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Syntax As A Science

This document discusses syntax as a science. It defines syntax as the scientific study of language using methods like observing language data through text corpora, developing hypotheses about grammatical patterns, and testing hypotheses against additional data through tasks like grammaticality judgments. The key aspects of syntax as a science are observing language use, forming generalizations and hypotheses, and acquiring further data to evaluate those hypotheses.

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Syntax As A Science

This document discusses syntax as a science. It defines syntax as the scientific study of language using methods like observing language data through text corpora, developing hypotheses about grammatical patterns, and testing hypotheses against additional data through tasks like grammaticality judgments. The key aspects of syntax as a science are observing language use, forming generalizations and hypotheses, and acquiring further data to evaluate those hypotheses.

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Syntax as a Science

Event: 5th International Students’ Conference


Date: 15.05.21

Students: Aisha Akhverdovi, Berdia Burduli, Maka Durglishvili


Lecturer: Mariam Orkodashvili
CONTENTS

WHAT DEFINES OBSERVING AND GENERALIZATIONS OTHER MEANS OF


SYNTAX AS A GATHERING DATA AND HYPOTHESES ACQUIRING DATA
SCIENCE?
What defines syntax as a science?

The Scientific Method


The Scientific Method

Making
Observing and Testing against
Generalizations
Gathering Data some more data
and Hypotheses
Observing and Gathering Data

Corpora (Singular: corpus)


E.g. computer database, World Wide Web, BNC etc.

Text corpora Collection of linguistic data used for research,


scholarship, and teaching.

● 'Node'=The search word or phrase


Concordancing ● Key-Word-in-Context displays (KWIC
concordances)
The process of Community Agreement

❖ Introspection

Sanction and reinforce

Checking and judging


Making Generalizations and Developing Hypotheses

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.

An anaphor must have an antecedent and agree in gender (masculine, feminine, or


neuter) number and person.
Other means of acquiring data
Our subconscious knowledge Grammaticality judgment task
Our subconscious knowledge Grammaticality judgment task

* Who do you think what bought?


* Who do you think what bought?

a) Who do you think bought the bread


machine?

b) I wonder what she bought.


# The toothbrush is pregnant.
# The toothbrush is pregnant.
(unacceptable)
(unacceptable)
* Toothbrush the is blue.
* Toothbrush the is blue.
(ungrammatical)
(ungrammatical)

# - 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

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