Found inside – Page 227... as a pair of coordinate sentences sharing the same verb ( e.g. ' John and ... The matter of surface versus underlying ( deep ) structure also forces us ... Found inside – Page 349Surface structure and deep structure The language acquisition device is In ... most concerns psychologists . subject , verb , and object within sentences ... Found inside – Page 32The domain of relativization is expressed in surface structure by the head NP , and the restricting sentence by the ... These include not only sentence - like constructions with finite verbs , but also phrase - like constructions with nominal verbs . Found inside – Page 82 DIRECTION SENTENCE The Direction Sentence is a very specialized surface structure in which Basei is expounded by a clause whose predicate is expounded by a motion verb ( intransitive ) and in which Base2 is expounded by an ... Found inside – Page 363Given this, a surface sentence may have an infinite number of underlying sources, since we cannot tell from the surface structure how many haves have been ... Found inside – Page 290This means that a surface sentence whose verb is a third-person singular form of ... are not equivalent, and so for surface sentences the ambiguity matters. Found insideThere is moreto teaching verbs than establishing the relation between label ... the meanings of the verbs,how theyare usedin surface sentence structures, ... Found inside – Page 12A further difference between English and Lisu concerns the status of the verb in surface structures . In Lisu if a sentence has a verbal predicate in the deep structure , that verb ( unless it be an abstract verb ) must appear in the surface sentence ... Found inside – Page 197Sag 1975 pointed out that verb phrase ellipsis disambiguates such sentences in the direction of surface scope . In ( 2 ) , where there is verb phrase ellipsis in the second sentence , the first sentence has only surface scope . ( 1 ) A boy admires ... Found inside – Page 44The phrase structure rules generated an underlying structure for a sentence, which would be operated on by transformations to create the “surface” structure ... Found inside – Page 301The surface sentence may be ambiguous in this . respect , e . g . in I gave the money to your BROTHER the verb may be more or less dynamic than the objective ( or , in Chomsky ' s terms , each of them , or both , can be included in the focus ... Found inside – Page 154Our grammar does not ask anyone to analyze sentences by labeling their parts of speech and diagramming them . ... subject - verb , verbobject , verb - prepositional phrase , and so forth . A second set of rules called TRANSFORMATIONS changes these original trees into a SURFACE STRUCTURE , into a new order which ... Found inside – Page 147In the sentence : ' a - zaydan darabta - hu [ interrogative article ) ... since the verb in the surface sentence is already “ occupied " with an object ( - hu ... Found inside – Page 119Term Box 7: Deep Structure and Surface Structure Every movement rule takes a ... Adjunct clauses are embedded sentences which are not selected by the verb. Found inside – Page 80Both sentences look as if they have the same surface structure of noun (Homer + verb (is) +adjective phrase (either eager to please or easy to please). Found inside – Page 226kenie puo as or lexically realized in ( 29 ) through ( 31 ) , just like the abstract verb CAUSE and , therefore , is not present in the surface . There is no morphological permissive either in Angami . A sentence like ' he permitted the girl two kisses ... Found insideTransformational rules (T-rules) relate the spoken form of sentences (surface structure) to their underlying meaning (deep structure). Found inside – Page 208... the matrix verb becomes the main verb of the surface sentence, and in most cases the NP arguments figure as such in surface structure. Found inside – Page 8... in a sentence or performative “preface” containing a performative verb, ... in sentences where the surface structure contains no performative verb. Found inside – Page 372We have to distinguish different verbtypes as e . g . the meaning of a directional phrase changes with the verbtype . ... The result of the above algorithm is a formal representation of the surface sentence which , roughly , contains the verb ' s ... Found inside – Page 193... proposed by George Lakoff in a general analysis of " performative verbs " which includes the statement form as a special case . In Lakoff's theory the underlying structure of every surface sentence would be introduced by a performative verb ... Found inside – Page 84Sentence Noun Phrase Verb Phrase Article Noun Verb Noun Phrase Article Noun The ... They are different from the surface forms of word or- ders in sentences. Found inside – Page 286Valency gap Sentence with: Zero-valent verb e.g., rain SURFACE SUBJECT - Monovalent verb e.g., stumble - Divalent verb e.g., jolt: —active - —passive ... Found inside – Page 155The surface subject of ( 24 ) is typically animate . Consider the following sentences : ( 25 ) naan kallaic ) cuttiyalaalu Taitteen stone - Acc . hammer - Ins . break - past - PT ' I