Chapter 4 Flashcards
What two rules govern grammar?
Morphology and syntax
What is syntax?
Rules that define how words are sequenced to convey meaning.
What is grammar? (2 things)
- Finite set of rules
2. Defines the construction of all possible sentences
What theory is the most well known on developing grammar?
Theory of Universal Grammar
Noam Chomsky
What is the refinement of Universal Grammer?
Government and Binding Theory
What are two goals of any theory of grammer?
Universality
Learnability
What are the two levels of Government and Binding Theory?
D-structure and S-structure
What two forms does s-structure contain?
Phonetic form
Logical form
What are the components of d-structure?
Phrase structure rules
Lexicon
In syntactic theory, it is believed that all phrases have a central component or __________.
Head
The head of a clause is thought to be a syntactic category called?
Infl
Inflection
Infl is considered to be a __________ category and contrast the ________ categories which includes nouns and verbs.
Functional
Lexical (members are content words)
What are two functional categories?
Complementizer and infl
Rules that describe how one sentence can be transformed to create a closely related sentence are called ____________ _________ and connects the d-structure to the s-structure.
Transformational rules
