Some Basic Properties of English Syntax

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Levels of a language

av Vladimir KOBELEV

SYNTAX

av Christian Andrés Rea

sentences, utterance and proposition

av Jenny Acevedo

sentences, utterance and proposition

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2nd Property

1st Property

Some 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

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Complex sentence

Simple sentence

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