GiU Topic 4 - Terminology

Noun phrase

Proper noun

Common Nouns

Pronouns =?

8 Subcategories

Personal Pronoun

Nominative (subject) case
Accusative (object) case

anaphoric

anaphoric

example sentence

Possessive P.

Reflexive P.

Reciprocal P.

Demonstrative

Interrogative

Relative

Indefinite

Pre-head dependent

Central Determiners
7

Articles

Demonstrative determinatives:

Possessive pronouns

Genitive phrases

Quantifying determinatives

Quantifying NPs

Interrogative/relative determinatives

Postdeterminers

2

Cardinal numerals

Quantifiers
what?

Definiteness/Specificness

Peripheral Dependent

apposition?

Relative clause
types

Restrictive (defining) relative clause

-Non-restrictive (non-defining) relative

Reduced Relative clause

Sentential relative clause

Zero relative clause

Complex NPs

Countable (count) Nouns

Uncountable (mass) nouns

Irregular plural

exceptions

Invariably singular nouns

Invariably plural nouns

+ 3 subcategories

Collective Nouns

NP structure

general

Category and Function

NP structure Function

2 functions of relative elements

table restrictive vs. non-restrictive relative clause

using relative elements

VP

Modal vs. primary Auxiliary

Primary Aux. vs. Modal Aux.

You should have been watching her.
Celebrities are often being treated unfairly by the media.
Judith might have broken the plate.
The same could have been said of you.

Non-Progressive vs. Progressive

3 effects of the progressive