GrammarofEnglishIntroduction.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * Grammar of English:Introduction Eng 314 25 August 2014 Goals Be able to determine the category of each word in a text. Be able to find the major phrases in a sentence and their functions (again in any text). Be able to comment on a text (including your own writing): Are there many embeddings, many PPs and AdvPs, etc. Be able to justify your answers in a grammatically sophisticated way. Note This course is unlike many other English classes. You dont have to read a lot but you need to practice! For that reason, you need to come to class as well and there will be lots of assessment. Possible Honors’ Projects History of Tree diagramming Order of adjectives (more next time) Comparing the syntax of English and ?? by looking at a translation Measuring function words: forensic linguistics Create a Grammar Game Some topics; verbs Categories: Parts of speech Particles: Sentence structure Chapter 1What do we know? Linguistic: Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics/Pragmatics Phonology (1) a nice person, a treasure (2) an object, an artist (3) ovrite, cham (4) a union, a university (5) a house, a hospital (6) an uncle an hour The – the … Morphology kleptocracy, cyberspace, antidisestablishmentarianisms floccinaucinihilipilification Syntax (9) Drunk Gets Ten Months In Cello Case. (10) Eye drops off shelf. (11) British left waffles on Falkland Islands. Teacher strikes idle kids. (13) Speaker A: I just saw someone carrying a monkey and an elephant go into the circus. Speaker B: Wow, that someone must be pretty strong. (14) Flying planes can be dangerous. Hierarchical rather than linear More on this after the ppt Chomsky’s questions What is the knowledge of language? How do we acquire it (as kids)? How did the species get to have it? Universal Grammar + Input (Scottish English, Western Navajo, etc) = I-language E-language Our innate language faculty (or Universal Grammar) enables us to create a set of