Phrase structure rules allow us to better understand _____.
A. how words and phrases form sentences.
B. what constituties the grammaticality of strings of words.
C. how people produce and recognize possible sentences.
D. all of the above.
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Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditionally called ____.
A. transformational rules
B. generative rules
C. prhase structure rules
D. x-bar theory
____ is defined as the study of sentence structure.
A. Mophology
B. Semantics
C. Phonology
D. Syntax
The sentence that has a NP and VP can be shown in a _____ formula "S→NP VP".
A. hierarchical
B. linear
C. tree diagram
D. vertical
The level of syntactic representation that exists before movement takes place is commonly termed as the ___.
A. phrase structure
B. surface structure
C. syntactic structure
D. deep structure