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16 Cards in this Set
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NP Rule |
(DET) (ADJ) N (PP) |
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VP Rule |
(ADV) V (ADV) (PP) (ADV) |
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Open class items |
Nouns, verbs, adj, adv |
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Closed class items |
Function words, prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, determiners, pronouns, “not” |
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Adverbs |
Often formed from adjectives by adding “-ly”, can modify verbs, adj, and often other adverbs |
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Determiners |
1. Articles (a, the) 2. Quantifiers (e.g. many, all) 3. Possessive pronouns (my, your, his, hers) 4. Numbers modifying nouns (e.g. one car) |
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Sentence is made of |
NP followed by VP |
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Phrase |
A string of one or more words that functions as as a discrete unit of a sentence |
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Node |
Label in a phrase structure tree |
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Node |
Label in a phrase structure tree |
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Syntax |
The part of linguistics that studies sentence structure |
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Syntax not about meaning but about ________ |
Structure |
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Noun phrases consist of... |
A head noun and possibly other words |
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Prepositional phrases consist of... |
A head preposition followed by a NP |
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Prepositional phrases consist of... |
A head preposition followed by a NP |
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Verb phrases consist of... |
A head verb and possibly other words |
