chapter 5 vocabulary Flashcards
Linguistic expressions
A piece of language with a form, a meaning and syntactic properties.
grammaticality judgment
An instance of a native speaker of some language deciding whether some string of words corresponds to a syntactically well-formed expression.
Syntactic properties
Properties of linguistic expressions that dictate how they can syntactically combine with other expressions.
Syntactic constituent
A group of linguistic expressions that function as a syntactic unit within some larger expressions.
Syntactic distribution
Refers to the set of syntactic environments in which an expression can occur.
determiners
The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions.
intransitive verbs
The name for the set of lexical expressions whose syntactic category is verb phrase
Ditransitive verbs
The name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with two expressions of a category noun phrase to their right result in a verb.
Sentential complement verbs
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.
Prepositional phrase
The name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that contain a preposition and a noun phrase.
Lexicon
A mental repository of linguistic information about words and other lexical expressions.
Phrase structure rules
A recipe for syntactically expressions of certain syntactic categories.
Phrase structure tree
A visual representation of how phrases are constructed within a descriptive grammar.
Structural ambiguity
The phenomenon where a single string of words.
Homophony
The phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or nonphrasal linguistic expressions.
V P adjunct
A kind of adjunct that combines with an expression of syntactic category verb phrase.
Noun adjunct
A kind of adjunct that combines with an expression of syntactic category noun with the resulting expression also being of category noun.
Verb phrase
The name of a synaptic category that consists of all expressions which if combined with a noun phrase to their left result in a sentence.
Noun phrase
The name of a synaptic category that consists of proper names.
Cleft
A type of sentence that has the general form IT.
agreement
The phenomenon by which certain expressions in a sentence.
argument
A linguistic expression that occur in a sentence if some other expression occurs in that sentence as well.
complement
A non-subject argument of some expression
word order
The linear order in which words can occur in some phrasal expression.
Co- Occurrence
The set of synaptic properties that determines which expressions may or have to co-occur with some other expressions in a sentence.
Topicalization
A syntactic process by which a syntactic constituent occurs the beginning of a sentence in order to highlight the topic under discussion.
Modifier
A linguistic expression.
Adjuncts
A linguistic expression
Sentence
A synaptic category that consists of all perusal expression.
Transitive verb
The Name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with an expression of category noun phrase.
preposition
The name of a lexical category and a synaptic category that consists of expression such as of, in, for, with,etc.
Lexical ambiguity
The phenomenon where a single word is the form of two or more distinct linguistic expression.
Alveolar
Sound produced by raising the front of the tongue toward the alveolar ridge.
Ambiguity
The phenomenon by which a single linguistic form.
adverb
The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category.
Syntax
A component of mental grammar that deals with constructing phrasal expressions out of smaller expressions.
subject
An expression, typically a noun phrase.
object
A noun phrase that usually occurs immediately to the right of the verb in English.
principle of compositionality
The notion that the meaning of perusal expression is predictable from the meanings of the expressions it contains.
Phrasal expressions
A linguistic expression that results from the syntactic combination of smaller expressions.
