01:615:305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cleft Sentence, Lewis Carroll, Pro-Form

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: 01:615:305
• Professor: S E L V A N A T H A N

Document Summary

Began reviewing parts of speech and what is important in determining word classes; Even if you don"t know the meaning of a word, you can figure out the word class it belongs to. Yonkled is clearly a verb, though it is not a word in the english language. This shows that meaning may not be the most important factor in determining the word class of a word. What you need to have in order to figure out which word class a word belongs to: Its position in the sentence (what comes before/after it) The two main tests for finding word class are: Ex: nouns can usually have a plural suffix -s. Ex: nouns can occur after a determiner. Form a closed class (which means there is a set amount of what is included) Deictic articles (that in john saw that movie. ") Complementizers (that in john said that he liked mary. ")