Syntactic Feature in MT

1. THE SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF MOTHER TONGUE
SYNTAX
In a broader perspectives of linguistics, the
study of how words are ordered in human
language, what rules are necessary to describe a
particular language and how can these rules differ
across languages.

2. Sentences
Verb Phrase Preposition Phrase
Verb Noun Phrase
Preposition
Noun
Nagkaon
Ki
Manga

3. SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF MOTHER TONGUE
 Constituency and Tree Diagram
 Linear Word Order
 Hierarchinal Structures

4. CONSTITUENCY AND TREE DIAGRAM
- a sentence consist constituents and
not of words.
Lexical Category
Noun Determiner
Adverb Adposition
Verb Adjective
Pronoun

5. TREE DIAGRAM
- allows us to analyze the functions of a
sentence.
Sentence
Noun Noun Phrases
Verb Noun
Determiner
Noun
Determiner
So babay nagkaon nung manga
The girl ate the mango

6. LINEAR WORD ORDER
- the words in a sentence must occur in a
particular sequence if the sentence is to convey
the desired meaning.

7. EXAMPLE:
1. Tigsulyapan ni Claire si Coco.
If we rearrange the word in this sentence, we either
come up with nonsense, as in example below
2. Si Coco ni Claire tigsulyapan.
In linear word order, we put simply that ordering of the
words in sentences determines in the part whether a
sentence is grammatical or not, and what the sentence
means.

8. HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE
- the individual words in a sentence are
organized into natural, sementically coherent
groupings. The largest grouping of all being
sentence itself.
- this groupings within a sentence are
called constituents of that sentence. The
relation between constituent in a sentence
form constituent structure of the sentence.

9. Dakol na pamilya ang nagkaon sa
magagayon na restawran.
EXAMPLE:

10. THE TRASFORMATIONAL - GENERATIVE
GRAMMAR MODEL
- is the of the theory of generative grammar,
especially of natural native language.
By: Zellih S. Harris

11.  Is also known as Transformational Grammar,
which is a system of language analysis.
 It shows the ralationship among the various
elements of a sentence and among the possible
sentences.
 And the process of rules which are transformations
of sentences to express semantics with help of
surface structures and deep structures.
Transformational Generative Grammar

12. SURFACE AND DEEP STRUCTURE
When it cones to syntax, Noam Chomsky, as
a famous linguist is known for propsing that
beneath every sentence in the mind of a speaker is
an invisible, inaudible deep structure, the
interface to the mental lexicon. The deep
structures are converted by transfornational rules
into a surface structure that corresponds more
closely to what is pronouced and heard.

13. The rationale is that certain constructions, if
they were listed in the mind as surface structures,
would have to be multiplied in a thousand of variations
that would have been learned one by one, whereas if
the constructions were listed as deep structures, they
would be simple, few in number, and economically
learned. (Steven Oinker, Words and Rules. Basic
Books, 1999.

14. In the bears where the Transformtional-
Generative Grammar was formulated, it has gone
through countless transformations and numerous
changes as to how grammar provides a way in
understanding language. Chomsky has rejected the
interpretation and eliminated many of the
transformational rules in the previous versions of
grammar and replaced then with broader rules.
Aspects Models or Standard Theory by Noam Chomsky (
as presented in his book Syntactic Strustures).

15. According to him, the grammar of a language is a
statement of what a person has to know in order to
recognize and utterance as grammatical, but not a
hypothesis of the process involved in either
producing or understanding a language. Although
several features of the newer version ( Aspects
Model or Standard Theory) differ, at a deeper level,
they still share the same syntactic feature (Carool,
2008).

16. Aspects Model or Standard Theory and Four
Main Components
A. The Basic Components
- Proceduces or generates basic syntactic
structures called Deep Structures.
B. Transformational Component
- Transforms of changes the basic structures
into sentences called surface strucyures.

17. C. Phonological Component
- Gives sentences a phonetic representation
so that they may be pronouced properly or perfectly.
D. Semantic Components
- Deals with the meaning of sentences.

18. Thank You!

19. Members:
Sabareza, Arvy
Nabor, Jenny
Nacion, Jessa
Navarro, Rishelle
Nero, Joy
Non, Angel
Nota, Janice
Occidental, Claire