LIN 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Chairs, Part Of Speech, Inflection
10 Nov 2016
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Subfield of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words. Well, strange to say, but we don"t have a good definition, and different sub disciplines use the term in different ways. wanna . A phonologist might tell you what do you want to is a phonological word is pronounced d"yer. A morphologist might tell you that washing machine is a compound word; A syntactician cares more about the elements that syntactic structures are built from (which. In english and many other western languages, the safest definition is a string of characters between needn"t be words) two spaces (but even then, hyphenation) We have fairly clear intuitions about what a word is, though, and the notion is used throughout linguistics in this intuitive way. The smallest linguistic unit with meaning or a grammatical function. In catalogue the basic unit would be catalouge. Catty- spiteful (fighting) like a domesticated feline".
