Linguistics Final Exam
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74 Terms
Syntax
Study of how different languages put their words together to form sentences
3 Parts of a Linguistic Expression
Form, syntactic properties, and meaning
Grammaticality Judgements
Native speaker’s impressions of “good” vs “bad” expressions
Principle of Compositionality
The meaning of a linguistic expression is the function of the meanings of its parts and how they are out together
Syntactic Properties
Determine how it is able to combine with other well formed expressions in order form the result to be another well formed expression
Syntactic Property: Word Order
Which particular sequences of expressions are allowable in a given language
Syntactic Property: Co-Occurrence
Syntactic property of an expression is what is must/can appear with
Co;Occurrence: Arguments
What MUST show up with the expression
Co-Occurrence: Adjuncts
What can (optionally) show up with the expression
Co-Occurrence: Agreement
What inflectional forms must other expressions appear with
