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Title Details:
Syntactic categories
Authors: Roussou, Anna
Reviewer: Georgiafentis, Michail
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE > GRAMMAR > THEORIES AND MODELS OF GRAMMAR > FORMAL GRAMMARS > GENERATIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > FIELDS OF LINGUISTICS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > THEORY AND METHOD
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > LINGUISTIC UNITS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > FIELDS OF LINGUISTICS > FIELDS RELATED TO THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE > SYNTAX
Keywords:
Functional Categories
Constituent
Tree Diagram
Predicate
Lexical Categories
Crosslinguistic Variation
Lexion
Description:
Abstract:
This chapter is also introductory and focuses on syntactic categories. It consists of seven sections. Section one introduces the two main parts of the sentence, namely the subject and the predicate. Section two introduces the notion of syntactic categories. Sections three and four consider the distinction between lexical and functional (or grammatical) categories. Section five examines the role of the lexicon in deriving crosslinguistics variation. Finally, sections six and seven introduce the notion of the constituent, the hierarchical structure of the sentence and its representation with tree-diagrams. These sections are followed by a summary, further reading, bibliography and exercises.
Table of Contents:
Syntactic categories
2.1. The basic parts of the sentence
2.2. Syntactic categories: the syntax ingredients
2.3. Lexical categories
2.4. Functional or grammatical categories
2.4.1. Inflection
2.4.2. Article
2.4.3. Complementizers
2.4.4. Pronouns
2.4.5. Other grammatical morphemens
2.5. The lexicon in crosslinguistic variation
2.6. Syntactic categories and the indentification of constituents
2.7. Constituents and tree diagrams
2.8. Summary
2.9. Suggestions for further reading
Bibliography
Exercise 1
Instructions for answering
Excercise 2
Instructions for answering
Exercise 3
Instructions for answering
Linguistic Editors: Vlachos, Christos
Fragkaki, Georgia
Technical Editors: Ioannis, Angelakos
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/583
Bibliographic Reference: Roussou, A. (2015). Syntactic categories [Chapter]. In Roussou, A. 2015. SYNTAX [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/583
Language: Greek
Is Part of: SYNTAX
Number of pages 23
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions