FINAL TASK

The last task at last!

This is the take-home examination, and it is due in 14 weeks. OOOPS! 14 DAYS!


ULBRA – ESPECIALIZAÇÃO EM ENSINO DA LÍNGUA INGLESA – ESTUDOS SINTÁTICOS DE LÍNGUA INGLESA – 2010/1 – PROFª DRª ISABELLA VIEIRA DE BEM



DRAW THE ARBOREAL STRUCTURE OF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE:


I think I heard someone say she saw them tell you we supposed he had called the police before the fire department had been requested to rescue the drowning victims at the beach.



THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT BEARS A BLATANT AMBIGUITY. DEMONSTRATE THE POSSIBLE READINGS BY DRAWING THE CORRESPONDING ARBOREAL STRUCTURES:

Students hate annoying professors before an audience.



PRODUCE AN APPROPRIATE WORDING FOR THE STATEMENT THAT IS OUTLINED IN THE FOLLOWING TREE:

This is the link leading you to the downloadable Treebuilder software in case you feel like using it.

http://www.sittac.com/download/instructions.html

EXISTENTIAL THERE

Today our task is to discuss BIBER, CONRAD and LEECH's text on Existential there. Please respond to this post.

In term s of syntax, not of semantics, what is the fundamental difference  between the grammatical subject and the notional subject  in "existential there clauses"?

OPENING POST

This blog keeps track of what happens every Saturday  starting July 3rd  in Estudos Sintáticos de Língua Inglesa.

Cambridge makes good reading matter. - Parsing to disambiguate.

Assigned readings:  LOCK - Syntax as a subfield of Linguistics
                              BERK - Basic concepts

Task: an outline of each text to be posted here due on July 9th.

July 10th - class study of  MASTER Groups of words and  The Determiner System.