ACS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canadian Tire, Adverb, Linguistic Prescription

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 106
• Professor: Dana Osborne

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Distinguish between: descriptive grammar vs, bad grammar: generally unattested in the language, prescriptive grammar: good vs, bad manners: situationally inappropriate grammar, bad style: unintentionally confusing grammar, bad attitude: overly prescriptive grammar. ** double negatives: syntax: the study of phrase and sentence structures, semantics: the study of word (lexical), phrase and sentence (compositional) meanings. Phrase structure rules determine the following: what constituents can go into a phrase, how the constituents are ordered in the phrase. Ma(cid:455) (cid:271)e read, (cid:862)a (cid:272)o(cid:374)sists of c optio(cid:374)all(cid:455) pre(cid:272)eded (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:894)b(cid:895) a(cid:374)d optio(cid:374)all(cid:455) followed (cid:271)(cid:455) o(cid:374)e or (cid:373)ore i(cid:374)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es of d(cid:863) Phrase structure: clasue/sentence cl/s np (aux) vp, noun phrase np (det) (adjp) n (xp, determiner/aricle, verb phrase, auxilliary, adjective phrase, adverb phrase, prepositonal phr, degree, complement phr. The ducks with yellow beaks will eat the stale bread. The boy with the hat sat on the mushroom with green spots. The white horse ran out the door monday.