CSCI 587 - Lecture 3 Linguistic Overview Continued

• Open words revisited:
  • nouns: hippy
  • adjectives: fab
  • adverbs:
  • verbs:
• pronouns
  • person, gender, case
  • Subject Form figure 2.2
  • Possesives figure 2.3
  • Object Form figure 2.4
• Mood of sentences figure 2.5
• Verbs: the 5 base forms figure 2.6
• Verbs
  • auxillary verbs: be, do, have
  • modal verbs: will, can, could, should
    Modal and auxillary verbs general take a VP as complement
  • main verbs
• Verb Tenses: the tense of a verb indicates when the action occurs figure 2.7
• Progressive Tenses: figure 2.7
• Transitive vs Intransitive
• Passive form
• direct and indirect objects
• Particles
• Clausal complements
• Prepositional phrase complements
• Common verb complement structures figure 2.11
• Complex noun phrases: with a S or VP as complement
• Adjectival phrases
• Adverbial phrases

Readings

Sections 2.2-2.6