LING 385Lg Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Noam Chomsky, Intransitive Verb, Transitive Verb
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Adverbs describe the action (verbs) of the sentence. Determiners help specify nouns: a, that, the, this. Prepositions go before a noun and determiner: in, on, at, to, under. Auxiliary verbs: is, have, were, can, must, will, do, did. Constituent- a bunch of words that act together. Phrases are a group of words that act together, they are kinds of constituents. Shri ate a slice, and so did andrea. The phrase ate a slice" gets replaced by did". Ate a slice" acts together ad is a verb phrase (vp) a-determiner slice-noun. Intransitive verb- does not take an object after it. Phrase structure grammar rules are an invention of norm chomsky. A symbol can be re-written as a sequence of symbols. V chased (lexicon rules (d, n, v) S np vp, np d n, vp v np. Exhaustive process- finds the true minimum, lists all the possible methods and ways, takes a long time. (greedy vs. exhaustive (brute force)
