Brief contents of the course

Glossary of linguistic terms:

1. parsing – грамматический разбор

2. 
   binary/non-binary – бинарный, двойной/не состоящий из двух частей
   
3. 
   cluster – «гроздь», совокупность
   

4. determiner – определяющее слово
5. syntactic valency – синтаксическая валентность, способность слова вступать в сочетания с другими словами

6. 
   complementive – комплетивные, восполняющие отношения. Отношения, при которых зависимый компонент является необходимым смысловым добавлением, без которого главное слово не обладает достаточной информативностью
   
7. 
   supplementive – дополнительные, не являющиеся необходимым смысловым добавлением для данного главного слова
   
8. 
   distribuitonal – дистрибутивный, метод распределения языковых элементов по прусущим данному языку законам.
   

Additional reading:

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2. 
   стр. 207-209
   
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4. 
   стр. 294-298
   
5. 
   стр. 310-335
   

Practical tasks:

9. 
   Build up the immediate constituents model of the sentences:
   

Something was stirring in the depth of her subconscious.
The exhausted boy greeted his father rather unwillingly.

XXXVII. THE DISTRIBUTIONAL MODEL

The distributional model was offered by the American linguist Charles Freez in his work “The structure of English”. According to this pattern the sentence is defined as a certain succession of words belonging to certain sets (parts of speech) and used in certain forms.
The old man saw a black dog.
1a 2d 1b
D3 he - D3 he/she/it
where: D – determiner of the noun
3 – adjective
1 – noun singular, m
he
2d – verb in Past Tense
-

1. 
   - noun singular, m,f,n
   

he,she,it
4 – adverb
a, b – marks above 1 point out that given nouns have different denotates, i.e. objects.
Freez’s pattern makes it possible to express the sentence structure from the point of view of distribution of certain forms of certain parts of speech in speech chain.
The fault of this model is that it reveals the succession of words, but not the real syntactic ties between the words. That is why in terms of Freez’s pattern it is sometimes impossible to distinguish even rather simple constructions, which have different syntactic relations, but have the same formular in distributional pattern:
The police shot the man in the red cap. and The police shot the man in the right arm.
D 1a 2 – d D 1b f D 3 1a
+ + he F it
Distributional model is used in the IC model.