Yule Chapter 4

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• The study of rulesgoverning the way words are combined to form sentences Syntax
• Have the capacity to be applied more than once in generating a structure Recursive rules
• Nouns N
• Articles Art
• Adjectives Adj
• Verbs V
• Adverbs Adv
• Prepositions Prep
• Pronouns Pro
• Conjunctions Conj
• Determinaters Det
• Clause elements Syntactic functions
• Give us more syntactic information than word classes alone;they explain more clearly how the different words relate to each other grammatically The clause elements
• attempts to describe how the forms and constructions in spoken and written language are actually used, and avoids rules of correctness Descriptive grammar
• states what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ in language use. It refers to to how certain people think the structures of language should be used, is often intended as an aid to language learning and may reflect a perceived ’prestige’ dialect Prescriptive grammar
• Why is Captain Kirk's "To boldly go..." wrong? You must not split an infinitive
• You must not end a sentence with a preposition Prescriptive grammar
• is a theoretical construct that seeks to unify several seemingly related structures The deep structure
• ambiguity tvetydlighet

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