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The application of a rule to its own output.
VP containing a NP as a complement, which contains a VP as its complement. |
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| A grammar that has surface structure and movement statements that can change it into deep structure. |
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| Template that encompasses all languages and is implicit in the human brain. Innate rules of grammar hardwired in the brain. |
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| A syntactic constituent that provides information about locations and entities implied by the head. |
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| The noun phrase in an IP that is linked to a transitive verb (the verb's NP complement). |
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The phrasal constituent that forms a meaning and identifies the category of its phrase.
i.e. the category around which a phrase is built. |
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| A verb that does not take a direct object. |
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| A unit of syntactic structure that is built by combining words together so that the phrase consists of a head and an optional specifier and/or complement. |
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Determines a category to which a (head) belongs
det=NP
adv=VP
deg=AdjP or PP
mark phrasal boundaries or something.
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| A verb with a direct object. |
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| A diagram that represents the internal organization of a phrase or sentence. |
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| The template for a phrase structure indicating that a phrase is hierarchically organized with a head, complement, or specifier. |
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| One or more words that forms a unit of processing or analysis. It forms a single node in a tree diagram. |
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| A phrase that is formed by joining two or more categories of the same type with a conjunction. |
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| If a phrase can be moved to another part of a sentence while still retaining meaning, it is a phrasal constituent. |
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A sentencelike construction that is embedded within a larger structure. (complementrizer phrase)
Mary would eat cheese [if she got hungry.]
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| A test used to determine if a group of words is a constituent by joining it to another group of words with a conjunction. |
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| A functional category (nonlexical category) that takes an IP complement forming a complementizer phrase. |
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| A larger IP in which a complement clause occurs. |
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The classification of words in terms of their complement options.
devour (head)=complement option must be NP
The person devoured [NP the sandwiches] |
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| Classification of a language according to geographical neigbors. |
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| Categorizing languages according to their ancestor languages. |
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| Typological classification |
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| A classification of languages according to structural characteristics. |
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| When members of two different languages or dialects can understand one another to an extent. |
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| A reigonal or social variety of a language characterized by its own phonological, syntactic, or lexical properties. |
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A systematic or nonsystematic means of communcation.
Types:
agglutinating: words are easily divided into component morphemes
fusional: affixes denote several bits of info
polysynthetic: single words can consist of long strings of morphemes that can express meanings that sentences would in other lg's
isolating: only words w/ one (root) morpheme |
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