Health, Sports & Psychology
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
...world in terms of the side of the road that it drives on, but English agrees with 99 per cent of all languages in the syntactic convention that the first noun phrase encountered is generally taken to be the subject. (13a) The cat bit the dog. (13b) The dog bit the cat. Syntax is concerned with such problems as the assignment of roles (subject, object, etc.) to the...