Week 10: Morphology and Syntax

Question 1

What does syntactic structure determine?

Answer 1

Interpretation

Question 2

Where are the rules of syntax stored?

Answer 2

In an individual’s “mental grammar” (I-language)

Question 3

What is a super constituent?

Answer 3

The sentence as a whole

Question 4

Where do complements in English appear in comparison to the head of a phrase?

Answer 4

They appear on the right of the head

Question 5

What are heads and complements called when they merge?

Answer 5

Sister nodes

Question 6

How many heads can a projection have?

Answer 6

Only one

Question 7

What must a complement be?

Answer 7

a phrase

Question 8

What is an adjunct?

Answer 8

an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not structurally affect the remainder of the sentence

Question 9

If a phrase in a constituent is not required by the head as its complement, it is represented as what?

Answer 9

an adjunct

Question 10

Does a transitive verb take a complement?

Answer 10

Yes

Question 11

Does an intransitive verb take a complement?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

What does adjunction do?

Answer 12

takes two ready-made phrases and assembles them together to form another phrase