syntax

syntax

1. what the syntax rules do

   • structurally ambiguouscan often be humorous.
     • The cat chased the mouse until it stumbled and fell
   • the meaning depends on how the words in the sentence are grouped
     • the captain ordered the old men and women off the ship

2. what grammaticaly is not base on

   • meaningfulness
   • truthfulness
   • you can judgeb a sentences even if a sentence you have not heard before thanks to the grammatical rules.

3. generative grammar

   • syntactic structure
     • the genrative grammar will generate all the well-formed syntactic structure
   • deed and surface structure
     • -i cooked tacos -tacos were cook
   • sentences structure
     • we could say that the same "the cat ate the food" is based on the temple Det-N-V-det-N

4. constituents and constituency test

   • -stand alone test -replacement -movement test -ellipsis-deletion

5. syntactic categories

   • Is a family of expressions that can substitute for one another without loss of grammartically.
     • EX: the dog sat on the floor
       • we have three diferent kinds of categories in syntax
         • phrasal verbs categories: NP,VP,PP,AP, ADV.P
         • lexical categories: noun, verb, prepositions, adjetives, adverbs.
         • funcional categories: auxiliary verbs, and determiners