Syntax As A Science
Syntax As A Science
Making
Observing and Testing against
Generalizations
Gathering Data some more data
and Hypotheses
Observing and Gathering Data
❖ Introspection
A hypothesis must be
data hypothesis falsifiable.
a) Bill kissed himself.
b) *Bill kissed herself.
c) Sally kissed herself.
d) *Sally kissed himself.
e) *Kiss himself.
# - semantically ill-formed
* - syntactically ill-formed
Sources:
• Andrew Carnie’s Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 4th Edition
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi16
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• https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-corpus-language-1689806