ENGLISH 3271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Part Of Speech, Linguistic System
8 Nov 2016
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Reflect an attempt to thoroughly describe the working pieces of the linguistic system. These categories are proposed on the basis of shared properties, but: categories are not clear cut, there are exceptions, other analysts use other classifications, none is right . Focus on linguistic argumentation -- how would you characterize a particular word based on its: morphological features (form, syntax (function or relation to other words) Morphological properties: what is the word"s form, what morphemes does it have. Syntactic properties: what is the word"s function, what is its relationship to other words in a phrase or sentence, what words can it proceed or follow. Morphology: they are the things derivational and inflectional morphemes attach to. Derivational morphemes change their referential meaning and often even their lexical category. Inflectional morphemes change their grammatical meaning but never their lexical category.
