ENGL306A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Smog, Morpheme, Educational Entertainment
15 Jan 2018
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Content words - include nouns, verbs, adjective, and adverbs; open class; crucial semantically, less important syntactically. Function words - include pronouns, prepositions, determiners, conjunctions, and degree words; Nouns - semantically, signify objects, whether concrete or abstract; morphologically, can take plural endings and genitive (possessive) clitics; syntactically, is part of the subject or object of the sentence, agrees with verbs, can be preceded by adjectives and determiners. Verbs - semantically, tend to designate processes, activities, things that happen; Morphologically, they are conjugated according to person, number, tense, and mood; Syntactically, they connect to a subject, they can be modified by an adverb or adverbial phrase, they take complemenets. Adjectives - semantically, they designate an attribute of something or a quality; Adverbs - semantically, they designate an attribute of an activity, how something is done or happens; morphologically, no case endings, but many english adverbs end in -ly; syntax:
