[Introduction to Linguistics] Phrase Structure Rules, Specifiers, Complements, Tree Structures

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  • In this video, we look at Phrase Structure Rules, Complements, Specifiers, and Tree Drawings in a little bit more detail. This is the final segment of syntax!
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  • @sydney-my4zn
    @sydney-my4zn Před 4 lety +53

    i owe you my life (and my syntax grade)

  • @user-eh2kp1dv4x
    @user-eh2kp1dv4x Před 6 měsíci +1

    As a former linguistics major this kind of stuff makes me rethink on the topics and methods currently prevailing in the field concerned.Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work.

  • @linaorten7755
    @linaorten7755 Před 5 lety +9

    You’re amazing 🌷 You make it crystal clear.

  • @sh33na12
    @sh33na12 Před 3 lety +8

    Relying heavenly on your words than my textbook, thank you!

  • @souhirtinssa918
    @souhirtinssa918 Před 2 lety

    I was desperate for a second ! im graduating this year and I sit for my syntax final exam in 3 days ! things are clear to me thanx to you ! much love from Tunisia !

  • @loubnaonline8166
    @loubnaonline8166 Před 3 lety +1

    You saved my life With these lessons of linguistics. I appreciate it buddy :) Thank u

  • @pixelguru26
    @pixelguru26 Před 3 lety +12

    Thank you for the awesome course! It's been a life-saver when editing for my classes. However, I have a question about the last example. Since the verb "give" is transitive in this sentence, shouldn't the tree break "give me a raise" into a verb phrase and a single noun phrase, where the first verb phrase consists of a verb ("give") and a noun phrase (me), and the noun phrase just consists of the determiner ("a") and the noun "raise?"

  • @muneebaatta7674
    @muneebaatta7674 Před 3 lety +1

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  • @quoideneuf_
    @quoideneuf_ Před 2 měsíci

    I honestly don't know how to thank you for this summary!!!!!!! thank you so so so much

  • @fanoosfaroughi6440
    @fanoosfaroughi6440 Před 5 lety

    well done, very helpful and amazingly described.

  • @lordhybrid4663
    @lordhybrid4663 Před 3 lety +2

    finally a syntax video that is not draining my life!!! and makes sense.

  • @yourway382
    @yourway382 Před 3 lety +1

    Hello!
    You are really helpful! Please, may you do a special video full of sentences of syntax with solutions and tricks that we may face... That would be really helpful, and thank you so much for you efforts.

  • @sadafkhan1679
    @sadafkhan1679 Před 4 lety

    Super helpful u r a life saver plz keep making informative videos like this

  • @luhindiramahadewi253
    @luhindiramahadewi253 Před 3 lety

    Thank you, you're video really easy to understand

  • @The--Portal
    @The--Portal Před 3 lety +3

    5:26 : complement (good expl)
    8:14 : tense phrases (TP) always have the same structure:

  • @flakeboi
    @flakeboi Před 6 lety

    Thank you for this!

  • @faizatabib556
    @faizatabib556 Před 6 lety

    Great video~ thank you

  • @alkarkhy
    @alkarkhy Před 5 lety +1

    well, first of all thank you very much. I would like to ask you about the government and binding theory.

  • @mahirbansal2946
    @mahirbansal2946 Před 3 lety

    does the greater than 1 difference left - right apply to this too
    to determine whether it is legitimiate

  • @sot11cat
    @sot11cat Před 3 lety +1

    In “give me a raise” shouldn’t one complement be more closely connected to the verb? One of them can be passivized to subject position. How could we present that info in the tree diagram?

  • @taoyunzhi1323
    @taoyunzhi1323 Před 5 lety +4

    Thanks for the video!! Syntax has always been the most confusing part for me. This whole introductory course makes it easier to understand. And btw is there any difference between a triangle and the normal way of drawing a tree structure?

    • @menususmelwine5794
      @menususmelwine5794 Před 4 lety +1

      Basically, we use triangle for convenience. We know that the phrase "the dog" falls under our NP, but we don't specify which is the determiner and which is the noun. It's more of a shortcut. But if someone asks you to determine specific lexical categories, then you might want to use the tree structure.

  • @ebenezereshun3215
    @ebenezereshun3215 Před 2 lety +1

    At what instance will you use +past and-past?

