Phrase Stuctyre Rules

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Phrase Stucture Rules

 The basic possibilities of the sructure of basic sentence of languages may be represented by phrase structure rules, for example :

a.       A sentence consists of a subject and a predicate.

b.      A noun may be modified by an adjective

c.       Every predicate has a verb

There is a lot of controversy about pharase stucture rules and particulary about their universality-the extent to which such rule, and the categories mentioned by such rules, are shared by all the languages of the world.

Sentences

Certainly all languages have sentences , and a more or less traditonal idea about sentences is that:

A sentence is realtionship betwen a subject and a predicate.

A subject, in the traditional understanding, is a noun phrase, and a predicate is a verb phrase. Thus a minimal sentence is a two-part, hierarchical, structure like this :

S = NP  VP

But you can add some Auxiliary and it like this :

S= NP (Aux) VP.

Hereis a main structure rules

The Main Structure Rules :

1.       S = NP (Aux) VP

 

2.       - NP  =  (Det) (AP) N (PP) 

 

 - NP =     (Det)  N (PP)

Example : The Bus in the yard.

- NP  =   (Det)  N

Example : The Bus

3.       VP  =  V (NP) (PP) (Adv)

4.       PP  =    P  NP

5.       AP = A (PP)

 

   Posted by : Rianda Rita Ayu