In such grammars, conflicts among semantic and syntactic constraints are resolved in terms of ranking. |
Female speech is also more likely to be precise in its articulation and is less likely to include syntactic violations. |
There's definitely such a thing as a syntactic error, even in your native language, even as judged by descriptive linguists. |
In terms of lexical category ambiguity, languages do differ in the extent to which their word-forms are specialized for syntactic function. |
In addition, the ironic echo also displays a syntactic shift by changing the first clause to a negative and the second to an affirmative. |
In this paper I focus on scope phenomena connected with semi-modal verbs and mainly on the syntactic behaviour of these groups of verbs. |