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baby syntax 1
vocab for test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grammatical categories | sets of lexemes that share common syntactic properties |
| Lexical ambiguity | ambiguity that applies to words having more than one meaning ex - bank can mean a building or a part of a river |
| Syntactic ambiguity | multiple meanings that have grammatical properties, such as noun, verb, adjective ex - bank can be used as a noun (I went to the bank) or a verb (I bank here) |
| Functional ambiguity | ex - bank can be used as a noun (I went to the bank) or a verb (I bank here) |
| Categorical ambiguity | ex - bank can mean a building or a part of a river |
| Semantic definition | A definition of a grammatical unit that refers to the kind of meaning it has ex - secondary school definitions of "noun" and "verb" |
| Contextual definition | a definition of a grammatical unit that makes reference to the linguistic context in which the unit occurs ex - what is the function of a noun? |
| Syntactic context | a word or grammatical category with which a words belonging to a certain syntactic category may occur to form a phrase ex - the ______ (common nouns) |
| Morphology | the structures of words, can be used to define the syntactic categories of words |
| Morpheme | a minimal meaningful unit of language |
| Free Morpheme | can stand alone |
| Bound Morpheme | has to be placed with a free morpheme to make sense ex - un-, -s |
| Affix | a bound morpheme, either a prefix or a suffix |
| Derivational morpheme | an affix that changes the category of the free morpheme to which it attaches, the meaning of the word, or both |
| Inflectional morpheme | an affix that changes the form but not the category of the free morpheme to which it attaches ex - past tense list on pg 27 |
| Morphological context | an affix that a free morpheme of a certain category may occur with to form a word ex - ____-ing is a verb |
| syntactic context | a word or grammatical category with which a word belonging to a certain syntactic category may occur to form a phrase OR looking at the other words around it ex - the _____ (for common nouns) |
| form classes | have syntactic meaning |
| structure class | have functional meaning |
| inflect | change the form of the word in order to express something grammatical |
| lexeme | the set of all possible inflections of a word |
| prototypical | something that usually happen, regular verb ex - walk, walking, walked |
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