LING 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intransitive Verb, Transitive Verb, Preposition And Postposition
13 Sep 2016
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Syntax the order in which elements combine to form sentences and the principles and rules that govern it. Lexical categories categories of words that serve as building blocks of linguistic structure ( parts of speech ) Every language has 2 major categories: nouns (things, ideas, concepts in world, verbs (id situations (events, states, etc. ) that nouns are involved) Nearly every language has 2 minor categories: adjective (describes noun, adverb, conjunction, particles, adposition. Determine how many arguments (usually noun) will be in sentence (i. e. ) The girl gave her dog a treat (3 arguments) 2 kinds of verbs: intransitive verb that takes one argument, transitive verb that takes 2 arguments (energy transformed from one thing (actor & object) (subject) to another) Parametric theory chomsky tried to find universal patterns between languages. James parsons: noticed similarities between indo-european: used #s to compare languages. Sir walter jones: credited with similarities between ie languages. Ie= largest major family by # of speakers.
