LIN204H5 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Margaret Atwood, Pragmatics, Frozen Yogurt
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Form: refers literally to the shape of the word (or phrase, or clause) + pronunciation and spelling. E. g. , scarcity is a noun because it ends in ity, a morpheme used to create nouns. Form classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverse because prototypical members of each class share the ability to change their form by accepting derivational and/or inflectional morphemes. Function: parts of speech and the way they behave. When you define nouns in terms of where they can occur or what words they can appear with, you are giving an operational or functional definition. How to determine whether a word is functioning as a noun or a verb? (next section) Noun: the name of person, place, or thing . These do not help differentiate between words that can occur both as nouns or as verbs e. g. , (a) he may study in europe next summer (verb); (b) my study is in front of the house (noun)
