subsystems and metalanguage Flashcards
morphology
the smallest units of meaning in a word
eg: unhappy
un-happy
root
a single morpheme that contains the primary meaning of the word
stem
word with one or more morpheme that have an affix attached to it
eg unhappily: un, happi, ly
lexicology
study of words and how they behave within language
noun
places, people, and things, names, qualities, ideas concepts
verbs
doing words and indicates tense
pronoun
replaces noun in a sentence
auxiliary verb
supports main verb of sentence
modal verbs
possibility
adjective
extra info on noun/ptronoun
adverb
helps describe/modify verbs. time,place,manner,circumstance,cause,degree
prepositon
relationship between a noun phrase and another element in a sentence
determiner
helps describe noun and is placed infront of it.
interjection
feelings and emotions
