LING 1000 Lecture 10: LING1000 Lecture Note 10 Fall 2017
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The property of a given category occurring within itself (either directly or indirectly) [the house on the corner] is for sale. [the house on the corner of the street] is for sale. The recursive property of language allows for the construction and interpretation of a limitless number of di erent syntactic structures. Principal types of recursive structures are those formed by means of coordination and subordination. The joining of two or more categories by means of a primary conjunction (and, or, but) Conjoined categories can be phrasal or word level categories. I met that [woman and her husband] np+np. Stan went [up the hill and over the ridge] pp+pp. Fred went [up and over the hill] p+p. In general, only categories of the same syntactic type can be conjoined grammatically. Conjunction structures form a constituent and have the following generalized structure (where x is either a phrase level or word level category) Complex sentence: consists of two or more clauses.