broke the stone with a hammer ' . Here the verb co - occurs with a ... Found inside – Page 159contains two verbs and must contain at least two sentences ( occurrences of S ) in its deep structure . ( 3.a ) contains one verb in its surface structure ... Found inside – Page 46As most surface sentences do not have a performative verb, the one that Ross presumes is abstract, and he considers abstract verbs to be results of the ... Found inside – Page 61The example amounts in transformational terms to saying that the surface structure of the sentence is the following : 8 . ... that in grammars of this kind , sentences with several verbs are potentially multiply ambiguous in their surface structure . Found inside – Page 158... translation of the transitive verb slice to be directly modified by carefully * , derived from the predicate modifier carefully ... of the sentence - a violation of the constraint that constituents in the surface sentence correspond to constituents in LF . Found inside – Page 244Transformational grammar has taught us that sentences with raising verbs do not have the surface form that they appear to have. On the face of it, ... Found inside – Page 410When the system processes a sentence , it fills the conceptual slots with local constituents found in the sentence . If it has found a familiar verb , then it also gets any surface frame ( s ) associated with that verb . At this point it calls syntax ... Found inside – Page 943.03 Since the CONSTITUENTS of a sentence can be arranged in various orders to ... of elements in the surface sentence, including the position of the verb, ... Found insideFigure 4.6 The surface structure of the AVC. ... Each sentence usually has one finite verb which is located at the extreme right boundary of the sentence ... Found inside – Page 1The verb form of the presented sentence (hit or was hit) is compared tothat ... Strictly speaking it is notthe “surface structure” (as in the above ... Found inside – Page 45It expresses the basic logical relations between nouns and verbs . ... The sentence 3 has been transformed into its surface structure 2 simply by shifting ... Found inside – Page 105Consequently, if the surface subject has a quantifier, then sentence negation (such as (77i)) will be different in meaning from verb phrase negation (such ... Found inside – Page 70This means that the surface structure of the equational sentences is not ... with the surface subjects are either objects of transitive verbs thatneed ... Found inside – Page 23The assumption that the foci of sentences may be syntactically structured in different ways (containing of not containing the verb, involving one or more ... Found inside – Page 77The surface structure of a sentence consists of its segmentation into such constituents as noun phrase, verb phrase, noun, verb, and article, for example, ... Found inside – Page 15Proceeding from verb centredness in the sentence , the subject reveals agreement that is similar to the verb ; the same is true of the other parts of the sentence . Verbs without a grammatical subject in the surface structure ( e.g. meteorological ... Found insideSentence III changes the usual pattern (subject-verb-complement) by ... (Creating perfect ice for hockey, Freon flowed through the pipes under the surface.) ... Found inside – Page 109Making Passive Sentences Active You have a few options for making a passive ... you·d use the verb protects and rewrite the sentence as: Painting a surface ... Found inside – Page 23THUS , EACH SIMPLE SENTENCE IN A LANGUAGE IS MADE UP OF A VERB AND A COLLECTION OF NOUNS IN VARIOUS " CASES , " IN THE DEEP STRUCTURE SENSE . IN THE SURFACE ... Found inside – Page 501However, these sentences are found in our corpus and their appearance in Appendix IV seems to be ... Minor Type Sentences, or sentences without finite verb. Found inside – Page 96But we have seen that there must be some such intervening sentence in the deep structure of sentences like ( 195 ) , and that the main verb of that sentence must have the same syntactic properties as let and get . What , then , is the main verb ... Found inside – Page 357occurred in construction with the mystery verb , eat becames a plausible ... required by the verb will be reflected as a noun phrase in the surface sentence ... Found inside – Page 31In our lexicon two further pieces of information are specified for verbs so that the ... preposition for the arguments of the verb in the surface sentence. Found inside – Page 12A further difference between English and Lisu concerns the status of the verb in surface structures . In Lisu if a sentence has a verbal predicate in the deep structure , that verb ( unless it be an abstract verb ) must appear in the surface sentence ... Found inside – Page 14or not having an “S” node in the surface phrase structure tree. ... following the verb corresponds uniquely to the beginning of a new internal sentence. Found inside – Page 152Where exactly the negative item shows up in the surface sentence form can depend on its ... In other cases the negative might be a fully-fledged verb. 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