How to proceed


Central Topics

  • Arguments for bar-level categories
  • The X-bar scheme
  • The internal structure of phrasal and clausal categories
  • Head-initial, head-final and mixed-type languages
Questions

No. Question ChatGPT
1. What is the central idea of X' syntax? *
2. Discuss the internal structures of CP, IP, NP, VP, AP and PP. *
3. Outline the central implications of the physcial view of the phoneme. *
4. Find examples for head-first, head-final and mixed-type languages. *
5. Why are APs sister to N' and not to N? *
6. Provide examples for adjuncts and complements using the sentence: 
My boyfriend from London visited me last year.		 *
7. What implications does the X-bar scheme have for the organization of the grammar?  *
8. How does X-bar theory account for different ordering patterns of specifiers, adjuncts, and complements across languages? *
9. Draw trees for the following sentences:
Bond hopes that Q will give him a new car.

My little sister grew up very quickly.

Practice the construction of more trees!

In all VLC courses (except this demo course) you can directly access ChatGPT by clicking on "*" and thus passing the question to the ChatBot.

References

Carnie, Andrew. 2007: 107-142.
Haegeman, Liliane. 1994: 83-123.
Ouhalla, Jamal. 1999: 109-145.
Radford, Andrew et al. 2009: 282-291.
Verspoor / Sauter. 2000: Chapters I , II + V.