Ling 209 - Week 5 - Part B

What is the study of how linguistic expressions can combine into larger expressions called?

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Compositionality

• Grammaticality judgments

A "linguistic expression" includes phrases, but not words

• True
• False

What does the principle of compositionality state? Select 2

• The meaning of a whole expression is determined by the meanings of its parts and their arrangement.

• Words have syntactic properties that are distinct from their meanings.

• A judgment from an individual's mental grammar.

• The study of the meaning of utterances in language.

What do grammaticality judgments involve?

• Determining if a string of linguistic expressions is grammatical in a language.

• Studying the meaning of utterances in language.

• Understanding the connection between syntax and semantics.

• Analyzing the co-occurrence of expressions.

What does the "eat vs. devour" example demonstrate?

• The study of syntax

• The distinct syntactic properties of words

• The meaning of utterances

• The principle of compositionality

What are syntactic properties? Select all that apply

• The study of how expressions combine

• Rules that determine how words can be combined to form correct sentences

• Includes word order

• Includes co-occurrence of expressions

What is the most common word order in the world's languages?

• SVO (Subject-Verb-Object)

• SOV (Subject-Object-Verb)

• VSO (Verb-Subject-Object)

• VOS (Verb-Object-Subject)

Which of the following is NOT a technique of syntactic co-occurrence?

• Agreement

• Truth value

• Arguments

• Adjuncts

What is the term for linguistic expressions that are syntactically required by another linguistic expression?

• Adjuncts

• Arguments

• Agreement

• Reference

Adjuncts are linguistic expressions that are optional

• True
• False