[Anthropology 1027A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (22 pages long)

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1027A/B
• Professor: Tania Granadillo

Document Summary

How words are put together into longer chunks, phrases, and sentences: grammatical: i love him, agrammatical : *love him i. Categories combined in particular ways (lexical categories: content words: n, v (intransitive verbs do not need noun phrase afterwards), a, Prep (most of the time needs a complement), adv = building blocks of syntax: functional categories: determiners (articles like the, a, an, etc. Colourless green ideas, sleep furiously (syntactically correct, but no meaning) Morphemes that can only be attached to particular categories. Simplest phrase will only have the head. Head determines the category of your x (ex. noun, verb) names your bar and phrase. Complement can have another xp (with specifier and x, so on) You can pivot the orders to provide a different structure. Adjectives most of the time require a complement. Modal auxillary: will, could, can, should, could, shall, must, may, might.