Chapter5 Syntax.pptVIP

Chapter FiveSyntax ----a branch of linguistics that studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences. 句法学研究组词成句的规则，研究句子内部组成成分间的关系。 Syntactic relations（句法关系） Syntactic relations can be analyzed into three kinds: relations of position relations of substitutability relations of co-occurrence Relations of Position （位置关系） For language to fulfill its communicative function, it must have a way to mark the grammatical roles of the various phrases that can occur in a clause. The boy kicked the ball NP1 NP2 Subje