Syntax 1 Flashcards
1
Q
what is a sentence made up of
A
phrases, which may in turn contain other phrases
2
Q
Constituents of the same type can appear in the same places as each other
A
“they have have the same distribution”
3
Q
Languages differ in their syntax
A
but the principles of hierarchical composition are the same
4
Q
semantic properties
A
the meaning of the word
5
Q
phonological properties
A
pronunciation distinction + syntactic properties
6
Q
Grammatical functions are encoded in english
A
most commonly by the syntactic structure
7
Q
Syncretism
A
the merging of different inflectional varieties of a word
