sábado, 17 de julho de 2010

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"?

domingo, 4 de julho de 2010

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.