PDF The structure of noun phrase and verb phrase in English, Trinh Ngoc Thanh

The structure of noun phrase and verb phrase in English, Trinh Ngoc Thanh

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I: SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE
1.1 THE LINEAR PERSPECTIVE: A GENERATIVE CONSTRUCTION................13
1.2 THE HIERARCHICAL PERSPECTIVE: A MORPHOLOGICAL-SYNTACTIC
CONSTRUCTION ..................................................................................15
1.3 THE HIERARCHICAL PERSPECTIVE: A PARTIAL CONSTRUCTION........16
1.4 COMPONENTS OF SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE................................................18
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................20
CHAPTER 2: NOUN PHRASE STRUCTURE
2.1 HEADEDNESS: SELECTION & OBLIGATION..................................................22
2.1.1 SELECTION FOR HEADEDNESS IN NP...................................................22
2.1.2 THE OBLIGATORY CONSTITUENCY IN NP: INDEPENDENCY IN
FUNCTION..........................................................................................25
Replacement test .....................................................................................................26
Extension Test..........................................................................................................27
2.1.3 THE OBLIGATORY CONSTITUENCY IN NP: DEPENDENCY IN
STRUCTURE........................................................................................29
Movement Test: Wh- Word Question......................................................................29
Movement Test: Passive Voice and It-Cleft Test.....................................................31
2.2 HEADEDNESS: THE PRINCIPLE OF DISTRIBUTION.....................................35
2.2.1 BINOMINAL STRUCTURE.................................................................. 35
Binominal Structure [NP1+of+NP2]...............................................................35
Binominal Structure [NP Head - NP Mod]...........................................................37
2.2.2 THE ADJECTIVE NOUN PHRASE ..................................................... 38
2.2.3 RECURSIVE PRINCIPLES OF NOUN PHRASE AT X-BAR LEVELS.......42
2.3 CASE STUDIES ....................................................................................................45
2.3.1 THE ACQUISITION OF DETERMINER PHRASE .............................. 45
2.3.2 STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY IN RELATIVE CLAUSE ......................... 47
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2.4 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS..................................................................................48
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................49
CHAPTER 3: VERB PHRASE STRUCTURE
3.1 SEMANTICITY: TYPES OF INFORMATION.....................................................53
3.1.1 S-SELECTION AND C-SELECTION.................................................... 53
3.1.2 LINKING PROBLEMS......................................................................... 54
1st scenario: Proposition and the corresponding syntactic category.................54
2nd scenario: Grammatical relations of semantic roles...................................55
3.2 SEMANTICITY: THE SYSTEM OF TENSE-ASPECT-MOOD.............................57
3.2.1 TENSE .................................................................................................57
Present tense.................................................................................................. 58
Past tense....................................................................................................... 59
Present perfect tense....................................................................................... 60
Future tense............................................................................................................60
3.2.2 ASPECT AND MOOD.......................................................................... 60
Aspect and aspectual coercion.........................................................................60
Aspectual coercion by time-span adverbials....................................................62
Aspectual coercion by time-point adverbials...................................................63
Mood and modality................................................................................................64
3.3 COMPLEX VERB CONSTRUCTIONS................................................................65
3.3.1 VERB-PREPOSITION CONSTRUCTION............................................ 65
Maximal projection.........................................................................................65
Case-theoretical implication............................................................................66
3.3.2 DOUBLE OBJECTS VERB CONSTRUCTIONS................................... 67
3.3.3 GERUNDIVE NOMINALS................................................................... 68
3.3.4 INFINITIVES...............................................................................................70
3.4 DISCUSSION QUESTION.....................................................................................71
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................71
CHAPTER 4: CONCLUSION
REFERENCES ..............................................................................................................73