English 4 Unit 4 4-5 Structural Grammar

Identify the italicized word according to its class in structural linguistics. She was late in arriving at the party. empty word intensive noun verb adjective

Adjective

Which of the following is not a structural linguist? Fries Bloomfield Sapir Burger

Burger

Identify the italicized word according to its class in structural linguistics. I do not know what to say. conjunction empty word auxiliary interrogative preposition

Empty Word

Identify the italicized word according to its class in structural linguistics. There are no easy answers. intensive noun adjective empty word verb

Empty Word

Traditional grammar, based on the principles of structural linguistics, has no real use. True False

False

Identify the italicized word according to its class in structural linguistics. The principal is extremely busy. noun intensive verb adjective empty word

Intensive

Identify the italicized word according to its class in structural linguistics. What do you think you're doing? conjunction interrogative preposition auxiliary empty word

Interrogative

Identify the italicized word according to its class in structural linguistics. Rain began to fall. adjective intensive empty word noun verb

Noun

Identify the italicized word according to its class in structural linguistics. They ate lunch under a pine tree. interrogative preposition empty word auxiliary conjunction

Preposition

Explain how a word can be a morphemic noun and a syntactic adverb in the same sentence.

Syntax is the relationship between words and morphology is the relationship between one part of a word to another part of a word. A morphemic noun is able to take inflections marking plural, possessive, or both. The word can also be able to be classified as a syntactic adverb as it takes the role of an adverb as well.

Compare the traditional eight parts of speech to the twelve morphological classifications found in structural linguistics. List the differences and the similarities between the two systems of classifications.

The traditional eight parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, interjection, conjunction, and pronoun. Morphology is defined as: "the branch of grammar that deals with the forms of words and their formation, as by inflection or derivation." Each system has its uses in English grammar. Using the morphological classifications allows for more in-depth sentences to be made while traditional grammar allows for one's point to be more easily understood.

_________ and _________ belong to the "empty words" class.

There/Not

Identify the italicized word according to its class in structural linguistics. Do you think that it will rain? noun empty word intensive adjective verb

Verb

Which of the following is not one of the twelve morphological classifications recognized by structural grammarians? unnamed class function word adverb determiner

function word

Which of the following is not a fallacy found by structural linguists in traditional grammar? morphology fallacy logical fallacy semantic fallacy normative fallacy

morphology fallacy