LING 3P61 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-7: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Amay, Intentionality
15 Jan 2016
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Ex. in my teddy my refers to the speaker and teddy refers to the stuffed. Ling 3p61 chapter 6: development of syntax and morphology. Productivity/generativity of language: characteristic of human language that speakers and hearers have the capacity to produce and understand an infinite number of novel sentences. Syntax: governs the ordering of words in sentences. Open-class words/lexical categories: content words; n, v, adj. Closed-class words/functional categories: function words; auxiliaries, prepositions, complementizers, determiners. Bound morpheme: unit that conveys meaning but cannot stand alone (ex. plural. Prescriptive rules: grammar that is taught in english classes. Descriptive rules: how we actually talk; the rules that linguistics write. Transitional forms: utterances such as vertical constructions that children produce between producing single word and clear two word utterances. Relational meaning: the relation between the referents of the words in a word combination animal. Combinatorial speech: speech in which words are combined in utterances as opposed to single word utterances.
