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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Syntax
Generative Grammar
Syntactic Structures
Deep and Surface Structures
Structural Ambiguity
Slide2Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Slide3Syntax:
- 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.
Slide4Generative Grammar:
A particular approach to the study of syntax
- Inspired by the original work of
Naom
Chhomsky
.
- Set of explicit rules
Slide5Syntactic 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.
Slide6Syntactic 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.
Slide7Deep and Surface Structures:
Ali broke the window
The window was broken by Ali
Surface superficial
Deep abstract level
Slide8Structural Ambiguity:
Fatimah whacked a man with an umbrella
Australian history teachers
I saw the man with the telescope
Slide9References:
Chapter 9
The study of language (
George Yule)