LIN 205 Lecture Notes - Verb T, Saturn 3, Saturn I
5 Sep 2014
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How words and things combine to create more complicated units. A sequence of words can result in different combinations. The reporter said that the elephant died yesterday. Please put the block in the box on the table. Robin told the professor that everyone hates a lie. People with children who use drugs should be locked up. I didn"t know the boat that the submarine sank. The cotton clothing is made of grows in mississippi. A love letter was sent to robin by tom. It was tom who sent robin a love letter. It is impossible to memorize all possible sentence of english. Not all sentence of any language follows the ordering they are defined as. A noun phrase like a cat, a sentence like a cat sneezed, etc. That [tall [young [obnoxious [italian woman]]] is famous. Speakers can understand and produce sentences they have never heard before. There must a finite set of syntactic rules.
