Syntax Flashcards
syntax
sentence structure
grammar
phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic information and rules that speakers of a given language possess
pronominalisation
the substitution of a constituent by a pronoun.
pro-form
also known as pronoun
movement
test for constituency
coordination test
test that states it is
only constituents that can be coordinated by the coordinating conjunction
and
sentence-fragment test
test for a group of words that lacks one or more of three things
structural ambiguity
different interpretations arise through different sentence structures assigned to the same strings of words
head
most important element of a phrase
noun phrases
phrases headed by a noun
PPs
prepositional phrases
APs
adjective phrases
ADVPs
adverb phrases
projections
head projects its properties onto the phrase as a whole
word-classes, syntactic categories, parts-of-speech, or lexical categories
adjectives, nouns, verbs, prepositions
determiners
a larger class