What is a phrase in syntax?

He has specialties in syntax, semantics and psycholinguistics. Seely's research has appeared in such journals as SYNTAX and Linguistic Inquiry; he has a ... Xiaoke Bu. PhD Student ([email protected]). Research interests: syntax, acquisition. As the only Bachelor of Science in Linguistics in the state of Minnesota, the program at UMD has particular strengths in syntax, morphology, cognitive ... Course Description. This course is concerned with the concepts and principles which have been of central significance in the recent development of syntactic ... Professor Kornfilt specializes in syntactic theory, theoretically informed linguistic typology, and the syntax—morphology interface ... 1. Syntax : grammatical categories ; syntactic and semantic functions ; phrases ; simple, complex and compound sentences. 2. Stylistics : analysis of the ... Thus, Chomsky argued, phrase structure rules (PSRs) are not sufficient to characterize linguistic competence. A phrase structure characterization of the ... Diesing's main research interests are syntax and the interface between syntax and semantics. Her primary language focus has been the Germanic languages. NYU Working Papers in Linguistics, NYUWPL Volume 3, Spring 2011: Papers in Syntax, Editors: Jim Wood and Neil Myler Introducing the central concepts in a systematic and engaging way, it covers the goals of generative grammar, tacit native-speaker knowledge, categories and ...