2. Parallel Structure
Definition: Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as "and" or "or."
Do you want to have lunch at Twelve Baskets, Mom’s Kitchen, or Hyoam Res
Adjective phrases
[ NP an [ AdjP interesting] period]
[ NP a [AdjP lengthy] [AdjP enjoyable] [AdjP interesting] period]]
→can be stacked
a brown leather old practical suitcase.
→sound quite odd.
→Semantic domain(evaluation-property-age-colour-provenance-manufacture-type)
Determinative phrases
[NP [DP These] [DP two] images] say it all.
If we’re accepted in
structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as "and" or "or."
Clauses
Professor Yu told the students that they should work on final draft, that they should start to write second e
clause C than what, C attracting who to move into spec-CP, regarding to ACP.
Pied-piping in prepositional structures
(32) (a) They asked [who he was referring to]
(b) They asked [to whom he was referring]
(a) informal style : leaving the preposition to
stranded or orphaned at the end
(b) formal style : the preposition to is pied-
It = Pronoun? - controversial
Though “it” seems to refer to focus phrase, it does not
The referent of “it” is obscure
Number agreement with focus phrase
It is cookies that I want.
*They are cookies that I want.
Tense Agreement
It is John that I see.
*It is John that I saw.
But depends on context
Available phrase to be removed= What can be focus phrase?
It was gre