LINB18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Part Of Speech, Syntactic Category, Preposition And Postposition
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In english grammar, we have different syntactic categories (or parts of speech): nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, determiners, pronouns, tense, conjunction, complementizers, and negation. However, there are two sub-categories that separate these categories: Express function or grammatical information; this group is often fixed with very limited members. If the word in question has full meaning, then it is a lexical category. Note that the open class contains more words compared to the closed class. There is also the possibility of creating new items in this class. Therefore, the open class (lexical categories) contain an unlimited number of words. This is what we refer to as productivity. Moreover, the members of the open class or lexical categories are meaningful. This is while functional words are either contentless or often need help from those with meaning. As we mentioned earlier, the meaning of the word does not always help us with identifying the category of that word.
