LINA01H3 Lecture : LINA01_F2011_Lecture10.pdf
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What we need to know about syntax: syntactic categories: n, v, p, a, det, aux, The child found the puppy: constituent structure. In the phrase the child , the noun child has a special status compared to the and is called head of the phrase. The boy did so against his mother"s advice: the boy (np, dashed to the door (vp, to the door (pp, the door (np) Internal structure of a phrase: complements provide information about entities and locations whose existence is implied by the meaning of the head, specifiers make that meaning of the head more precise. Subcategorization: different words come with different requirements about what types of phrases should or should not occur as its complement. Such restriction is called subcategorization: when the subcategorization requirement is not fulfilled, the sentence is judged to be ungrammatical. The students are tired [of cafeteria food]. *the students are tired [with cafeteria food]. Specifiers: determiners serve as the specifiers of nouns.
