chapter 5 vocabulary

Question 1

Linguistic expressions

Answer 1

A piece of language with a form, a meaning and syntactic properties.

Question 2

grammaticality judgment

Answer 2

An instance of a native speaker of some language deciding whether some string of words corresponds to a syntactically well-formed expression.

Question 3

Syntactic properties

Answer 3

Properties of linguistic expressions that dictate how they can syntactically combine with other expressions.

Question 4

Syntactic constituent

Answer 4

A group of linguistic expressions that function as a syntactic unit within some larger expressions.

Question 5

Syntactic distribution

Answer 5

Refers to the set of syntactic environments in which an expression can occur.

Question 6

determiners

Answer 6

The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions.

Question 7

intransitive verbs

Answer 7

The name for the set of lexical expressions whose syntactic category is verb phrase

Question 8

Ditransitive verbs

Answer 8

The name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with two expressions of a category noun phrase to their right result in a verb.

Question 9

Sentential complement verbs

Answer 9

The name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with a sentence to their right result in a verb phrase.

Question 10

Prepositional phrase

Answer 10

The name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that contain a preposition and a noun phrase.

Question 11

Lexicon

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A mental repository of linguistic information about words and other lexical expressions.

Question 12

Phrase structure rules

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A recipe for syntactically expressions of certain syntactic categories.

Question 13

Phrase structure tree

Answer 13

A visual representation of how phrases are constructed within a descriptive grammar.

Question 14

Structural ambiguity

Answer 14

The phenomenon where a single string of words.

Question 15

Homophony

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The phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or nonphrasal linguistic expressions.

Question 16

V P adjunct

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A kind of adjunct that combines with an expression of syntactic category verb phrase.

Question 17

Noun adjunct

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A kind of adjunct that combines with an expression of syntactic category noun with the resulting expression also being of category noun.

Question 18

Verb phrase

Answer 18

The name of a synaptic category that consists of all expressions which if combined with a noun phrase to their left result in a sentence.

Question 19

Noun phrase

Answer 19

The name of a synaptic category that consists of proper names.

Question 20

Cleft

Answer 20

A type of sentence that has the general form IT.

Question 21

agreement

Answer 21

The phenomenon by which certain expressions in a sentence.

Question 22

argument

Answer 22

A linguistic expression that occur in a sentence if some other expression occurs in that sentence as well.

Question 23

complement

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A non-subject argument of some expression

Question 24

word order

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The linear order in which words can occur in some phrasal expression.

Question 25

Co- Occurrence

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The set of synaptic properties that determines which expressions may or have to co-occur with some other expressions in a sentence.

Question 26

Topicalization

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A syntactic process by which a syntactic constituent occurs the beginning of a sentence in order to highlight the topic under discussion.

Question 27

Modifier

Answer 27

A linguistic expression.

Question 28

Adjuncts

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A linguistic expression

Question 29

Sentence

Answer 29

A synaptic category that consists of all perusal expression.

Question 30

Transitive verb

Answer 30

The Name of a syntactic category that consists of those expressions that if combined with an expression of category noun phrase.

Question 31

preposition

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The name of a lexical category and a synaptic category that consists of expression such as of, in, for, with,etc.

Question 32

Lexical ambiguity

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The phenomenon where a single word is the form of two or more distinct linguistic expression.

Question 33

Alveolar

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Sound produced by raising the front of the tongue toward the alveolar ridge.

Question 34

Ambiguity

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The phenomenon by which a single linguistic form.

Question 35

adverb

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The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category.

Question 36

Syntax

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A component of mental grammar that deals with constructing phrasal expressions out of smaller expressions.

Question 37

subject

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An expression, typically a noun phrase.

Question 38

object

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A noun phrase that usually occurs immediately to the right of the verb in English.

Question 39

principle of compositionality

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The notion that the meaning of perusal expression is predictable from the meanings of the expressions it contains.

Question 40

Phrasal expressions

Answer 40

A linguistic expression that results from the syntactic combination of smaller expressions.