LINGUIST 1ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Count Noun, Syntactic Category, Part Of Speech
11 Apr 2017
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Nouns & noun phrases (morphological and syntactic distribution) The same word may have different syntactic categories in different sentences. Pluralization: nouns can be pluralized (for most part). Should distinguish the syntactic category noun from other syntactic categories. A (indefinite, may be used for a new information), the (definite, may be used for old information) d. All, many, every, each, few (quantifiers) q. Complementary distribution: elements with the same syntactic position should not appear together. Num and d are not in complementary distribution. So they can appear in the same np. Noun phrases (np): each phrase must have a head. The syntactic category of the head determines the type of phrase. Test for determining whether a bare noun was a np or not. If the bare noun could occupy the same position as a full np, this suggested that they have the same syntactic structure.
