CGSC170 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Oneword, Phoneme, Pragmatics

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC170
• Professor: Andreasen Robin

Document Summary

Smallest unit of meaning in a language: lexical morphemes: have content-level meaning (meaning that stands on its own). : sheepdog contains two lexical morphemes sheep and dog. : functional/grammatical morphemes: functional/grammatical morphemes do not have stand-alone meaning but have a grammatical function. : verb tense & agreement affixes ( ed and s); finite auxiliaries ( is, was ); Nominative pronouns ( i , she ); complimentizers ( that, where ); determiners ( the, a : open-class morphemes: a category of words, generally content words (i. e. , lexical morphemes), that allows for new additions. : the words internet, email and twitter are new nouns in the english lexicon: closed-class morphemes: a category of words, generally functional morphemes, that rarely has new words added to it, e. g. , pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions. : the english language contains pronouns such as he" and she . It is rare that new pronouns are added to the lexicon: words & morphemes.