COMD 2050 Chapter : Chapter 8 Review
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Branch of linguistics that describes and explains the arrangement of ordering words within phrases and sentences. Set of grammatical rules that we use to create grammatically correct sentences. Finite set of rules used to make infinite number of sentences. Surface structure (ss: the actual syntactic form of the sentence, string of words in the sentence. Deep structure (ds: the meaning of the sentence. Two distinct underlying interpretations that have to be represented differently in deep structure. The context usually tells you how to interpret a structurally ambiguous phrase. 2 sentences that look different can have the same meaning. 2 sentences that look the same can have different meanings. I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. : he shot an elephant while wearing his pajamas, he shot an elephant that was wearing his pajamas. Rules can be repeated any number of times within the same sentence. Able to put sentences inside other sentences.
