Syntax 3rd class Chapter 4. Syntactic Categories 1. That glass suddenly broke. 2. A jogger ran toward the end of the lane. 3. These dead trees might block.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Tree Diagrams / Labelling Phrases

Advertisements

Chapter 4 Syntax Part IV.

Sentence Construction and the Syntactical Tree forms Lecture 6 Feed back of mid-test.

1 Introduction to Linguistics II Ling 2-121C, group b Lecture 4 Eleni Miltsakaki AUTH Spring 2006.

Syntax: The Sentence Patterns of Language

Analysing Syntax 1 Lesson 8B.

Why Syntax? 1) Syntax and ELL:Taro a dog found. Chan, Alice Y.W. (2004). Syntactic Transfer: Evidence from the Interlanguage of Hong Kong Chinese ESL Learners.

SYNTAX Introduction to Linguistics. BASIC IDEAS What is a sentence? A string of random words? If it is a sentence, does it have to be meaningful?

Morphology and Syntax Practice 1 Lesson 9A The top of the tree So the tree for any sentence (S) should start like this: This means that every sentence.

The study of how words combine to form grammatical sentences.

Syntax 2nd class Chapter 4.

5. Phrasal Units Self-study Worksheet.

Syntax: The Sentence Patterns of Language Deny A. Kwary Airlangga University.

What is Syntax?  The rules that govern the structure of utterances; also called grammar  The basic organization of sentences is around syntax  build.

Matakuliah: G0922/Introduction to Linguistics Tahun: 2008 Session 11 Syntax 2.

Phrase Structure Rules

Syntax: The analysis of sentence structure

LI 2013 NATHALIE F. MARTIN S YNTAX. Table of Content I. Grammatical vs. Ungrammatical Grammatical vs. Ungrammatical II. The Sentence The Sentence III.

Today  What is syntax?  Grammaticality  Ambiguity  Phrase structure Readings: 6.1 – 6.2.

Syntax The analysis of sentence structure

Generative grammar Lynn W Zimmerman, PhD. Generative grammar  Chomsky – 1950s  Finite number of rules controlling how sentences can be formed.

Constituency Tests Phrase Structure Rules

Noun (N) A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Nouns can be singular or plural. Late last year my cousin bought a Playstation 3. Portia White was.

Phrases and Sentences: Grammar

Syntax Class # 4 Chapter 4. Transformational Rules Will you talk to Peter? Should I stay? Do you like apples? What will you talk about? What do you want?

How are sentences are constructed?. The boys laughed. MorphemesWords Thethe Boyboys -s laughlaughed -ed.

LI 2013 NATHALIE F. MARTIN S YNTAX. Grammatical vs Ungrammatical.

 Subject performs the actions  Example: › The dog chased the cat. (Active)

Creativity of Language

Chapter 4 Syntax Part II.

Lecture Four Syntax.

Introduction to Linguistics

Related Sentences The boy is sleeping. Is the boy sleeping? The boy can sleep. Can the boy sleep? Mary picked up the book. Mary picked the book up. Mary.

Worksheet 5 Phrasal Units.

Syntax I: Constituents and Structure Gareth Price – Duke University.

451 Chapter 5: Syntax Making it stick together… Covering Sections 1-3…

LINGUA INGLESE 1 modulo A/B Introduction to English Linguistics prof. Hugo Bowles Lesson 8 Syntax 1 1.

Syntax 1 st class on Syntax Chapter 4. Hierarchical Structure  Sentences have internal structure that makes them more than just a sequence of words.

NLP. Introduction to NLP Is language more than just a “bag of words”? Grammatical rules apply to categories and groups of words, not individual words.

Today Phrase structure rules, trees Constituents Recursion Conjunction

LI 2013 NATHALIE F. MARTIN L EXICAL C ATEGORIES. CATEGORIES OF WORDS DISTINGUISHING CATEGORIES: INFLECTION DISTRIBUTION Syntactic/Lexical Categories Contemporary.

ENGLISH SYNTAX Introduction to Transformational Grammar.

LI 2013 NATHALIE F. MARTIN L EXICAL C ATEGORIES. CATEGORIES OF WORDS DISTINGUISHING CATEGORIES: 1. MEANING 2. INFLECTION 3. DISTRIBUTION Syntactic Categories.

CPE 480 Natural Language Processing Lecture 4: Syntax Adapted from Owen Rambow’s slides for CSc Fall 2006.

