01:830:351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Chopsticks, Steven Pinker, Noam Chomsky
9 Feb 2018
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Sixty minute of syntax november 6, 2017. Read fernandez and karin book on syntax before reading traxler chapter on. English is word order dependent (bill kissed mary vs mary kissed bill who kissed who?: other languages which have more lexical morphemes carry more information in their inflectional morphemes and word order is less important. Two aspects to keep in mind: syntax structure of sentences. This is the word order: semantics meaning of sentences. Based on the word order, what is the meaning of the statement. Beyond meaning of individual words this looks at relationships amongst words as a whole. Yes: something can be grammatical but not understandable, and vice versa. Rules for how words and inflectional morphemes combine to express ideas. Word order can matter the dog bit the man vs the man bit the dog. Inflectional (grammatical) morphemes change meaning the dog was biting vs.
