vocab terms 5

Question 1

syntax

Answer 1

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

Question 2

linguistic expressions

Answer 2

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

Question 3

principal of compositionality

Answer 3

the notion that the meaning of phrasal expression is predictable from the meanings of expressions it contains and how they were syntactically combined

Question 4

lexical expressions

Answer 4

linguistic expression that has to be listed in mental lexicon

Question 5

syntactic properties

Answer 5

properties of linguistic expressions that dictate how syntactically combine with expressions

Question 6

word order

Answer 6

linear order words occur in some phrasal expression

Question 7

co-occurance

Answer 7

set of syntactic properties that determines which expressions may or havt to co occur

Question 8

topicalized

Answer 8

syntactical constituent occurs at the begging of a sentence to highlight topic

Question 9

argument

Answer 9

occurs in a sentence if some other expression occurs in that sentence as well

Question 10

adjuncts

Answer 10

linguistic expression whose occurrence in a sentence is optional

Question 11

modifiers

Answer 11

linguistic expression whose occurrence in a sentence is optional

Question 12

agreement

Answer 12

certain expressions in a sentence must be inflectionally marked for the same person, number, gender

Question 13

syntactic constituent

Answer 13

syntactic unit within some larger expression

Question 14

morphosyntax

Answer 14

jointly as a single component of grammar

Question 15

cleft

Answer 15

sentence that has the general form

Question 16

substitution

Answer 16

constituity test that involves replacing a constituent with a single word

Question 17

pro-forms

Answer 17

word replaces a syntactic constituent

Question 18

syntactic categories

Answer 18

group of expressions that have very similar syntactic properties

Question 19

syntactic distribution

Answer 19

syntactic envronments in which ann expression can occur

Question 20

noun phrases

Answer 20

syntactic category consists of proper naes and pronouns

Question 21

nouns

Answer 21

lexical category and syntactic category

Question 22

determiners

Answer 22

lexical category that consitis of expressions

Question 23

count nouns

Answer 23

noun that can be counted

Question 24

mass nouns

Answer 24

noun that can be counted and cannot

Question 25

verb phrase

Answer 25

syntactic category that consists of all combined expressions

Question 26

intransitive verbs

Answer 26

lexical expressions whose syntactic category is a verb phrase

Question 27

transitive verbs

Answer 27

lexical expressions whose syntactic category is a verb phrase

Question 28

sentential complement verbs

Answer 28

combined to form verb phrase

Question 29

preposition

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consistits of expressions of, in, for, with

Question 30

prepositional phrase

Answer 30

expressions that contain preposition and a noun phrase

Question 31

VP adjuncts

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if combined with a noun phrase to their left results in sentence

Question 32

N adjuncts

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proper names, pronouns, and all other expressions with same syntactic distribution

Question 33

lexical entries

Answer 33

linguistic properties within a discriptive grammar of some language

Question 34

phrase structure rules

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combing expressions of certain syntactic categories

Question 35

phrase structure tree

Answer 35

phrases are constructed with a descriptive grammar

Question 36

ambiguity

Answer 36

phenomenon by which a single linguistic form more than one linguisic expression

Question 37

ambiguous

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phenomenon by which a single linguistic form more than one linguisic expression

Question 38

lexical ambiguity

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single words forms two or more distinct lingusictic expressions

Question 39

homophony

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two or more distinct morphemes have same form

Question 40

structural ambiguity

Answer 40

single string of words is the form of more than one distinct phrasal expression