a It also refers to groups of more than one word which may be jointly substitutable grammatically for a single word of a particular set. strong man The tallest boy smiles. pretty girl (b) yesterday. He went there last week the day before
◼ It also refers to groups of more than one word which may be jointly substitutable grammatically for a single word of a particular set
This is what saussure called ASSOCIATIVE relations, or in Hjemslev's term, PARADIGMATIC relations To make it more understandable, they are called VERTICAL relations or CHOICe relations
◼ This is what Saussure called ASSOCIATIVE relations, or in Hjemslev's term, PARADIGMATIC relations. ◼ To make it more understandable, they are called VERTICAL relations or CHOICE relations
Relation of co-occurrence It means that words of different sets of clauses may permit, or require, the occurrence of a word of another set or class to form a sentence or a particular part of a sentence a For instance, a nominal phrase can be preceded by a determiner and adjective(s) and followed by a verbal phrase
Relation of Co-occurrence ◼ It means that words of different sets of clauses may permit, or require, the occurrence of a word of another set or class to form a sentence or a particular part of a sentence. ◼ For instance, a nominal phrase can be preceded by a determiner and adjective(s) and followed by a verbal phrase
(preceded by) NP( followed by) A pretty girl smiles The Tallest boy sings The African man cries breathes a Relations of co-occurrence partly belong to syntagmatic relations, partly to paradigmatic relations
◼ Relations of co-occurrence partly belong to syntagmatic relations, partly to paradigmatic relations
Grammatical construction and its constituents Grammatical Construction GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION or CONSTRUCT can be used to refer to any syntactic construct which is assigned one or more conventional functions in a language, together with whatever is linguistically conventionalized about its contribution to the meaning or use the construct contains
Grammatical construction and its constituents Grammatical Construction ◼ GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION or CONSTRUCT can be used to refer to any syntactic construct which is assigned one or more conventional functions in a language, together with whatever is linguistically conventionalized about its contribution to the meaning or use the construct contains