Understanding Syntax Through Jabberwocky and Linguistic Examples
Exploring the whimsical "Jabberwocky" poem alongside linguistic concepts like syntactic categories, nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Dive into the world of language structure and analysis with engaging examples.
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Jabberwocky `Twasbrillig, and the slithytoves Did gyre and gimblein the wabe: All mimsywere the borogoves, And the momerathsoutgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjubbird, and shun The frumiousBandersnatch!" He took his vorpalsword in hand: Long time the manxomefoe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtumtree, And stood awhile in thought.
SYNTAX Syntactic Categories
Heads-ups Today Syntactic categories and tests Friday (RR8 due) RR8 Discussion Brit & Lacie Phrases, constituents, syntactic trees
Syntactic categories 1) Meaning 2) Inflections 3) Distribution Chou Remains Cremated
Jabberwocky `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.
Nouns Pre-modified by Det and/or Adj: a cool movie those oranges Post-modified by relative clauses: a movie that she had seen the man who knew too much Post-modified by prepositions: the girl with the dragon tattoo (no) soup for you Mass nouns: *the three furnitures/advices Proper nouns: *the Mary/Lafayette
Verbs Follow the subject Brian held his martini. Brian drank his martini. Brian drank. Intransitive verb Brian devoured his martini. *Brian devoured. Transitive verb Brian gave his martini to Stewie. Ditransitive verb
Adjectives Come between Deg and N avery large pumpkin a really good book Non-gradable Adj: *a very absent student *a very asleep baby Come after main verb be his head is large Can occur in as ____ as structures as large as a pumpkin
French The red wine was good. *Le rouge vin tait bon. *The wine red was good. Le vin rouge tait bon. Swedish She saw the house. *Hon s g et hus. *She saw house the. Hon s g hus-et.
Lexical categories Noun (N): computer, John, London, she Verb (V): travel, have, diversify, understand Adjective (Adj): blue, soft, apparent, interesting Preposition (P): on, about, through, beside Adverb (Adv): quickly, sincerely, interestingly Function categories Determiner (Det) the, a, an, this, his Degree word (Deg) very, so, too, quite Conjunction(Conj) and, or, but Auxiliary(Aux) will, should, can, must (be, have) Also called helping verbs
Rachael was telling Harrison N Aux N V about a very cool movie P Det Deg Adj N that she had seen, but he V Aux N V Conj Det was secretly listening to Adv Aux P V his new, shiny iPod. Det Adj N Adj
