The document discusses the key areas of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It provides information on sounds, morphemes, words, phrases and clauses. It describes morphological processes such as derivation, inflection and word classes. Grammatical categories such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are also examined.
2. SOUND
•Phonetics
•Phonology
STRUCT-URE
•Morphology
•Syntax
MEANING
• Semantics
•Pragmatics
LINGUISTICS
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Phrases, etc
word
syllable
sounds
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PHONETICS
SOUNDS : FEATURES
PHONOLOGY
PHONEME: SYLLABLE
MORPHOLOGY
MORPHEME
WORD DERIVATION
WORD STRUCTURE
FEATURES
PHONEME
SYLLABLE
MORPHEME
WORD
PHRASES
CLAUSES
5. Root
Affixes
cars
car
-s
beautifully
beauty
-ful; -ly
written
write
-en
nearly
near
-ly
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morphemes
smallest unit of meaning
rootword - one morpheme- word
6. Polysyllabic Words
Rootword
Prefix
Suffix
Morphemes
1. careless
care
-less
2
2. misleading
lead
mis-
-ing
3
3. disloyalty
loyal
dis-
-ty
3
4. disrespectfully
respect
dis-
-ful; -ly
4
5. untruthfulness
6. previewer
7. shortened
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7. morpheme
free
content/
lexical
function
bound
derivational inflectional
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8. morphemes that can stand alone
content/lexical words
– nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
function words – pronouns, prepositions,
determiners,
conjunctions
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9. affixes: prefixes, suffixes
derivational - make new words or
change their categories
inflectional – changes the form of the word
but not its meaning
- indicates grammatical function:
number [singular/plural]
tense; comparatives; possessive
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10. make new words or change their categories
Noun > Adj
care care+ -ful > careful
care+ -less > careless
Adj > Noun
good good + -ness > goodness
lovely lovely + -ness > loveliness
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11. Base
Suffix
Noun
+-ful
Adj
beauty + -ful
Verb
+ -ment
Noun
establish + -ment
Verb
+ -er
Noun
do + -er; work + -er
Verb
+ -ive
Adj
prohibit + -ive
Noun
+ -en
Verb
light + -en
Adjective
+ -en
Verb
short + -en
Adjective
+ -ness
Noun
good +-ness
Adjective
+ -ly
Adv
beautiful + -ly
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– changes the form of the word
but not its meaning
-indicates grammatical function
number : plural or singular
– boys, books
possession : ownership
–attached to nouns
tense : past or present tense
– dances, danced
Inflectional Morpheme
13. bound to nouns [Noun +] -
–‘s / s’ (possessive) : Mary’s, the childrens’
–s (plural), books, boys
bound to verbs [Verb +]
-s (3rd person, singular) – dances, watches
-ing (present participle) – dancing, watching
-ed (past tense) – danced, watched
-en/-ed (past participle) - they’ve done it
bound to adjectives [Adj +]
–er : darker
- est : darkest
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14. /indefiniteness/ - a before a consonant - a boy
an before a vowel - an apple
▪/plural/
▪cat + /plural/ -[s] after voiceless segment: [kæts]
▪dog + /plural/- [z] after voiced segment : [dɔgz]
[dɒgz]
▪judge + /plural/-[әz] after voiced segment
sheep + /plural/ - sheep + Ø : sheep
man + /plural/ - æ > ε : men
(suppletion)
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15. storage of words in a language; dictionary
contents:
phonological information/pronunciation
meaning, related words, sentence use
spelling
etymology (historical development)
> not contain in the mental lexicon
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16. phonological information
- sounds and phonotactics
semantic information– meaning
morphological information –formation of relations in word: past tense (V), plural (N)
syntactic information -category (noun or verb) and usage
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17. Content words: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
lexical morphemes
denote concepts like objects, actions, attributes, ideas, etc.
semantic content (meaning)
open class words
– add new words: download, byte, email
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18. Function words : determiners/ articles, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions
grammatical function- connect words to other words or phrases
closed class
-articles a/an and the – marks
definiteness/indef of nouns
preposition of -marks possession, etc.
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19. Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs-
Adverbs – modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs –
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Lexical/grammatical categories
1. words with parallel
book –books ; dog - dogs
nouns
forms belong to
tall- taller-tallest
adjectives
the same category
small-smaller-smallest
verbs
walk – walks, walked
play-plays-played
2. co-occurrence-
Nouns
preceded by a determiner
the cat, my car,
an egg
take plural forms
regular
book-books
irregular
tooth – teeth, sheep-sheep
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Lexical Categories
Verbs
preceded by modals
will, can, may, might, etc
Adjectives
take very, or too; more, the most
3. relying on the meaning or function
nouns
name persons, places, things, etc.
adjectives
name qualities or properties of nouns
verbs - describe action
transitive – requires a noun phrase after it (object)
Intransitive – does not require a noun after it
adverbs –
modifying adjectives
swiftly, sweetly, courageously, usually, quickly; very/too tall
modifying verbs
often; here, soon, now
modifying adverbs
very soon, really incredible
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Grammatical Categories
pronouns
personal
person- first, second, third
demonstrative
this, these; that, those
interrogative
who, what, etc.
relative- relates to the preceding NP
who, that, which, whose, whom–
indefinite
someone, anyone, somebody
determiners:
precede nouns
def/indef articles
the, a, an
demonstratives
this, that, these, those
possessives
my, our, your, her
interrogatives
which what, whose
prepositions
-typically precede a noun
conjunctions
-conjunctions
coordinating conjunctions
and, but, or
-conjoin words of the same category
-subordinators
subordinating conjunctions
that, whenever, while, because
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