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5/20/16 lecture
universal grammer and syntactic theories
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modern theories of syntax include
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syntactic rules and rules of combination
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competence
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person's knowledge of his language- system is in mind
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performance
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how a person actually uses the language-system in mouth
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Universal Grammer
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features that are universal to any human language
ex: all languages have nouns verbs, transformation, morphemes, morphological rules, constituents and vowels
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Transformational Grammer
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Noam Chomsky theory in 1957
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X-Bar Theory
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Chomksy, 1970-XP consists of x that has a specifier -x -phrases may contain intermediate constituents from head X, system may be common to more than 1 category
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Minimalist program
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Chomsky theory 1993
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1950
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when syntax theory first became a thing due to Chomsky
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prop-word one
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shows difference between complement and adjunct
-ex: I saw the evil KING -I saw the evil ONE
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String Constituency
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any element (morph or word) or any combinations of elements that is continuous in the horizontal dimension
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Catena Constituency
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any element that is continuous in the vertical dimension
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Component Constituency
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any element or combination of elements that is both a string and catena
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constituent
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any component that is complete
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shifting
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when two or more constituents appearing on the same side as their head exchange positions
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phrasal verbs
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have a particle
ex: they TOOK ON the bus
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