syntax

syntax

1. study of

   • different word classes
   • combination of words
   • interal structure
     • into phrases and sentences

2. word clases

   • syntactic building blocks of sentences
   • have a syntactic category
     • noun,verb,adjectives,adverbs,prepositions,determiners,pronouns,conjuctions
       • apple,fly.red.quickly,in.a.she,and

3. noun

   • denotes an object
   • structural criteria
     • plural
       • cats
     • determineres
       • the cat
     • modified adjective
       • the fat cat
     • relative clauses
       • the cat that ran away
     • suffixed
       • catless

4. verb

   • tense
     • washed
   • auxiliary
     • could wash
   • modified
     • wash quickly
   • suffixed
     • washable

5. adjective

   • comparative and superlative
     • smarter, smartest
   • nouns
     • smart students
   • adverb
     • extremely smart
   • suffixed
     • smartly

6. determiners

   • noun
     • my grandmother
   • modified
     • my old grandmother
   • determiner
     • my the aardvark
   • morphology
     • thatness

7. sentences parts

   • belong together
     • constituents
       • the ambulance will be here soon will the ambulance be here soon?
         • constituency test
           • substitution
             • by a single word
               • a friendly cop drove the kids across town
               • pronoun,form of do, or ADV
           • question
             • replace with a question that exact phrase
           • types
             • word classes
             • noun phrases
             • prepositional phrases
             • verb phrase
         • hierarchies of constituents
     • syntactic constituency
     • unconsciously
     • syntactic rules
       • some sequences of words
       • sentences is ungrammatical
       • conbination verb phrase and noun phrase
         • john dance
       • form questions
         • john will be here soon will john be here sonn?