LIN200H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Beagle, Phrase Structure Rules, Independent Clause
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It is a system of rules and principles that describe how we organize words into phrases and phrases into larger units, the largest being the clause. The position of a word in the sentence is often the only way we know its syntactic category (part of speech). The girl goes on many long walks (noun). Sentences have some kind of internal structure, structure about which we have pretty strong intuition. A collection words that are headed by a syntax category (noun phrases, verb phrases, adjective phrases, etc. ) Phrase structure: a system of rules that organizes words into larger units or phrases (they tell us about the syntax of certain categories) Each syntax structure can be divide into phrases, and each phrase must have a head (word who syntactic category determines the category of the phrase). Constituents group of words that forms a larger syntactic unit (all the elements in a phrase) Heads combine with other elements to make up phrases.
