ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Complementary Distribution, Contrastive Distribution, Allomorph

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

Any meaningful item or items perceived as a unit. A meaningful item or items understood as not forming part of a larger item. To be or not to be a text. The meaning and function of each item depends on the context. Context: what"s outside the actual text but is relevant to it. Linguists describe how people speak: they do not prescribe how to talk correctly . If a normal native speaker says it in a normal circumstances, then it is grammatical. Sentences with bad grammar are typically grammatical in the linguist"s sense. The judgment of badness or correctness is a social issue. Morpheme: smallest unit of language that carries meaning: con text, sipp ed, care full y, shoe s, anti dis establish ment ari an ism, morphemes are not the same as syllables! Units of the sound system of language. They are not sounds but classes of sounds.