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Chapter 5 Syntax Flashcards

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syntax

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study of how expressions can combine to form larger expressions.

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linguistic expressions

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a piece of language with a form, meaning, and syntactic properties.

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grammatical

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term used to describe a sentence that is in accordance with the descriptive grammatical rules of some language, especially syntactic rules.

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ungrammatical

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Not in accordance with the descriptive grammatical rules of some language, especially syntactic rules

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grammaticality judgement

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an instance of a native speaker of some language deciding whether some string of words corresponds to a syntactically well-formed or grammatical phrasal expression in their native language.

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subject

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an expression , typically a noun phrase that occurs to the left of the verb phrase in an English sentence

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object

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a noun phrase that usually occurs immediately to the right of the verb in English

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principle of compositionality

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the notion that the meaning of a phrasal expression is predictable from the meanings of the expressions it contains and how they are syntactically combined

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lexical expressions

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a linguistic expression that has to be listed in the mental lexicon

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phrasal expressions

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a linguistic expression that results from the syntactic combination of small expressions.

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syntactic properties

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properties of linguistic expressions that dictate how they can syntactically combine with other expressions, namely word order and co-occurrence properties

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word order

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linear order in which words can occur in some phrasal expression

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co-occurrence

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the set of syntactic properties that determines which expressions may or have co-occur with some other expressions in a sentence.

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topicalized

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a syntactic process by which a syntactic constituent occurs the beginning of a sentence in order to high-light the topic under discussion

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agrument

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a linguistic expression that must occur in a sentence if some other expressions occurs in that sentence as well.

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complements

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a noun-subject agruement of some expression

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modifiers

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see adjunct

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agreement

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the phenomenon by which certain expressions in a sentence must be inflectionally marked for the same person, number, and gender

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morphosyntax

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the name for syntac and morphology considered jointly as a single component of grammar

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syntactic constituents

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a group of linguistic expressions that function as a syntactic unit within some larger expression the smaller expressions out of which some larger phrasal expression was contructed in accordance with the phrasal structure rules.

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cleft

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a sentence that has the general form It is/was X and Y

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syntactic categories

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a group of expressions that have very similar syntactic properties. all expressions that belong to the same syntactic category have more or less the same syntactic distribution

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syntactic distribution

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refers to the set of syntactic environments in which an expression can occur. it two expressions are interchangeable in all syntactic environments we say that they have the same syntactic distributions and therefore belong to the same syntactic category

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deteminers

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consists of those expressions that when combined with an expression of category noun to theri right result in an expression of category noun phrase

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intransitive verbs

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

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transitive verbs

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the name of the syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with an expression of category noun phrase to their right result in a verb phrase

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ditransitive verbs

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name of the 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

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sentential complement verbs

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name of syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with a sentence to their right results in a verb phrase

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VP adjuncts

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a kind of adjunct that combines with an expression of syntactic category verb phrase with the resulting expression also being of category verb phrase

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N adjuncts

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

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prepositional phrase

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the name of syntactic category that consists of those expressions that contain a presposition and a noun phrase

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preposition

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this category consists of those expressions that when combined with an expression of category noun phrase to their right result in an expression of category

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lexical entries

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a respresentation of a lexical expression and its linguistic properties within a descriptive grammar of some language

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phrase structure tree

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a recipe syntactically combining expressions of certain syntactic categories

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ambiguity

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the phenomenon by which a single linguistic form can be the form of more than one distincy linguistic expression

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lexical ambiguity

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phenomenon where a single words i the form of two or more distinct linguistic expressions that differ in meaning or syntactic properties

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homophony

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phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or nonphrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form

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structural ambiguity

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phenomenon where a single sting of words is the form of more than one distinct phrasal expressions

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phrase structure rules

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

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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.

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