LING202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cupcake
30 Jan 2019
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Rules that describe how words are combined to form phrases. Write a template that describes sentence structure. A model that describe a speaker"s knowledge about sentence structure, a model that accounts for speaker"s syntactic competence. (a phrase) (meaningful because it can be the answer to a question) What are you going to do tonight. Can any two words be combined to form a phrase/sentence/bigger expression: no, the give. What determines whether two words can be grammatically combined: some combos work and some don"t, strange ideas, beauty ideas (not ok, green ideas, depends on what type of words. Snakes + bark = ok (even though not true, still grammatical) Combine two units to form a bigger expression. Ex- combine two words to form a phrase, or combine a subject and predicate expression to form a clause. Syntactic categories: sentences are structured out of categories, words to phrases to clauses, words belong to different categories, so do phrases, word categories i.
