LING 110 Lecture : lecture notes from the whole fall-2009 semester of Ling 110
16 May 2011
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Lexicon: the set of words in a language - addition and loss of words. Contemporary eng has a strict svo word order. Oe has relatively free word order because it inflected nouns for their function in a sentence. 3 political divisions in ancient rome = tribe. Phoetics and sound system of language sounds and the way they pattern ad change. Lexicon the set of words in a language. Syntax the ways in which words are combined in to phrases. Semantics the ways in which words and phrases convey meaning. An identifying part of a dialect, ie kitsilano and capilano identify western van and eastern van. Dialects shift due to the idea of group membership. When ideas/technologies/foods etc are borrowed the words for them are borrowed as well. Borrowed words stay in a language long enough to begin to look like a native word and follows the rules of the language: basubaru.
