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The study of the internal structure of expressions, especially between words and phrases, and the principles and processes that determine it. This includes words order, but also the grammatical relations that hold between words, as well as structural ambiguity, binding, reference, and similar issues. Common approaches are numerous phrase structure grammars (GPSG, HPSG, LFG, G&B, X-bar, Minimalism, ...) and, on the other hand, dependency grammars.
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How are these diagrams read?
Finally, I would strongly suggest you first skim an introductory syntax textbook or try to find some introductory lecture slides online because syntax, especially minimalism, has a tendency to build on … My school uses Syntax: A Generative Introduction by Andrew Carnie and also Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach by David Adger in its syntax courses. …
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Are we witnessing the death of stative "think"?
Yes, this usage has been around for a long time and you're missing out. A simple look at Google's Ngram viewer shows that the rate of occurrence for both "think that" and "thinking that" have held rel …
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What makes the "an" a determiner in one situation and a preposition in another in English?
The simple answer is that there are two "a/an"s in English. One is an article and one is a preposition.
When you consider that languages are full of homonyms it is natural that there can be multiple …
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Is there a significance to word order in ASL?
Although I am not an ASL speaker (signer? user?), your question interested me. After some quick research, the simple answer to your question seems to be yes, word order matters in ASL. Strictly speaki …
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Do "only if..." and "if... only then..." have the same LF representation?
I'm currently writing a term paper where I am comparing if... then..., only if..., and if... only then... statements.
I've noticed that only if p q and if p, only then q have the same truth conditions …
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Mathematical preparation for postgraduate studies in Linguistics
My [limited] understanding is that the cutting-edge work in syntax, semantics, and phonology come from examination and theorizing of frameworks involved in language usage. …
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"Like" in English (and perhaps other languages)
In Answer to #2, Korean has two forms which could conceivably be translated as the English "like" or "as".
The first is 처럼 (cherem), a particle, and 비슷하다 (pisuthata), an adjective.
비슷하다 (pisuthata) …
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