Morfosintassi 27/11/2019
Date of the interim: 8 January 11:30-14:30
Subject
Form: noun phrase, pronoun, nominal clause
Position: clause initial, precedes verb
Syntactic relationships: number, person, gender concord
Semantic properties: topic (or theme) of the clause
Object
Form: noun phrase, object pronoun, relative clause (I like the way you talk)
Position: direct object and indirect object, follows verb
Syntactic relationship: number, person, gender concord
Semantic properties: refers to entity affected by action of subject, or refers to recipient od action
(indirect)
Complement
Form: noun phrase, adjective, nominal clause
Position: follows the verb
Syntactic relationships: number, person, gender concord
Semantic properties: typically an attribute of the subject or the object
Adverbial
Form: prepositional phrase, adverb phrase, clause, noun phrase
Position: cam appear almost anywhere, theoretically there is no limit to the number of adverbial
elements in a sentence
Semantic role: large range of semantic roles, because of different grammatical functions.
Analyze syntactically (clause element) NOT PHRASEOLOGICAL
Several people in my class have bought laptop computers with their scholarship money.
Several people in my class subject (S)
Have bought verb (V)
Laptop computers complement (C)
With their scholarship money adverbial (A)
Several people in my class noun phrase
Have bought verb phrase
Laptop computers noun phrase
With their scholarship money prepositional phrase
