LINGUIST 1ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eugenius Warming, Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Binoculars

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1ZZ3
• Professor: Nikolai Penner

Document Summary

Word classes (parts of speech pg. Parsing (fancy word for dividing sentences into meaningful chunks) *exam: the geese are flying south for the winter. Geese: (cid:374)ou(cid:374) (cid:894)perso(cid:374), pla(cid:272)e, or thi(cid:374)g(cid:895), plural test does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)ork, si(cid:374)gular is goose (cid:894)(cid:373)odified (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)er(cid:895), can be described by adjective. Flying: verb (action), present tense, aspects (perfective/imperfective), sentence is declarative (mood?) The: article, definite: she likes to spend the summer by the lake. B(cid:455): prepositio(cid:374), do(cid:374)(cid:859)t e(cid:454)press a(cid:374)(cid:455) gra(cid:373)(cid:373)ati(cid:272)al (cid:272)ategories: my (cid:271)rother(cid:859)s cat had to go to the vet. Brother(cid:859)s: (cid:374)ou(cid:374), e(cid:454)presses possessio(cid:374), ge(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e (cid:272)ase, synthetic (has an inflection), expressed analytically: he gave me a piece of advice. Me: personal pronoun, indicating a person (first), dated case: i took the smallest slice of the cake. Smallest: adjective, could be an adverb, but this is modified by a noun. Structure which allows for the combination of words into grammatical utterances. Framework for words to interact with each other.