What Is Grammar?

Question 1

Initial attempts to describe Grammar were

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Prescriptivist

Question 2

Some qualities of grammar?

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Meaningfulness, synonymity

Question 3

Grammar includes…

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Morphology

Question 4

Grammar operates between…

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Phonology and semantics

Question 5

Basic ingredient of grammar is…

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Study of syntax/SENTENCES

Question 6

Unit of grammar: define morpheme?

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Minimal meaningful unit in a language

Question 7

Units of grammar: define Word?

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Morphemes combine to form words. Basic unit of lexicography for dictionaries.

Question 8

Unit of grammar: define Phrase?

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Any group of words without subject and predicate

Question 9

Units of grammar: define clause?

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Has a subject and predicate and is part of a larger sentence

Question 10

Units of grammar: define sentence?

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A group of words that make sense– largest independent unit of grammar

Question 11

Linguists since starting have been trying to divide langauge into several categories called…

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Parts of speech

Question 12

What they ARE( fits which label?)

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Categorical labels

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What they DO( fits which label?)

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Functional labels

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Examples under categorical label

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Nouns, verbs , adjs, advs , pronouns, prepositions, articles, conjunctions, ordinals, quantifiers

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Examples under functional label

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Subject/object, subject complement, object complement

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Some classes are called open class because…

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More and more words can be added to class

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Some classes are called closed class because…

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They are fixed.

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Examples under open class

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Nouns, verbs etc

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Examples under closed class

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Determiners, prepositions etc

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Form and structure class words are also called…

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Full and empty class words

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What are full words?

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Have a high meaning value and new words can be added

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What are empty class words?

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Have low meaning value and limited membership. Role is grammatical relationships.

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Examples under full class words

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Nouns, verbs etc

Question 24

Why is traditional definitions of grammar insufficient?

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Tended to give terminology based identification to word classes instead of figuring out structure and process

Question 25

Traditional definition of noun?

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Name of person,place, thing

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Characteristics of noun: they form plurals by..

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Taking e(s)

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Characteristics of noun: they form which case?

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Possessive case

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Characteristics of noun: they are typically preceded by…

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Articles

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Characteristics of noun: their form ends in a..

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Noun forming derivational suffix eg -hood(boyhood)

Question 30

Four main positional classes?

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Nominal, adverbial, adjectival, verbal

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Membership of words in positional classes is decided by…

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Position/word order

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A nominal may not necessarily be a noun(true/false)

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True

Question 33

Any sentence has essential/nuclear part and a part that can be left out called…

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Adjunct