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Morphology definition

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Subset of grammatical rules regarding how words are formed.

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Syntax definition

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Subset of grammatical rules regarding arrangement of words into phrases and sentences.

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Corpus

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Data set of sentences people produce

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Two important concepts in Lexical-Functional Grammar

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  1. Grammatical functions (a.k.a grammatical relations): SUBJECT, OBJECT, etc.
  2. Semantic roles: Agent, Patient, Experiencer
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Morpheme definition

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Minimal units that bear meaning in language

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Free morphemes

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Can stand on their own (i.e. complete words)

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Bound morphemes

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Cannot stand alone. They need to attach to something else

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Clitics

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‘Halfway’ between free morphemes and affixes. They are phonologically bound (attached to their host), but are syntactically free (more flexible in distribution than affixes (‘scope’ over a whole phrase or clause).

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6 Morphological processes

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Affixation, Compounding, Reduplication, Stem modification, Suprasegmental modification, Suppletion (Replacement of Stem)

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Compounding

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root + root (to make a new word). E.g. baby-sit, air-tight.

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Suprasegmental modification

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E.g. permit (N) (pérmit) —> permit (V) (permít), record (N) (récord) —> record (V) (recórd)

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Suppletion (Replacement of Stem)

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There is no way to reconstruct back to the original word. E.g. ‘Be’ conjugations (are, am, was, is, etc.)

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Predicate definition

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Encodes states, actions or events

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Agent

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Causer or initiator of events.

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Experiencer

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Animate entity which perceives a stimulus or registers a particular mental or emotional process or state.

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Recipient

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Animate entity which receives or acquires something.

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Beneficiary

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Entity (usually animate) for whose benefit an action is performed.

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Instrument

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Inanimate entity used by an agent to perform some action.

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Theme

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Entity which undergoes a change of location or possession, or whose location is being specified.

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Patient

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Entity which is acted upon, affected, or created; or of which a state or change of state is predicated.

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Stimulus

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Object of perception, cognition, or emotion; entity which is seen, heard, known, remembered, loved, hated, etc.

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Location

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Spatial reference point of the event. The location role includes the sub-types source, goal, and path, which respectively describe the origin (or beginning-point), destination (or end-point), and pathway of a motion.

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Accompaniment (or comitative)

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Entity which accompanies or is associated with the performance of an action.

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3 Levels of Syntactic Analysis

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  1. Constituent structure
  2. Functional structure
  3. Argument structure
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Technical definition of a clause =
Clause = a Predicate + its Arguments
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Predicate
a function (in the mathematical sense): a process which relates required participants to each other
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Arguments
the participants required by a given predicate
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Constituents
String of words that behave as syntactic rules
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Five syntactic tests for constituency in English
1. Cleft constructions 2. Pseudo-cleft construction 3. Topicalisation 4. Sentence fragments 5. Coordination
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Copula
The linking element in non-verbal predicates. English copula is the verb 'be' (is, was, are, be)
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Adjuncts
Additional, non-required constituents. Not inherent to the meaning of the predicate.
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Subject
'Highest' grammatical function; constituent which is most syntactically 'available.'
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Object
Next 'highest' of the functions; constituent which is next most 'available.'
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Oblique
Most syntactically 'inert' function; constituent which is least syntactically 'available.'
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Tense
The grammatical expression of location in time
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Aspect
Grammatical expression of internal temporal shape of events and states.
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Main aspectual distinction:
Perfective vs Imperfective
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Mood (or mode, or modality)
Grammatical expression of speaker's attitude toward 'possible worlds'.
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Realis
Event has happened/claim holds true
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Irrealis
Event might happen; event might have happened but didn't; or actualisation of event is not specified
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Epistemic
Speaker's reasoning about, or assessment of evidence for, the event.
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Deontic
Expression of duty, desire, permission for, or obligation to the event.
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Noun classes
(Semi-)arbitrary division of nouns into two or more groups
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Case:
A system by which NPs are marked to show either their grammatical relation (structural, syntactic case), or their semantic role (semantic case).
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Determiner
Function morphemes that help narrow down what the N could be referring to.
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Subtypes of determiners
Demonstratives, Quantifiers, Possessive pronouns, Articles
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6 Logical Possibilities for Constituent Order
[SVO], [SOV], [VSO], [VOS], [OVS], [OSV].
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'S' argument
Only core argument of an intransitive clause.
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'A' argument
The most agent-like argument of a transitive clause.
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'P' argument
The other argument of a transitive clause (also referred to as 'O')
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Accusative alignment
'S' and 'A' is nominative case, 'P' is accusative case
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Ergative alignment
'A' is ergative case, 'S' and 'P' is absolutive case
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5 Manifestations of Alignment
1. Case marking on full NPs 2. Case marking on pronouns 3. Form taken by verbal person markers 4. Order of constituents 5. Syntactic processes
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Split ergativity
In a single language, some clauses show ERG-ABS alignment; others, NOM-ACC. Split can be determined by: semantic/pragmatic characteristics of the arguments.
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Tripartite alignment
'S', 'A' and 'P' are all marked differently
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Deictic (pronouns)
Referring to something in the immediate situation
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Anaphoric (pronouns)
Referring back to an earlier linguistic expression. The thing that it refers back to is its antecedent.
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Anaphora
Relationship between two linguistic entities, where one (the anaphor) gets its meaning by referring back to the other (its antecedent)
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Voice
Mapping of a predicate's semantic roles onto grammatical relations.
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Active voice
Agent (if there is one) is the subject
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Agent focus
Argument with most agentive semantic role = syntactic SUBJECT
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Theme focus
Argument with most theme-like/patientive semantic role = syntactic SUBJECT
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Relative clause
Clause that modifies a noun
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Relativised function
Grammatical function that the head N gets from the modifying (REL) clause. Essentially the direct object.
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3 main strategies to create relative clauses
1. Gap Strategy 2. Resumptive Pronoun Strategy 3. Relative Pronoun Strategy
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Root
'Greatest common denominator' after removing all affixes.
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Stem
Whatever the inflectional morphology attaches to. Often is the root, but might be the root + derivational affixes.
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Derivational morphology
Contributes qualitatively semantic/lexical information
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Inflectional morphology
Contributes qualitatively grammatical information
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Isolating languages (a.k.a. analytic):
Little or no bound morphology.
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Synthetic languages:
Frequent use of bound morphology.
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Agglutinating languages:
Morphemes like beads on a string.
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Fusional languages:
Meanings don't correspond to separable morphemes.
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Polysynthetic languages:
Phonological words comprise many morphemes. Many are semantically 'heavier' than expected of an affix.
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Heads:
The 'main' element in a construction. Determines the properties of the whole construction.
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Dependents:
The 'other' elements in a construction. Arguments or or adjunction of the head.
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Dependency is indicated by 4 things:
1. Juxtaposition 2. Morphology on the head 3. Morphology on the dependent 4. Morphology on both
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4 types of linguistic universals
1. Absolute unconditional universals 2. Statistical unconditional universals 3. Absolute implicational universals 4. Statistical implicational universals

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