LIGN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Veggie Burger, Inflection, French Fries
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Lecture 9 syntax i: how sentences are built. Grammatical relations: how a language marks who did what to whom. Constituency and constituency testing: syntactic constituent, a group of words which go together" in the structure of the sentence, constituents are always a continuous string of words. No skipping words, these are continuous chunks: constituents are chunks that, when split off, make sense. 2: we have intuitions about how things can be split. The indignant kitten eyed by veggie burger with disgust yesterday at dinner. The obligate carnivore eyed my dinner with disgust then. There are other chunks we can"t isolate like this (the indignant kitten eyed my) Your intrepid and phonology-loving ta andres aguilar saw the great horned owl that will had mentioned in. 3 passing while they were standing in the hallway last week before class last night shortly before leaving campus to go to red robin to nerd out about phonological processes and eat french fries.
