LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dog Bites Man, Syntactic Category, Preposition And Postposition
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The study of how phrases and sentences are constructed. Many similarities between work construction in morphology and larger sentence structures in syntax. First approach: words in a sentence are similar to beads on a string. They are ordered linearly, with no internal structure. Second approach: words in a sentence do have internal structure; some words are more closely connected than others. Some words might work together" in certain operations, whereas others would not. Ian ran up the hill vs ian ran up the bill (second doesn"t really sound right) Words are grouped into units called constituents. Sometimes more than one grouping might be possible. Word order: dog bites man vs man bites dog. Shows us who did what to who in this example. Word order is constrained (has to be in a certain order) English basic word order: subject, verb, object (svo) Word order matters even when dealing with sentences that don"t mean anything.
