SPHR 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pronoun, Binoculars, Ditransitive Verb

• School: GWU
• Department: Speech and Hearing Science
• Course: SPHR 2130
• Professor: Schulz

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A set of expressions that have similar syntactic properties, having the same syntactic distribution. Ex: the cat and fluffy : belong to same syntactic property. Distinguish syntactic categories based on the syntactic properties of the expressions that comprise them. E(cid:454): e(cid:454)ploded a(cid:374)d dest(cid:396)o(cid:455)ed (cid:271)oth (cid:862)a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:271)s(cid:863) (cid:271)ut ha(cid:448)e diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t s(cid:455)(cid:374)ta(cid:272)ti(cid:272) dist(cid:396)i(cid:271)utio(cid:374)s. Np"s: (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:455)ou (cid:396)epla(cid:272)e it (cid:449)ith a p(cid:396)o(cid:374)ou(cid:374)? (cid:894)he, she, (cid:455)ou, it, et(cid:272)(cid:895) Quantificational: a, some, the, every, all, few, most, etc. Intransitive verbs: require only a subject np compliment. ( do not require an object) Transitive verbs (tv): require both subject & object np compliments. Ditransitive verbs (dtv): require subj np & 2 np compliments. Sentential complement verbs (sv): require subj np & s compliment. Recipe for constructing all and only the grammatical sentences of the language. Np {propn, pron, det + n, det+ adj + n, adj + n, Vp {intrv, tv + np, dtv + np + np, sv + s, vp + adv,