What is generative grammar?
Explain the distinction between surface level structure and deep level structure and how this distinction clarifies ambiguity.
What is the difference between syntactic structure and syntactic function? (For example, in the expression “the brick house”, brick functions as an adjective when syntactically, it is a noun.)- See next link for more info.
The comedian Groucho Marx (1890-1977) is famous for saying: “I shot an elephant in my pajamas. I don’t know how he got in them.” Explain the humor of this sentence. How could generative grammar help us understand the multiple meanings of this joke?
-the answer to question #3 in the journal assignment (i.e., the explanation of syntactic structure and function) is at the link below the link to the powerpoint. You can cite Parker & Riley (2009, as cited in Spitzer 2023) for that info.
the book References
Freeman, D. E., & Freeman, Y. S. (2014). Essential linguistics: What teachers need to know to
teach ESL, reading, spelling, grammar. Heinemann Educational Books
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