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| a unit syntactic rules apply too |
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| set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in given language |
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first person to show syntax is its own branch of linguistics
ex: colorless green ideas sleep furiously-this works syntatically even if it doesn't have any meaning |
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| replace entire noun phrase |
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| Classification of syntactic categories |
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| arranged in a hierachy (NP, VP, S) Ket has this |
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| rules for combining and interchanging these elements |
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| transformations, substitutions, elaborating |
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| syntax related elements that are part of morphological words: inflections and form class marker-not present in isolating languages |
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| open class-nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives |
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| closed-pronouns, determiners, prepositions(position pre noun), conjunctions, qualifiers, interjections, postposition(post noun phrase) |
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| syntactic unit that participates in specific types of phrase structure rules -acts like a noun |
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| parts of speech from morphology but with attention to their syntactic properties not lexical meaning |
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Pron-pronoun
Det-determiner
P-prepositions
Num-numerals
Q-qualifiers
Deg-degree words- very, too-modify adjectives and adverbs
Aux-auxiliary verb
Mod-modal verb-can, should |
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| shows immediate linear constituency |
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| shows linear constitency and dependency |
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show both horizontal and vertical hierachic structure
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flying N
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planes |
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refers to phrase that has a noun as it's head
ex: the young man
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clause within clause
-can be single noun or adjective+noun (ADJ+N) |
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| introduces the rest of the noun phrase |
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| any subset of nouns, verbs, determiners that shows difference in syntactic behavior |
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| refers to an entity already mentioned in same context |
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