The problem of parts of speech

MORPHEMIC STRUCTURE OF THE WORD.

MORPHOLOGY.

LECTURE 2

1. The main unit of morphology. The definition of the word.

2. The definition of the morpheme. The word and the morpheme, their correlation in the level structure of the language. Intermediary phenomena between the word and the morpheme.

3. Traditional classification of morphemes: positional and functional (semantic) criteria. Roots and affixes. Lexical (derivational, word-building) and grammatical (functional, word-changing) affixes. Infix.

4. The "allo-emic" theory in morphology: morphs, allomorphs and morphemes.

5. Distributional analysis in morphology; contrastive/non-contrastive/complementary types of distribution. Distributional classification of morphemes: full and empty (zero morphemes), free and bound, overt and covert, segmental and supra-segmental, additive and replacive, continuous and discontinuous.

6. The notion of a part of speech as a lexico-grammatical class of words. Criteria for differentiating the classes of words: semantic, formal and functional criteria.

7. Principles of grammatical classification of words. The traditional classification of parts of speech. Notional and functional parts of speech. The problem of grammatical relevance of the traditional classification of parts of speech. Polydifferential and monodifferential (heterogeneous and homogeneous) classifications.

8. The syntactico-distributional classification of words (Ch. Fries). The combination of the syntactico-distributional and the traditional classifications: three main layers (supra-classes) of lexicon - notional parts of speech. Supra/sub classes of words. Intermediary phenomena between the three major layers.

9. The field approach in the classification of parts of speech.

Key terms: - significative (meaning), intermediary phenomenon (phenomena), root, affix, lexical (derivational, word-building) affix, grammatical (functional, word-changing) affix, stem, outer inflexion, inner inflexion, suppletivity, allo-emic theory, morph, allomorph, distribution (complementive, contrastive, non-constrastive), distributional analysis, full and empty morphemes, free and bound morphemes, overt and covert morphemes, segmental and suprа-segmental morphemes, additive and replacive morphemes, continuous and discontinuous morphemes

- part of speech, classes of words (subclasses, supra-classes), semantic features (categorial meaning), formal features, functional features, homogeneous (monodifferential) classification, heterogeneous (polydifferential) classification, syntactico-distributional classification, notional parts of speech, functional parts of speech, substitutional part of speech, openness/closedness of word classes

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