Syntax 9/27
Syntax 9/27
Syntax 9/27
Ling 101
What is Syntax?
The study of how words are combined into larger units of meaning.
Ex. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Key Concepts
Grammaticality
Parts of Speech
Phrases
Grammaticality
Grammaticality
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Parts of speech
Categories of words that share Syntactic and Morphological features.
NOT based on the word alone, but by the word in context
Content Words
Noun
Verb
Adjectives
-er, -est
Adverbs
Function Words
Closed categories- New function words can not easily be added to a language!
Prepositions
In an hour, At 2:00
Determiners
Conjunctions
Phrases
Meaningful units below the level of sentence that are combined into larger
units
Build around Parts of Speech
Ex
A happy lion never chases a pigeon.
Robin
The book
The big book
A picture of Robin
A picture of a unicorn
A nice picture of a unicorn
A very nice picture of a pink unicorn
A library with books of very nice pictures of pink unicorns in verdant meadows
Fell
Fell slowly
Was eating
Was eating greedily
Sentences (S)
Thursday
More phrases
Phrase Trees
Sentence Trees