Lecture 6 (Kartei)

18 Karteikarten

• 1
  What is Syntax?

  Study of the patterns of words in a sentence or ...
• 2
  What are constituents?

  - phrases - hang together semantically and ...
• 3
  How can one find constituents? What other features help to ...

  They: - can be replaced by a single word (e.g. pronoun) - ...
• 4
  Name 3 types of syntactic constituents:

  Syntactic categories or phrase types: - Noun phrases NP - ...
• 5
  State and describe the Structural relations in trees.

  - dominates: is a level above - daughter: one level down in ...
• 6
  What can you say about a Grammar according to tree ...

  A Grammar tells what constituent tree structures are valid, ...
• 7
  Whats Grammar plus Lexicon?

  Sentences.
• 8
  What generative capacities are there? Describe them. What ...

  *Weak generative capacity: Observational ...
• 9
  What means Syntactic ambiguity?

  Some sequences of words can be assigned more than one ...
• 10
  What problem did Chomsky see?

  He wanted a more scientific approach, derived from modern ...
• 11
  What is Agreement?

  Grammatical features must agree.
• 12
  What is Subcategorization? What three types are there?

  Number of verbal complements is determined by verb (the ...
• 13
  What is thematical and what modificational meaning?

  Thematic meaning: Who did what to whom Modificational ...
• 14
  What are thematic roles? How are they determined?

  *Agent:* the causer or doer *Patient:* the victim or ...
• 15
  How are the numbers of arguments and modifiers specified?

  Arguments: lexically specified by verb ("Franz sent ...
• 16
  What is the difference between Modifiers and Complements, ...

  Complements (internal argument of the VP): sisters of ...
• 17
  What means N'?

  Some nouns denote relations (and hence have own ...
• 18
  What are Specifiers?

  - sister of an X', like N' (phrasal head) - arguments of ...