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File 5 Flashcards

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Syntax

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Has to do with how many sentences and other phrases can be contruscted out of smaller phrases and words.

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Linguistic expressions

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Just a piece of language that has a certain form, a certain meaning and some syntactic properties.

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Grammatical

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When a string of words really does form a sentence of some language.

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Ungrammatical

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String of words does not form a sentence.

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Grammatically Judgement

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Reflection of speakers; mental grammar and not a test of conscious knowledge of prescriptive rules.

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Subject

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Expression that occurs immediately to the left of the verb

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Object

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Occurs immediately to the right of the verb

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Principle of Compositionality

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The fact that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the expressions it contians and on the Amy they are syntactically combined.

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Syntactic Properties

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Expressions that determine their behavior.

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Word Order

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How expressions allowed to be ordered with respect to another.

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Co-occurrence

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Some expressions occurs in a sentence.

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Topicalized

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OSV word order.

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Modifiers

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The adjective small modifies the meaning of dogs. Adjuncts.

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Agreement

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Same value for grammatical feature in which case we say that they agree with respect to that feature.

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Morphosyntax

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Morphology and syntax are often seen as tightly related components of grammar and sometimes even considered and reffered to jointly.

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Syntactic Constituent

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Phrasal expression are the smaller expressions out of which the phrase was constructed.

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Cleft

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A kind of sentence in which some constituent is displaced to the left.

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Syntactic Categories

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Distinct from the traditional notions of parts of speech or lexical categories.

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Syntactic Distribution

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Expressions that can occur in almost all the Sam syntactic enviornment.

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Sentence

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Consists of expressions tha can occur in the following syntactic enviornment.

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Noun Phrases

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Consists of personal pronouns, proper names, and any other expressions that have the same distribution.

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Noun

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Expressions such as desk and cat belong to the syntactic category

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Determiners

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Nouns can occur with.

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Adjectives

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Noun phrases that contain attributive.

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Verb Phrases

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Consist of those expressions that when combine with an BP on their left, will result in a sentence.

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Intransitive Verbs

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Require no complements

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Transitive Verbs

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Verbs such as liked which require an NP complement to form a VP

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Ditransitive Verbs

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Verbs such as gave belong to he syntactic category

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Sentential Complement Verbs

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Verbs that require a complement of category S to form a VP such as thought.

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Adverb

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Expressions that can occur in a verb phrase adjuncts of the category.

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Lexicon

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A sign lexical expressions to syntactic categories.

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Phrase structure rules

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Capture patterns of syntactic combination.

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PHrase Structure Tree

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Display the way that a sentence is built up form lexical expressions.

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Homophony

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Expressions that correspond to the Sam esingle-word form are said to be homophonous.

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Structural Ambiguity

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THe sentence which the PP is a noun adjunct and modifies man means that the man whom the cop aw had binoculars.

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Ambiguous

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They can correspond to more than one distinct expression.

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VP Adjuncts

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Adverbs combine with a VP to form an expression of category VP.

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N Adjuncts

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Both adverbs and attributive adjectives combine with expressions of certain categories.

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Lexical Entries

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NP -> She
NP -> Fluffy
NP -> Sally

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Lexical Ambiuity

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A single word corresponds to distinct expressions that differ in meaning, syntactic properties.

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