General Linguistics Units 4-5

Syntax is the study of the formation of sentences and the relationship of their component parts.

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• False

•Phrasal categories,

•Lexical categories

•Functional categories.

• Syntactic categories

• Syntactic sentences

• Syntactic phrases

An adjective phrase is a

• Phrasal category

• Semantic category

• Morphological category

She came to the party after the cake was cut.

• Simple sentence

• Complex sentence

The dog was standing in front of the store.

• Simple sentence

• Complex sentence

A determiner can be a:

• numeral

• name

• verb

very intelligent

• adjective phrase

• noun phrase

• prepositional phrase

Prepositional phrase

• By the time

• Great dancer

• The singer

Lexical category

• adverb

• determiner

• conjunction

The core of every phrase is a lexical category.

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• False