Word classes and syntactic constituency

Word classes and syntactic constituency

1. MORPHOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY: An affix is productive if * it occurs in many bases, if a coprus contains many hapax legomena, and if there are few restriction on new formations.

   • THE MENTAL LEXICON: Contains information on a words 's sounds, meaning, morphologycal conbinations,

2. The dual route model

   • In understanding complex word, two procces are at word at the same time.
     • The whol word route
     • The descomposition route
     • Each incoming complex word is processed simultaneoustly by these two routes.

3. SYNTAX: Study of different word clases, it is the set of rules, principles, and processes, the combination of words into phrases and sentences.

   • Example: We found a large man's hat in the wardrove.
   • Example: Two cars were reported stolen by the Groveton police yesterday.
   • Eample: This mising bowlis designed to plese any cook with a round bottom for efficient beating.

4. CONSTITUENTS : SENTENCES PARTS some sequences of words in a sentences belong together.

   • Example: old man and womwn likes sports cars.
   • The parts of a sentences is called a constituent.
   • The hierachical structures of a sentences is called its SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES.

5. WORD CLASES: Words are syntactic building blocks of sentences.

   • words have a SYNTACTIC CATEGORY something is an adejctive, a noun, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, determiners, pronouns, and conjuctions.

6. SYNTACTIC RULES

   • Some sequences of words are possible sentences of english.
   • If a sentence is ungrammatical, that means that theres is not syntactic rule.
   • A simple SYNTACTIC RULE
     • S or NP+VP