Chapter 5 - Syntax

Question 1

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Determiners

Answer 1

Words that introduce nouns and specify them
(e.g., “the,” “a,” “this”)

Question 2

Index

Answer 2

Used for pointing to people or objects, establishing reference and context in conversations

Question 3

Prepositions

Answer 3

Signs like “on,” “in,” “around,” and “below” articulate spatial relationships, helping to convey where things are in relation to one another.

Question 4

Conjunctions

Answer 4

Words like “and,” “but,” “or,” and “so” connect ideas, allowing for more complex sentences and clear transitions between thoughts.

Question 5

Plasticity

Answer 5

This idea is highlighted by whether a language emphasizes the words themselves or their arrangement to distinguish the focus of an utterance

Question 6

Rigid Plasticity
[-plastic]

Answer 6

• Must shift ordering on syntactic elements in a sentence in order to ensure the phrase receiving the informational focus is in clause-final position
• ASL is a [-plastic] language
• Russian, Catalan

Question 7

Flexible Plasticity
[+plastic]

Answer 7

• Intonational pitch cooccurs with the phrase being prominently focused
• English is [+plastic]
• Dutch, GermanExample: The dog chewed up my shoes.

Question 8

Syntatic Structures w/ Brow Raise

Answer 8

• Yes/No interrogatives
• Conditionals
• Topic-comment
• Topicalization
• Negation
• Rhetorical questions

Brow Furrow (only WH-questions)