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    MORPHOSYNTAX

    Professor: MSc. Marcela Alarcón


    Levels of English Language
    PHONOLOGY
    Phonetics, Phonology This is the
    level of sounds. One must
    distinguish here between the set of
    possible human sounds, which
    constitutes the area
    of phonetics proper, and the set of
    system sounds used in a given
    human language, which constitutes
    the area of phonology. Phonology is
    concerned with classifying the
    sounds of language and with saying
    how the subset used in a particular
    language is utilized, for instance
    what distinctions in meaning can be
    made on the basis of what sounds.
    MORHOLOGY
    Morphology This is the level of words
    and endings, to put it in simplified
    terms. It is what one normally
    understands by grammar (along with
    syntax). The term morphology refers to
    the analysis of minimal forms in
    language which are, however,
    themselves comprised of sounds and
    which are used to construct words
    which have either a grammatical or a
    lexical function.
    Lexicology is concerned with the study
    of the lexicon from a formal point of
    view and is thus closely linked to
    (derivational) morphology.
    SYNTAX
    Syntax This is the level of
    sentences. It is concerned with the
    meanings of words in combination
    with each other to form phrases or
    sentences. In particular, it involves
    differences in meaning arrived at by
    changes in word order, the addition
    or subtraction of words from
    sentences or changes in the form of
    sentences. It furthermore deals
    with the relatedness of different
    sentence types and with the
    analysis of ambiguous sentences.
    SEMANTICS
    Semantics This is the area of
    meaning. It might be thought that
    semantics is covered by the areas of
    morphology and syntax, but it is
    quickly seen that this level needs to
    be studied on its own to have a
    proper perspective on meaning in
    language. Here one touches,
    however, on practically every other
    level of language as well as there
    exists lexical, grammatical, sentence
    and utterance meaning.
    PRAGMATICS
    Pragmatics The concern here is with
    the use of language in specific
    situations. The meaning of
    sentences need not be the same in
    an abstract form and in practical
    use. In the latter case one speaks of
    utterance meaning. The area of
    pragmatics relies strongly for its
    analyses on the notion of speech
    act which is concerned with the
    actual performance of language.
    This involves the notion of
    proposition – roughly the content of
    a sentence – and the intent and
    effect of an utterance.
    MORPHOSYNTAX DEFINITION

    How can be defined? Other definitions


    MORPHOSYNTAX
    Morphology
    MORPHOLOGY &
    LEXICOLOGY
    MORPHEME

    DEFINITION
    DIFFERENCES: WORD, LEXEME AND
    MORPHEME
    WORD…
    LEXEME
    MORPHEME

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