LIN 1310 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hyponymy And Hypernymy, Presupposition, Meronymy
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Phonetics sounds of speech. Phonology system underlying speech sounds. Morphology structure of words. Syntax structure of sentences. Pragmatics meaning in context. Descriptive grammarian: generalizations of rules, how the language is spoken (casually) Perscriptive grammarian: how it should be spoken based on rules and education (proper: present tense preferred, don"t end with preposition. English equivalents to other languages: use sounds, what it looks like, used in a sentence. Linguistic information: category (noun, verb etc, singular/plural, pronunciation, meaning. How to fix idioms without losing idiomatic meaning: only certain idioms, sometimes; subject, tense. Free morpheme: can stand on its own. Productive regular rule (r1: verb x, past tense is x- ed. Specific rule (r3: verb z=bring, past tense z=brought, r3 more specific than r2/r1, r3 blocks both r2/r1. Once attached to a word it becomes of a different syntactic category: also known as the derivational suffix, ex. Inflectional suffix determines plurality: ex.
