PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Function Word, Adpositional Phrase, Part Of Speech

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

Document Summary

Grammar development is: stringing together words and word parts (morphology) into sentences. Productivity, infinite combinations because you can always make new sentences. Grammar is how we understand and produce these combinations both at the word and sentence level. Morphosyntax- another way of saying grammar - morpho (words and word parts) and syntax (how you put word in order). Descriptive: how people actually use the language. Prescriptive: the rules generally of a language functionalist (descriptive) vs formalist (prescriptive) Open class: anything that is not grammatical words (nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. ) Closed class: words that are only grammatical (the, is, and, or etc. ) Morphology is the study of how the smallest meaningful units (not sounds) of language (morphemes) are combined. Grammar focuses the internal structure of words. Inflectional, not derivational. the idea of plural, present, continuous, etc. added to words for impact.