LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Linguistic Competence, Ditransitive Verb, Universal Rule
8 Feb 2018
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Day 8: syntax- speakers" knowledge of how words are combined to form phrases and sentences, sentences are made of combined phrases, types of rules, auxiliary movement- the man is wearing a tie. Is the man wearing a tie: move the auxiliary to the front, the man that is talking to mary is wearing a tie, move the second auxiliary to the front. Is the man that is talking to mary wearing a tie: hypotheses: take the 8th word and move it to the beginning of the sentence. Unlikely because a. ) not all sentences have eight words. b. ) easy to come up with counterexamples. c. ) difficult to count words automatically every time you form a question. John drank beer and ate nachos (verb phrases) Constituents will fail them: more examples on slides, trees show how closely related various constituents are, nodes show syntactic categories.
