LING 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Steamboat, Preposition And Postposition, Endocentric And Exocentric
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Smallest, free-form- the smallest unit that can stand on its own and be moved around within the sentence. Word that consists of several other words or roots that have a new meaning when brought together. Flat structure is where they are combined like beads on a string. Tree graphs are used to represent hierarchical structures. This is used because sometimes words are ambiguous. Each sub-tree should correspond to a hierarchical word. In a multi-unit hierarchical structure, there is usually a main unit, or the head. It signifies what part of speech the word is. How morphemes are grouped so that their grouping correctly predicts the meaning of the word. Categories of elements that are combined and categories of resulting unites. Each sub-tree should correspond to a possible word. Steam boat: noun + noun = noun. This is a type of boat, not a type of steam.
