word class of a head...,
Explain the distribution of a hea...
22  cards
Complements and Adjuncts
What is a complement 1,
What are complements and adjuncts...,
What are adjuncts 3
10  cards
Adverbs
What are adverbs 1,
Give a morphological quality of a...,
How do adverbs differ from adject...
3  cards
Clauses
Give an example of a simple sente...,
What makes up a simple sentence 2,
What are the two components of a ...
8  cards
Auxiliaries
What are the two types of auxilia...,
How are auxiliaries related to fi...,
What is an auxiliary give examples 3
13  cards
Subordination
What is subordination 1,
What is a matrix verb give exampl...,
What is a complementiser give exa...
19  cards
Constituency
What is a constituent 1,
What are the two types of ambigui...,
What is semantic ambiguity give a...
14  cards
Tree Diagrams
What is a node 1,
What is a branch 2,
Explain immediate domination 3
6  cards
Identifying Grammatical Relations
What are the three strategies for...,
What are grammatical relationships 2,
Explain constituent order 3
19  cards
Changing Grammatical Relations
Name two ways of changing grammat...,
What is passivisation 2,
Explain passivisation in terms of...
12  cards
Obliques
What is an oblique 1,
How are obliques different to adj...,
Give n example of an oblique and ...
5  cards
Secondary Objects
What is a secondary object 1,
How are secondary objects differe...
2  cards
Tense
What information does tense give 1,
What categories are used to expre...,
How is tense lexically expressed 3
12  cards
Aspect
What information does aspect give 1,
What questions can aspect answer 2,
What are the two types of aspect 3
9  cards
Mood and Modality
What are mood and modality relate...,
Define mood 2,
What are the two types of mood 3
14  cards
Speech Acts and Sentence Types
What is a speech act 1,
What are the 3 most common speech...,
How does somali indicate speech a...
14  cards
Imperatives
What do imperatives do 1,
Give some morphosyntactic propert...,
How does swahili mark imperatives 3
3  cards
Negation
How does negation relate to sente...,
How can negation vary 2,
Give some negation marking strate...
3  cards
Interrogatives
What are the two types of interro...,
How are polar questions structured 2,
How are content questions structu...
12  cards
Relative Clauses
What is a relative clause 1,
What are the 3 elements in englis...,
Give a property of a relative cla...
12  cards

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