SPHR 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Pecan Pie, Grammaticality
12 Oct 2016
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Syntax: the process of forming sentences and phrases. Words and phrases having form (sound), meaning, and syntactic properties. Native speakers can decide when a string of linguistic expressions is grammatical and well-formed and which are not. We are going to quickly wrap up this paragraph and move onto the next file. Principle of compositionality: meaning of a sentence depends on the meaning of the expressions and the way they are combined. As a result even though the lexicon is finite, you can construct an infinite # of sentences. I know you don"t like apples so i made a pecan pie instead. Oh, apples i like, it"s pears i can"t stand. If the occurrence of expression x in a sentence requires the occurrence of expression y, then y is the argument of x. Arguments: multiple a. sally told bob she"s leaving. b. sally put the book on the desk. c. sally persuaded bob to go on vacation.
