LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Part Of Speech
11 Apr 2016
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All words fall into a lexical category. Open lexical categories: those that new words can be added to. People, places or things) , verbs, adjectives, adverbs. Lots of semantic content (picture, define, imagine these words) Closed lexical category: new words can"t be added to. Determiners ex. the, my, this, your (determine noun) Prepositions in, at, from, about, to, with, between (relations between other elements) Intuitively, smallest free form that doesn"t have to appear in a fixed position relative to other elements. Have form (sound like something), sequence of phonemes. Connection between form and meaning is arbitrary (nothing about sounds contribute to meaning) how you say diff in diff languages but same meaning. Cats is a word, but s at the end of cats is not. How do pieces of words go together to create meaning. Un- is own morpheme that changes the meaning. A single words can be made up of 1+ morphemes. One morpheme: curl, paint, salamander, crocodile, etc.
