Syntax

Question 1

Deals with structures (‘How to form a sentence’)

Answer 1

Syntax

Question 2

When the meaning of the word is unclear since it has multiple meanings, which can cause different interpretations

Answer 2

Lexical ambiguity\Semantic ambiguity

Question 3

A phrase or sentence can be interpreted in more than way due to grammatical structure.

Answer 3

Structural ambiguity\syntactic ambiguity

Question 4

They show that there are different levels in the analysis of sentence and phrases.

Answer 4

Tree diagrams

Question 5

A subject can determine a subject, verb and object.

Answer 5

Phase structure rules

Question 6

Grammar operates by generating a set of abstract deep structures, subsequently converting these underlying representations into by applying a set of transformational rules.

Answer 6

surface structure

Question 7

It is the abstract syntactic representation of a sentence - an underlying level of structural organization which specifies all the factors governing the way the sentence should be interpreted.

Answer 7

deep structure

Question 8

A lexical rule is in a form of syntactic rule used within many theories of natural language syntax. These rules alter the argument structures of lexical items.

Answer 8

Lexical rules

Question 9

The standard theory of the generating of sentences. It is a top-down approach by creating sentences by using phrase structure rules and 3 branches from one node are possible.

Answer 9

Generative Syntax

Question 10

It lies in the syntactic structure and can usually either mean that a PP refers either to an NP adjunction or a VP adjunction.

Answer 10

Ambiguity

Question 11

is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words that forms the basic elements of a language’s lexicon (vocabulary)

Answer 11

Lexical item