LIN101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Syntactic Category, Linguistic Prescription, Preposition And Postposition
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Possessives (my, your, our, his, her, their) So i"m minding my own business and this guy bumps into me. Modal: will, would, can, could, might, must, should. You might think about being politer to grizzly bears. descriptive grammar: casual way of saying ( can you say that? ) prescriptive grammar: reach a wider audience, used in politics ( you can"t say that! ) To, over, inside, beneath, after, during, notwithstanding, since, etc. In many languages including english, a word may be used as more than one category. Context and syntactic tests can help you determine what a word"s category is. Phrases: phrases are not just strings of words; they have internal structure. As soon as you put 2+ words together, you have a phrase. * the difference between the two meanings is a difference in constituency. A constituent is a unit of synthetic structure. If buffalo hides is a constituent, synthetic modifies the whole thing.
