Geekman, looking over my shoulder at a worksheet on syntactic relations that asks students to give an example of a complement and an adjunct:
"A complement: 'You're so pretty!' An adjunct: 'You're so adjacent!"
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Geekman does linguistics
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I once wrote an entire paper like this, but for some reason it was not accepted for credit. It was fun, though.
It all started when a Noun Phrase offered a rather feisty Dynamic Verb a Prepositional Complement. She thought the future perfect had finally arrived. "We've been living in synonymy for years," she said. "It's about time we conjugated."
("Oh, absolutely," simpered a passing Modal.)
...and so on. Linguistics has all the best words.
Excellent. And that's before you even get to Chomsky's weird hang-ups. (Seriously, government, binding, domination, suicidal greed? Are these terms you'd expect an anarchist to use in his pet theory?)
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