LING204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Accusative Case, Count Noun, Syntactic Category
10 Jan 2017
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Lexical: main classes with a semantic concept, open class (easy to create new words/can be renewed, acquired before functional, basic information. Functional: grammatical information, closed class (not too easy to create/cannot be renewed) Syntactic: words they combine with (word class is a syntactic category coz it is a part of speech) Well behaved nouns show whole range of syntactic and morphological properties. While some critics tie themselves in knots analysing dylan(cid:371)s motives, it has usually turned out that he means exactly what he says (big issue) Can be used after an adjective (happy critics) Her proposal(cid:371)s one advantage is that it will reduce the cost. Verb: doing word: words that do not refer to actions but still are verbs (to vegetate, to love, words refer to actions but still aren(cid:371)t verbs (performance, filming, destruction) Aspect: ongoing or completed action (is eating, has eaten) Progressive aspect (be + ing) present participle. Perfect aspect (have + ed/en) past participle.
