GiU Topic 2 - Terminology

Constituent

Immediate constituents

Constituent tests

Substitution

Sentence fragment

Movement:

Coordination

Syntactic category

-lexical category
-grammatical category

syntactic class

Part of speech

Name all syntactic classes

Noun

subcategories?

Verb:

subcategories?

Adjective

Adverb

Preposition

Subordinator

Coordinator

Determiner

Finite verb

Non-finite verb:

Syntactic function

Subject

Predicate

Inside the predicate

Predicator

Head

Direct object:

Modifier

Indirect Object

Subject Complement

Object complement:

Parsing

semantic properties of direct object and indirect object

Valency
and Complementation Patterns