The kind of reference a noun phrase has depends on the accompanying determiner. We distinguish 3 classes of determiners, set up on the basis of their position in the noun phrase in relation to each other...
One category of pro-forms is particularly associated with noun phrases and this is the pronoun. This category is very wide-ranging and heterogeneous. But as with pro-forms...
Four features are commonly considered to be characteristic of adjectives...
There are 2 types of syntactic functions that characterize adverbs...
Prepositions are a closed class of items connecting 2 units in a sentence and specifying a relationship between them. The sequence of a preposition and its complement is known as a prepositional...
The vocabulary of a widely diffused and highly cultivated living language is not a fixed quantity circumscribed by definite limits. English vocabulary contains a nucleus or central...
A sign is everything that either by nature or by convention serves us to evoke an object or an idea. From the time of the Greeks, the sign is considered to be an entity...
Any discussion of vocabulary acquisition and of language performance needs to draw a clear distinction between comprehension and production, because they are different...
Phoneme can be defined as the smallest contrastive phonological unit which can produce a difference of meaning. We can identify phonemes by finding words which differ...
Vowel sounds are produced in most cases without any kind of contact between the articulators. They can be made different from each other, mainly by raising a certain...