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Grammatical Analysis Flashcards

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Polysynthetic language

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Language that has an extraordinary amount of morphology and many compound words

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Exponence

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Mapping of morphosyntactic structure to phonological representations

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Simple exponence

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Each morpheme expresses a single morphosyntactic feature

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Cumulative exponence

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A single morphological marker realises more than one morphosyntactic feature

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Extended exponence

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A single morphosyntactic property is realized by multiple morphological markers

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Zero morph vs empty morph

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Zero morph has a meaning/function but no form

Empty morph has a form but no function

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Problem with defining word as smallest unit of syntax

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Depends on syntactic theory.
The past tense morpheme -ed is assumed to occupy a position in a syntactic tree in some syntactic theories: does this make it a word?

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Problem with defining word as ‘smallest unit that can stand alone’

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Not all words can - eg ‘my’ can’t appear

By itself

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Clitic

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an unstressed word that normally occurs only in combination with another word, for example ‘m in I’m

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Problem with defining ‘word’ as ‘a string of sounds which behaves as a unit for certain types of phonological processes, such as stress or accent’

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Clitics behave as one phonological word with their host (ie they’re swimming)

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Problem with defining word as ‘a string of sounds that is separated by blank spaces at both ends’

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Not all scripts have spaces (eg Chinese, Japanese); and not all languages use scripts

In English, hot dog and ice cream are phonological words by phonological and syntactic criteria, but they contain a space

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4 tests for word-hood

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  • fixed order
  • non-separability
  • integrity
  • stress
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Determiner

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a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every

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Clause

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A grammatical unit that, at a minimum, contains a subject and a predicate (ie a verb)

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Complex sentence

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Contains more than one clause

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Finite verb

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One that is marked for tense and/or person and number features

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Examples of co ordinating conjunctions

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And but or

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Examples of subordinating conjunctions

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That whether although because

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Non-finite verbs

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Verbs that are not marked for tense, person, number, aspect or mood

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Adjunct clause

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Optional, or structurally dispensable part of sentence, clause or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not otherwise affect the remainder of the sentence

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A phrase is Endocentric if

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It fulfils the same linguistic function as one of its parts (all phrases in English work like this ie a phrase that is headed by a verb is a verb phrase)

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Difference between argument and adjunct

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Phrase selected by the head is an argument, phrase not selected by head is an adjunct

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Constituent

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String of words that functions as a single unit

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Complementizers

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Words which introduce clauses

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Grammatical function alternations

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Alternations in the assignment of grammatical functions to a set of semantic roles

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aspect

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grammatical category which expresses information as to whether the action of a verb is finished or unfinished (e.g. we have the progressive and perfective aspects)

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syncretism

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said to occur when a single inflected form form corresponds to more than one set of morphosyntactic features

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Endocentric compound

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Contains a head morpheme that will determine its general semantic type and also morphosyntactic features
—> for example ‘cookbook’ the head is book because it is a type of book, not a type of cook

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Exocentric compound

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One where there is an implied head which isn’t made explicit - an example would be ‘pick pocket’ where the understood head would be ‘person’.

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Doubly headed compound

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Where both nouns function as heads - eg the French ‘homme-loup’ which means werewolf and both ‘homme’ and ‘loup’ function as heads

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example of morphologically conditioned stem suppletiom

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spanish ‘ir’ in future and infinitive, ‘va-‘ in present and ‘fu-‘ in perfective past tense

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english example of voicing alternation making a noun/verb distinction

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breath(N)/breathe(V) and cloth(N)/clothe(V)

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cranberry morpheme

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a type of bound morpheme that cannot be assigned a meaning nor a grammatical function, but nonetheless serves to distinguish one word from the other

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differences between inflection and derivation as word-building processes

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inflection creates different word forms of the same lexeme (e.g. change in quantity that/those; change in tense give/gave)
derivation creates new lexical items (e.g. change in meaning kind->unkind; change in category kind->kindly)

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Inherent categories

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Properties a word either intrinsically has, or doesn’t have

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relational categories

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Mark the relationship a word or phrase has to the whole sentence (for example, whether a noun phrase is a subject or an object)

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agreement categories

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Show syntactic links between words (such as a verb agreeing with its subject)

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inherent categories for nouns

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  1. Number
  2. Gender
    (e.g. in Spanish marked with suffix O or A)
  3. Definiteness
    (English distinguishes definite from indefinite with determiner the/a - however some other languages do it morphologically (via the form of the noun))
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relational categories for nouns

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Case

Marks whether a noun phrase (NP) is a subject or object of a verb

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inherent categories for adjectives

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Degrees of comparison

  1. Equative
  2. Comparative
  3. Superlative
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inherent categories for verbs

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1.	Tense
= grammaticalized expression of location in time
Morphologically speaking, English verbs only have two tenses - past and present 
2.	Aspect 
Whether action is ongoing or completed 
3.	Mood 
E.g. subjunctive 
4.	Transivity
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relational categories for verbs

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Voice
= passive vs active

This is a relational category because it’s associated with the positions occupied by the NP arguments of the verb, rather than any inherent properties of the verb itself

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what’s an argument

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An argument is typically defined as referring to any of the noun phrases in a clause that are related directly to the verb.
For example, in the sentence ‘she gave him a book in the street’, for the verb ‘gave’ there are 3 arguments; the subject ‘she’, the indirect object ‘him’, and the direct object ‘a book’.

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difference between argument and adjunct

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The main difference between an argument and an adjunct is that an adjunct can always be removed from the phrase, clause, or sentence in which they appear without removing the meaningfulness of the phrase/clause/sentence.

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two definitions for morphology

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1) The study of the internal structure of words; how they are formed from their constituent parts
2) The study of systematic co-variation in the form and meaning of words

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3 types of morpheme

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ROOT: indivisible base morpheme -> eg ‘support’
AFFIX: morphemes attached to a STEM -> eg ‘unsupportive’
STEM: base morpheme to which another morphological unit is attached -> eg ‘unsupportive’

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what is a morpheme

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the smallest meaningful constituent of a word

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suppletive allomorphs

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not at all similar in pronunciation. E.g. stem suppletion in go vs went (go-wen-) or good vs better (good- bett-)

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phonological conditioning

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Very often the phonological context determines the choice of allomorphs. Eg English plural whether -z or -s is conditioned by phonological rules (a voiceless consonant devoices the following fricative)

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morphological conditioning

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Where morphological context determines choice of allomorphs
Stem suppletion is usually morphologically conditioned (eg spanish ‘ir’ in future and infinitive, ‘va-‘ in present and ‘fu-‘ in perfective past tense)
But can be phonologically conditioned - in Italian, the verb ‘andare’ has the stem and- when the stress is on a suffix, but va- when the stress in on the stem

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non-segmental morphology 3 examples

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  • Vowel alternation -> run/ran, speak/spoke (ablaut)
  • Voicing alternation -> breathN/breatheV and clothN/clotheV
  • Zero morpheme
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what’s compounding

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Derivational process for forming new words by adding lexemes together

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