Syntax Flashcards
1
Q
What is syntax?
A
The rules in language used to assemble words into phrases and sentences
2
Q
The rules of syntax are extremely
______: we do not learn a list of
sentences, we learn how to _______
and ______ new ones.
A
Productive
Construct
Decode
3
Q
An example of syntactical ambiguity
A
i found a letter from [my uncle in France]
I found [a letter from my uncle] [in France]
4
Q
What are syntactic categories?
A
- parts of speech
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- Preposition
- Determiner
- Auxiliary
5
Q
What are phrasal categories?
A
the larger units/strings of words
- S
- NP
- VP
- PP
- AdjP
- AdvP
- XP
6
Q
What is recursion?
A
The process of adding on to a procedure so that there are an infinite number of outcomes
