LING 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Policja, Pro-Form, Cleft Sentence
21 May 2019
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Lecture notes - intro to language & linguistics. Constituent structure reveals how the sentence functions syntactically. [at 8 pm in the evening: clefting - constituent moved to the beginning of a clause, introduced by it was . It was [john and amy] that: coordination: another full syntactic constituent of the same type is added to the possible constituent. [the polish police] and [the hungarian army: substitution: substitute with a pro-form, replace with a pronoun. Constituent tests demonstrate how word-forms are organized rst as a smaller phrasal units within a sentence: allow you to isolate why a sentence is ungrammatical. Describe the syntactic structure of sentences cross-linguistically: 2. Determine the basis of constituency in a language: 3. Syntactic categories are not/cannot be de ned by semantic criteria -- not always reliable. Tuesday, may 21, 2019: please sugar (v) your coffee. " vs. sugar (n) is a sweetener. ".
