midterm Wanlika Thanuchon

Midterm Test For Syntax
1. Explain the correlation of the idea that language is used as a correlation between gestures and
Meaning?
A. Gestures----------------------------------- Meaning?
---- The both of Gestures and meaning are correlation. Because Language as a correlation between Gestures and Meaning. If we do not have the gestures that the other person who do not
know language that we say. May be they do not understanding about meaning that we want to say. So, the gestures and meaning must always come together such as Thai give wai to say hello , good bye and Thank you.
B. Gestures------------Arrangement --------------Meaning
----- Syntax is central component of human language. Language has often been characterized as a systematic correlation between certain types of gestures and meaning, as represented simplistically in figure. For spoken language, the gestures are oral, and for signed language, there are manual.
2. To understand syntax perfectly well, we need to under the other linguistic branch ‘Morphology’. Why is that? Can you try to analyze using the following data?
- We must know about the Morphology because it is important when we know function word, English word can be classified into two major groups; content word and function word. Content word, which includes nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverb, can change from to show plurality, possession, tense or comparison. These carry the principle meaning of sentence in which these words occur. Function words, which do not have several forms, provide the structure of a sentence. These function words help relate quality or connect content word. We will understand the meaning.
a. Barking dogs does not bite.
- Barking is adjective.
- Dogs is noun.
- Does is helping verb.
- Not is adverb.
- Bite is verb.
b. All men is create equal.
- All is adjective.
- Men is noun.
- Create is transitive verb.
- Equal is adjective.
c. How long is your feet? One foot.
- How is adverb .
- Long is intransitive verb.
- Is is verb.
- Your is adjective.
- Feet is noun.
- One is adjective.
- Foot is noun.
3. Experience of Language ------- language faculty ----Grammar of L.
How are these terms related? Explain each them.
- Competence/performance
A good deal of normal speech consists of false starts disconnected phrases and other deviations from idealized competence. We get the competence more then performance.
- Species-specific
We do have seems to me to support the view that the ability to acquire and use language is specific human capacity, that there are very deep and restrictive principles that determine that nature of human language and rooted in the specific character of human mind.
- Linguistic Acquisition Device—LAD
The study of language in general and of particular languages of the pettern of their grammar.
- Principles and parameter Theory—PPT
If the acquisition of grammatical competence is indeed controlled by genetically endowed language faculty incorporating a theory of UG , it follows that certain aspects of child and adult competion are know without experience and hence must be part of the genetic information about language with which we are biologically endowed at birth.
4. Compare Thai and English in terms of the followings;
a. Case
-The sentence in Thai are not change when we say about past, present or future but in English we must change the verb every case. For example we are talking about past we change verb into verb past participle.
b. Number
- The number in Thai and English are different .The people in Thailand say, one, two, three, four, five…but the people in England say, the First, Second, Third, Fourth, after that they add ‘Th.’.


c. Sentence/phrase Structure
-ในภาษาอังกฤษเครื่องหมายวรรคตอนมีความสำคัญมาก แต่ในภาษาไทยไม่มีการใช้เครื่องหมายวรรคตอนมากเท่าภาษาอังกฤษ แต่จะใช้เมื่อต้องการว่าข้อความนั้นเป็นคำพูด เครื่องหมายวงเล็บปิดวงเล็บเปิด และเครื่องหมายอัศเจรีย์ และเมื่อต้องการแสดงคำอุทานเท่านั้น
5.Employ any means to show clearly the concept of ‘Constituent’ and ‘Construction’ of the following sentence.
John normally smokes cigarettes in the morning.
- John is the subject, smokes is verb, cigarettes is noun, in the morning is adjective.
6.Underline……..
a. Micheal Moore wrote a book about the President George Bush and Donal Rumsfeld.
b. Kenny G performed his concert in Bangkok and in Uttaradit.
c. His Majesty the King is Highly regarded not only as the talented Jazz musician but also as the great scientist.



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