When we become literate in a language, we learn the conventions about what is called a word, and about spacing these elements in texts. Who decides these conventions, and how do we learn them? …

mputational work on natu-ral language. The second was a book called Syntactic Structures that presented a new formalism for grammatical description and analyzed a substantial fragment

Four current approaches to syntax provides overall characterizations of four families of contemporary syntactic approaches: transformational grammars, dependency grammars, construction grammars, …

(Lees 1957: 377-8) Chomsky begins Syntactic Structures, then, by aiming to construct a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis. …

We can associate with each syntactic category of the grammar, a semantic type which specifies the type of object denoted by expressions of that category and also specifies how it combines with other types.

The following three instructional activities help students develop “sentence sense” (i.e., syntactic awareness) by providing opportunities for students to manipulate and add words in sentences.

This handout was adapted from Gillis & Eberhardt (2018) - Syntax: Knowledge to Practice. It is designed to be used as an educator reference sheet and not as a teaching material with students. An …