LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Scientific Theory, Ditransitive Verb, Binoculars
22 Mar 2017
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A bought boy himself lego a new set the. Syntax speaker"s" knowledge of the structural arrangement of words and phrases. The old women"s shoes (the shoes belonging to the old women) The old women"s shoes (many pairs of shoes that are worn by women and are old) Leo watched a man with binoculars (he used the binoculars to watch the man) Leo watched a man with binoculars (the man he watched had binoculars) Procedure for constructing (generating) all and only the well-formed sentences of a language. Process of applying phrase structure rules from the initial symbol until no further rule can be applied. Example: s n v n leo v laughed. Tree diagrams: abbreviation of the family of derivations that differ only in the order in which rules are applied. Terminology: root node, then branch nodes, then terminal or leaf nodes.
