English Syntax.pptVIP

English Syntax Two Kinds of Issues What is Syntax? What is Syntax? Why Do We Care about Syntax? Sometimes We Need it Even if We Don’t Go All the Way Finding Constituents in Sentences Finding Constituents in Sentences, con’t How Many Kinds of Constituents are There? How Many Kinds of Constituents are There, con’t Single Word Constituents Simple Constituent Types Don’t Capture Everything Subcategorization The Role of the Lexicon in Parsing One Other Barrier to a Small Number of Kinds of Constituents - Agreement The Solution – Augmenting the Constituent Types Specifying a Language A Context-Free