Productivity and Grammar Flashcards
theory of what languages are built up of?
- finite set of building blocks
- grammar
- together they generate an infinite number of utterances
what are free morphemes?
can stand alone
what are bound morphemes?
must be combined w another morpheme
example of free and combined morphemes?
- free: eat, date, weak
- bound: -sent in the word dissent
what is recursion in a sentence?
we can add to a sentence by embedding new phrases
what is iteration in a sentence?
adding new phrases at the end
what is finite state grammar?
sentences consist of a chain of associations
- grammar based idea that a sentence is a chain of words, w each word determined by the immediate proceeding word
who favored FSG?
skinner
what does FSG lack?
the ability to account for long-distance dependancies
what is transformational grammar?
sentences are a grouping of words
what is the goal of transformational grammar?
to describe the universal aspects of syntactic knowledge
what has transformational grammar done for sentences?
major aspect of linguistic knowledge we have depicted as set of rules for sentence creation
transformational grammar phrase structure rules?
describe the rules of arrangement for sentence elements
what is lexical knowledge? (TG)
knowledge of words
what does the deep structure express? (TG)
relationships among sentence elements
(independent of how sentence was started)
