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Phrase structure rules: Quiz

  

Question 1: They are used to break a natural ________ sentence down into its constituent parts (also known as syntactic categories) namely phrasal categories and lexical categories (aka parts of speech).
LanguageLinguisticsSemanticsAristotle

Question 2: Some examples correct inter alia for natural ________ are:
American EnglishCanadaSouth AfricaEnglish language

Question 3: The theory of ________ proposed in the early '90s by Richard Kayne is an attempt to derive phrase structure from a single axiom.
AntisymmetrySyntaxAndrea MoroGerman language

Question 4: The sentence was constructed by ________ as an illustration that syntactically but not semantically correct sentences are possible.
Henry David ThoreauAnarchismNoam Chomsky's political viewsNoam Chomsky

Question 5: Phrase-structure rules are a way to describe a given language's ________.
SyntaxGrammarMorphology (linguistics)Generative grammar

Question 6: Phrasal categories include the noun phrase, verb phrase, and prepositional phrase; lexical categories include noun, verb, ________, adverb, and many others.
GerundPreposition and postpositionPronounAdjective
















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