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Combo Marathon of Lectures!
Feb. 27th, 2009 03:15 amI can just get through this...no more lectures!
( Fight to win! )
What is your function, Mr. Noun Phrase?
Feb. 26th, 2009 11:54 pmOr should I say...*ZAP* Ms. Noun Phrase!
( My sanity is long gone... )
The Big Main Verbs Boss Battle of Syntax!
Feb. 26th, 2009 03:24 amHe talks too darn much! I swear...you don't need to explain the same idea, the same way... five times!!!
( Main Verbs and Their Complements )
He even says so. A lot more online exercises and readings. I'll post the readings later.
Intro to Syntax...
( How Phrases and Sentences Romance Each Other... )
*drooped and gargling*
Feb. 16th, 2009 12:00 amRecap!
Morphology
The Form Classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs)
Intro to Structure Classes which goes into----
Determiners
Prepositions
Pronouns (and some Noun Phrase stuff)
Auxilliaries
Degree Adverbs and Conjunctions
Determiners
Feb. 5th, 2009 01:10 amThese are words go together with nouns. They always go ahead before the nouns in a noun phrase.
( Determining Determiners )
Mini-Lecture - Intro to Structure Classes
Feb. 4th, 2009 12:37 amWords that establish structural relationships between words in the form classes - a brick wall and the bricks = form classes, the mortar between the bricks = structure classes.
Structure classes are closed classes.
They have a limited membership.
New members are not readily admitted.
Structure classes are not recognized by form, but rather by position.
The words of each class occur in a fixed position relative to the words in another class.
Unlike form classes which carry lexical meaning, structure classes carry functional or grammatical meaning.
They signal the functional relationships among other words.
In “John received a gift from Mary,” from has the function of identifying Mary as the source of the gift.
Are known as...
Determiners
Pronouns
Prepositions
Auxiliaries
Degree Adverbs
Coordinating Conjunctions
Form Classes (Grammar Work)
Feb. 3rd, 2009 01:28 amWord classes that can be identified by their morphological form
( Let's see how )
One last lecture X_X...*gladly*
Jan. 23rd, 2009 09:11 pmEnglish Spelling Patterns
The correspondence between phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (written) - Pronunciation.
( I see patterns everywhere! )
X_X So many lectures left...
Jan. 23rd, 2009 03:29 pmThis one is called - Suprasegmentals (not a new superhero group)
( Lecture! )
