Linguistics

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Across
  1. 3. A natural grouping of words within a sentence revealed by syntactic tests
  2. 4. A sentence that is syntactically correct but semantically nonsensical like “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”
  3. 6. The syntactic category that often includes a determiner and a noun like “the child”
  4. 7. A language that follows the Subject–Verb–Object word order
  5. 10. The universal structure that organizes phrases with a head complement and specifier
  6. 11. In the sentence “The cat chased the mouse” what word is the subject
  7. 13. Linguists use this symbol to show that a sentence is ungrammatical
  8. 14. The test that checks if a group of words can be replaced by a pronoun
  9. 15. Ambiguity that comes from different groupings of words in a sentence
Down
  1. 1. A phrase that contains a preposition and a noun phrase like “in the garden”
  2. 2. Ambiguity that comes from a single word having more than one meaning
  3. 5. The kind of diagram that shows the hierarchical organization of words in a sentence
  4. 8. The branch of grammar that studies how sentences are structured
  5. 9. A basic clause structure made of a Noun Phrase followed by a Verb Phrase
  6. 12. The arrangement of words that changes meaning in “I mean what I say” and “I say what I mean”