LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Syntactic Category, Subject–Object–Verb, Net Present Value
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Phrase structure rules de ne the set of well-formed trees in a language. The syntactic categories of the words and phrases of a sentence. Do not take an object but can take a pp. Some verbs take a full sentence as a complement. The phrase structure rules we know so far won"t build these sentences. Have to add rules for these other types of sentence structures. Doesn"t function as a pp so is not a constituent. Triangle shows that these function as a np. Can"t put a determinate in front of it therefore it is not a noun. They are pronouns in a sense-- take the place of something else. Rules have to re ect the fact that you can embed one sentence into another. Recursive rules account for the in nity of natural language. S immediately dominates np1 and vp (because it"s right underneath it) V is the head of vp, n is the head of np, etc.
