For Morphology & Syntax Course.

1. Welcome to my presentation
Refana Shaheen Tonu
ID: M 190102726
8th Batch

2. Ic analysis & phrase structure grammar
Topic of Discussion…
• Background & Definition
• Approach of I.C. Analysis
• I.C. Analysis of Sentences
• Phrase Structure Grammar
• Examples
• Limitations of IC Analysis

3. Background & definition
• I.C. Analysis is a system of
grammatical analysis that
breakup sentences into
sequential layers, or
constituents until in the
final layer, and every
constituent consists of
only a word or meaningful
part of a word.

4. Approach of I.C. Analysis:
• The concept of constitute and
constituent: The important thing to
note here is the fact that constitute
and constituent are relative terms.
• Morphemes as Ultimate
Constituents: The proponents of IC
analysis also emphasized that the
ultimate constituents of a sentence
are morphemes and not words.

5. I.C. Analysis of Sentences
• A single sentence is made up of an NP
(subject) and a predicate phrase.
• This predicate phrase which is apart from a
compulsory verbal group may optionally
have:
-one or more noun phrase(s)
-Preposition Phrase
-Adverbial and adjective phrases.

6. Example 1

7. Example 2

8. Phrase Structure Grammar
1. Phrase Structure Grammar is a type of
grammar discussed by Noam Chomsky in his
book Syntactic structure (1957) as an illustration
of a generative device.
2. In such grammar the linguists are basically
interested:
• in the constituent parts of a sentence,
• in the syntactic devices used to link the
constituents together, and the ways in which
various parts relate to each other.

9. Phrase Structure Rules
Generally Phrase Structure Grammar
takes the form of a set of rules, such
as the following:
S → NP+VP
NP → Determiner + N
VP → Verb + NP

10. EXAMPLE

11. Limitations of IC analysis
• IC Analysis cannot account for
constructional homonymy.
• The problem of discontinuous
ICs.
• The problem of embedding.
• The problem of conjoining