Morphology Overview

Question 1

lexicon

Answer 1

mental dictionary

Question 2

what does the lexicon contain?

Answer 2

grammatical category/syntactic class

Question 3

content words/open class

Answer 3

words that denote concepts that we can think about

Question 4

why are content words aka open class?

Answer 4

we can add words to these classes

Question 5

what is an example of content words

Answer 5

nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

Question 6

function words/closed class

Answer 6

words that specify grammatical relations/have little to no semantic content

Question 7

why are function words aka closed class?

Answer 7

there has been little words that have been added in this category

Question 8

what are examples of function words?

Answer 8

conjunctions, articles, prepositions, pronouns

Question 9

how do the two classes manifest differently in slips of tongue?

Answer 9

there can be a switch involved in the content words, but the function words are rarely switched

Question 10

what is an example of the slips of tongue?

Answer 10

“the journal of the editor” vs. “the editor of the journal” [the content switched but the function words did not]