Sentence examples for syntactic classes from inspiring English sources

(4) Morphemes are not assigned to syntactic classes.

There is considerable uncertainty about word boundaries in English; in Mandarin there is rather more, though not as much as these examples suggest provided it is recognised that words fall into syntactic classes.

Words fall rather clearly into major syntactic classes (cf. (13) below); this is one reason for asserting that there is such a thing as a "word" in Chinese grammar, which has sometimes been called into question.

The syntactic classes \(\Sigma^b_i\) and \ \Pi^b_i\) are defined in a manner reminiscent to how the classes \(\Sigma^0_i\) and \ \Pi^0_i\) are defined in the traditional arithmetical hierarchy – i.e. by counting alternations of bounded quantifiers, ignoring sharply bounded ones.

We could have said, picking out the main points, "because" syntactic classes are clearcut and the order of the elements of clause structure signals experiential meaning, there is no need for words to carry any morphological marking; and "because" words have got longer, and compounding is rather strictly taxonomic, there is no need to maintain an inventory of so many distinct syllables.

In the Fitzgerald Key organization, symbols from different semantic and syntactic classes are organized in groups from left to right to facilitate sentence construction.

If a given morpheme also functions as a word, then of course as a word it does fall into a syntactic class.

The level of abstraction of language can be detected through the syntactic class of terms, where adjectives are the most abstract class, as for example comparing 'is violent' with 'hurt the victims' [16].

Of course, if the same morpheme also functions as a word, then as a word it does fall into a syntactic class; but that does not restrict the class of compound word in which it may occur as a constituent.

It is a combination of Parigotʼs λμ-calculus with the idea of "coercion calculus" due to Cervesato and Pfenning, accommodating let-expressions in a surprising way: they expand Parigotʼs syntactic class of named terms.

For example, the morpheme péng in the noun péngyǒu 'friend' belongs to no syntactic class; nor does the huān in the verb xǐhuān 'to like', or the morpheme yù in the verb yùbèi 'to prepare'.