LIN 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Syntactic Category, Grammaticality, Principle Of Compositionality
16 Jan 2017
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Linguistic expressions: a piece of language with certain form/meaning/syntactic properties. Grammaticality judgement: reflection of mental grammar, decide whether or not string of words makes sentence. Principle of compositionality: way expressions are combined contributes to meaning of resulting sentence. Syntactic properties cannot be predicted/explai(cid:374)ed (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g. Flexible order, not all sentence will be in certain order, different order in different contexts. Topicalization: process where syntactic constituent occurs at beginning of sentence in order to highlight topic. Certain expression occurs in specific position in sentence. Specific expression chosen requires other expressions co-occur with it. If occurrence of x needs occurrence of y, y is an argument of x. All expressions sentence contains have to have all and only the arguments needed. Expressions that are optional and more and more can be added. Expressions may require to agree with this info. Group of expressions with similar syntactic properties and distribution.
