LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anglerfish, Adverbial Phrase, Syntactic Category

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Magda Stroinska

Document Summary

Chapter 5 syntax: the analysis of sentence. Syntactic categories all words in human languages can be grouped together into small number of classes. Phrases hierarchical design in which words are grouped together. Head: obligatory nucleus around which a phrase is built, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions (beginning) Never quit, always goes, often stays, almost forgot. Specifier: specifier position in english is at a phrase"s left margin. *almost can be an adverb or degree word. Complements: always phrases, provide information about entities and locations implied by the meaning of the head. It is common to represent tree structures in abbreviated way: without intermediate x" when there is no specifier and/or compliment. Two assumptions: names and pronouns (he, she, him, her) are n that do not, possessives (the child"s, mary"s, his) are nps that occur in normally take specifiers or compliments specifier position of a larger np. Np the house to form pp in the house.