语言学第四章ppt课件

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2.What is phrase stucture rule?
• The special type of grammatical mechanism that regulates the arrangement of elements that make up a phrase is called a phrase stucture rule.
• A phrase can contain specifiers, head, complements and Modifiers.
• Specifiers :The words on the left side of the heads are said to function as specifiers.
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1.What is syntax?
• Syntax is a branch of linguistics that studies the rules that govern the formation of sentences.
• Sentence: • A set of words expressing a statement, a question
• Head: The word around which a phrase is formed is termed head.
• Complement:The words on the right side of the heads are complements.
• Modifiers, which specifies optionally expressible properties of head.
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4.What is coordinate structure and what properties does it have?
• Some structures are formed by joining two or more elements of the same type with the help of a
2. A category at any levelcan be ccoordinated.
3. Coordinated categories must be of the same type.
4. The category type of the coordinate phrase is
identical to the category type of the elements
conjunction such as and or or. Such phrasesare
called coordinate structures.
• Coordination exhibitsthe followfor important properties:
1. There is no limit on the number of coordinated categories that can appear prior to the conjunction.
PP
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(Deg) P (PP) in the middle of the river
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3.What is category? How to determine a word's category?
• Category refers to a group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language such as a sentence, a noun phrase or a verb.
Degreee words. Qualifier.Auxiliary.Conjunction.
• To determine a word's category, three criteria
are usually employed, namely, meaning, inflection
and distribution.
• The phrase stucture rule for NP ,VP, AP, and pp.
NP
(Det) N (PP) the pretty girl
VP
(Qual) V (NP) often dream a dream
AP
(Deg) A (PP) very careful about you
❖Word level categories are divided into two kinds: a. major lexical categories:
Noun, verb, Adjective.Prepositon. a. minor lexical categories:Determiner.
xp
(spec)(Mod) X (Complement*)(Mod)
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The Expanded XP rule
6.What is deep structure and what is surface structure? • Formed by the XP rule in accordance with the
head's subcategorization properties, is called deep structure(or D-structure). • Corresponding to the final syntactic form of the sentence which resultsfrom appreopriate transformations is called surface structure(or Sstructure).
being conjoined.
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5.What elements does a phrase contain and what role does each element play?
• Syntactic units that are built around a certain word category are called phrases.
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