syntax

What is syntax?

• Linguistic meaning

• Putting together or arrangement

• word formation

• Phrasses,clauses and sentences

_____ was one of the most influential linguists in the field of syntax

• Paul Broca

• Noam Chomsky

• William Shakespeare

• Carl Wernicke

what is generative grammar?

• set of logical rules formulated to be capable in generating the infinite number of possible sentences

• two different events that can be expressed in the same structure form

• defines the syntactic structures of a language

• Process of repeating any number of times

In the theory of transformational grammar, sentences

have two ways they can be represented______

• syntactic structures

• Deep and surface structure

• structural ambiguity

• complement phrase

Deep structure sentence must consists of _________

• subject+verb+

  object

• subject+verb

• noun phrase

  +verb+

  noun phrase

• Subject+

  verb+

  object+ prepositional phrases

A phrase or sentence that has more than one underlying structure

• recursion

• generative grammar

• structural ambiguity

• deep structure

what is recursion?

• Process of repeting any number of times

• putting together or arrangement

• word formation

• phrases, clause and sentence

Able to repeat the rules that creates a prepositional phrase over and over again is known as?

• transformational rules

• generative grammar

• deep structure

• recursion

• option of

• consists of/rewrites of

• some of

• concept of

this symbol ( ) means?

• optional constituent

• one and only one of these constituents must be selected

• ungrammatical sentence

• consists of or rewrites as