Basic Properties of English Syntax

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must / have to

av Elena Corelli Grappadelli

Word-Prefix

av Anthony Yuan

quantum linguistics

av Steve Adams

Some Basic Properties of English Syntax

av Ana Maria Gomez Lopez

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2nd Property

1st Property

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

Starts

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