ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Complementary Distribution, Contrastive Distribution, Morpheme

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

Document Summary

Text: 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. Everything is a text and we can read it. The meaning and function of each item depends the context. Context: what"s outside the actual text but is relevant to it. Linguists often use grammar to mean syntax . I don"t hear nothin" (double negative) Linguists describe how people speak; they do not prescribe how to talk. If a normal native speaker says it in a normal circumstances, then it is. 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. As most linguistic analysis, morphology is concerned with spoken, no written language. Anti dis establish ment ari an ism. Morphemes are not the same as syllables!