  • @reginataytayan9145
    @reginataytayan9145 Před rokem

    Thank a lot

  • @geetanjali1100
    @geetanjali1100 Před 3 lety

    Wat will b the tree diagram of ‘ The Hotel where we stayed was near the station’

  • @azyoussef6377
    @azyoussef6377 Před 2 lety

    could you plz Prof tell me how to analyze using 3 stages of PSG

  • @as-mar4499
    @as-mar4499 Před rokem

    Is this the Radford Model in Tree Diagramming?

  • @prathyushad9250
    @prathyushad9250 Před 5 lety

    Thank you... helped a lot

  • @shrooq1016
    @shrooq1016 Před rokem

    Hi can u help me win this question?
    a) A woman entered who was eating a chocolate enchilada.
    b) The man that Bill said that Mary disliked loves beef waffles.
    With sentence (a) assume that the relative clause [who was eating a chocolate enchilada] is a modifier of the woman. Assume that the man is both the direct object of the verb disliked and the subject of the verb loves. Is it possible to draw trees for these sentences without crossing lines? Explain why or why not.

  • @nushiislam7883
    @nushiislam7883 Před 3 lety

    My teacher told us to only break it into NP and VP!! what should I do?

  • @ainamoony07
    @ainamoony07 Před 4 lety +4

    hello sir, for sentences that have possessive proper nouns such as "I was fixing the hole on Richard's roof", would the word "Richard's" consider to be a Noun Phrase or a Adjective Phrase??? Thank you for the info in advance :)

    •  Před 4 lety

      I think Richard's becomes a determiner with a NP inside, so [D[NP Richard]'s]. At least it says so in my textbook.

    •  Před 4 lety

      lol accidentally just found this czcams.com/video/63Zbn_w8Lm4/video.html

  • @zaddieq90
    @zaddieq90 Před 3 lety

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  • @zouhairkhairi5174
    @zouhairkhairi5174 Před 6 lety

    Keep it up

  • @SomeoneElse-fr8yu
    @SomeoneElse-fr8yu Před 7 měsíci

    I'd love to see this kind of breakdown of the first few sentences of The Hobbit.

  • @ezgikrnci114
    @ezgikrnci114 Před 3 lety

    is tp and ip the same thing?

  • @eziieee2626
    @eziieee2626 Před 3 lety

    Thank uu💝

  • @danicalaizasaludar2295

    I'm confused with this one "The angry man's daughter chased the cat on the mat with long whiskers" should I label 'man's daughter' as both noun?

  • @hopesy12u4
    @hopesy12u4 Před 5 lety

    3:51
    why didn't you do one for adverb phrases?

    • @hopesy12u4
      @hopesy12u4 Před 5 lety

      turns out, qualifiers are also adverbs. But then, why do you treat qualifiers and adverbs as if they're different things by having "adverbs" with the lexical categories and "qualifiers" in the functional categories?

    • @user-fk7cg9vw8z
      @user-fk7cg9vw8z Před 5 lety

      @@hopesy12u4maybe there are so many ways to category words depended on different perspectives,

  • @user-fk7cg9vw8z
    @user-fk7cg9vw8z Před 5 lety +2

    hey, i just watched this video, and i get a question. why the NP after a verb is called a compliment instead of an object. for instance, "the man really loved sushi", my mother tongue is Chinese, and i would consider the NP "sushi" as an object.

    • @bonbonpony
      @bonbonpony Před 5 lety +1

      This theory presented above is really problematic, because it doesn't seem to account for the division of a sentence into a subject and a predicate at all.
      The entire part "The Dean of Science" is the subject" while the entire part "might give me a raise" is the predicate. The "T" (tense) part in the syntax is also problematic because oftentimes it's not represented by any particular _word_ in the sentence, so it's not a "real" thing, I would say. It's just a gimmick to be able to shoehorn a particular sentence into this template.

    • @glor--ia9021
      @glor--ia9021 Před 5 lety +1

      Because love is a noun that doesn’t need an object. It’s like “swim”. You can say “he swims” and you can say “he swims backstroke”. Swim doesn’t need a direct object but it can have one to complement it. Same with love.

  • @steinmacher
    @steinmacher Před 4 lety

    is it really possible for a phrase to have 3 branches? (NP in your last example)

    • @Trevtutor
      @Trevtutor  Před 4 lety +2

      3 branches can be made into 2 using a new category (vP) and movement. I will likely add a video in the future to the end of the series to cover this. It’s an “advanced” topic that is often ignored or passed over in an initial syntax course, which is what this originally was intended to be.

