Phrase structure 1: determination
13 important questions on Phrase structure 1: determination
Talk to me, what are central determiners
-definite article
-indefinite article
-demonstrative det= this book that crook
-possessive det= my book
-interrogative det= what which whose goon?
- indefinite det= every book, any book , some books
-relative det= david, whose cock i blended
What about complex determiners?
e.g. A few, a little
sometimes you can like internally expand the determiner so: a very few mistakes were made.
Aight now let's zoom in on the inclusive quantifiers, the woke quantifiers.
in terms of word class these be indefinite determiners
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What is the difference between specifying and classifying genitive?
the girl's face= her face
meaning is prototypically of possession
specifying genitive
specifies the reference to the head noun
this construction is usually what type of X
classifying genitives denote a property of the noun.
e.g.
the girl's old face= specifying
this old women's magazine= classifying
Subtypes of classifying genitive
e.g. Ladis' gloves
genitive of measure
e.g. Two hours' delay
Talk to me about descriptive classiying genitives
summer's day
you can test that these mf are part of the determiner by doing this
you can kinda check by seeing if it is a fixed idiomatic expression
a summer's day vs a spring's day XXX
also peep like product names and things that generally have to do with humans and animals
e.j spider's web
driver's licence
What's the deal with measure classifying genetives?
hour's delay
Subtypes of specifying genetive
genitive of time: Yesterday's disaster
genitive of place: London's great bridge
genitive of origin: Shakespeare's plays
attributive genitive: Jane's happiness
subjective genitive: jane's departure
objective genitive: jane's replacement
Let's zoom in on the possessive genitive
Kathy's fat uncle
Attributive, subjective and objective genitive
attributive: subject argument becomes argument of a copula construction becomes determiner in the nominalization
e.g. Jane's happiness
SUbjective genitive: subject argument of a verbal construction becomes determiner in the nominalization
e.g. My father's persmission
dog what is this?
objective genitive
object argument of a verbal construction is determiner in the nominalization
eg. Within a stone's throw
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Talk to me about the independent genitive
can be the case in two contexts
1. General type: John's attempt was as good as kim's
2 after a copula: All this is Kim's
also special construction with double genitive
a friend of kim's
additionally there is ellipsis because you can say my cock is bigger than laura's (cock)
Conventional use of the independent genitive
this construction does not need a head noun
Tell me a wee bit about the double genitive construction
construction where either ind genitive or possessive pronoun occurs in an of-phrase
called oblique genitive
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