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Syntactic structures are the arrangements of words and phrases within a sentence, following the rules of syntax in a specific language. They dictate how elements combine to form grammatically correct and meaningful sentences, often relying on word order, grammatical relations, and hierarchy.
Syntax is the set of rules and process that govern sentence structure in a language. A basic description of syntax would be the sequence in which words can occur in a sentence. One of the earliest approaches to syntactic theory comes from the works of the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini (c. 4th century BC) and his seminal work: Aṣṭādhyāyī.
Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures was the snowball which began the avalanche of the modem "cognitive revolution." The cognitive per spective originated in the seventeenth century and now construes mod em linguistics as part of psychology and human biology. Depending on their initial conditions, children grow into adults with various lan
- Lexical Modulation, Ad Hoc Word Senses, and Polysemy
- Lexical Innovation: Words Derived from Other Words, ‘Conversions’ and Metonymy
- Complex Words and Their Senses
A starting assumption here is that language users have an awareness of words (that is, words comprise a psychologically real category) while the internal structure of words is much less salient to them (Julien, 2007). This is especially so for simple words like ‘dog’, ‘fresh’ and ‘run’, which, although consisting of a root plus grammatical structur...
Sources of new words are multifarious. Consider, for instance, the recent mainstream use of the adjective ‘woke’, with its origin in a particular African-American dialect, in which it meant being ‘woken up to’ or being alert to issues around racial injustice, or the verb ‘to gaslight’, now widely used with the meaning to psychologically undermine s...
I return now to the central issue of the paper, that of structurally complex words that have a non-compositional meaning/sense (alongside a compositional meaning) and how this arises. Recall that, as outlined in Sect. 2.2 above, this is an issue that on the face of it looks like a challenge for those syntacticians who subsume word structure into sy...
- Robyn Carston
- robyn.carston@ucl.ac.uk
Sep 12, 2017 · The GB principles that assign syntactic structures to sentences, beginning (at the top) with the initial structural assignments allowed by X-bar theory, proceeding through the various filters described above (Binding, ECP, Theta Criterion, etc.), and eventuating in a well-formed phrase marker.
- David Pereplyotchik
- 2017
Sep 12, 2012 · For example, binding theory was proposed as a set of syntactic constraints governing the interpretation of referring expressions such as pronouns (e.g. her, them) and reflexives (e.g. herself, themselves).
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This book is an introduction to the basic concepts of syntax and syntactic analysis. Syntax is a central component of human language. Language has often been characterized as a systematic correlation between certain types of gestures and mean-ing, as represented simplistically in Figure 1.1.
