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Syntax

The concept of structure is fundamental to the study of syntax

Constituents

categories of constituents

The constituents are arranged in a specifiable way

that each constituent has a certain specifiable function in the structure of the thing as a whole

The structure that results from fitting

Can you imagine all the possible word-sequences

Syntactic description of any language consists in

explaining

strings of words

Are well-formed expressions and why others are not.

Use diagrams to show how things are analysed into their constituent parts.

The diagrams are called tree diagrams

syntactic structure

1.analysing linguistic expressions into their constituent

2.identifying the categories of those constituents,

3.Determining their functions

Gives an accurate representation of the structure of the sentence

Establishing constituents

Phrase

complete and well-formed sentence.

not all parts of a sentence are necessary

Sequences of words

that can function as constituents in the structure

Are called phrases.

Phrase markers

Is a phrase functioning as a constituent in the structure of the sentence

if you can replace a sequence of words in a sentence with a single word without changing the

The movement of a sequence of words in forming a construction indicates that the sequence is a phrase.

The fact that those word-sequences are constituents in sentence

It is a phrase of English because it can be a constituent of an English sentence.

Your understanding of particular word-sequences is matter of how you structure them in your mind

Need to construct concrete phrase

Represent this abstract mental structure.

Give sequence of elements is represented as a phrase by a phrase marker

Elements is represented as a constituent in a phrase marker.

In a phrase marker, a sequence of elements is represented as a constituent if there is a node that dominates all those elements and no others.

A sequence of words functioning as a constituent in one sentence does not function as a constituent in another

Structurally ambiguous sentence.