What is syntax?
Part of Speech Abbreviations
Glossing
Constituency
100

The study of phrase and sentence structure - that is, grammar - is called this.

What is syntax?

100

What the abbreviation 'N' stands for in syntax.

What is 'noun'?

100

In glossing, the language you start with.

What is the source language?

100

A words or group of words that work together as a unit to convey a particular meaning (or perform a particular function.)

What is a syntactic constituent?

200

What syntacticians place at the beginning of a phrase of sentence to indicate that it is not grammatical in the language.

What is an asterisk?

*A example here.

200

What the abbreviation 'Adj' stands for in syntax.

What is 'adjective'?

200

In glossing, the language you end with.

What is the target language?

300

When a native speaker decides whether or not a sentence sounds OK or not.

What is a grammaticality judgment?

300

What the abbreviation 'V' stands for in syntax.

What is 'verb'?

300

Line 1 of a 3-line gloss.

What is data from the source language?

400

Three things that grammaticality judgments are not based on.

What is truth, meaningfulness, and frequency?

400

What the abbreviation 'Adv' stands for in syntax.

What is 'adverb'?

400

Line 2 of a 3-line gloss.

What is a morpheme-by-morpheme gloss in target language (/literal translation)?

500

The three components of basic word order.

What are subject, verb and object?

500

What the abbreviation 'P' stands for in syntax.

What is 'preposition'?

500

Line 3 of a 3-line gloss.

What is a natural translation in the target language that captures the intended meaning?

600

A special kind of translation that works morpheme-by-morpheme.

What is interlinear glossing?

600

What the abbreviation 'Pro' stands for in syntax.

What is 'pronoun'?

600

The extra line added below the source data to form a 4-line gloss, if the source language is written in a different script.

What is the transliteration of the source data?

700

A structure in which some elements are nested under other elements.

What is a hierarchical structure?

700

What the abbreviation 'Det' stands for in syntax.

What is 'determiner'?

800

What the abbreviation 'Q' stands for in syntax.

What is 'quantifier'?

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