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Intro Slides
What is syntax,
Goal of syntax,
What counts as syntactic evidence
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Word Classes
Criteria for defining word classes,
Word classes not found in english,
This word class in english looks ...
19
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Clauses and Subordination
Whats the difference between,
What s the difference between a s...,
What does finiteness indicate
19
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Heads & Dependents
What is a phrase,
Criteria for determining the head 6,
Two types of branching
5
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Constituency
Two types of ambiguity,
What is a constituent,
Name constituency tests
14
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Grammatical Relations
There are two types of arguments,
Languages use three different str...,
What is it called when a language...
13
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Valency-Changing Operations
Languages make intransitive verbs...,
Languages make transitive verbs i...,
What are the two valency changing...
14
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Information Structure
What is the study of information ...,
What s the assumption of composit...,
What s the assumption of idiomati...
6
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Construction Grammar
Speakers must learn idiomatic phr...,
Idioms can be classified into dif...,
What is the difference between de...
9
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Midterm Review
What do we call the format used i...,
What do we call languages that do...,
What do we call a sentence in whi...
23
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Final Review
Which word class is most likely t...,
What is the semantic role of the ...,
What do we call a verb that does ...
34
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Readings
Tomasello,
Goldberg,
Chompsky
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