Human Language Sentences – Basic Parse Trees, X-Bar Theory & Ambiguity — Linguistics 101

32 thoughts on “Human Language Sentences – Basic Parse Trees, X-Bar Theory & Ambiguity — Linguistics 101”

1. So finally what is the x-bar theory ? Can you give a me clear definition of x-bar theory ?

2. I'm confused at 6:05, couldn't you just add the rule: vp -> vp, pp ?

3. i need more explanation in this
   "SBAR – Clause introduced by a (possibly empty) subordinating conjunction."

4. Oh, those time flies, how they like their arrows.

5. "The boss ate at home soup" seems not to be a mangle of the grammar, at least when I hear it the sentance while sounding a bit odd, would not cause me to stop and think if I heard it in public surrounded with other sentences.

6. The X-Bar Theory suggests that each part of speech has a binary relationship with the other when drawn as tree diagrams. However, in your "….ate soup" sentence, we could obviously see you have branched an NP using three branches!

   Waiting your reply. 🙂

7. Thank you very much!

8. 1. Why did grammar evolve?
   God is a mechanism that automatically interlinks and solves all problems of life simultaneously.
   2. Grammar evolved to de-link activities from each other. This enables us to solve problems manually and one at a time.
   3. In scriptures individual sentences don't make complete sense as do modern sentences.
   4. Grammar makes us reasonable but illogical. Grammar and reasoning makes our life paradoxical. It gives us an illusion of control over everything. However, actually we are losing control over everything.
   5. A verse of a scripture is a means to understand god. It is not an end in itself. Verses of a scripture are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. If we solve this puzzle we will have god in a virtual form. Thus, no sentence will contain any part of god.
   6. It is for these reasons that Non believers easily prove that god doesn't exist and any one who wants to understand god must stop using languages and start feeling the meanings of verses of scriptures.

9. "Nodes immediately dominated by a node C commands every node dominated by that immediate dominated node." What did I just hear??? Could someone please explain, I'm very confused on this matter… Is this a run on sentence or what's going on?

10. So the “rules” are just functions.

11. I'm south korean student. i learning syntax in univ. it's so difficult to me. so finally i tried to search some useful video for syntax and found your video. thank you thank you so much😢 i understand it now^^ if i get a good grade after this semester, i will pray for your happiness😄

12. You could have edited out the bloopers. As a non-native speaker,
    • having to parse a foreign language,
    • translate all these silly grammatical terms into descriptive identifiers,
    • read all the stuff appearing on the screen and going away while I have to listen (ergo not being able to read them unless I pause),
    • plus read the overlays (which are especially hard to read due to the semi-transparency, and are a feature that will be removed by Google soon anyway),
    • and guess what you actually meant through the bloopers,
    simply is too much.
    The monotone voice doesn’t exactly improve on that either. (Seems like you are not passionate about it and rather tired. Why are you doing this then?)

    Too bad, since the content is very interesting to me. And I subscribed due to your award-deserving video on the history of language. So I know how well you can do. :/

13. re record if you have this many errors presenting. way too hard to follow

14. Man, that makes me wish I'd gone and become a linguist.

15. Holy fuck, NativLang actually used to make videos about this.

16. very good！ c-command got it

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18. Oh this is old… Me like

19. Thank you very much. You always try to make linguists simpler and easily graspable. Greetings and thanks from Morocco too.

20. http://filolohika.blogspot.com/2018/09/why-are-languages-different.html

21. In German the phrase „The boss ate at home soup“ actually works (Der Boss aß Zuhause Suppe).Is it a case thing?

22. Totally lost after 7:42 Dominate your mother you fuck

23. how about the boss at home ate soup.
    Chinese put 在家 before verb.

24. Adoro assistir a seus vídeos

25. Gostei do vídeo

26. I am Arab and this is very well-known in Arabic from 7th century known as
    الاعراب ، النحو

27. Vídeo incrível

28. Schönes Video

29. This is so hard to understand :'(

30. your voice was deeper

31. Chomskyan formalism is overrated, man. I'm a functionalist through-and-through. Good video though.

32. I am taking a Chinese course for back credit, I don’t understand anything he say. I am truly sorry what is x Bar theory, OT, or wtf is generative phonology. My instructor just does not care in class.

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