LING 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Method, Universal Grammar
22 Jun 2017
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Ability of a pattern/rule to re-apply an infinite number of times. Ability to produce and understand potentially unboundedly long sentences. A word or grammatical structure used to indicate a relationship of possession. A modifying phrase consisting of a proposition and its object. We can combine possessives and prepositional phrases. Ex: the pocketbook belongs to the girl who lives next door. By using prepositional phrases, our sentences can be longer and more complex. Here are some more prepositions: about, above, across, after, against, along, below, beneath, besides, between, behind, by. Now we can use rules to combine those units in particular patterns. Constraints on possible patterns and rules available in any language. Constraints on the types/form of rules and principles. Mechanisms for creating new structures (word, phrases, sentences) System of rules that the linguist constructs as a model of the speaker"s knowledge of language.
