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Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky. `Twas brillig , and the slithy toves   Did gyre and gimble in the wabe : All mimsy were the borogoves ,   And the mome raths outgrabe .

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Jabberwocky

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  1. Jabberwocky `Twasbrillig, and the slithytoves  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,  And the momerathsoutgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun  The frumiousBandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand:  Long time the manxome foe he sought -So rested he by the Tumtum tree,  And stood awhile in thought.

  2. SYNTAXSyntactic Categories

  3. Heads-ups Today Syntactic categories and tests Friday(RR8 due) RR8 Discussion – Brit & Lacie Phrases, constituents, syntactic trees

  4. Meaning • Inflections • Distribution Syntactic categories flight generosity know former “Chou Remains Cremated”

  5. Jabberwocky `Twasbrillig, and the slithytoves  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,  And the momerathsoutgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun  The frumiousBandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand:  Long time the manxome foe he sought -So rested he by the Tumtum tree,  And stood awhile in thought.

  6. Nouns • Pre-modified by Det and/or Adj: a cool movie those oranges • Post-modified by relative clauses: a movie that she had seen the man who knew too much • Post-modified by prepositions: the girl with the dragon tattoo (no) soup for you Mass nouns: *the three furnitures/advices Proper nouns: *the Mary/Lafayette

  7. Verbs • Follow the subject Brian held his martini. Brian drank his martini. Brian drank. Brian devouredhis martini. *Brian devoured. Intransitive verb Transitive verb Brian gavehis martini to Stewie. Ditransitive verb Auxiliaries are never the only verbs in a sentence! • can, will, should, etc. • John should shower. vs.*John should.

  8. Adjectives • Come between Deg and N avery largepumpkin a really goodbook • Come after main verb “be” his head islarge • Can occur in “as ____ as” structures as large as a pumpkin Non-gradable Adj: *a very absentstudent *a very asleep baby

  9. French The red wine was good. *Le rouge vin était bon. *The wine red was good. Le vin rouge étaitbon. Swedish She saw the house. *Hon såg et hus. *She saw house the. Hon såghus-et.

  10. Lexical categories Noun (N):computer, John, London, she Verb (V):travel, have, diversify, understand Adjective (Adj): blue, soft, apparent, interesting Preposition (P): on, about, through, beside Adverb (Adv): quickly, sincerely, interestingly Function categories Determiner (Det)– the, a, an, this, his Degree word (Deg) – very, so, too, quite Conjunction(Conj) – and, or, but Auxiliary(Aux) – will, should, can, must (be, have) Also called “helping verbs”

  11. N Aux N V Rachael was telling Harrison about a very cool movie that she had seen, but he was secretly listening to his new, shiny iPod. P Det Deg Adj N V V Aux Det N Conj P Aux V Adv Adj Adj N Det

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