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Syntactic Structures Deep and Surface Structures Structural Ambiguity Colorless green ideas sleep furiously Syntax The arrangement of words in a sentence The study of rules that govern the ways in which words combine to form phrases clauses and sentences ID: 801187

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Slide1

Syntax

Generative Grammar

Syntactic Structures

Deep and Surface Structures

Structural Ambiguity

Slide2

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Slide3

Syntax:

- The arrangement of words in a sentence.

- The study of rules that govern the ways in which words combine to form phrases, clauses and sentences.

- Syntax is one of the major components of grammar.

Slide4

Generative Grammar:

A particular approach to the study of syntax

- Inspired by the original work of

Naom

Chhomsky

.

- Set of explicit rules

Slide5

Syntactic structures:

- A generative grammar defines the syntactic structures of a language

- The grammar will generate all the well-formed syntactic structures (e.g. sentences) of the language and will not generate any ill-formed sentences.

Slide6

Syntactic structures:

* All and Only * : all the grammatical sentences and only the grammatical sentences will be produced.

- The grammar will have a finite (limited) number of rules, but will be capable of generating an infinite number of well-formed structures.

- The productivity of language would be captured within the grammar.

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Deep and Surface Structures:

Ali broke the window

The window was broken by Ali

Surface superficial

Deep abstract level

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Structural Ambiguity:

Fatimah whacked a man with an umbrella

Australian history teachers

I saw the man with the telescope

Slide9

References:

Chapter 9

The study of language (

George Yule)