Basic Properties of English Syntax

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2nd Property

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Basic Properties of English Syntax

Not motivated relationship between Sound-Meanings

Example

*Hotdog *Hasn't relationship with a dog which is or feels hot.

Key essential features

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The basic study of linguistics

Generates

Complex sentence

Simple sentence

Main topic

Language makes infinite use of finite set of rules or prociples

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Generative Linguistics

Use of *

To indicate that a hypothesized example is ungrammatical