MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Part Of Speech, Morpheme, Syntactic Category
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How to combine words into lager units or to break down larger units study of internal structure of sentences. How to represent this analysis: attempts at definition: 1. ) way in which words are arranged to show relationships of meaning within sentences (any sentence tells you sth. about who did what to who ) 2. ) part of grammar, system of rules that describe how you form grammatical sentences out of basic elements. Svo, word order is important in english. With case you can change the word order without changing the meaning: most of the definitons agree on the following: The rules of combining words in a verbal utterance. The means by which the combinations are signaled. Devices for showing the relationship of one word to another: word order configurational languages (english) Inflection non configurational languages (latin: function words (vs content words) may play a role in both. Analytic langauges (morphology plays a relatively modest role, e. g. african)
