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parts of speech
center and periphery
100

what is morphology

Morphology is a relatively unimportant part of English grammar because English words have relatively few inflections (i.e. changes in the form)

100

what is a word class, give 5 examples


a set or words which form a class in terms of their similar form, function and meaning

  • Nouns 
  • Pronouns 
  • Adjectives 
  • Adverbs 
  • Verbs 
  • Numerals 
  • Prepositions 
  • Conjunctions 
  • Interjections 
  • + Determiners
100

what is the centre of the grammatical system

  • Centre: most typical, frequent, and fundamental elements of grammar
200

what is a morpheme

  • The smallest unit of a language that carries meaning lexical or grammatical meaning
200

which word classes are open and which are closed and what does it mean?

  • Open: category of words that accepts new members or words.
  • nouns, verbs adjectives, adverbs
  • Closed: categories of words that rarely accept new members. 
  • Pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, determiners
200

what is the periphery of grammatical system

The periphery includes less typical, less frequent, or more complex structures.

300

describe the difference between a morpheme and a word

  • Word can be divided into smaller parts that still make sense
  • Morpheme is undividable and it´s existence is dependent od a word. If a word consists of only one morpheme, that the word and morpheme are the same
300

what is the difference between inflected and uninflected word classes

  • Uninflected: the word form never changes
  • Inflected: they change form depending on grammatical category
  • Nouns: dog –dogs–dog’s
  • Verbs: love –loves–loved–loving
  • Adverbs+Adjectives: long –longer-longest
300

Which model verbs are at the centre and which at the periphery

  • Central: can, could, may, might, shall, will, would, must
  • Marginal: dare, need, ought to, used to
400

what is an allomorph, give examples

morphemes with the same grammatical function

  • Er/or/ar->inspector, pedlar, smoker (still people doing the activity denoted by the lexical morpheme
  • z/s->same function in creating plurals
400

In what 2 ways can we express grammatical category

  • Synthetically: Through inflection (changing the word form).
  • Analytically: Through separate words (auxiliary verbs, articles, etc.)
400

Describe centre and periphery in word stock (what stratification does it depend of, what words are at periphery

social X time stratification

periphery-argot, slang, archaic, neologisms

500

what are bound lexical morphemes, provide examples

Affixes, they have the ability to change the word class of a word and play a huge part in word formation process

3 types: prefixes (re-, dis-, un-...), suffixes (-ish, -ly,-ment,...), blocked (Fri->Friday, cran->cranberry)

500

what are the criteria of Analysis of English language. Provide such analysis fo the word teacher in the sentence " The pedantic teacher has given her students a long reading"

Morphology (derivation, affixes, grammatical categories)

Semantic-meaning

Syntax (phrase structure, clause structure)

  • MORF: morphemic structure: -er
  • Grammatical categories: countable, singular, definite, common case, female
  • SYN: phrase structure: head of a noun phrase
  • clause structure: the subject
  • SEM: a person whose job is teaching
500

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