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Intro to Syntax
What differentiates written langu...,
What word order does english follow,
What percentage of the worlds lan...
23
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Thematic Roles of Nouns
Name all 9 thematic roles,
What do thematic roles show,
What is an agent
11
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Nouns
What are nouns generally,
What is a noun phrase,
What are exceptions to general nouns
12
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Types of Categories
What are the four types of catego...,
Define an open class,
Define a closed class
6
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Identifying Word Classes
What are the two different types ...,
What does distributional evidence...,
What does morphological evidence ...
3
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Verbs
Give 5 distributional qualities o...,
Give some morphological qualities...,
Explain the three types of verbs ...
21
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Adjectives
Give a morphological property of ...,
What are the two basic functions ...,
What are predicative adjectives g...
6
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Prepositions
What is the only english post pos...,
What information do prepositions ...,
Give some examples of prepositions
5
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Heads and Dependents
What is a head,
How does the word class of a head...,
Explain the distribution of a hea...
22
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Complements and Adjuncts
What is a complement,
What are complements and adjuncts...,
What are adjuncts
10
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Adverbs
What are adverbs,
Give a morphological quality of a...,
How do adverbs differ from adject...
3
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Clauses
Give an example of a simple sentence,
What makes up a simple sentence,
What are the two components of a ...
8
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Auxiliaries
What are the two types of auxilia...,
How are auxiliaries related to fi...,
What is an auxiliary give examples
13
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Subordination
What is subordination,
What is a matrix verb give examples,
What is a complementiser give exa...
19
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Constituency
What is a constituent,
What are the two types of ambigui...,
What is semantic ambiguity give a...
14
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Tree Diagrams
What is a node,
What is a branch,
Explain immediate domination
6
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Identifying Grammatical Relations
What are the three strategies for...,
What are grammatical relationships,
Explain constituent order
19
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Changing Grammatical Relations
Name two ways of changing grammat...,
What is passivisation,
Explain passivisation in terms of...
12
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Obliques
What is an oblique,
How are obliques different to adj...,
Give n example of an oblique and ...
5
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Secondary Objects
What is a secondary object,
How are secondary objects differe...
2
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Tense
What information does tense give,
What categories are used to expre...,
How is tense lexically expressed
12
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Aspect
What information does aspect give,
What questions can aspect answer,
What are the two types of aspect
9
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Mood and Modality
What are mood and modality relate...,
Define mood,
What are the two types of mood
14
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Speech Acts and Sentence Types
What is a speech act,
What are the 3 most common speech...,
How does somali indicate speech acts
14
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Imperatives
What do imperatives do,
Give some morphosyntactic propert...,
How does swahili mark imperatives
3
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Negation
How does negation relate to sente...,
How can negation vary,
Give some negation marking strate...
3
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Interrogatives
What are the two types of interro...,
How are polar questions structured,
How are content questions structured
12
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Relative Clauses
What is a relative clause,
What are the 3 elements in englis...,
Give a property of a relative clause
12
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