Natures & Functions Of Language Flashcards
What is Morphology?
- study of word structure (what makes up a word)
- parts of words
What are the 5 major categories of functions of text?
Informative Directive Phatic Expressive Cognitive/conceptual development
What is Lexicology?
- Study of words (the whole term)
- Parts of speech
- Includes: nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, determiners, prepositions, conjunctions and pronouns
List the differences between spoken and written texts
Refer to note sheet!
What are nouns?
Naming words
Which names people, places and things
If you can place ‘the’ in front of it (‘the ____’)
What are Common Nouns?
Types or general categories
Car, dog, flower, chair
What are Proper Nouns?
Specific people and places
Usually written with an initial capital letter
Do not appear after the determiners ‘a’ and ‘the’
What are Concrete Nouns?
Physical things like people, objects and places, things that can be observed and measured
What are Abstract Nouns?
Ideas, processes, occasions, times, and qualities
Cannot be touched or seen
What are Count Nouns?
Can be counted and therefore have a plural form
Cannot be used after the determiner ‘much’
One pen –> two pens
What are Non-count nouns?
Substances and qualities that cannot be counted
No plural form
Cannot follow the determiner ‘a’
Used after quantity words such as “some, any, all or much”
What are Collective nouns?
Groups of people, animals and things
What is Possessive
When
‘s or ‘
is used/ added to the noun to mark possession
Use of Possessive ending
What is an adjective?
Describing words
Extra info about nouns giving details of physical qualities like colour, shape and of psychological qualities like emotions; and by providing evaluative judgements
Place an adjective between ‘the’ and a noun or
Place ‘very’ before it
What is an Attributive Adjective?
Used in two positions before a noun
The ‘large’ balloon
