syntax vocab

A sentence in which the NP with the agent role is the subject

The result of one category begin inflected to mark properties of another

the element or elements for which a head is subcategorized and which provide information about entities and locations whose existence is implied by the meaning of the head

one or more words that make up a syntactic unit

the process whereby a syntactic structure is formed by syntactic operations such as merge and move

in an experiment the behaviour or event that is measured in order to gauge the effect of an independent variable.

in an experiment the behaviour or event that is measured in order to gauge the effect of an independent variable

a functional category that serves as a specifier of a noun ie the a, these

words such as determiners and conjunctions that are lacking in the speech of Broca's aphasics, resulting in telegraphic speech

a verb that dose not take a direct object

the result of homophony or polysemy in that a single form has two or more meanings either related or not.

the word level syntactic categories noun N verb V adjective A and preposition P

an optical element that describes a property of a head

a milestone in a child's development characterized by the ability to recognize that objects have an existence independent of one's interaction with them

a noun phrase that combines with a preposition

a sentence in which the NP bearing the theme role is encoded as subject

a unit of syntactic structure consisting of an obligatory head and an optional specifier and or complements

a CP that serves as modifier of a noun

a word that helps to make more precise the meaning of the head of the phrase and that occurs immediately beneath the XP

a property of phrases or sentences whose component words can be combined in more than one way

language variation that corresponds with other factors

the classification of words in terms of their complement options

the NP occurring immediately under the IP

the system of rules and categories that underlines sentence formation in human language

the thematic role of the entity directly affected by the action designated by the verb

a verb that takes a NP complement a direct object