Timeline for Is the following sentence a parallel structure?
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| Aug 29, 2016 at 13:40 | vote | accept | Franks V. Maia | ||
| Aug 29, 2016 at 13:17 | answer | added | Arch Denton | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 12:40 | history | edited | Franks V. Maia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 12:40 | comment | added | Franks V. Maia | @BillJ, thank you for your comment. What made me confused was looking at the syntax structure of the noun phrases, instead of considering them as NP and went ahead. I was expecting a indefinite article after but also..., so it could be "perfectly" parallel with goes after *not only.... I shouldn't be so strict, I guess. | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 11:46 | comment | added | BillJ | I'm not aware of it being a vexed issue. Here, "lots" is a quantificational noun as head with an of PP as complement; at word-level "lots" and "of" are separate constituents (noun head + prep as part of complement).The "lots" in "lots of presents" is a number-transparent noun in that the number of the noun in the PP complement (i.e."presents") determines the verb agreement: "Lots of presents were received". Cf. "Lots of work was done". | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 10:49 | comment | added | DyingIsFun | @BillJ, the syntax of "determiners" is a (very) vexed issue in syntax. Probably always will be. Suffice it to say that many treat "lots of" as a quantifier and hence determiner. Here's an example of it being called a quantifier: dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/…. Also, there's nothing wrong with determiners being composed of nouns (for example "lots"). For example, "The dog's" is a complex determiner composed of a definite article, the noun "dog" and a possessive -'s', or "John's". | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 6:04 | comment | added | BillJ | @Franks T. Maia Your sentence is fine, The coordinates are structurally alike (parallel) in that they are both noun phrases. What makes you think they are not parallel? | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 5:59 | comment | added | BillJ | @Silenus. "Lots of" is not a determiner. "Lots" is a quantificational noun taking an of preposition phrase as complement. | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 2:09 | comment | added | Franks V. Maia | Thank you for pointing another mistake of mine! I did a google search now and realized that an indefinite article is a determiner. So my mistake was nor considering the "lots of" as a determiner. | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 2:05 | comment | added | Centaurus | "indefinite article", not "definite". | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 0:52 | vote | accept | Franks V. Maia | ||
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 0:51 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 0:49 | comment | added | Franks V. Maia | So my mistake was classifying a as a definite article instead of a determiner. Thank you, Mr. @Silenius. | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 0:43 | comment | added | DyingIsFun | What do you mean by "same form"? a Christmas tree has the form DETERMINER ('a') + NOUN ('Christmas tree'). lots of presents has the same form DETERMINER ('lots of') + NOUN ('presents'). It depends on how strictly you interpret "same" and the level of granularity of "form". | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 0:19 | history | asked | Franks V. Maia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |