LING 240- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 103 pages long!)

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 240
• Professor: Margaret Antonisse

Document Summary

Nature vs. nurture: it"s universal, distinguishing feature that separates humans from other animals. Noam chomsky-syntactic structures(1957)-introduced the idea of transformational generative grammar. Think of languages as the product of human brains: what is it that we know when we know a language, how do children get language (nature vs nurture) Here are some more prepositions: about, above, across, after, against, along, below, beneath, besides, between, behind, by. Constraints on the types/form of rules and principles. Mechanisms for creating new structures (word, phrases, sentences) System of rules that the linguist constructs as a model of the speaker"s knowledge of language. Uses the scientific method: examine data, make generalizations, make hypotheses, test predictions, build a theory. Ling240 lecture 4: argument for innate knowledge and phonology. Genetically via brain structure: svo, nvn, ovs. So far we"ve covered how language develops in children. But now let"s explore the process of making sounds. A word or grammatical structure used to indicate a relationship of possession.