Week 2 (Word Classess) Flashcards
Understand Week 2 content (18 cards)
what is syntactic bootstrapping?
our ability to recognise classes of words based
on their formal properties
what are formal properties?
the morphological and syntactic properties of words
what is another definition of syntactic bootstrapping?
the process of extracting lexical meaning from
syntactic and morphological cues
which words are open class?
nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
which words are closed class?
pronouns, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, determiners, coordinators and subjunctors
what is a morphological property?
How is the word made? What affixes can attach to it?
what is a syntactic property?
Where can the word go in a sentence?
what is a morphological property of nouns?
many nouns pluralise
what is a syntactic property of nouns?
Count and mass nouns can occur alone in the syntactic frame/ All nouns can occur alone in the sentence
what is morphological property of lexical verbs?
can occur in -s, -ing, and past tense
what is syntactic property of lexical verbs?
Lexical verbs can occur alone in the context Aux NP ____?
what is morphological property of prepositions?
Prepositions in English are morphologically
invariable (that is, they do not change form)
what is syntactic property of determiners?
Determiners occur as the first word in a sequence:
_____ (Adj) N
what is a word?
Words are minimal free forms that can be separated from their context
what is a morpheme?
smaller meaningful units. These
smaller units are called morphemes
what is the relationship between words and morphemes?
Words can be made up of one morpheme, or they can consist of multiple
morphemes
what is a free morpheme and provide one example
Morphemes that could stand alone (as a word on their own)
what are bound morphemes?
Morphemes that must be attached to another morpheme
