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The document discusses various topics related to syntax and linguistics including: - Syntax studies the meaning and order of words in sentences. - Generative grammar aims to understand people's subconscious knowledge of their language. - Grammar rules can be categorized as either descriptive or prescriptive, with syntax focusing on descriptive rules. - Corpora searches alone are not adequate for understanding syntax due to the productive nature of language.

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Some Suggested Questions ch1-3

The document discusses various topics related to syntax and linguistics including: - Syntax studies the meaning and order of words in sentences. - Generative grammar aims to understand people's subconscious knowledge of their language. - Grammar rules can be categorized as either descriptive or prescriptive, with syntax focusing on descriptive rules. - Corpora searches alone are not adequate for understanding syntax due to the productive nature of language.

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True and false:

- Syntax studies the meaning of words.


- Language ( i-language): the ability of humans to speak any language.
- Language ( i-language): the ability of humans to speak a particular language.
- In Generative Grammar, we are trying to figure out what we subconsciously know
about the syntax of our language
- It is not possible to approach the study of language from a scientific perspective.
- The group of hypotheses that describe a language’s syntax is called grammar.
- Corpus searches are always adequate for finding out information syntax need.
- To get at what we know about our language we have to know only well-formed
sentences.
- Conscious knowledge is acquired.
- Subconscious knowledge is acquired.
- We know things about the grammar that we couldn’t possibly have learned.
- Children need only instructions to be able to acquire language.

- Parts of speech that don’t allow new members are said to be close class.
- Parts of speech that allow new members are said to be open class.
- Conjunctions like: and, or, either are examples of lexical parts of speech.
- Complementizers of English like: that, for and if are examples of functional parts of
speech.
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- Hierarchical structure represents that constituents are embedded inside each
other’s to form larger constituents.
- Clauses always stand alone, a clause can’t embedded inside another.
- Clauses don’t always stand alone, a clause can embedded inside another.
- Tree diagrams can’t explain structural ambiguity.

What are the three steps of any scientific method?

What are the two types of grammar rules, and which one is the focus of syntax?

Why corpora is not enough source of data in syntax?

What does (language is productive, recursive and infinite) means? Give an example.

Mention the part of speech and apply the distributional criteria of the underlined words.

The neighborhoods in this part of the city are amazing.

Alberto carelessly left his wallet in the taxi.

He act in a childish way.

Alex is making the dinner.

Provide the subcategory of the underlined words:

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She likes reading books.

Classic novels are very interesting.

I wonder who that woman over there is.

I lent my sister some money.

Apply at least two of the constituency tests to judge whether the underlined words form a
constituent or not.

The cyclist without a helmet was lucky to get home safe.

They put the books on the shelf.

Dental floss can help with cleaning teeth.

They give their books to the teacher.

Trees:

That wales are mammals amazed John.

My mother gave some cookies to Dave.

The big bee worried Maxine.

The teacher told the students unbelievable stories.

Define:

- Competence:
- Universal Grammar:
- The logical problem of language acquisition.
- Explanatory Adequate Grammar.

- Lexical categories:
- Argument structure:
- Transitive verbs:
- Functional categories:

- Phrase structure rule of Tens Phrase TP:

- Phrase structure rule of Noun Phrase NP:


- Phrase structure rule of Preposition Phrase PP:
- Phrase structure rule of Complementizer Phrase CP:

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