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SYNTAX, "The study of phrases, clauses and sentences" (Parker…

- - - - Interrogative words/phrases (who, what where, when, etc) show special order. These words are at the beginning of an interrogative clause. Example: if "Tiny Abner has concealed what" is changed to "What has Tiny Abner concealed" the movement of what would be categorized as a wh-movement
    - - The first verb moved to the left of the subject NP
        Example: if "Tiny Abner has concealed what" is changed to "What has Tiny Abner concealed" the movement of has would be categorized as an i movement.
  - - - Elements cannot be moved across more than one S or NP
    - - Elements cannot be moved outside of a tensed clause
    - - No element strings without a constituent can be moved together in a single application
  - - - Example "an English literature expert"
        
        Could mean 'a literature expert who is English'
        
        Could mean 'an expert in English literature'
  - - - Word Categories
        
        Verb
        
        Adverb
        
        Adjective
        
        Noun
    - - Noun phrases
      - Adjective phrases
      - Verb Phrases
      - Phrase Structure (PS) Rules
        
        How they should be ordered from left to right
        
        If any elements are optional
        
        Which elements are allowed in certain types of phrases