No one ever mentions this, but I need to commend you on the audio quality of this video series! The vocals are well edited (there are no clicks or pops) and the voice of the speaker is complimented by the ambiance of the room! It is very evident that effort has gone into the production and post-production process! Thumbs up!
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In 'He decided to quickly leave the room' 'quickly' modifies 'leave', not 'decided', so the "correct" equivalent of 'He decided to quickly leave the room' would be 'He decided to leave the room quickly', and not 'He decided quickly to leave the room'.
But in the case of "He decided quickly to leave the room" it is stressing that he made a quick decision. For example, if he walked into a loud room and instantly turned around because he didn't like the noise, his decision was quick. Even if he left slowly, he decided quickly that he didn't want to be there. If you say "He decided to leave the room quickly" it is stresses more the fact that his movement was quick and not the decision so either sentence could be right depending on which action was quick
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?
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.
What is then the difference between "He quickly decided to leave the room." and "He decided quickly to leave the room." Written in these ways, it sounds the same to me, but we are talking about the action of making a decision. What about the action of leaving the room in a fast way rather than thinking in a fast way to make a decision. That first mind blowing rule has gotten me confused.
"He quickly decided to leave the room" suggest he made a decision quickly, "He decided quickly to leave the room." suggests he made a quick exit. the adverb comes before the verb it affects.
10:25 If we're asking about the book, I don' think this is the right question to ask. The correct one would be "WHAT did Anna read?" → "a book". Your question asks about something that isn't there in the original sentence: WHICH book? There's only one book! There's no "which". The book has not been described, it doesn't have any special properties you could ask about.
"Decsriptive rules" seems to be problematic to begin with. It's the same as the Problem of Induction. You take some data and describe what's happening and come to a theory concerning what the rule is. But there are always edge cases and you never find certainty (not to mention that language is literally evolving). It's almost as if you have to commit yourself to believing that the majority, or average, speaker of a language makes the rule the rule, and justifies it being the rule .. lol .. That just seems problematic to me .. I'd rather commit to a purer form of descriptivism than whatever this is
Ending a sentence with a prepositions is UNGRAMMATICAL but NOT COLLOQUIAL. It is ungrammatical because it BREAKS THE RULES. Is that what we can describe for the question asked?
It is NOT ungrammatical to end a sentence with a preposition. I can still perfectly understand "Which student did you talk to?" Therefore, it is grammatical. If someone were to ask me, "Talk you did which student to?" out of the blue, then I would not be able to understand the question, thus making it ungrammatical. The grammaticality of a statement is largely dependent on whether the speaker and listener both understand the statement. Ending a sentence with a preposition is problematic stylistically, not grammatically. And yes, sentence-final prepositions are more common in colloquial speech than in formal speech.
No one ever mentions this, but I need to commend you on the audio quality of this video series! The vocals are well edited (there are no clicks or pops) and the voice of the speaker is complimented by the ambiance of the room! It is very evident that effort has gone into the production and post-production process! Thumbs up!
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.
wow, I'm here in 2020 and these videos are a blessing, thank you, Professor! :)
Came for the linguistics, stayed for professor's soothing voice. So interesting, so calming.
I wish the world has more people like you. Thank you ever so much, professor for these series on Syntax. 🙏🏻
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Thank God for these videos!my teacher has no idea how to explain g.grammar to us.
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In 'He decided to quickly leave the room' 'quickly' modifies 'leave', not 'decided', so the "correct" equivalent of 'He decided to quickly leave the room' would be 'He decided to leave the room quickly', and not 'He decided quickly to leave the room'.
"He decided quickly to leave the room" and "He decided to leave the room quickly" are both correct
But in the case of "He decided quickly to leave the room" it is stressing that he made a quick decision. For example, if he walked into a loud room and instantly turned around because he didn't like the noise, his decision was quick. Even if he left slowly, he decided quickly that he didn't want to be there. If you say "He decided to leave the room quickly" it is stresses more the fact that his movement was quick and not the decision so either sentence could be right depending on which action was quick
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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?
Excellent and insightful video!
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.
necesitaria una definicion de lo que es prescriptive and descriptive. por favor
This is quite helpful, thank you.
Amazing work done please upload more lectures about Linguistics especially about syntax semantics
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What is then the difference between "He quickly decided to leave the room." and "He decided quickly to leave the room." Written in these ways, it sounds the same to me, but we are talking about the action of making a decision. What about the action of leaving the room in a fast way rather than thinking in a fast way to make a decision. That first mind blowing rule has gotten me confused.
"He quickly decided to leave the room" suggest he made a decision quickly, "He decided quickly to leave the room." suggests he made a quick exit. the adverb comes before the verb it affects.
Thanks for the answer, I get it now. :)
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10:25 If we're asking about the book, I don' think this is the right question to ask. The correct one would be "WHAT did Anna read?" → "a book". Your question asks about something that isn't there in the original sentence: WHICH book? There's only one book! There's no "which". The book has not been described, it doesn't have any special properties you could ask about.
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"Decsriptive rules" seems to be problematic to begin with. It's the same as the Problem of Induction. You take some data and describe what's happening and come to a theory concerning what the rule is. But there are always edge cases and you never find certainty (not to mention that language is literally evolving). It's almost as if you have to commit yourself to believing that the majority, or average, speaker of a language makes the rule the rule, and justifies it being the rule .. lol .. That just seems problematic to me .. I'd rather commit to a purer form of descriptivism than whatever this is
Ah! The rule that every good grammar course reminds us to forget about...
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Simply amazing.
Ending a sentence with a prepositions is UNGRAMMATICAL but NOT COLLOQUIAL. It is ungrammatical because it BREAKS THE RULES. Is that what we can describe for the question asked?
It is NOT ungrammatical to end a sentence with a preposition. I can still perfectly understand "Which student did you talk to?" Therefore, it is grammatical. If someone were to ask me, "Talk you did which student to?" out of the blue, then I would not be able to understand the question, thus making it ungrammatical. The grammaticality of a statement is largely dependent on whether the speaker and listener both understand the statement. Ending a sentence with a preposition is problematic stylistically, not grammatically. And yes, sentence-final prepositions are more common in colloquial speech than in formal speech.
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