What is noteworthy about the sentence 'Colorless green ideas sleep furiously', and what conclusions can we draw from it?
Name three closed-class parts of speech and three open-class parts of speech.
What does the level of morphology provide to the level of syntax?
What is the difference between competence and performance? Which of these do rules of syntax relate to? How?
Briefly discuss one example which reflects a problem with context free grammars.
Draw a diagram showing that the rule 'S -> NP VP' can be seen as a finite-state machine.
What other data structure can be used with rules to generate phrases and sentences from a grammar?
What does it mean to say that a grammar is generative?
What are two features of a good grammar?
What does it mean to overgenerate?