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  1. Chomsky begins Syntactic Structures, then, by aiming to construct a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.

  2. Jan 1, 2007 · French is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order and clause structure triggering a variety of important developments in syntactic theory. This is a concise and...

    • Paul Rowlett
  3. This book sets out a simple system which can be used to analyse the fundamental structures of French, with practice sentences and model answers. Syntax is unusual in the academic study of language, in that for many sentences there is a correct analysis (as long as that analysis is consistent with the system presented).

    • Christopher Gledhill
  4. We shall present the structure of a lexicon-grammar built for French <2> and will discuss its algorithmic main implications. 1. VERBS The syntactic properties of French verbs have been limited in terms of the size of sentences, that is, by restricting the type of complements to object complements.

  5. Nov 19, 2012 · Syntactic structures contain more information than just patterns of sisterhood and immediate domination among nodes. In each constituent, one element is especially important (and gives the constituent its name). That element is called the head of the constituent.

  6. Language Typology and Syntactic Description. This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world’s languages Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts of speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses ...

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  8. ing with word properties, particularly word structure, is called morphology. Here we will concentrate on just a few kinds of morphological properties that will turn out to be relevant for syntax.

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