Chapter 5

Question 1

Syntax

Answer 1

How sentences and other phrases can be constructed out of smaller phrases and words

Question 2

Linguistic Expression

Answer 2

A piece of language

Question 3

grammatical

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When a string of words forms a sentence in some language, ie syntactically well-formed

Question 4

Principle of compositionality

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

Question 5

grammaticality judgment.

Answer 5

Native speakers of a given language uniquely qualified to decide if a string of words is grammatically correct in their native langauge.

Question 6

Topicalized sentence

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A syntactic constituent occurs at the beginning of a sentence in order to highlight the topic under discussion.
Creates a VSO word order

Question 7

Argument

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A linguistic expression that must occur in a sentence if some other expression occurs in that sentence as well. If the occurrence of an expression X in a sentence requires the occurrence of an expression Y in that sentence, we say that Y is an argument of X.

Question 8

Complement

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A non-subject argument of some expression.

Question 9

adjunct

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optional expression to describe a noun, also known as modifiers.

Question 10

Types of adjuncts

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Attributive adjective: Small dog, small furry dog

Adjunct modifying a grammatically correct existing sentence: Sally’s cat was sleeping (on the desk)

Question 11

Agreement

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Expressions in a sentence must be inflectionally marked for the same person, number, gender.

Question 12

morphosyntax.

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syntax and morphology considered jointly as a single component of grammar.

Question 13

syntactic constituent

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smaller expressions out of which the phrase was constructed. Sally went to France (In July). Sally devoured (an apple).

Question 14

Cleft constituent test

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A constituent is displaced, or moved to the left.

Question 15

constituent substitution test

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smaller expressions out of which the phrase was constructed

Question 16

Pro-form constituent test

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A word (e.g., a pronoun) that can replace a syntactic constituent. The cat (she)..
On the desk (there)

Question 17

Syntactic category

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a set of expressions that have very similar syntactic properties; that is, they have approximately the same word order and co-occurrence requirements

Question 18

Syntactic Distribution

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If two expressions are interchangeable in all syntactic environments, we say that they have the same syntactic distribution and therefore belong to the same syntactic category

Question 19

Sentence (S)

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A syntactic category that consists of all phrasal expressions that can grammatically occur in Sally thinks that ______.Edition.

Question 20

Noun Phrases (NP)

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consists of personal pronouns (he, she, you, it, we, etc.), proper names, and any other expressions that have the same distribution.

Question 21

Count nouns

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Nouns that are able to be counted or pluralized. (one cat, five cats, cats, desks) Singular from, must have determiner.

Question 22

Mass nouns

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cannot be counted, and not normally pluralized. ex: advice, gravel. Can occur without a determiner.

Question 23

Demonstrative determiners

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this, that, these, those

Question 24

Possessive determiners

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my, your, his, her, our etc

Question 25

Quantificational determiners

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a, some, the, every, all few, most etc

Question 26

Determiner

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Any expression that can be combined with a noun to its right to form an expression of a category NP. “some” is a determiner of “some cat.”

Question 27

Adjectives (adj)

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Occur between a determiner and a noun in an NP

Question 28

Verb Phrase (VP)

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Expressions, that when combined with NP on the left will result in a sentence.

Question 29

Intransitive verbs

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Verbs that require not complements, in the VP category still though.

Question 30

transitive verbs (TV)

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Verbs that require a NP complement to form a VP, such as “liked”

Question 31

ditransitive verbs (DTV)

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syntactic category 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. Sally “gave” Bob (what?) a book. Bob and book, were needed for “gave.”

Question 32

Sentential Complement Verb

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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.

Question 33

Adverb (Adv)

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syntactic category that consists of expressions such as quickly, well, furiously, etc. Syntactically, adverbs can be verb phrase adjuncts.

Question 34

VP adjuncts

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adverbs combine with a VP to form an expression of category VP,

Question 35

N adjuncts

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A kind of adjunct that combines with an expression of syntactic category noun with the resulting expression also being of category noun

Question 36

Prepositional Phrase (PP)

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syntactic category that consists of those expressions that contain a preposition and a noun phrase. Can be verb phrase adjuncts or noun adjuncts.

Question 37

Preposition (P)

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lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as of, down, on, over, under, in, for, from, of, at with, etc.

Question 38

Lexical entry

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consists of a syntactic category name followed by an arrow followed by a word. Or use {..,…,…} to the right of the arrow for multiple entries

Question 39

Phrase Structure rules

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used to capture patterns of syntactic combination. They are similar in form to lexical entries, except that they contain only names of syntactic categories; they do not contain any actual linguistic forms.

Question 40

Phrase Structure tree

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A visual representation of how phrases are constructed within a descriptive grammar, given the lexicon and the phrase structure rules.

Question 41

Ambiguity

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when the same expressions can combine in different ways, resulting in distinct phrases that nevertheless have exactly the same form. Words like bank (BofA or river) or walk (they walk, I went for a walk) have different meaning based on syntax in sentence.

Question 42

Homophony

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two or more distinct morphemes or nonphrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form, i.e., sound the same, but have different meaning

Question 43

Structural Ambiguity

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a single string of words (or morphemes) is the form of more than one distinct phrasal expression (or word). Arises because the same expressions can combine differently syntactically, resulting in distinct phrases that happen to have the same form.