LENGUA I
topic: PREPOSITIONS
FOCUS
BASIC FUNCTIONS, DIAGRAM AND DEPENDANCY
KEY POINTS
EMBEDDEDNESS NOTE: a PP is not embedded within a PP
STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY AND HIERARCHY SEE 5
intro to THE CONSTRAINTS OF PARTICLES
….PROBLEMS WITH TERMINOLOGY disagreements prep, particle, as part of verb
PRACTICE SENTENCES
1. Mike stayed in the hospital, for two weeks
2. I left the book on the floor. -where I want the one on the floor -which
1. =S I threw the book out the window -where and movement
3. She lived in the house on the corner with a sign.
1. She lived in the house on the corner with her mother.
4. He said (that) he wanted the book on the floor with the blue cover
5. We ate the pizza with anchovies in the living room * we ate with anchovies
1. We ate the pizza with anchovies with John in the living room *John in the living room
2. We ate the pizza with John there
3. We ate there
6. We met again after the war ended
intro constraints
1. He drove from Boston transitive preposition
2. We met before, we got off intransitive prepositions
3. She took it off *She took off it
4. phrasal verb I switched the computer on, I switched on the computer MOV'T
1. *on the computer I switched NOTE cannot topicalize
5. prepositional verb The cat jumped on the computer * the cat jumped the computer on
