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Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics.

Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics. Definitions And Terminology. The Science: Definitions. Linguistics: The science which studies language as a system of human communication. Morphology: The study of the internal structure of words. Syntax: The study of the combination of words.

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Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics.

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  1. Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics. Definitions And Terminology.

  2. The Science: Definitions • Linguistics: • The science which studies language as a system of human communication. • Morphology: • The study of the internal structure of words. • Syntax: • The study of the combination of words. • Semantics: • The study of the meaning of linguistic expressions.

  3. The Levels of Language and Linguistics

  4. Grammatical Components • A unit is a linguistic sequence of varying composition which itself carries a grammatical structure or which operates in the structure of other grammatical patterns. • Five grammatical units: • Sentence, clause, group, word, morpheme. • Units are related to each other hierarchically on the scale of rank. • All units, except the sentence, are characterized by their function in the patterns.

  5. Kernel clause structure: Subject and predicate. Group: Subject,predicator, object,complement, adjunct, conjunct, disjunct. Words: Determiner, modifier, head, complement, operator. Phrase: NG (noun group), AdjG (adjective group), VG (verb group), AdvG (adverb group), PG (prepositional group), PossG (possessive group). Words: Noun, adjective, verb, adverb,preposition, conjunction. Grammatical Functions and Categories Functions refer to what a linguistic item does whereas categories refer to form and word-class.

  6. A sample of constituent analysis

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