LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture : Creativity in Sentences - Syntax.docx
17 Jan 2014
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It is possible to make up a sentence that makes no sense at all, yet humans are still able to understand it and try to make sense of it. Given an: adjective, name, body part, verb, noun, number, plural noun, liquid, adverb. It is possible to make up a totally random story but it is still possible. Because words are grouped into . (next point) Syntactic categories (a. k. a. lexical categories, parts of speech) Words from the same category behave (not meaning) the same way in their. Syntactic distribution (where is it in the sentence) (descriptions of each category are on lecture slides posted on avenue) Some words belong to more than one category open-class words. Smart can be an adjective, but if someone said i just smarted obviously it doesn"t make sense because that"s not possible although in that sentence, the word becomes a verb.
