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chapter 5 vocabulary Flashcards

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Linguistic expressions

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

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grammaticality judgment

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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 expression.

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Syntactic properties

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Properties of linguistic expressions that dictate how they can syntactically combine with other expressions.

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Syntactic constituent

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A group of linguistic expressions that function as a syntactic unit within some larger expressions.

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Syntactic distribution

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Refers to the set of syntactic environments in which an expression can occur.

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determiners

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The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions.

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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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Ditransitive verbs

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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.

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Sentential complement verbs

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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.

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Prepositional phrase

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The name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that contain a preposition and a noun phrase.

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Lexicon

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A mental repository of linguistic information about words and other lexical expressions.

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Phrase structure rules

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A recipe for syntactically expressions of certain syntactic categories.

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Phrase structure tree

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A visual representation of how phrases are constructed within a descriptive grammar.

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Structural ambiguity

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The phenomenon where a single string of words.

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Homophony

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The phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or nonphrasal linguistic expressions.

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V P adjunct

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A kind of adjunct that combines with an expression of syntactic category verb phrase.

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Noun adjunct

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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.

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Verb phrase

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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.

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Noun phrase

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The name of a synaptic category that consists of proper names.

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Cleft

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A type of sentence that has the general form IT.

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agreement

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The phenomenon by which certain expressions in a sentence.

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argument

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

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complement

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A non-subject argument of some expression

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word order

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The linear order in which words can occur in some phrasal expression.

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Co- Occurrence

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

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Topicalization

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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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Modifier

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A linguistic expression.

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Adjuncts

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A linguistic expression

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Sentence

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A synaptic category that consists of all perusal expression.

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Transitive verb

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The Name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with an expression of category noun phrase.

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preposition

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The name of a lexical category and a synaptic category that consists of expression such as of, in, for, with,etc.

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Lexical ambiguity

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The phenomenon where a single word is the form of two or more distinct linguistic expression.

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Alveolar

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Sound produced by raising the front of the tongue toward the alveolar ridge.

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Ambiguity

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The phenomenon by which a single linguistic form.

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adverb

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The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category.

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Syntax

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A component of mental grammar that deals with constructing phrasal expressions out of smaller expressions.

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subject

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An expression, typically a noun phrase.

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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 perusal expression is predictable from the meanings of the expressions it contains.

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Phrasal expressions

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A linguistic expression that results from the syntactic combination of smaller expressions.

Linguistics 211 (7 decks)

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