Wednesday, January 13, 2016

For students of General Linguistics 2016

In chapter five, you should be able to recognize and discuss the following terms:

  1. Sentence vs. clause vs. phrase vs. word
  2. Subject vs. predicate
  3. NP vs. VP
  4. Count vs. non-count
  5. Plurals: regular, archaic, borrowed, same form, no-singular
  6. Personal pronouns in English: person, subjunctive, objective, reflexive, possessive, indefinite
  7. Lexical, auxiliary and modal verbs
  8. Open classes vs. closed classes
  9. Aspect in English
  10. Main vs. subordinate clauses