  • @ravennightbirt9001
    @ravennightbirt9001 Před 2 lety

    Is it sad that I understand you better than 2 university lecturers?

  • @nosheenakhter5120
    @nosheenakhter5120 Před 4 lety

    Sir tell me for what TP stands?????

  • @mayar76686
    @mayar76686 Před 3 lety +2

    If you ever need my soul, let me know. 😢❤

  • @chadbareje5153
    @chadbareje5153 Před 2 lety

    Why TP instead of S?

  • @user-cl1ic5fq4p
    @user-cl1ic5fq4p Před měsícem

    Hello sir, how can I analyze this sentence ( the king of France is bald ) into phrase structure rules.
    I hope you better 🎉❤

  • @ameencampano3674
    @ameencampano3674 Před 5 lety +2

    Are pronouns considered nouns in tree structures? Thanks!

    • @linaorten7755
      @linaorten7755 Před 5 lety

      Ameen Campano yes they are and some grammarians put pro to make it more specific.

    • @bonbonpony
      @bonbonpony Před 5 lety +2

      Not all pronouns are nouns, though. Personal pronouns such as "he", "she", "they" substitute nouns, so they fulfil the same role in the sentence as nouns. Similarly indicative pronouns, such as "this", "that", or their corresponding interrogative pronoun "what". But POSSESSIVE pronouns, such as "my", "your", "his" etc. are more like a determiner, or an adjective, because that's how they work in a sentence - they describe nouns, and can be put in the same position as adjectives ("my car" ↔ "red car").

  • @Burgoskoa
    @Burgoskoa Před 4 lety

    Could you please help me with this one? " In my black rubber boots"

    • @LesCodes
      @LesCodes Před 4 lety

      ¿qué quieres? ¿árbol de que tipo?

  • @somaparviznia9446
    @somaparviznia9446 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Zor sipas mamostê

  • @databang
    @databang Před 4 lety +1

    Alexander Calder's mobile sculpture vs Noam Chomsky's syntax parsing tree.

  • @samuelwahiu5880
    @samuelwahiu5880 Před rokem

    Hello, I have one here:
    'Hardworking students who actively participate in-class discussion generally succeed in the exam.'
    kindly solve it for me.

  • @younesseddarouich9146
    @younesseddarouich9146 Před 3 lety

    Thank you professor, but I still a little bit lost, what about this sentence "was laughing hilariously at the slow turtle last night"

  • @kemjaysorela7194
    @kemjaysorela7194 Před rokem

    😮

  • @muntatheralsawad4250
    @muntatheralsawad4250 Před 3 lety +2

    why "science" is NP, and "dean" is just a N. what I understood that science is N .

    • @dobbythefreeelf9638
      @dobbythefreeelf9638 Před 3 lety +1

      in a nutshell, if you can substitute a word-level constituent with a phrase of the corresponding category then that constituent is in a fact a phrase. ( For example: if you can substitute the N "science" with the NP "the science department" , then science IS a NP not a N)

  • @Vivi-mp9nn
    @Vivi-mp9nn Před 4 lety

    What about agglutinative language like japanese?
    If you say I want to eat, you don’t use to verbs, but conjugated the verb to eat
    Taberu -> tabetai
    You could continue this forever, for example „it’s okay if you don’t want to eat“ is
    Tabe-ta-kuna-kute-mo-ii-(desu)
    „ Thank you for eating for me“
    Tabe-te-kure-te-arigatou
    „I‘m mad at you because You ate my stuff“
    Tabe-rare-ta-n-desu
    Sorry the examples are a bit random, I‘m not that advanced to thing of something more natrual, but this is definitely very normal, I would say most sentences have verbs that comjugated that often.
    Is it still just the verb then?
    Edit: And the do drop subject, especially pronons ALOT, so many conjugations fill in the question of who did what, for example (verb in te from)-te-kureru means that you receive a service from someone and are greatful for that, while (verb in te form)-te-ageru means that you gave someone something and think that’s nice of you. So you can put a sentence worth of information into a verb

  • @user-zn6kk8gz2c
    @user-zn6kk8gz2c Před 2 lety

    answer to this sentence The last king of baghbad

  • @walidakassou6411
    @walidakassou6411 Před rokem

    Why we didn't use "me" and " it" as a pronoun not a as noun ?

    • @Trevtutor
      @Trevtutor  Před rokem +1

      Pronouns are treated as N (or D later) in syntax. Some intro courses use a “Pro” label but that’s not what’s used past an intro course.