LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Germany National Football B Team, Personal Pronoun
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Scientific way of approaching sentence structure ( units" or constituents") Identifying phrases (=sequences of words that behave as units: focus on np constituency tests, between n an np internal structure of np. A syntactic tree we draw represents a hypothesis. The constituency tests that we will see shortly have been developed by linguists based on data/empirical investigation. Using english, you will learn how to use the constituency tests to discover phrases. Imagine that you are a linguist from centuries ago: satoshigapikachuuotasuketa, satoshibepikachukomakkard, tinulungannisatoshisipikachu, satoshigapikachureuldowatta. You are stranded on an island with people who speak this language and you must analyze this language to understand it. You make conclusions based on the reactions of speakers of this language. This is what we will arrive at at the end of the slides: **how do we know whether a given sequence is a phase, and how do we know it is a phrase of a particular category.
