Instructor: Adriana Todea atodea@yahoo.com Office hours: Friday 2-3 p.m.‚ Alpha Centre room Introduction to Generative Grammar Course 9: Binding theory Outline1 WEEK 13 How do personal‚ possessive‚ reflexive pronouns and reciprocals acquire reference? (Johni and Peterj are top students) Johni thinks that hei‚j is intelligent. Johni thinks him*i‚j intelligent. The studentsk believed each otherk to be the best. This is not only a semantic issue‚ but also a syntactic issue … solved by Binding
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FOUNDATIONS IN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR Any native speaker of a language can be said to know the grammar of his/her own language‚ they know how to form and interpret any expression. However‚ this grammatical knowledge is subconscious. Native speaker have grammatical competence in their native language. This means that they have tacit knowledge of the grammar of their own lang. We have to make a difference between competence (the fluent native speaker’s tacit knowledge of his lang) and performance (what
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Grammar for Teachers Andrea DeCapua Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers Author Andrea DeCapua‚ Ed.D. College of New Rochelle New Rochelle‚ NY 10805 adecapua@cnr.edu ISBN: 978-0-387-76331-6 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-76332-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937636 c 2008 Springer Science+Business Media‚ LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the
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We all face major hardships in our life‚ but I’ve met very few that have gone through as many as my grandma has. Being born into a world of war and terror is simply unimaginable‚ but my grandma had to go through it all. Never seeing what life is truly supposed to be like seems depressing‚ and not knowing when it will end seems even more. My grandma may argue that for her it wasn’t that bad because she didn’t know that life could be any better and was accustomed to living in a war‚ but from an outside
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someone has demonstrated leadership. Not one is as intriguing as the one I want to share with you today. It was when my mother lived in Mexico when she was 20 years old. When she got married she came to America. She decided to go to New Mexico. That is where she stayed with a couple who had one daughter. They owned a car dealership. My father worked for the husband by washing cars. My mother was a maid at home‚ taking care of the child as if she was one of hers. She didn’t have any children until one
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My Journey Through Life Craig DeHaan PSY 202 Diana Donovan December 17‚ 2012 I. What things do you remember about your childhood? A. Family business B. Playing sports C. Good and bad times growing up II. Who were the important people in your life? A. Family B. Sport’s coaches C. High school teacher III. What jobs have you had in your life? A. Stock boy at our local grocery store B. Micro-electronics technician C. Quality IV. What are your greatest achievements
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it may be reciting the national anthem‚ joining the military or standing up for a cause you feel needs improvement or stopped. It is important to take the responsibility that we have been given seriously‚ in order to be a mature citizen. My responsibility to America includes showing gratitude for the freedoms taken for granted‚ striving to make
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Some misconceptions about communicative language teaching Geoff Thompson ELT Journal Volume 50/1 January 1996‚ pp. 9 - 15 Although communicative language teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use‚ there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions‚ discusses why they have arisen‚ and why they can be so described. In doing this‚ the article attempts to
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One‚ two‚ I remember counting my grandfather’s blood pressure pills every evening. At the same time‚ I would take a syringe‚ and place the correct amount of insulin in it for my grandmother. Since I was twelve years old‚ medicine has always been personal. Both of my grandparents were from Libya‚ spoke no word of English‚ and were illiterate. This combination made it very difficult for them to manage their own care. I would always accompany them to their medical appointments‚ and served as the intermediary
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America is one big melting pot. All kinds of people come to start a new life and have more opportunities. I am especially lucky because I was born in America with many opportunities to achieve success. On both of my family sides‚ my ancestors escaped big life struggles to come to America and start better lives. My mom was born into the Ormiston Family‚ her great‚ great grandmother lived in Ireland for many years. But in 1848‚ Her family fled to America due to the lack of food and work. During the
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