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What is syntax?
structure and formation of phrases and sentences
What is syntax similar to, interms of hierarchical structure, order, and meaning?
morphology
What are words normally compared to when being assessed?
morphemes
What are grammaticality judgments associated with?
syntactic knowledge
What else is missing in the list of syntactic knowledge?
- grammaticality judgments
co-occurrence: argument vs. adjunct, agreement
- syntactic constituents and categories
- hierarchical structure
- phrase structure rules
- structural ambiguity
word order
What is co-occurrence?
requirement that X co-occur with y
What parts of speech iare associated with co-occurrence?
verbs and nouns
What do all verbs require?
a subject
e.g., [The boy] rested
Certain verbs require an…?
object
e.g., Max feels [happy]
What is an argument aided by?
a verb
e.g., John devoured the [large] pizza
What is an adjunct?
an optional element
What requires obligatoriness: arguments or adjuncts?
arguments
e. g., Sally seemed happy
* Sally seemed
* seemed happy
What requires uniqueness: arguments or adjuncts?
arguments
e.g., *Maria put the book/ the magazine on the table
What requires ordering: arguments or adjuncts?
arguments
e.g., Sally put the table on the book
What do co-occurrence agreements require?
morphological requirements between a verb and its subject argument, or a noun and its determiner
e.g., must agree with person, #, gender, etc.
What are these categories under?
- subject-verb
- determiner-noun
agreement
What is the order for constituents?
words - phrases - clauses - sentences
At each level words are organized into united, called…
constituents
Constituents reveal how sentences are…
structured
Tests to determine whether a string of words forms a constituent or not include:
- question-answer
- clefting
- pro-form substitution
- topicalization
Constituents can serve as an answer to a…
question
Constituents can be _____ to the beginning of a sentence
clefted
e.g., the cat was sleeping on the desk .
it was the cat that was…
Constituents can be moved to the _____ of the sentence as a topic
the beginnig
e.g., Morris really loves green bananas.
or Green bananas, Morris really loves __.
When constituents can be moved to the beginning of the sentence as a topic, what is this process?
topicalization
Constituents can be replaced by pro-forms, using ______ or ____
pronouns, proverbs
That which constituents can be replaced by to form pronouns, proverbs
pro-form substitution
What are grammaticality jdugments?
judgments on whether a sentence is grammatical or ungrammatical (well-formed or ill-formed)
What helps to reognize violations of syntactic rules?
grammaticality judgments
What are properties of grammaticality judgments:
- shared by all speakers of a language
- can apply to sentences never heard before
- not dependent on meaning of sentence
- not dependent on truth of sentence
- not based on explicit instruction
Every word belongs to a
lexical category
N =
noun
V =
verb
Adj =
adjective
Adv =
adverb
Det =
determiner (the, an)
P =
preposition (at, by)
Aux =
auxiliary verb
Pron =
pronoun (she, he)
Conj =
conjunction (and, or)
Words belonging to the same lexical category function in the ____ way
same
___ refer to real, imaginary and abstract gthings, substances, people, places, actions, events
nouns
If ___ can be counted, may form plural by adding -s
nouns
If nouns can be counted, may form plural by adding -
s
___ can occur with the, these
nouns
___ can be modified by adjectives
nouns
Nouns can be modified by __
adjectives
____ refer to action, events, processes, states of being
verbs
___ express time with particular forms: -ed, sang
verbs