LING 240 Study Guide - Final Guide: Phrase Structure Rules, Nicaraguan Sign Language, Ray Jackendoff
19 May 2020
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The emphasis of the final will be on lectures 19-41 (morphology nicaraguan sign. This means it would be wise to review all material covered since the. Midterm. i. e. all readings, class lectures, prep. exercises, and homework. That said, the final will be comprehensive in the following way: What do cases of acquisition in unusual circumstances (jackendoff, gleitman & newport, home sign, nicaraguan sign, Morphology: lexical categories and frames for determining category of n, v or adj, roots & affixes, morphological rules, allomorphy, components in a model of the grammar. Why do we need them? property of human language does it encode?) How are required categories represented in the tree: properties of language and what aspects of the syntax model account for them, building a model of the grammar, making and testing predictions of the model; over- generation, under-generation. Spring 2020: structure dependence (reference to constituents and a hierarchical structure)
