LIN204H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Personal Pronoun, Reflexive Pronoun, Grammatical Gender
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In chapter 4, english has core vocabulary made up of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, words used to label and describe the things and activities. >>> content nouns because they are considered to contain meaning independent of one another (cat/ happiness) We think of each as having lexical meaning. The kind of meaning that is given in a dictionary definition for a word like cat: a carnivorous mammal however, some content words are better examples of lexical meaning than others. The prototypes of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are the best examples of content words, as all have visible, verifiable qualities as part of their lexical meaning. These is even less lexical meaning in structure- class words, or structure words,rather they contribute grammatical meaning to a sentence. They signal the structural relationships that words have to one another are the glue that holds sentence together.
