LING477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dehumidifier, Preposition And Postposition

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING477
• Professor: Yaping Tsai

Document Summary

List of the words occurring in the language along with their linguistic properties. Pronunciation, form, meaning, word categories, grammatical properties, etc. Parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, etc. Each category has its own grammatical properties. Nouns can function as a subject but verbs cannot. Adjectives can end in -est, but not other categories. Articles co-occur with nouns, but not other categories. The study of the forms of words. Cross-linguistic generalizations regarding forms, meanings, ordering of morphemes. Some words are more complex than others. There are smaller meaningful components within a word. The smallest meaningful unit in a language. Cat, cat-s, walk, walk-ed, un-dress, tall-er, student-s, small, tall-est. A morpheme which can be a word by itself. A morpheme which cannot be a word by itself. Morphemes are not the same thing as syllables. Morphemes of different meanings or functions may have the same phonetic forms. A morpheme that has a certain meaning/function can have variant forms.