LING 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Part Of Speech, Count Noun, Mass Noun
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Types of pronouns according to grammatical: structure words that signal nouns d. pronouns. Multiple dimensions for identifying members of this familiar lexical category. Membership may seem obvious but for complex and subtle reasons (redundant system: identifying nouns. Form: morphology: context (cotext): sentence position* (usually most reliable, grammatical function. Ex. lexical category, grammatical role: context & function. Rich is followed by a noun (sentence position) so it functions as an. Rich follows a definite article and followed by a verb so it functions as a. Less common function but it applies in this context. Same form each time, but different function: semantic clues (meaning, clues to identification. Sorting out specific cases of form/function issue requires attention to clues that include: (ex. bird: living. Prototypical nouns have generally agreed core semantic properties : structural clues (context, sentence position) creature, feathers, beak, wings, etc) Ex. sentence position, nouns commonly follow articles (co occurrence Settle on the best land and your farm will succeed.