Languages Analysis (Subject) / Unit 2 (Lesson)

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• Constituents can get 2 different labels: Syntax classes: Noun/Noun Phrase, Preposition/Prepositional Phrase, Verb/Verb Phrase, Adjective/Adjective Phrase, etc. Syntax function: Subject, Predicate, Subject Complement , Head, Modifier, etc.   A subject complement is the adjective, noun, or pronoun that follows a linking verb.
• What is the main difference between syntactic class and syntactic function? The syntactic class is determined by the grammatical properties a constituent shares with other forms and the syntactic function is the role the constituent plays in a construction
• Which of the following are commonly used constituency tests? (3) movement and reconstruction question fragment one word substitution
• What is the best definition of a syntactic constituent? (1) a word or string of words that behaves as a syntatical unit in a larger construction
• Which belong to the group of closed classes? (4) Subordinators Prepositions Determinatives Coordinators
• How many constituents are there in the following sentence? Our vicar likes fast cars. 8
• Which of the following is the most reliable criterion for the classification of parts of speech? syntactic
• Which are typically used to determine syntactic class? (3) syntactic semantic morphological
• What is the best definition of immediate constituents? those constituents that immediately make up a construction
• Which belong to the group of open classes? Adverbs Verbs Adjectives Nouns
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• Which terms used in modern grammar? Adjective Preposition Subordinator Noun Verb Determinative Coordinator Adverb
• Which is the best definition of the term concord? The agreement between the Subject noun/Noun Phrase and the main verb.
• Which are used forms of representing the constituent structure of a sentence? bracketing tree diagrams
• Which are often used synonymous to the term ‘syntactic category’? word class syntactic class part of speech
• Which of the following terms can be used to describe the underlined noun in this sentence: (minutes) I’ve finished typing up the minutes of our last conference. pluralia tantum
• Which are examples of countable common nouns? cat book fork
• Which are examples of non-countable common nouns? flour f. butter
• Which are examples of countable common nouns? game leaf cup
• Which are examples of non-countable common nouns? money sugar
• What does a closed class mean? a closed class (or closed word class) is a word class to which no new items can normally be added, and that usually contains a relatively small number of items. Typical closed classes found in many languages are pronouns determiners preposition conjunctionen

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