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Brian Malone

The document discusses syntactic categories like nouns, verbs, noun phrases, and verb phrases. It explains that "instructors" and "Brian" have the same syntactic distribution as nouns. It also analyzes the sentence "The new instructors taught on the second floor yesterday" by identifying its noun phrase, verb phrase, adjectives, prepositional phrases, and adverbial adjunct. Diagrams are provided to label the syntactic structure of the example sentence.

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Syntax
The new instructors taught on the second floor yesterday
NPs and VPs The new instructors taught on the second floor yesterday
Syntactic Categories: NPs The instructors The Brian ? N N
N NP instructorsThe NDet. NP
The Brian ? NP
Syntactic Distribution The instructors AND Brian = same distribution It was the instructors that taught It was Brian that taught
NPs and adjectives The new instructors Det. NAdj N NP
VPs The new instructors taught on the second floor yesterday
Does taught require a complement? The new instructors taught on the second floor yesterday
Transitivity transitiveintransitive ditransitive
The new instructors taught (math) (on the second floor) (yesterday) Transitivity? The new instructors taught PP Adv: TimeNP
Adjuncts? The new instructors taught on the second floor yesterday PP Adv: Time
The new instructors taught yesterday The new instructors taught on the second floor
PPs on the second floor Lets label this on the board!
The new instructors taught on the second floor yesterday Adv: TimeVI PP VP S NP
The new instructors taught on the second floor yesterday
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