Abbas’ link to YouTube Interview with Noam Chomsky
Phrase Structure Trees (also called constituent structure trees)
- Syntactic categories
- phrasal categories (NP & VP)
- lexical categories (Noun & Verb)
- functional categories (Det, Aux & Comp)
- Head & Complements – internal structure of each syntactic
category - Order of elements within the phrase is determined by the phrase structure rules for each language
Deep structure: basic phrase structure trees of a language
Some categories appear on both the right and the left side of the rule – this
accounts for infinite number of possible sentences
Lexicon
- knowledge speakers have about the vocabulary of their language
- syntactic category of words & elements that may occur together
- selectional restrictions
Selection:
- transitive verb selects for a NP direct object complement
Phrase structure Rules:
- Speaker’s set of rules that generate language
- Example: An NP can contain a determiner followed by a noun.