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- John will see Mary.
- Relax! # imperative
- Mary resigned it. # *resign* not a transitive verb
- Mary will relax. # modal
- that Mary will relax # subordinate clause structure
- Mary relaxed it. # violation of Theta criterion
- We will buy. # violation of Theta criterion
- We will buy a book. # transitive
- We will buy you a book. # ditransitive
- John will give Mary a book.
- John gave a book to Mary.
- John gave a book.
- Mary had a little boy. # have; adjective
- The little lucky boy was lucky. # adjectives
- We saw that Mary did it.
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- John gave Mary a book of poems # of-complement
- a tall student of Physics with long hair from London # adjunct cues
- a tall student of Physics (Nbar,?PP) with long hair (Nbar,?PP) from London
- we saw the boy with the telescope. # PP goes where?
- we saw the boy (Nbar,?PP) with the telescope. # to Nbar
- we saw the boy (Vbar,?PP) with the telescope. # to Vbar
- we bought a book of poems (Nbar,?PP) about London (Nbar,?PP) in the nineties
- we bought a book of poems (Nbar,?PP) about London (Vbar,?PP) in the nineties
- John's uncle's sister's niece was lucky # complex NP
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- The big sleep. # ambiguity + backtracking
- Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. # Chomsky 1957
- The mome raths outgrabe. # Lewis Carroll
- The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cow.
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- We want him.
- We want him to do it # Exceptional case marking
- We want to do it. # control
- We promised to relax. # subject control
- We promised you to relax. # subject control
- We were lucky to resign. # lucky + control
- We persuaded John to resign. # object control
- We wondered whether to resign. # whether=C
- What did you promise to do? # cyclic move
- What did you promise that you would do?
- we persuaded John to relax
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- John seemed to relax. # raising
- Did we seem to be lucky? # raising
- Mary is seen. # passives
- Mary was seen.
- Mary will be seen.
- Mary has been seen.
- Mary will have been seen.
- Who has been seen?
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- Who will see John? # wh-move
- Whom will John see?
- Which book will you buy Mary? # which
- Which book will John give to Mary?
- When did we see John? # when
- When will John buy the book?
- Where has Mary been seen?
- Who saw what?
- What did he talk about? # "prep stranding"
- About what did he talk? # "pied piping"
- Which men (Nbar,?PP) in green coats has Mary been seeing?
- Was the man (Nbar,?PP) in the green coat seen (Vbar,?PP) by John?
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- The man (Nbar,?CP) who saw John. # rel. clauses
- We saw the boy who did it.
- The boy who saw John did it.
- We know the boy that did it.
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- We see Mary. # tenses
- We saw Mary.
- We have seen Mary.
- We had seen Mary.
- We did see Mary.
- We will see Mary.
- We will have seen Mary.
- We are seeing Mary.
- We were seeing Mary.
- We have been seeing Mary.
- We will have been seeing Mary.
- John has been seeing Mary.
- He was a boy.
- We did it.
- We will be doing it.
- Will we be doing it?
- Boys will be boys.
- John was a promising boy
- John was promising Mary to resign.
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