Rules, Movement, Ambiguity

The man bites the dog man bites the dog bites the dog the dog dog Parse Tree NP A N the man bites the dog V N NP S VP A 1. Sentence  noun-phrase verb-phrase.

Adjective Clauses Thomas Prime 5 – Unit 2. Adjective Clauses A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb. What is an adjective clause.

Making it stick together…

1 Syntax 2. 2 Now let’s change the NP rule again Such that we have – S  NP VP – VP  V NP – NP  (DET) (ADJ) N Now you can diagram this sentence – The.

Clauses & Phrases.

Syntax III: Mapping Ambiguity Gareth Price – Duke University.

Identifying the Subject and the Verb. In order for a sentence to be complete, it must contain at least one main clause. A main clause contains an independent.

◦ Process of describing the structure of phrases and sentences Chapter 8 - Phrases and sentences: grammar1.

Marking Homework 1. A very inexperienced journalist wrote the article about the accident. 2. The detective will give you a report about his investigation.

REPORTED SPEECH. Transformations in reported speech: Mind tense changes!!! 1.“I know his address!” 2.“I can help you”. 3.“We are proud of your work”.

The final chapter.  Constituents ◦ Natural groupings of a sentence  Morphemes ◦ Smallest meaningful units of a word  How to test whether a group of.

Welcome to the flashcards tool for ‘The Study of Language, 5 th edition’, Chapter 8 This is designed as a simple supplementary resource for this textbook,

College of Science and Humanity Studies, Al-Kharj.

LINGUA INGLESE 1 modulo B Introduction to English Linguistics prof. Hugo Bowles Lesson 7 Syntax.

EL1101E Syntax tutorial.

4.3 The Generative Approach

Chapter Eight Syntax.

Part I: Basics and Constituency

BBI 3212 ENGLISH SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY

Chapter Eight Syntax.

Introduction to Linguistics

Presentation transcript:

Syntax 3rd class Chapter 4

Syntactic Categories 1. That glass suddenly broke. 2. A jogger ran toward the end of the lane. 3. These dead trees might block the road. 4. The detective quickly looked through the records. 5. The peaches appear quite ripe. 6. Jack will play the trumpet and the drums in the orchestra.

Review: Types of Verbs She is feeling funny. The hurricane destroyed the city last month. She gave me her car. The glass broke. Someone broke the glass. I didn’t realize that you were still here.

Ambiguous sentences (Structural ambiguity) I shot an elephant in my underwear. The cat chased the big dog in the park. He saw the robber with binoculars.

Embedded sentences I think that you should go to the party.

Embedded sentences Paul realized that Maria fed the baby.

Transformational Rules Is the man working? (surface structure) The man is working. (deep structure) Can you help me? You can help me.

Transformational Rules Will you talk to Peter? Should I stay? What will you talk about? What do you want?

Rules S  NP Aux VP NP  (Det) (AP) N (PP) VP  V (NP) (PP) (Adv) (CP) PP  P NP AP  Adj (PP) CP  Comp S

Relative clauses The person who answers this question will win $100. I gave my hat to the nurse who helped me cut my hair. Give this fork to the person I’m getting the pie for.

(who) The person [(the person) answers this question] will win $100. Subject of main clause Subject of relative clause

The man bought my car. The man paid cash.  The man [the man bought my car] paid cash. Subject of main clause Subject of relative clause who

The policewoman arrested the man. I told this information to the policewoman.  The policewoman [I told this information to the policewoman] arrested the man. Subject of main clause Object of preposition who(m) /that

I despise the man who bought my car. I despise the man. The man bought my car.  I despise the man who bought my car.

The man who bought my car paid cash. S NP Aux VP Det N CP C S NP Aux VP Det N V NP V NP Det N N The man [the man +past bought my car] +past paid cash

The man who bought my car paid cash. S NP Aux VP Det N CP C S NP Aux VP V NP V NP Det N N The man [who t +past bought my car] +past paid cash

The policewoman [ that/who I told this information to]arrested the man. S NP Aux VP Det N CP CS NP Aux VP N V NP PP V NP +past Det N P NP Det N Det N The woman [I told this information to the woman] +pst arrested the man. DEEP STRUCTURE

The policewoman [that/who I told this information to] arrested the man. S NP Aux VP Det N CP C S NP Aux VP N V NP PP V NP Det N P NP Det N The woman [that I told this information to t] +pst arrested the man. SURFACE STRUCTURE +past