LINGUIST 1ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent Clause, Preposition And Postposition, Exclamation Mark

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

Document Summary

We know the asker wants the salt (pragmatics) You are physically able to or not. Sentences -> paragraphs - > texts morphology: classification of words into parts of speech. Syntax: stringing several words together to form larger units. Pragmatics: how is language used by speakers in real life (how do we figure out if it is sarcastic, with humor, etc. ) All languages have grammar (grammar = rules, we need them to define how to communicate) If they did not have grammar, we would not be able to learn them as children. All grammars are different, but equal (somewhat alike or equally complex, not more or less complex) English doesn"t have as many inflections as slavic languages, but does not mean difference in complexity. You cannot analyze a sentence structure if you have to think hard to identify parts of speech for the words. We can learn a lot about our brain by studying the grammars of human languages.