LIN200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intransitive Verb, Ditransitive Verb, Preposition And Postposition
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Use the rule of grammar to create sentence. Syntax look for infinite ways to create sentence. Noun: refer to person, place, or thing (not a good definition) A noun is defined as a noun due to the syntactic behavior. Eg. tennis (activity people do, not person/place/thing); destruction (not person/place/thing, the action of describing thing) A noun is a word that appears in the position of a sentence where you expect to find a noun or that are characteristics of noun. A (noun) is interesting. (noun) is interesting. (noun)s are interesting. Some distributional tests may fail, not all work. * the aaron is interesting. (wrong sentence even when we expect we should put a noun in the sentence while aaron is a noun) [aaron/rice/furniture/tennis/destruction/canada, all of these words are noun; rice/furniture/tennis/destruction fit in the frame with and without the , but. Aaron/canada only fit in the frame without the ] The name of a specific individual person or place.
