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1 Basic concepts of syntax Holger Diessel
2 Basic concepts Syntax: The study of how sentences are composed. Syntactic analysis involves three basic concepts: Types of words Parts of sentences Functions of sentence parts Constituents/phrases Parts-of-speech Syntactic functions
3 Basic concepts Linguistic structure can be analyzed along two dimensions: syntagmatic paradigmatic syntagmatic (1) John kissed a girl on the street. He A man Someone hugged teased the some in under paradigmatic
4 Word classes [parts-of-speech] [lexical categories]
5 Word classes Criteria defining word classes: semantic morphological distributional Word classes tend to have particular meanings, but there is no direct correspondence between meaning and grammatical category: Class Noun Typical
6 Word classes Criteria defining word classes: semantic morphological distributional Word classes tend to have particular meanings, but there is no direct correspondence between meaning and grammatical category: Class Noun Typical car, tree, cat
7 Word classes Criteria defining word classes: semantic morphological distributional Word classes tend to have particular meanings, but there is no direct correspondence between meaning and grammatical category: Class Typical A-typical Noun car, tree, cat
8 Word classes Criteria defining word classes: semantic morphological distributional Word classes tend to have particular meanings, but there is no direct correspondence between meaning and grammatical category: Class Typical A-typical Noun car, tree, cat election, fire, hate, the poor
9 Word classes Criteria defining word classes: semantic morphological distributional Word classes tend to have particular meanings, but there is no direct correspondence between meaning and grammatical category: Class Typical A-typical Noun car, tree, cat election, fire, hate, the poor Verb
10 Word classes Criteria defining word classes: semantic morphological distributional Word classes tend to have particular meanings, but there is no direct correspondence between meaning and grammatical category: Class Typical A-typical Noun car, tree, cat election, fire, hate, the poor Verb run, talk, hit
11 Word classes Criteria defining word classes: semantic morphological distributional Word classes tend to have particular meanings, but there is no direct correspondence between meaning and grammatical category: Class Typical A-typical Noun car, tree, cat election, fire, hate, the poor Verb run, talk, hit be, live, own, remain
12 Word classes Criteria defining word classes: semantic morphological distributional Word classes tend to have particular meanings, but there is no direct correspondence between meaning and grammatical category: Class Typical A-typical Noun car, tree, cat election, fire, hate, the poor Verb run, talk, hit be, live, own, remain The same concept can be expressed by different categories in different languages: Ojibwa (1) a. N-ginooz. b. N-nagam. 1sg-tall 1sg-sing I am tall. I am singing.
13 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water
14 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able
15 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able
16 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able now, there, calmly, actually, away, today
17 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today
18 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today in, on, under, between, because of
19 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today Preposition P in, on, under, between, because of
20 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today Preposition P in, on, under, between, because of if, because, while, since, after, that,
21 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today Preposition P in, on, under, between, because of Conjunction C if, because, while, since, after, that,
22 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today Preposition P in, on, under, between, because of Conjunction C if, because, while, since, after, that, have, be, will, do, be going to
23 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today Preposition P in, on, under, between, because of Conjunction C if, because, while, since, after, that, Auxiliary AUX have, be, will, do, be going to
24 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today Preposition P in, on, under, between, because of Conjunction C if, because, while, since, after, that, Auxiliary AUX have, be, will, do, be going to I, you, he, that, what, somebody, any
25 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today Preposition P in, on, under, between, because of Conjunction C if, because, while, since, after, that, Auxiliary AUX have, be, will, do, be going to Pronoun PRO I, you, he, that, what, somebody, any
26 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today Preposition P in, on, under, between, because of Conjunction C if, because, while, since, after, that, Auxiliary AUX have, be, will, do, be going to Pronoun PRO I, you, he, that, what, somebody, any the, a, some, which, that, my, all
27 Word classes Open class Symbol Examples Noun N girl, chair, water, thing, beauty, thought Verb V sing, walk, go, become, seem, water Adjective Adj good, watery, calm, unlimited, friendly, able Adverb Adv now, there, calmly, actually, away, today Preposition P in, on, under, between, because of Conjunction C if, because, while, since, after, that, Auxiliary AUX have, be, will, do, be going to Pronoun PRO I, you, he, that, what, somebody, any Determiner Det the, a, some, which, that, my, all
28 Word classes Word classes are language specific. English (Europe) nouns pronouns determiners verbs adjectives adverbs prepositions auxiliaries interjections
29 Word classes Word classes are language specific. English (Europe) Wolof (Africa) Chickasaw (North America) Zapotec (Mesoamerica) nouns nouns nouns nouns nouns Warlpiri (Australia) pronouns pronouns pronouns pronouns pronouns determiners determiners determiners verbs verbs verbs verbs verbs adjectives adjectives --- adverbs adverbs --- adverbs --- prepositions prepositions --- prepositions --- auxiliaries auxiliaries interjections interjections interjections interjections interjections
30 Constituents [phrasal categories]
31 Constituents Sentences are build up from smaller parts (i.e. constituents): sentence phrase phrase word morpheme (1) The man talk-ed to the manag-er.
