Sample Questions on Revision of GI

A) General Questions:

1) What is a middle verb?

2) What are the possible functions of noun clauses?
3) What are the possible functions of gerundial clauses?
4) What are the possible functions of participial clauses?
5) What are the types of functions of full infinitival clauses?
6) How can gapped defining relative clauses be told apart from gapless defining relative
clauses?
7) How are PostDeterminers classified?
8) What paraphrase can be resorted to in order to differentiate a gerundial clause from a
participial clause?
9) What are the possible categories of wh-words in type-II nominal clauses?
10) What are the possible functions that can appear in the Subject of a clause?
11) What categories can Anticipatory Subject there anticipate?
12) What are the features of finite verbs?
13) How can PRO be defined?
14) What is structural embeddedness?
15) How does a clause differ form a phrase?
16) How are the nominal clauses classified?
17) How does an Adjectival Complement differ from a PostModifier?
18) What is a lexeme?
19) What are the complementizers of English?
20) What are the different types of Apposition?
21) What is an unaccusative verb?
22) How can transitive verbs be classified?
23) What is an operator?
24) How can auxiliaries be classified?
25) What are attributive adjectives?
26) What are the features of pronouns?
27) How many are the possible categories for the Subject?
28) What is a lexical category?
29) How many are the possible types of verb to be identified in syntax?
30) What is the test to identify a Direct Object?
31) What are the possible types of sentences?
32) How can clauses be classified from the point of view of categories?
33) How can non-finite clauses be classified?
34) What are the different types of PRO in English?
35) What is a Predicative Adjunct?
36) How do transitive phrasal verbs differ from prepositional verbs?
37) How are coordinating conjunctions classified?
38) What are the types of infinitival clauses?
39) How are central determiners classified?
40) What is an object-deleting verb?

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 B) Provide an example of …

1) … a sentence that contains an Objective Complement.

2) … a simple sentence that contains an intransitive verb with a Subordinating
Complement.
3) … a simple sentence that contains a QuasiPredicative.
4) … a phrase that contains a nominal PreModifier.
5) … a simple sentence whose Predicate is not verbal.
6) … a sentence that contains a Restrictive Apposition which is a clause.
7) … a nominal phrase that contains three determiners.
8) … a nominal phrase that contains an adjective ending in ly.
9) … a sentence that contains a gapless clause.
10) … a sentence that contains a when-clause with nominal value.
11) … a simple sentence that contains a complex transitive verb.
12) … a compound-complex sentence.
13) … an absolute construction.
14) … a sentence that contains a copulative verb different from the verb be.
15) … a sentence that contains Anticipatory Subject there anticipating a gerundial clause.
16) … a sentence whose Subject is a that-noun clause.
17) … a sentence that contains an if-clause with nominal value.
18) … a pseudo-cleft sentence.
19) … a sentence that contains a participial clause.
20) … a simple sentence that contains a pseudo-intransitive verb.
21) … a simple sentence that contains a phrasal prepositional verb.
22) … a sentence that contains an elided subordinating conjunction.
23) … a simple sentence that contains a predicative adjective.
24) … a sentence that contains a Subject in the accusative case.
25) … a sentence that contains an Adjectival Complement which is not a preposition.
26) … a sentence that contains a finite subordinate clause which is not adverbial.
27) … a sentence that contains a Restrictive Apposition after an abstract noun.
28) … a simple sentence that contains complementizer for.
29) … a simple sentence that contains no overt function words.
30) … a sentence that contains an illative coordinating conjunction.

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 C) Provide clearly contrastive examples of …

1) … a Restrictive Apposition vs. a PostModifier.

2) … a gerundial clause vs. a participial clause.
3) … a gapped vs. a gapless clause.
4) … arbitrary PRO vs. co-referential PRO.
5) … a bare vs. a full infinitival clause.
6) … a phrase vs. a clause.
7) … an auxiliary for the passive voice vs. an auxiliary for the progressive aspect.
8) … the word her used as a DO vs. her used as a Subject.
9) … the word before working as a preposition vs. before working as a subordinating
conjunction.
10) … a subordinating conjunction vs. a complementizer.
11) … an if-clause with nominal value vs. an if-clause with adverbial value.
12) … a phrasal verb vs. a prepositional verb.
13) … determiner that a vs. subordinating conjunction that.
14) … infinitival marker to vs. preposition to.
15) … a that-noun clause vs. a defining relative clause.
16) … a defining vs. a non-defining relative clause.
17) … a when-clause with nominal value vs. an when-clause with adverbial value.
18) … an Anticipatory Subject vs. an Anticipatory Direct Object.
19) … a Quasi-Predicative vs. a Subjective Complement.
20) … a finite vs. a non-finite clause.

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 D) Revision of Generative Grammar

1) What is Universal Grammar?

2) What are derivational properties?
3) What evidence exists for the Innateness Hypothesis?
4) What is the LAD?
5) How does IM to differ from preposition to?
6) What is language for Chomsky?
7) How do verbs differ from auxiliaries?
8) How do adjectives differ from determiners?
9) What parallelism does Chomsky make between IM to and some other element?
Exemplify.
10) What criteria are needed for the classification of words?
11) What is the Structure Dependency Principle?
12) What are parameters?
13) What are complementizers?
14) What are inflectional properties?
15) What is the Poverty of Stimulus?
16) What is the Head Parameter?
17) How do principles differ from parameters?
18) What is grammaticality?
19) What are natural languages?
20) What is the substitution test?

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