语言学3.pptVIP

Syntax– the sentence patterns of Language Outline The existence of syntactic rules Syntactic structures Syntactic rules I : Phrase structure rule Syntactic rules II: Transformation rule UG, Principle and Parameter The part of grammar that represents a speaker’s knowledge of sentences and their structures is called syntax. The existence of Syntactic rules The rules of syntax combine words into phrases and phrases into sentences. 1. Grammatical vs. ungrammatical: whether the native speaker judge a sentence to be a possible form of their language. 2. Sentence has internal struc