LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture 6: LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture 6- Categories and constituents

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

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Assignment 1 available, due oct 4 (thursday: can do all the questions by now, question 4 you can do next week. There"s a ta or prof available every day of the week. Check the checklist on avenue for how to prepare for week 4. Oed asks teenagers to explain modern slang. Katy hewett: senior analyst for a healthcare company. Trains doctors to avoid miscommunications with patients. Helps pharma companies communicate with patients about treatments. Open class categories: the language frequently adds words to these categories, aka lexical categories, content words. Closed class categories: the language does not usually assign new words to these categories: aka non-lexical categories, function words, do important jobs, but meanings are harder to pin down. What about prepositions: there isn"t a right answer it"s often closed class, but exhibits some behaviours of open, an, in, around, under, above, between, of, at , mostly spatial, also temporal. Although: complementizer: only three conjunctions and, or, and but.