LINB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Financial Institution, Adverb, Preposition And Postposition
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Linb06 lecture 2 constituency, phase structure rules and trees. Few students attended the first lecture of this course. Constituent a group of words form a constituent if they function together as a syntactic unit. Option 1 words enter the sentence (s) one by one. Option 2: words are first grouped into small sets (constituents/phrases) and these constituents are grouped into larger ones, as so on until we get a sentence. Set 1: [a n] set 2: [t v] set 3: [d a n] set 4:[p d n] [many students] [will attend] [the first lecture] [of the course] Test 1: replacement: if you can replace a group of words with a single word, then the group forms a constituent, e. g. Some of my students took an online english grammar course this summer. They took an online english grammar course this summer. Mine took an online english grammar course this summer.
