LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Syntactic Category, Phrase

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

Document Summary

Reminder that there will be no class next friday (the one before reading week) Charlotte linde, knowledge manager for nasa: narrative and institutional memory, what the details, trends in narratives show about how knowledge is organized, helps nasa learn from previous successes and failures. What it sounds like, how to say it, meaning, its category (even if we don"t know consciously) Most of this is unconscious: lexical knowledge is mostly specific to every single word we know, some lexical information relates to groups of words. The cost of textbooks" from last week: puts the phrase in either the complement or the specifier position. You can move a sentence, and it"s a stand-alone. But it doesn"t meet the cleft or replacement. Constituent: a set of words that act together as a unit: so yes, a sentence is a constituent. Which means you can represent sentences as x". Every sentence has a t note as its head: where t means tense.