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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> == * '''Morphology''' β The study of the structure and formation of words. * '''Syntax''' β The study of the rules for combining words into sentences. * '''Morpheme''' β The smallest unit of meaning in a language (e.g., "un-", "break", "-able"). * '''Free Morpheme''' β A morpheme that can stand alone as a word (e.g., "dog", "walk"). * '''Bound Morpheme''' β A morpheme that must be attached to another to have meaning (e.g., prefixes like "re-" or suffixes like "-ed"). * '''Inflectional Morphology''' β Adding morphemes to change a word's grammatical function (e.g., "walk" -> "walked", "cat" -> "cats"). * '''Derivational Morphology''' β Adding morphemes to create a new word or change its category (e.g., "happy" -> "happiness"). * '''Constituent''' β A word or group of words that functions as a single unit within a sentence (e.g., a noun phrase). * '''Phrase Structure Rules''' β Rules that generate the underlying structure of a sentence (e.g., S -> NP VP). * '''Word Order''' β The typical arrangement of Subject, Verb, and Object in a language (e.g., English is SVO). * '''Head''' β The core word in a phrase that determines its category (e.g., the noun "cat" in "the big cat"). * '''Argument''' β A phrase required by a verb to complete its meaning (e.g., "the ball" in "John kicked the ball"). * '''Adjunct''' β An optional phrase that adds extra information (e.g., "in the park" in "John kicked the ball in the park"). * '''Universal Grammar (UG)''' β The theory that all human languages share a common underlying syntactic structure. </div> <div style="background-color: #006400; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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