PHRASE SCHEMATA
- Syntax: Syntax is the study of the formation of sentences
from words and the rules for formation of grammatical sentences.
- Syntactic Constituents: subdivisions of a sentence into
phrase-like units that are common to many sentences. Syntactic
constituents explain the word order of a language
("SOV" vs. "SVO" languages).
- Phrase Schemata: groups of words that have internal structure
and unity (e.g., a "noun phrase" consists of a noun and its
immediate modifiers).
- Example: NP -> (det) (modifier) head-noun (post-modifier)
| NP |
Det |
Mod |
Head Noun |
Post-Mod |
| 1 |
the |
|
authority |
of government |
| 7 |
an |
impure |
one |
|
| 16 |
a |
true |
respect |
for the individual |