120 likes | 197 Views
SYNTAX. Yılmaz Kılıçaslan. Outline. Language is not a linear system.
E N D
SYNTAX Yılmaz Kılıçaslan
Language is not a linear system If you want to know which verb the adverb attaches to, the infant reflexively using minimal structural distance, not minimal linear distance. Well, it's using minimal linear distances, computationally easy, but it requires having linear order available. And if linear order is only a reflex of the sensory-motor system, which makes sense, it won't be available. That's evidence that the mapping of the internal system to the sensory-motor system is peripheral to the workings of the computational system.(from a conversation with Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong, Interviewer: Yarden Katz)
The simplest sentence in English S N V dogs bark S N, V
A more complex sentence in English S S N, V NP N NP adj, NP DP V DP D, N bark DP D D NP the Adj NP big Adj NP black N dogs
A much more complex sentence in English S S N, VP NP N NP adj, NP DP VP DP D, NP DP D VP V D DP V NP ate VP V, DP the DP DØ, NP D Adj NP N a bone big Adj NP black N dogs
A Tense Phrase TP TP DP, Tbar Tbar T, VP Tbar DP Tbar TØ, VP (Tbar VP) DP D, NP T VP were DP D NP D DP DØ, NP (DP NP) the NP adj, NP DP V NP N NP eating Adj VP V big D N VP V, DP a bone Adj NP black N dogs
Noun Domain N3 CaseP N3 Ø N2 N2 Adj Ø N1 N3 N1 N0
Number Domain Num3 Num3 CaseP Ø Num2 Num2 Adj Number Num1 Num3 Num1 (Num0) N3
Determiner Domain D3 D3 CaseP Ø D2 D2 Adj Det D1 Num3 Ø
Possessor Domain Poss3 Poss3 CaseP Ø Poss2 Poss2 Adj<str> Gen Poss1 D3 (poss0)
Syntactic Schema X3 X3 CaseP Ø X2 X2 Adj X X1 X3 X1 X0 Y3