LINGUIST 201- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 13 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Speakers" knowledge of the structural arrangement of words and phrases. A grammar that generates all and only grammatical sentences is descriptively adequate. A grammar that doesn"t generate all grammatical sentences under-generates. Recursion: a linguistic expression of a particular type occurs inside a larger expression of the same type. Ronald would like me to tell you [ that seamus told him [ that dean was told by parvati [ that hagrid is looking for you ] ] ]. Greg slept and lisa worked and then lisa slept and greg worked and then greg slept and lisa worked and then A recursive rule captures this property of conjunctions. Comparing theories: descriptive adequacy, simplicity, ease of extension. Constituent: nodes in a tree (s, vp, v, pp, p ) If a string of words can be (fill in: constituency test) then the string is a constituent. It was the smart student that meet the hungry professor.
