LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Part Of Speech, Morpheme, Pragmatics
18 Apr 2017
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Smallest unit of language that can associated with meaning. Affixes by means of which one word is formed (derived) from another. The derived word is often of a different lexical category from the original. In english, derivational affixes are prefixes or suffixes. Procedure for constructing (generating) all and only the well-formed sentences of a language. Under generates: a grammar that does not generate all of the grammatical sentences for the data. Over generates: a grammar that generates ungrammatical sentences. The calculation of the meaning of combinations of meaningful parts. The stone broke the window: the stone broke, the window broke. Speaker meaning- what a speaker tends to convey. Examples: i love watching five hour long movies. When a sentence implies the truth or falsehood of another. Truth value depends on the states of affairs in the actual world. Truth value can be determined without having to refer to the facts of the world.
