Applied English for Linguistics
Summer 2005
Syntax
Terms for reading pp. 96-98
But first ..... review from Tuesday
a specifier makes something more specific = more clear, more limited, a smaller group
- general = students
- more specific = these students
- "specifier" = these
- general = study
- more specific = often study
- "specifier" = often
- general = seriously
- more specific = very seriously
- "specifier" = very
a complement helps to complete something = make it whole, finish it, make it 100%
The students ran + to the library.
"to the library" is a complement
On the pages 96, 97 & 98
| verb | noun | adjective | adverb |
| --- | syntax | syntactic | syntactically |
| phrase | phrase | phrasal | --- |
| --- | grammar | grammatical | grammatically |
| complete | complement | --- | --- |
| --- | preposition | prepositional | --- |
| specify | specifier | specific | specifically |
| substitute | substitution | substitute | --- |
| move | movement | movement | --- |
| coordinate | coordination | coordinated | --- |
| merge | merge, merger | merge | --- |
| --- | schema | schematic | schematically |
grammatical =
a test =
There are three tests to check to see if a group of words is a phrase = a syntactic unit.
1. Substitution test
2. Movement test
3. Coordination test