Linguistic Essentials Study Guide: Slide 3: In the examples on the slides and in lecture, be able to identify the parts of speech we discussed Slides 4 and 5: Be able to create structures according to the grammar (the leafs give you the sentence). And example is given to you. Slide 6: understand the wh-extraction examples given to you (the general phenomenon is more complex; at this point just be sure to understand the examples) Slide 8: learn what 'subcategorization' means. Look up some words in FrameNet (google FrameNet; FrameNet Data; Lexical Unit Index). Click on "annotation" next to a word-sense you are interested in, and try to understand the semantic roles. You won't be able to understand much about the syntactic information. Slide 9: Understand the ambiguities of the example sentences Slides 10-13: Know in detail what was covered in lecture (slides + on the board)