32 Constituents Category Label Examples my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things
33 Constituents Category Label Examples Noun phrase NP my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things
34 Constituents Category Label Examples Noun phrase NP my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things saw a movie, give him a cigar
35 Constituents Category Label Examples Noun phrase NP my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things Verb phrase VP saw a movie, give him a cigar
36 Constituents Category Label Examples Noun phrase NP my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things Verb phrase VP saw a movie, give him a cigar very proud, eager for further news
37 Constituents Category Label Examples Noun phrase NP my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things Verb phrase VP saw a movie, give him a cigar Adjective phrase AP very proud, eager for further news
38 Constituents Category Label Examples Noun phrase NP my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things Verb phrase VP saw a movie, give him a cigar Adjective phrase AP very proud, eager for further news quite separately, extremely fast
39 Constituents Category Label Examples Noun phrase NP my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things Verb phrase VP saw a movie, give him a cigar Adjective phrase AP very proud, eager for further news Adverb phrase ADVP quite separately, extremely fast
40 Constituents Category Label Examples Noun phrase NP my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things Verb phrase VP saw a movie, give him a cigar Adjective phrase AP very proud, eager for further news Adverb phrase ADVP quite separately, extremely fast between the lines, to the market
41 Constituents Category Label Examples Noun phrase NP my uncle, a busy road, dangerous things Verb phrase VP saw a movie, give him a cigar Adjective phrase AP very proud, eager for further news Adverb phrase ADVP quite separately, extremely fast Prepositional phrase PP between the lines, to the market
42 Constituents (1) We left Jena after the game. (2) We left Jena after the game ended. Simple sentence Complex sentence sentence clause clause (3) If it is going to rain, we will stay in bed all day long.
43 Constituents S VP VP PP NP NP NP PRO V N P DET N (1) We left Jena after the game.
44 Syntactic functions [grammatical relations]
45 Syntactic functions Category Label Examples My father left Jena.
46 Syntactic functions Category Label Examples Subject SUBJ My father left Jena.
47 Syntactic functions Category Label Examples Subject SUBJ My father left Jena. He saw my father.
48 Syntactic functions Category Label Examples Subject SUBJ My father left Jena. Object OBJ He saw my father.
49 Syntactic functions Category Label Examples Subject SUBJ My father left Jena. Object OBJ He saw my father. Adverbial ADV She met my father in Jena.
50 Syntactic functions Category Label Examples Subject SUBJ My father left Jena. Object OBJ He saw my father. She met my father in Jena.
51 Syntactic functions Category Label Examples Subject SUBJ My father left Jena. Object OBJ He saw my father. Adverbial ADV She met my father in Jena.
52 Syntactic functions S VP adverbial subject VP PP NP NP NP PRO V N P DET N (1) We left Jena after the game.
53 Example
54 Example S object VP adverbial subject VP PP NP NP NP DET A N V PRO P DET N The young boy noticed someone across the street
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