CLD 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Spinach, Part Of Speech, Fax
6 Dec 2017
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The order in which words appear in a sentence. And some orders are ungrammatical (that is, are not a part of the language) The part of the grammar that tells you how words can be combined and ordered is called syntax. Content words, mostly nouns, verbs and adjectives. They are open in the sense that we add to this class of words all the time. Twitter, fax machine, email & friending are all relatively recent additions to our lexicon closed class words: These are closed in the sense that you cannot add new ones to this class, it is a fixed set. These are functional because they mostly serve grammatical functions. A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a language. Roots carry most of a words meaning. Affixes: attached to roots to modify their meaning. Free morphemes can stand alone (friend; friendly) Bound morphemes: always found attached to other morphemes (unfriendly)
