2 views of linguistic structure
Constituency
- Phrase structure orgnizes words into nested constituents
- How do we know what is a constituent?
- Distribution: a constituent behaves as a unit that can appear in different places
- Substitution, expansion, pro-forms
- Coordination, regular internal structure, no intrusion, fragments, semantics
Dependency
- Dependency structure shows which words depend on(modify or are arguments of)which other words.