LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Adpositional Phrase, Preposition And Postposition, Adjective Phrase
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Constituency tests determine which words form a unit and which don"t. Determining phrase structure rules: constituency tests to determine the structure of individual sentences, draw trees for each sentence, formulate rules based on trees. Lexical categories: the bottom level of a tree. Phrasal categories: the upper levels of a tree. Noun phrase (np): appears as a subject or an object. If there is a noun in the phrase, that category is a noun phrase. Cats" is considered as the noun, which makes the phrase a noun phrase since it is the main word of the phrase: np rules can either be: Np det, n: for example: the woman followed the actor. (the is a determiner and woman is a noun, general rule: np (det) (adjp) n (pp) The order of the lexical categories matter. Can"t have a noun and then determiner: np np conj np. Prepositional phrase (pp): pp p np.
