phonetics - italics‚ capitalisation‚ repetition of letters‚ onomatopoeia; morphology - deprsonification; lexicology - Positive: poetic‚ official‚ professional. Neutral. Negative: colloquial‚ neologosims‚ jargon‚ slang‚ nonce-word‚ vulgar words; syntax - completeness of sentence structure: ellipsis‚ aposiopesis‚ one-member nominative sentences‚ repetition of sentence parts‚ syntactic tautology‚ polysydenton. Word order: inversion of sentence members. Communicative types of sentences: quasi-affirmative
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Theoretical grammar thesaurus. By Kuchukov Anvar‚ group 201 1. Language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols which are used by the people of a particular country or region for talking or writing. 2. Speech is the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds 3. Descriptive Grammar is an objective‚ nonjudgmental description of the grammatical constructions in a language. Contrast with prescriptive grammar. 4. Theoretical
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Word meaning‚ sentence meaning‚ and syntactic meaning Laura A. Michaelis Abstract The lexicon has long been assumed to be the source of all conceptual content expressed by sentences. Syntactic structures have correspondingly been seen only as providing instructions for the assembly of the concepts expressed by words. Under this view‚ sentences have meaning‚ but the syntactic structures which sentences instantiate do not. This paper challenges this view: it uses the phenomenon of implicit
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should they serve?’” (pbs.org) THESIS/ FOCUS Let’s start by explaining the side of Prescriptivists. Through a traditionalistic approach to language‚ one would be concerned with aspects of language use such as spelling‚ grammar‚ pronunciation‚ and syntax. This also includes judgments on what usages are socially proper and politically correct. The prescriptivists aim is to establish a standard language‚ and to teach what is perceived within a particular society to be correct forms of language‚ or to
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I In the following examples‚ identify the features that belong to non-standard dialects of English. Then rewrite them in standard English trying to keep the meaning as close as possible to the initial utterance. 1. I ain’t saying nobody nothing. 2. It ain’t what you do‚ it’s the way how you do it. 3. It would have ended in tragedy‚ if it hadn’t have been for the courage of the victim. 4. Me and her sister were caught stealing cookies from the cookie jar. 5. Anyone wants this stuff can
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Bibliography: Veselovská‚ Ludmila. A Course In English Morpho-Syntax. UP Olomouc‚ 2009
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shown in (2a). Furthermore‚ both pronouns and nouns can stand as Object or Complement of the clause‚ as can be seen in the examples in (3)‚ with another example of Subject function. Nevertheless‚ the distinctions here are in semantics‚ morphology and syntax‚ too. (3) (a) The man/ The dog/ The woman is beautiful. He/ It/ She is beautiful. (b) I saw the man/ the dog/ the woman. I saw him/ it/ her. (c) It was the man/ the dog/ the woman. It was he/ it/ she. Concerning semantics‚ Noun refers to
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learned when you “acquire” the language and includes the sound system (the phonology)‚ forming of words (the morphology)‚ how words may be combined into phrases and sentences (the syntax)‚ the way in which the sounds and meanings are related (the semantics)‚ and the words or lexicon. If you had never heard the word syntax you would not‚ by its sounds‚ know what it meant. Language‚ then‚ is a system that relates sounds with meanings‚ and when you know a language you know this system. Let us consider
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Part 1: INTRODUCTION TO GRAMMAR 1. Introduction: what is grammar? phonology lexicology(lexicology + lexicography (voc)) phonetics syntax morphology pragmatics 2. Levels of Grammatical Analysis 390080512128525863551212850 2.1 Discourse(text level) consists ofimmediate constituent of shows cohesion cohesion can take form of ellipsis 2.2 Sentence(zin) 2.3 Clause(deelzin) main clause (can be textually dependent) subclause = subordinate clause (structurally dependent) with subordinating
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SI G NS‚ IN F O R M A T I O N‚ N O R MS A ND SYST E MS Ronald Stamper School of Management Studies University of Twente POBox 217‚ 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands Tel: +31.53.894038 Fax: +31.53.339885 email: r.k.stamper@sms.utwente.nl In The Semiotics of the Workplace‚ edited by B. Holmqvist and P.B. Andersen in 1995‚ (c) 1994 Ronald Keith Stamper. All rights reserved. Signs‚ Information‚ Norms and Systems Ronald Stamper The motivation behind the work reported here has been practical
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