C_S_D 1060 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Syntactic Ambiguity, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Subcategorization
29 Apr 2016
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Morphology = the analysis of the structure of words. Morphological knowledge is part of our linguistic competence. Includes mental representations of the components of words and rules for combining them. What is a word: a word in english is any string of sounds that can be separated from what precedes and what follows it in a sentence by other words, categories of words: The words that convey conceptual meaning (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) Open class: new types of content words can be added all the time. The words that convey grammatical meaning (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, etc. ) Closed class: new function words are very rarely added to a language. Minimal units that cannon be broken down into smaller meaningful units. Words composed of more than one meaningful unit. What are the basic building blocks of words: morphemes. The minimal unit of word building based on meaning or on. The meanings of complex words are determined by the morphemes they contain.
