LING477 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Pro-Form, Affix, Mass Noun
16 Dec 2018
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Chapter 3: the grammatical properties of words: morphology and parts of speech . The way words combine to form new words, phrases, and sentences is determined by their membership in grammatical categories such as: Words like too , very , however , and nevertheless . Determiners, quantifiers, intensifiers, auxiliaries, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions, connectives, subordinating conjunctions, proforms. Appear before a noun and indicate how the referent of the noun is to be chosen. Helps the reader or listener to determine which book, house, or dog the speaker has in mind. Indefinite determiners whose identity is clear to both speaker and hearer. : such as the, this, that, my, your and so on pick out entities. : such as a, every, some and any pick out referents whose identity has not yet been fully specified. And, or, but, yet and so join two or more constituents of the same type. Ex: the exercise was easy but it was very long.
