What Is Grammer?/ Lexical Word Classes Flashcards
What are the 4 different types of grammar?
- Descriptive
- pedagogical
- prescriptive
- theoretical
What is descriptive grammar?
Provides a principled and systematic account of the morphology and syntax of a particular language/variety.
What is pedagogic grammar?
Designed to help teachers and learner of a language acquire grammatical knowledge.
What is prescriptive grammar?
Enforcing certain form and structures that are regarded as ‘correct’ and outlawing others regarded as ‘wrong’
What is theoretical grammar?
Attempts to explain the grammatical ‘rules’ underlying sentences.
What are the tests to find out what class a lexical word belongs to?
- semantic
- morphological
- Syntactical
What is a semantic test?
What kind of meaning does a word convey?
What is a morphological test?
What forms does a word have?
What is a syntactical test?
What role does a word play in a phrase of clause?
