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I'm here out of pure rage upon reading zissner. I hate-read zissner and I'm now purifying myself. Thank you.

This is the only guy I found online (cursory search) criticizing zissner. Thank God somebody has the balls.

That's beautiful. I'm in the US, and our Appalachian region was populated in the 19th century by Scottish immigrants. I grew up near there (but I'm not Scottish, sad to say!) and when I listened to Appalachians speaking, I always thought they had a pretty sing-song, rhythmic pace to their sentences. Not meandering but politely asking or suggesting: "You'uns a-fixin' to go..." or "If it wouldn't discomfit ya none, ya might could..." I might be imagining things but I feel as though I hear some of that sing-song quality here.

Beautiful animation

A brilliant presentation. Well done and understood perfectly.

Hello professor, thank you very much for the course! And I have some questions as follows: First, the substitution test shows that the preposional phrase is a constituecy, and it semantically refers to the location, time, manner, etc. But how can we tell that the preposition is the head? It seems like we can't check it by removing the components and leave the preposition alone, as sentences like *The book is on are ungrammatical too. And, checking the shared properties sounds great, but what property of the preposition can be shared with the phrase? Then, a related question is that, in some Asian languages like Japanese and Mongolian, the phrase that corresponds to a PP in English is generally formed with a noun (phrase) followed by a clitic which is conventionally considered the dative/locative case mark. A difference between that clitic and prepositions in European languages is that, it doesn't convey any spatial variations, such as what the words in, out, under, above do. (Instead, the spatial information is encoded with an additional noun, such as 'surface', 'bottom' combined with the kernal noun). In other words, there is even no typical preposition in such languages. Then, how should we deal with the structures of the PP-like phrases of them?

Thank you for your great and simple explanation, my teacher COULD NEVER do that.

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So the definition characteristic of active or passive phrase is determined by how the subject is identified? If the subject is the author or speaker of the phrase (active) or pass if non introduced at the voice?

#Help. Can anybody shed some light on the difference between N and NP? In "the collection of bicycles", what makes "collection" a N while bicycle is labled "NP"? Is it because "collection" is the head of the setence, and only the head of a noun phrase would be labled as "N", which makes other nouns in the sentense "NP"?

Very tricky at first glance, but becomes clearer and what's more clears up many misunderstandings about the passive that you may have been taught at school or university. Thank Prof Pullum for an excellent grammar lesson on the types of passive. He really shows how useful and nuanced they can be.

Excellent and insightful video!

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I wish the world has more people like you. Thank you ever so much, professor for these series on Syntax. 🙏🏻

2:32 modals only have finite forms Could one consider "have to" (for "must") and "be able to" (for "can") as modals?

Thanks for this Channel Caroline, I really love the animations and data floating to your left!

Would you please give the references (preferably links) to the papers. Were there any significant differences, between the learning strategies of children and adults?

Are these verb phrases or adj-phrases? Resurrected Christ, given law, fallen angel? I assume the verbs are acting as adjectives, so they are adj phrases, right?

What is the meaning or speciality of Generative here? Is it only about the tree diagram that we call it generative?

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This video effectively makes me put U of Edinburgh on top of my list of where to study linguistics!

This is really cool! Thank you.

Can the phrase pattern in this generative transformation also work for protoaustronesian languages?

This takedown is so fucking epic I don't even know where to start!

Uh oh, you've gone from NP's to DP's.

Traditional grammar works pretty well in terms of categorizing verbs as action and in how they explain to people, especially to non-native speakers like me. I see no problem saying "to doubt, to admire, to know " are actions. Sure, they are not archtypical action like to run or to breathe, but they behave in ways that is pretty similar to other words. I'm trying to teach myself modern linguistics theory. so maybe my mind will change in the future, but for now, I don't see much benifits to take a stand in saying "receiver" of the "action".

Just amazing!

The audio's really great. However, the captions are too early by 7 seconds. So my EFL students with low English Proficiency weren't able to follow quite well. :) This playlist had been very helpful when I was in college, Thus, please fix the captions issue so that the video would be a blessing to even more students of language arts. Much love from Indonesia.

I don't have a clue how I got here but this was a fun series, thanks.

Where do we draw the line? Do descriptivists have to acknowledge and accept things like 's and s (the possessive marker being used incorrectly) or they're/their/there being used interchangeably and devise new rules to allow them?

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Sorry to ask this - but when I watched this - was the audio out of sync with the visual? Anyone else got that?

Just brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

Just brilliant!

Just brilliant!!!!

This is quite helpful, thank you.

Thank you professor

necesitaria una definicion de lo que es prescriptive and descriptive. por favor

Outstanding lectures! I cannot thank you enough Professor Heycook. I hope you address more advanced syntactic topics in the future.

Thank you so much. Do you have books on this topic?

Wish I knew which video to start with first. Trying to be a better fiction writer. Love this channel.

Very clear explanation. Can anyone recommend me any video that show the same explanation in languages with no overt determiners?

Her presentation is extraordinary..love from India

I'm learning a huge amount from your videos. Thanks so much for making these.

What an age to be breathing in !

@ 11:38 is it possible that "the girl who fed them" is referring to both the cats and John?

So very interesting in regards to the "can be", "is", "are" matter. It is interesting to see how our meanings can be easily misconstrued by having poor syntax in our sentence structure. We may not be aware that our "ambiguous" meanings exist. I am starting to understand just how important syntax is in terms of effective communication. Thank you again for your wonderful presentations. I am looking forward to learning how to improve my grammar.

Thank you for making this high level of instruction available to the public. I am looking forward to learning as much as I can from your series.

Thank you for sharing this material.