Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

LIN102 Syntax (elementary level: categorize words into classes like nouns…

- - - - But this is too flat! Sentences have nested structures(at least two dimension like dynamic programming), therefore they can't be described in one dimension (the greedy approach simply doesn't work!)
        
        although this is not superficially obvious, we will see it once we compare sets of strings, also known as paradigms
        
        The cat slept on the shirt.
        
        The man put on the shirt .
        
        movement test to see if they are in the same constituent, or phrase
        
        therefore, first dimension is element in a string, second dimension is constituency, which is in a tree structure
        
        phrases as projections of categories: NP is projected from N
        
        2 more items...
        
        This is sort of like a contradiction proof. What guarantees the validity of its form? Answer: Linguistics is an empirical science