LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Linguistic Typology, Tree Structure, Pronoun
6 Mar 2017
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Interesting phonological rules comes from combining morphemes and seeing how that happens. Vegetarian chicken soup - chicken is vegetarian vs. chicken soup is vegetarian. Compositionality = what a word combines with determines how it is interpreted. Subject = the noun phrase immediately dominated by s. The lower verb phrase is the complement (sister of the main verb) [ s [ np [ n we ]] [ vp [ v spotted ] [ np [ v attacking ] [ np dogs ]] ] Head = the lexical item that dominates the phrase that contains it. Second sentence - grammatical, but not for she and molly to be the same. Ill-formed on the coreferent interpretation (* indicates that a sentence is bad) (* also indicates dead forms of a language, can"t actually access) Antecedent - linguistic element that gives the pronoun its reference. Hypothesis 1: a pronoun must follow its antecedent. Focusing on linguistic antecedent in a sentence.
