Word structure Flashcards
parts of speech
using new words in sentences
- Know how a new word can be used even if dont know what it means
- example - ‘try to stop a bandersnatch’ know it is grammatical
non-random class of sentence phrase
parts of speech aka:
word classes
syntactic/lexical categories
Categorise parts of speech by:
- Form
- Distribution
parts of speech examples
nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
FORM
ways in which the word can change to show different features
- what kinds of morphemes we can add to it
DISTRIBUTION
where the word can occur in the sentence
Morpheme
smallest unit of lingustic expression associated with a meaning
- indivisible recurring
- if broken smaller, parts are no longer meaningful
- words comprise of 1-2 morphemes
Morpheme examples
spelling doesnt matter, its what you hear
dogs - dog + s = 2 morphemes
carpet = 1
babie + s = 2
memorie + s = 2
unhappily - un + happi + ly = 3
suffixes
attach after a stem
eg. dog-s, work-ing
Prefixes
attach before a stem
eg. un-happy
parts of speech are defined…?
morphosyntactically
language-internally
English
Noun
person, place, thing
regular - dog to dogs
irregular - tooth-teeth, child-children
appear –> DET, ADJ, NOUN - the brown dog
–> det, noun, verb - the dog barked
number shown morphosyntactically
Verbs
doing words
form - morphological past tense
regular - walk, walked, walking
irregular - sing, sang, fight, fought
Adjectives
form - show morphological comparative and superlative
quick~quicker~quickest
small~smaller~smallest
this lecture seems sensational. very sensational.
Adverbs
form - some are ADJ + ly
modifies the verb.
eg. quickly
also lovely, soon, certainly.
Parts of speech
Open classes
Defined by their tendency to accept new words
= easily accept new words
- open classes in English are noun, adjectives, verbs, interjections
example - ‘i have a Zoom at 3pm’
Closed classes
Do not easily accept new words
closed english classes - determiner, pronuons, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions
what are Determiners
- they introduce NPs and narrow the reference
types of determiners
4x
- demonstratives - deictic determiners (need context), closeness and farness this cat, these, those
- quantifiers - indicates how many. some, many, each, less.
- possessive - indicate ownership, my, your, he, their, our
- articles - definiteness - the cat, infinite - a, an.
Pronouns
personal - you, you guys
demonstrative - this, that, these, like determiners but pattern syntactically as pronouns.