The Linguistic Structure Of Modern English

determine whether this would have any implications towards the reader or the authors meaning behind the poem. Units of analysis

The set of data were analyzed using Brinton’s 2010 noun phrase rules, from the book. The Linguistic Structure of Modern English. Brinton states that “Noun phrases consist of a noun and any modifiers, complements, and determiners that provide more information about the noun” (Brinton, L. J., Brinton, D., & Brinton, L. J. (2010). The book covers the topics of Pragmatics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Lexical and sentence semantics. The text is aimed towards advanced undergraduate students concerned with contemporary English, primarily those whose main area of interest is English as a second language (ESL). Primary or secondary-school education, theoretical and applied linguistics, English stylistics or speech pathology. The main focus is on English data, giving a pragmatic clarification of the structure of the language over

The remaining 13% of the noun phrase expansions are as follows. PP-Det(poss)-PN-N-bar-N. Occurs 3% within the poem. PP-P-Det(art)-AP-A-N-bar-N appears 3%. NP-Det(art)-N-bar-AP-A-A-N was detected 3%. NP-AP-Deg-AP-A-N-bar-N, NP-Det(art)-PP-P-Det(poss)-N-bar-N and NP-Det(art)-N-bar-N-PP-NP-Det(art)-N-bar-N also occur within 3% of the poem. The noun phrase has four possible rewrites. One of which is [Det N-bar]. Det N-bar rewrite is composed of a Determiner which include the articles (a, an, the) a Demonstrator which consists of (this, these, those, that) a Possessive (my, your, his, her, its, our, and their), Quantifiers such as (many and all) and Wh (which, what, whether). In the noun –bar there are three possible rewrites. [AP] Adjectival phrase, [N] Noun and [PP] Prepositional