LINB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Complementary Distribution, Preposition And Postposition, Part Of Speech

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In english, there are 10 parts of speech (also known as syntactic categories) divided into 2 sub- groups: Major categories (or lexical categories): noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition. Minor categories (or functional categories): determiner, pronoun, auxiliary, conjunction, Three reasons for the distinction between lexical et functional categories: (i) open vs closed class, (ii) productivity, and (iii) semantic content. Lexical categories form an open/unlimited class, functional categories are a small number. Major categories have a large inventory, there are many. We can create new categories , new words to surf, email, yahoo, we can create verbs, adjectives, etc. Every word that is recently created must be a major category word, we cannot create minor category words. There is always a meaning associated with major category words, they don"t provide meaning. There is a difference between nouns and articles. Inventory is open for nouns and closed for articles. We can create new nouns, and we cant create new articels (a, the, etc)

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