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Individual Asignment - Syntax I

The document outlines an individual assignment for an English Language Teaching course at Púngué University, requiring students to choose a topic related to linguistics and write a two-page summary by November 20th, 2025. It includes optional questions and tasks related to lexical categories, sentence structure, and part of speech analysis. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of avoiding plagiarism and provides examples of tasks such as creating sentences with prepositions and drawing phrase markers.

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Individual Asignment - Syntax I

The document outlines an individual assignment for an English Language Teaching course at Púngué University, requiring students to choose a topic related to linguistics and write a two-page summary by November 20th, 2025. It includes optional questions and tasks related to lexical categories, sentence structure, and part of speech analysis. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of avoiding plagiarism and provides examples of tasks such as creating sentences with prepositions and drawing phrase markers.

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PÚNGUÉ UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS AND TRANSLATIONS


ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING COURSE

I. Individual Assignment Deadline: November 20th , 2025

Ø Choose one of the following topics and write down a summary of 2 pages:
Ø Avoid plagiarism.

1. Co-occurrence of Pre-modifying AP and Post- modifying PP in NOMs


2. Recursion of the NOM within NOM
3. Nesting Structure
4. Modifiers and adjunction;
5. Simpler types of NP.
6. Phrase and Clause Types
7. Phrasal Categories via Merger Operations
8. Sentence functions (sentence members, syntagma)
9. Sentence dynamism / functional sentence perspective
10. NP with relative clause
11. NP with noun complement clause
12. Subordinate Wh- Clauses
13. Subordinate Wh- Interrogative
14. Levels of V erbs Phrase
15. Phrasal Verbs
16. Subject and Predicate (Dependency and Function)
17. Subject- and extraposed subject
18. Complement of Vgrp within VP
19. Adverbial clauses
20. Complement of A within AP
21. Complement of N within NP
22. Complement of P within PP
23. Participle phrases
24. Compound Nouns
25. How Language Works?
26. Structural ambiguity
27. X' theory
Individual Assignment (Optional)

Each word we use in our language has a meaning. A combination of words is a sentence. When we
string words together to form a sentence, the goal is for the complete statement to relay a specific
message.

1. What do you understand by lexical categories? Illustrate your answer with examples.
2. Discuss two functions of lexical categories in the analysis of sentence structure.
3. List ten prepositions and use each of them to make a sentence.
4. Replace the italicised constituent in the following sentences by an appropriate wh-word,
and give the wh-question that results from wh- and auxiliary fronting:
a) Michael can get very arrogant.
b) He got to London by hitch-hiking
c) Mungulume showed up in dark glasses.
d) The man at the front called out

5. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.


a) Only one noun in a noun phrase can function as its head. (……..)
b) In a modified-head relation it is the category of the HEAD word that determines the category of
the phrase as a whole. (…..)
c) Degrees adverbs cannot themselves be modified. (….)
d) Words cannot belong to more than one category. (….)

6. Complete the following table about part of speech:

PART OF SPEECH BASIC FUNCTION EXAMPLES


Noun
Pronoun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection
7. Draw complete phrase markers of the following sentences/ NPs/ VPs/ Aps/ PPs
a) Often practised the exercises at home after school.
b) Very proud of herself.
c) The little cat devoured a mouse last night.
d) Read the paper in the morning.
e) Monkeys are eager to leave the room.
f) The brave child.
g) John believes Mary to be irritating.

“Wisdom, compassion and courage these are the three qualities of a Man recognized universally”

Best of luck!
JChitulo

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