Chapter 5: Syntax
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Ungrammatical
when a string of words do not form a sentence.
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grammatical sentence
If substitution results in a(n) ________, the string of words is a constituent.
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Cleft
a sentence in which some constituent is displaced to the left.
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Grammatical
when a string of words form a meaningful sentence.
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Ambiguous linguistic forms
can correspond to more than one expression.
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Grammaticality judgement
a reflection of speakers mental grammar.
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Adjuncts
optional expressions that can be added without creating a non- sentence.
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Phrase structure rules
captures patterns of syntactic combination.
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Agreement
distinct expressions that agree with respect to some grammatical feature with the same value.
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Linguistic expression
a piece of language with certain form, meaning, and syntactic properties.
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Syntax
the component of grammar that deals with how words and phrases are combined into larger phrases.
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Substitution
replacing a string of words with a single word.
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Word order
how expressions are allowed to be ordered with respect to one another.
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Syntactic properties
the restrictions on certain combinations of expressions.
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Syntactic constituent
syntactic units that can make up larger phrases in certain groups of expressions.
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non sentences
Sentences can contain strange meaning, and ________ can convey ordinary meaning.
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Syntactic category
a set of expressions that have approximately the same word order and co- occurrence requirements.
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cleft
If the ________ is grammatical, the displaced expression is a constituent.
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Syntax
is broadly related to how expressions combine with one another to form larger expressions.
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substitution
replacing a string of words with a single word
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Syntactic category
a set of expressions that have approximately the same word order and co-occurrence requirements
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Syntactic distribution
if two expressions are interchangeable in all syntactic environments
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Phrase structure rules
captures patterns of syntactic combination
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Phrase structure tree
a visual display of the way a sentence is built up from lexical expressions using the phrase structure rules
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Ambiguous
linguistic forms can correspond to more than one expression
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