LIN101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Affix
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I ran -> i ran and ran -> i ran and ran and ran: lena hates porridge -> i know lena hates porridge. Intuitive knowledge of grammatical: a sentence can be grammatical but meaningless. In the other way, meaningful but not grammatical. Syntax: structure of sentences/ clauses/ phrases the syntax of a language governs how these are formed: sentences can be broken down into syntactic unites. Constituent: group of elements behaving as a unit: a syntactic constituent is a syntactic unit, substitution tests. Syntactic categories: words of all human languages can be grouped together into small number of classes. Lexical categories: n, v, adj, prep. (in, to, under, near, at, by, of, adv. A potential source of confusion in the area of word classification stems from the fact that some items can belong to more than one category. Identify lexical categories (check meaning, inflection, and distribution
