2 nd Group

Rangga | Jazuli | Yeni | Aisyah

CHAPTER 3. CONSTRUCTION
We have to recall our memory about the syntax
first.

Let's imagine a thing!

So, Construction is...

 THE TYPES

Declarative
Oblique

Copula Object
Ordinary
Double
Interrogative

Ascriptive, Equative, Locative

 COPULA CONSTRUCTIONS

a. NP Copula AP Fiona is very happy. [COPULA, ASCRIPTIVE]

b. NP Copula NP Fiona is the best student. [COPULA, EQUATIVE]

c. NP Copula PP Fiona is in Auchtermuchty. [COPULA, LOCATIVE]

CHAPTER 4. WORD CLASSES
WORD CLASSES

Have you use many terms such as

Noun | Adjective | Adverb | Verb | Preposition

Can you give an example from every term of that?

WORD CLASSES IS

Category of words of similar form or function. (Part of

Speech)
The Criteria of Word Classes
 Syntactic Criteria

The syntactic criteria for word classes are based on what

words a given word occurs with and the types of phrase in
which a given word occurs.

Now look at these examples:

a. a tall building
b. This building is tall.
c. a very tall building
d1. a taller building
d2. a more beautiful building
Morphology Criterion

Criterion here is used at stake is simply whether a given word allows

grammatical suffixes or not.

Look at these examples:

1. Jump – ed
2. Collect – collection

1. The jumped boy is yelling at me. | I jumped to the river.

2. I collect some books from US. | I have some book’s collection.
 Morpho-syntactic Criteria

These criteria have to do with inflectional suffixes.

Look at these examples:

I sleep in the classroom

I am sleeping in the classroom
I slept in the classroom
 Semantic Criteria

Semantic is relating to meaning in language or logic.

There are two types of semantic criteria:

1. what words mean
2. what speakers do with words

Look at these example:

1. They transmitted the concert live
2. They live transmission of the concert
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