Notes (Gibbon)

Grammatical or Ungrammatical

• What grammaticality is based on
• What grammaticality is not based on

What else do you know about syntax?

Sentence structure

• Syntactic categories
• Phrase structure trees
• More phrase structure trees
• The infinitude of language

Phrase structure rules

• Growing trees
• Trees that won't grow
• More phrase structure trees
• Heads of Phrases

The lexicon

• Subcategorization
• More lexical differences

Transformational rules

• Long distance relationships
• ``Wh-'' sentences

Recursion revisisted

More about sentence structure

Types of language

Terminology

Adjective:

Adverb:

Conjunction:

Determiner (article):

Interjection:

Noun Phrase:

Noun:

OSV:

OVS:

Postpositions:

Preposition:

Prepositional Phrase:

Pronoun:

SOV:

SVO:

VOS:

VSO:

Verb Phrase:

Verb:

X-bar theory:

active:

agreement rule:

agreement:

arrow:

asterisk:

auxiliary (verb):

competence:

congruence:

constituent:

constraint:

determiner-noun agreement:

direct object:

generalisation:

grammatical:

grammaticality:

head:

ill-formed:

indirect object:

infinity:

intransitive:

knowledge:

leaf:

lexical categories:

lexical category:

lexicon:

linguistic intuition:

long distance dependency:

main verb:

node:

optionality:

parenthesis:

passive:

phrasal category:

phrase structure tree:

phrase structure:

recursion:

recursive rule:

reflexive pronoun:

rewriting rules:

root:

rule application:

rule:

structural ambiguity:

structure dependent rules:

subcategorisation:

subject-verb agreement:

subject:

syntactic category:

syntactic subcategory:

syntax:

top:

transformation:

transformational rule:

transitive:

tree:

typology:

ungrammatical:

verb complement:

well-formed:

wh-sentence:

wh-word:

word order: