Sentence examples for syntactic reasons from inspiring English sources

Instead of saying that the world has certain properties, a feature-placing language just says that there are those properties, or (to express the same idea in a different way) instead of saying that the world is F, a feature-placing language just says that it Fs, where 'it' is understood as a semantically vacuous placeholder that is present for purely syntactic reasons.

A second group of theories attribute verb inflection errors to disruptions that arise during sentence formulation, either for syntactic reasons or due to impairments in making fine semantic distinctions between inflectional variants of a verb (+PAST → ate, hugged; +FUTURE → will eat, will hug).

In view of the syntactic parallelisms and other reasons that will become obvious in the subsequent sections, I assume that poa-CAs and pa-CAs share an underlying structure, with poa and pa- each realizing a distinct light verb.

Finally, pictorial systems fail on both syntactic and semantic grounds.

Chalmers (1996) offers a parody in which it is reasoned that recipes are syntactic, syntax is not sufficient for crumbliness, cakes are crumbly, so implementation of a recipe is not sufficient for making a cake.

Processing at a more abstract, semantic level is often harder than processing at a purely syntactic level; it is for this reason that we often resort to symbol-manipulation techniques as proxy for reasoning directly with meanings to solve a problem.

These phrases were syntactically ambiguous between different syntactic roles.

They present reasoned arguments for why specific syntactic constructs should be analyzed in this way, and a number of similar issues are discussed in Fillmore et al. (2003) [50].

The observation of activation in the left IFG (in BA 45/47) as a function of the processing of the syntactic hierarchy in abstract formulae is novel for two reasons.

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.

For this reason ML is nowadays regarded as a pointless syntactic complication of NF with no new mathematics, and it is not the subject of any research.