Basic English Syntax with Exercises

Chapter 1  Grammatical Foundations: Words

1.1 Language, Grammar and Linguistic Theory

1.2   Word Categories

        1.2.1 The Lexicon

        1.2.2 Categories

        1.2.3 Morphological criteria for determining category

        1.2.4 Distribution

1.3    A Typology of Word Categories

        1.3.1 Categorial features

        1.3.2 Predicates and arguments

        1.3.3 Grammatical aspects of meaning

        1.3.4 The Thematic categories

                    1.3.4.1 Verbs

                    1.3.4.2 Nouns

                    1.3.4.3 Adjectives

                    1.3.4.4 Prepositions

        1.3.5 Functional Categories

                    1.3.5.1 Inflections

                    1.3.5.2 Determiners

                    1.3.5.3 Degree Adverbs

                    1.3.5.4 Complementisers

        1.3.6 Functionally underspecified categories

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