LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture 7: LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture 7- Phrases

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Good way to meet people in program. Reminder to submit optex and assignments in pdf format. Assignment 1 is available on avenue, due oct 4: can do first 3 questions now, can do question 4 after this week. Practice vocabulary for parts of tree diagrams. Practice constructing tree diagrams for english phrases and sentences. When you know something is a constituent, you have evidence for drawing tree diagram: tree diagrams represent one component of mental grammar. Nodes can be related to each other: mother one straight line connecting one above to one below, daughter one that branches off of another, sister two that branch off from the same mother. Every phrase (constituent) has the same organization. Might have a sister: xp x" x/yp. Yp is in complement position: xp zp x" x/yp. Draw tree diagrams for: frogs, category noun, identify heads (noun is head of noun phrase, nothing else, so no complements or specifiers: