LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Generative Grammar, Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase
16 Nov 2015
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Sentences aren"t formed just by stringing words together. Instead they have a hierarchical design in which words are grouped together into larger structural units called phrases. We will learn how to represent hierarchical structure of diff types of syntactic phrases: Earlier in semester we learned about lexical categories: Etc: syntactic phrases are related to lexical categories, but not the same thing. Noun: word that refers to a person, place, or thing. Etc: noun phrase (np) also refers to person, place, or thing, but can be made up of more than 1 word. Verb: word that refers to an action. Buy food from the store: verb phrase (vp) also refers to an action, but can be made up of more than 1 word. Wherever you have a np, it will always follow the same basic structure. Doesn"t matter if it"s a subject: (the cat ate the food) Or a complement: (the vet treated the cat)
