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A Germanic language, which originated from England, and is considered the leading language in international communication. For non-linguistic questions about the English language, visit one of our sister sites English Language & Usage or English Language Learners.
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Words that can belong to more than one category
To my knowledge, if the category varies according to the syntactic context projected in, i.e. an adjective in X & a noun in Y, there won't be a stable or fixed categoy status that would label it. Othe …
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My teacher wants me to disambiguate the sentence by separate tree diagrams
Yes you're right.
(1) The scared monster saw (using one eye) a very lovely dog.
(2) The scared monster saw a very lovely dog (who has one eye).
Normally we do not answer assignments as this goes …
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Is there a theory of word polysemy? Case of snake versus serpent
I'm aware of a huge project conducted by Borer (2005a,b; 2013), a major part of it is dealing with word polysemy. However, her project is not purely morphological per se, since you requested theories …
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Question about habitual aspect and object licensing in English
In the following sentences:
(1) I am writing a letter.
(2) I wrote a letter yesterday.
(3) I will write a letter tomorrow.
(4) I often write letters.
(5) I like writing letters.
(6) It is my evenin …
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Is the following sentence a CP? Does it contain another CP?
This sentence contains three CPs:
*[CP lies[CP [C do [IP you [VP think [CP [C that [VP she [V tells[VP you [V t [DP {moved lies}]]]]]]]]]]]]
This is an example of object topicalization in English. …
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Binding Puzzle in English Generative Syntax!
First, either I did not judge correctly the grammaticality of (3) provided that I am not a native English speaker (English is my fourth language), so (3) is also correctly fine in English. …
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What is case for pronouns in different positions?
As @Yellow Sky mentioned, based on your assumption that case exists in English, let us call it Abstract Case, then the following case pronominal distribution can be found:
Nominative abstract case (or …
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How is the ungrammaticality of the following sentence explained?
The ungrammaticality is not related to the fact that V cannot take IP as complement. This fact is evidenced by (1) and (2) (hence your first question):
(1) She wants [IP to leave]
(2) She wants [IP …
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