File 5 Vocab

Question 1

linguistic expressions

Answer 1

words and phrases.

Question 2

Grammatical

Answer 2

When a string of words form a sentence of some language.

Question 3

Grammatical Judgment

Answer 3

What happens when a native speaker decides if a sentence is grammatical or not.

Question 4

Subject

Answer 4

Normally the expression to that occurs immediately before a verb.

Question 5

Principle of compositionality

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Word order

Answer 6

how expressions are allowed to be ordered with respect to one another.

Question 7

Adjuncts

Answer 7

expressions that occurrence in a sentence purely optional

Question 8

Syntactic constituent

Answer 8

certain groups of expressions within a larger phrase can form a syntactic unit.

Question 9

Cleft

Answer 9

a kind of sentence in which some constituent is displaced to the left.

Question 10

Syntactic distribution

Answer 10

When two expressions have similar syntactic properties, they are interchangeable in a sentence.

Question 11

Noun phrases

Answer 11

consists of personal pronouns, proper names, and any other expression that has the same distribution.

Question 12

Determiners

Answer 12

expressions like “the”

Question 13

verb phrase

Answer 13

consists of expressions that when combined with an NP on their left, will result in a sentence , that is an expression of category S.

Question 14

Intransitive verbs

Answer 14

verbs such as “slept” that require no complements.

Question 15

Transitive verbs

Answer 15

Verbs that require an NP complement to form a VP.

Question 16

Adverb

Answer 16

Expressions that can occur in a verb phrase as adjuncts.

Question 17

Prepositional Phrase

Answer 17

consists of a preposition and a noun phrase.

Question 18

Sentence

Answer 18

Can occur in “Sally thinks that”

Question 19

Noun

Answer 19

needs a determiner to its left to form an NP.

Question 20

Sentential complement verb

Answer 20

needs a sentential complement to form a VP.

Question 21

Prepositional Phrase

Answer 21

can be a VP or an N adjunct’ consists of a preposition and its NP complement.

Question 22

Phrase structure rules

Answer 22

used to capture patterns of syntactic combination.

Question 23

lexical ambiguity

Answer 23

where a single word corresponds to distinct expressions that differ in meaning, syntactic properties, or both.

Question 24

Homophony

Answer 24

expressions that correspond to the same single-word form.