Parts of Speech in Syntax
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Defining Parts of Speech
0:00 - 0:37
Why grammaticality depends on lexical categories, not meaning alone.
Morphemes: The Building Blocks
0:37 - 1:15
Free vs bound morphemes; derivational vs inflectional morphology.
The Open Class: Nouns and Verbs
1:15 - 1:52
Morphological and distributional tests for nouns and verbs.
Adjectives vs. Adverbs
1:52 - 2:24
How distribution distinguishes adjectives from adverbs.
The Closed Class: Functional Categories
2:24 - 3:00
Prepositions and determiners as closed-class functional glue.
Tense and Complementizers
3:00 - 3:33
Auxiliaries, modals, and complementizers that structure complex sentences.
Classifying the Language
3:33 - 4:05
Recap: identify POS via morphology plus syntactic distribution.