2. System
A set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular.
A set of principles or procedures according to which something is done;
an organized scheme or method.
GREEK
sun-
with
GREEK
histanai
set up
GREEK
sustēma systema
LATE LATIN
FRENCH
système
system
3. System
A set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular.
A set of principles or procedures according to which something is done;
an organized scheme or method.
STRUCTURE
The arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of
something complex.
16. Language
“This new perspective regarding computation enabled for the first time a
clear formulation of what we should recognize as the most basic property
of language: providing a discretely infinite array of hierarchically
structured expressions that receive systematic interpretations at two
interfaces, roughly, thought and sound.”
Everaert et al (2015:729)
18. The Faculty of Language
☇ Faculty of Language Narrow (FLN) is the core of the Language System, it
basically built syntax structure through recursion.
☇ There are two types of recursion: a general one, found in many systems (not
only language, but including language), and the language specific ones.
☇ The general one is known as Merge, and it is an operation of putting together
two items into one new item.
☇ Merge is one of the operations that build syntax structure.
Ex: [Yellow] + [House] = [Yellow house]
19. The Faculty of Language
☇ Faculty of Language Broad (FLB) is responsible for the interaction between FLN
and other cognitions.
☇ To do that, it has two interfaces: Sensory-Motor Interface and Conceptual-
Intentional interface.
☇ Sensory-Motor interface is responsible for providing the interaction between
FLB and the cortexes (motor and sensorial).
☇ Conceptual-Intentional interface is responsible for providing the interaction
between FLB and the cognitions responsible for meaning computations and
world knowledge assessment.
☇ FLB provides access to memory during lexical selection as well.
21. The Faculty of Language
☇ During syntactic computation, other two operations are evoked: labeling and
movement.
☇ Labeling is the operation that provides the proper label (information of nature
of the constituent) to the system.
☇ That information is extremely important to the other operations as it is to
license the lexical items to fill the positions.
☇ Some of the upper labels are:
- Verbal Phrase (VP)
- Determiner Phrase (DP)
- Noun Phrase (NP)
- Adjective Phrase (AdjP)
- Adverbial Phrase (AdvP)
- Prepositional Phrase (PP)
- Tense Phrase (TP)
- Agreement Phrase (AgreeP)
- Complementizer Phrase (CP)
- Focus Phrase (FocP)
- Topic Phrase (TopP)
22. The Faculty of Language
☇ Movement is the operation that take a constituent and move it to another position within another
phrase.
☇ There are movements motivated exclusively by Syntax, and there are movements motivated by other
reasons as Intention, Style, and Pragmatics.
☇ The Movements are of three types:
- Head Movement
- A Movement (or Argument movement)
- A-bar Movement (or Non-argument movement)
☇ Head Movement is the movement where one head (ex: the verb) is moved to another head (ex: T in
Tense Phrase) in order to be licensed.
☇ A Movement is the movement where one argument (ex: the external argument of the verb) is moved
to another argument position (ex: the specifier of TP) in order to be licensed.
☇ A-bar Movement is the movement where a phrase is moved to CP in order to fulfill a non-syntactic
demand.