LING 1010 Lecture 11: 9/25: Syntax Cont

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Akihiko Arano( T A)

Document Summary

There is no longest sentence in the english language. The crucial property that allows the infinity is that there is an s within s. this is called a recursive structure (a structure of type x inside a structure of type x) Syntactic notion of constituency helps distinguish all the possibilities of sentence structure. Which part of noun phrases can be replaced with pronouns? (1) Good: the man he he left. Bad: man he the he left. (2) Good: the tall man he he left. Bad: tall man he the he left. Bad: man he the tall he left. If a string of words can be replaced with a pronoun, it is an np-constituent. Redundant expressions can be replaced by pronouns. Which part of noun phrases can be dislocated/moved? (3) Certain phrases can be dislocated/moved to the initial position. If a string of words can undergo dislocation, it is a constituent. Constituents can be a target of replacement/dislocation, but non-constituents cannot.