SINTAX CHAPTER 3
Across
- 2. The rules for combining words into phrases and sentences
- 3. Lexical category for words that modify verbs or adjectives
- 5. Ability to produce and understand novel sentences
- 6. A verb's requirement for syntactic category of its complement
- 11. Formal representation of a sentence's hierarchical structure
- 13. Sentence that violates syntactic rules of a language
- 16. Functional category for time reference and modals
- 17. Functional category including articles like "the" and "a"
- 18. Property of having more than one possible meaning or structure
- 19. A sentence that makes a statement rather than asks a question
- 20. The core word that gives a phrase its name
Down
- 1. A verb that doesn't take a direct object like "sleep"
- 4. The hierarchical organization of words in a sentence
- 7. A family of expressions that can substitute for each other
- 8. A verb's requirement for semantic properties of arguments
- 9. A word that substitutes for a noun phrase like "he" or "it"
- 10. A famous linguist mentioned in the text
- 12. A verb that requires a direct object like "find"
- 14. Grammar that prescribes rules rather than describes mental grammar
- 15. A natural grouping of words that function as a unit