INTRODUCTION TO

LINGUISTIC
SYNTAX
GROUP
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 Definition
The part of the grammar that represents
a speaker’s knowledge of these
structures and their information is called
syntax.

Victoria Fromkin,
David Blaik 1999
 Sentence Structure

Verb phrase
Noun phrase Others syntactic categories are
determiner, adjective, noun,
pronoun, preposition,
prepositional phrase, adverb,
auxiliary verb, and verb.

example

The child / found the

puppy.
 Phrase structure trees
The child found the puppy
S

The child
found the puppy
NP
VP

the child

found the puppy

V NP
Phrase Structure Rules

Victoria Fromkin,David Blaik, An

Introduction to Language, Harcourt,
Australia, 1999,
 Lexical Categories
the lexicon provides the information
needed for complete, well-formed
phrase structure trees.
 Structural ambiguity
• two sentences are composed of the
same constituents in the same order
but they have different meanings.
differing only in strucuture.
 Conclusion
syntax is the structure and formation of sentences.
• Syntax concerns the possible arrangements of words in a language.
There are many terms in syntax
Sentence structure
Phrase structure rule
Phrase structure tree
Ambiguity
Lexical categories, that build a sentence.