Linguistics

Basic strategies for expressing grammatical relations (4)

1. Word order
  • changes in word order leads to changes in meaning
 
2. inflection
  • infelctional morphemes are bound grammatical morphemes
  • indicate number, tense, aspect, person and comparison
 
3. function words
  • function words are free grammatical morphemes that often look like prepositions
      --> to, of, from
  • have lost their concrete lexical meaning
  • function words "more" and "most"
      --> used for polysyllabic adjectives
 
4. Intonation: variation of pitch
  • minor role in English

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