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Chapter 5 Flashcards

1
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The phenomenon by which certain expressions in a sentence must be inflectionally marked for the same person, number, gender, etc.

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Phenomenon

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Adjuncts are sometimes called this.

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Modifiers

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A kind of sentence in which some constituent is displaced (or moved) to the left.

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Cleft

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The arguments of coordinating conjunctions.

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Conjuncts

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5
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When such expressions can occur in almost all the same syntactic environments.

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Syntactic distribution

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A syntactic category that consists of all phrasal expressions that can grammatically occur.

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Sentence

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The name of a syntactic category that consists of proper names, pronouns, and al other expressions with the same syntactic distribution.

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Noun phrase

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The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as the, a, this, all, etc.

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Determiner

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The name for the set of lexical expressions whose syntactic category is verb phrase.

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Intransitive verbs

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The name of the syntactic category that consists of all expressions which if combined with a noun phrase to their left result in a sentence.

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Verb phrase

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The name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with two expressions of category noun phrase to their right result in a verb phrase; a verb that needs two noun phrase complements.

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Ditransitive verb

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The name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with a sentence to their right result in a verb phrase; a verb that needs a sentence as its complement.

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Sentential complement verb

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A representation of a lexical expressions and its linguistic properties within a descriptive grammar of some language.

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Lexical entries

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These are used to capture patterns of syntactic combination.

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Phrase structure rules.

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Where lexical expressions are assigned to syntactic categories.

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Lexicon

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When a linguistic form means they can correspond to more than one distinct expression.

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Ambiguous

17
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The phenomenon where a single word is the form of two or more distinct linguistic expression that differ in meaning or syntactic properties.

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Lexical ambiguity

18
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The phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or non phrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form.

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Homophony

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This is used to display the way that a sentence is built up from lexical expressions using the phrase structure rules.

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Phrase structure tree

20
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A reflection of speakers’ mental grammar, and not a test of their conscious knowledge of the prescriptive rules.

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Grammaticality judgment

21
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The expression that usually occurs immediately to the left of the verb.

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Subject

22
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The expression that usually occurs immediately to the right of the verb.

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Object

23
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The fact that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the expressions it contains and on the way they are syntactically combined.

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Principle of compositionally

24
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Non-subject arguments

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Complements

25
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The certain kinds of expressions whose occurrence in a sentence is purely optional.

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Adjuncts

26
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The idea that certain groups of expressions within a larger phrase can form a syntactic unit.

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Syntactic constituent

27
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When a string of words really does form a sentence of some language.

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Grammatical

28
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When some string of words does not form a sentence.

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Ungrammatical

29
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What are words and phrases called?

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Linguistic expressions

30
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A syntactic process by which a syntactic constituent occurs the beginning of a sentence in order to highlight the topic under discussion.

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Topicalization

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Distinct expressions in a sentence may be required to have the same value for some grammatical feature at which case we say that they agree with respect to that feature.

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Agreement

32
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The name of morphology and syntax that is referred to the tightly related components of grammar.

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Morpho-syntax

33
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Similar but distinct from the traditional notions of parts of speech or lexical categories.

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Syntactic categories

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The name of a lexical category and syntactic category. Morphologically, consists, of words to which the comparative suffix -er of the suffix -ness can be added.

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Adjective

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The name of a lexical category and syntactic category that consists of expressions such as quickly, well, ferociously, etc.

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Adverb

36
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Words like with, down, on, in, etc are what kind of phrases?

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Preposition phrases

37
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Adverbs combined with a VP to form an expression of category VP.

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VP adjuncts

38
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Adverbs that can be combined with a noun.

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N adjuncts

39
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How sentences and other phrases can be constructed out of similar phrases and words.

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Syntax

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