Syntax

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Syntax
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Syntactic Ambiguity

• Yoko Ono will talk about her husband John Lennon
  who was killed in an interview with Barbara
  Walters.
• Hospitals are sued by seven foot doctors.
• Clinton wins on budget, more lies ahead
• Complaints about NBA referees growing ugly
• We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass
  container.
• For Sale Mixing bowl set designed to please a
  cook with round bottom for efficient beating.

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Syntactic Concepts

• Grammatical does not depend on truth or meaning
• Grammatical relations between parts of sentence
• transitive vs. intransitive verbs
• verbs that take a gerund vs. infinitive
• Ambiguity
• Syntactic categories p. 125
• Constituents
• Trees
• Phrase structure rules