PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Inflection, Stellar Population, Part Of Speech

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

Document Summary

Morphology: the study of how the smallest meaningful units (not sounds) of language (morphemes) are combined. Basically parts of words to make the grammatical, plural, past tense, like adding ed/ing/es. Grammar focuses on the intentional structure of words in inflectional (not derivational) changes. A lot of inflectional morphology is bound (attached to the words) Free morphemes are not attached to the word, but still important in grammar (the cat is, the/is being free gramatical morphemes) We have a lot of bound and free morphemes but not a lot of complexity. System that describes the legal pattern of constituents (parts) in sentences. For example, the dog the cat chased is not syntactically legal in english but it is in turkish. Morpho-syntax: how morphology and syntax play a role in sentence interpretation. Noun followed by verb is typical of english. Allow language to be more productive and allow for higher levels of generalization.