word categories 16

Question 1

what is syntax

Answer 1

study of sentence strucutre

Question 2

are some aspects of syntax universal?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

True or false. there is an infinite number of grammatical sentences

Answer 3

true

Question 4

are all sentences syntactically grammatical?

Answer 4

No. Dog the saw I

Question 5

What is the morphology and distribution of noun

Answer 5

morphology: plural, possessive
distribution: with determiner.

Question 6

What is the morphology and distribution of verb

Answer 6

morphology: 3rd person singular, past, progressive.
distribution: with auxiliary

Question 7

What is the morphology and distribution of adjective

Answer 7

morphology: comparative, superlative
distribution: with degree word

Question 8

What is the morphology and distribution of adverb

Answer 8

morphology: n/a
distribution: with degree word

Question 9

What is the morphology and distribution of preposition

Answer 9

morphology: n/a
distribution: with noun phrase (without)

Question 10

What is the morphology and distribution of determiner.

Answer 10

morphology: n/a
distribution: with noun (the, that)

Question 11

what is lexical category

Answer 11

transmit meaning: noun, verb, adjective, adverbs. Open category often updated.

Question 12

what is functional category

Answer 12

required by grammar of the language. Closed category, not often updated. Determiner, preposition, degree words..

Question 13

What are the categories of functional

Answer 13

complementizers: that, if, whether.
conjunctions: and, but, nor
auxiliaries: must
pronouns: I, we

Question 14

what is constituency. can they vary in length.

Answer 14

some words are more closely related together. yes they vary

Question 15

give an example where same string of words belong to different constituents in different sentences.

Answer 15

pat and sam raise llamas. Robin talked to Pat and Sam listened.

Question 16

What are the constituency tests

Answer 16

substitution, movement, coordination test.

Question 17

in substitution test, x and y are constituents, meaning that….

Answer 17

syntactic propeties of X= syntactic propeties of Y

Question 18

What can we use to replace noun phrases and verb phrases

Answer 18

They, Do so

Question 19

What is movement test

Answer 19

Constituents can be moved.

Question 20

what is Coordination test

Answer 20

constituents of same type can be coordinated using conjunction (and)

Question 21

can all syntactic categories be coordinated?

Answer 21

No, determiners cant. “a and the book”