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prescriptive approach
rule-driven, speech production, assessment, formal use
descriptive approach
data-driven, language data, regularities, assessment, informal use
deep structure
belief or mental representation of a situation, doesn’t have to be verbalised, one may be expressed by more than one surface structure
surface structure
linguistic expression of a belief or mental representation
structural ambiguity
one ss may correspond to more than one ds
grammatical categories
agreement, voice, aspect, mood, gender, case
adjunct
phrase which provides additional information about event described by verb phrase
verb phrase
begins with a verb and ends where we can finish the sentence
verb group
begins and ends with a verb
noun phrase
subject or object
adjective phrase
modifies a noun phrase
adverb phrase
modifies a verb phrase
prepositional phrase
preposition + noun phrase
subject
entity performing the action
object
entity affected by the action
direct object
directly affected by the subjects action
indirect object
indirectly affected by the subjects action
predicate
phrase which describes the qualities of the subject
finite clause
contains tense, limited in quantity
non-finite
no tense information
productivity
finite resources create infinite number of syntactic possibilities
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