LING 1 Lecture 9: L9
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Type 1 (e. g. john is sitting near the bank) Could be the river bank or a bank institution. Ambiguity comes from the fact that the word bank has two different meanings. Type 2 (e. g. lucy will hit the student with the book) Student could be holding the book and lucy hits her or lucy hits the student using a book. The sentences in question can be given two distinct syntactic trees (meaning that there are two different meanings) Our grammars are internally highly structured in identical ways across languages (because of ug) The meaning-sound relation mediated by various computational units: These units talk to each other (they cooperate) but they are themselves internally highly structured, each in its own ways, and in identical ways across languages (because of ug) Sentences or sentence fragments are not just a string of words. We can establish constituency by using constituency tests. This internal organization can be used to explain how sentences behave.