The following sentence analyzed by the nested square brackets represents a syntactic analysis, that is the format of __________.[IP[NP[SPECThe [N’[N boy][I’[I-s[VP[V’[Vrepair [NPthe bicycle][PP [P’[P in [NPthe house]]].
A. X-bar theory
B. IC analysis
C. Merger operation
D. none of the above
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In the following sentence, all the content words are nonsense words. Indicate the word class ofthe italicized nonsense word as follows.Example: The wrinzles are gumbling dompily.NounVerb AdverbMy gambat was droozumedby homhoms.
A. noun
B. verb
C. adjective
D. preposition
Syntax is a sub-field of linguistics that studies the structure of s_________ of a particularlanguage.
InX-bar theory, IP refers to InflectionalPhrase, while CP refers to C________Phrase.
In modern linguistics, we have a special type of words which are used to introduce complement clauses. In English, such kinds of words as that , for, ifare called c_______.