In English the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables is much stronger than in some other languages, this is one of the reasons why English spoken by Spanish sounds so flat to an English native speaker...
Teacher Notes (TN): after this evaluation test, the teacher will ask every student (it is an all together activity) questions related to the topic. Students will be elicited to answer with the previous structures. The questions will be of the type: ‘ Are you Spanish?’,...
Once a base has undergone a rule of word-formation, the derived word itself may become the base for another derivation; and so, by reapplication, it is possible to derive words of considerable morphological and semantic complexity...
Process by which a base is somehow modified to produce a new lexical item...
But what is a word? And do all natural languages, in fact, have words? These questions are not as easy to answer as they might appear to be at first sight. One reason is that the term ‘word’ is ambiguous, both in everyday usage and...
Saussure used the term SIGN to refer to the symbolic entity which consists of signifier and signified (although many linguists nowadays prefer to use sign to refer to the signifier alone). The relation between these two elements form the nucleus of the semantic...
This view began to change with the development of pragmatics, a branch of linguistics which studies the meaning of the sentences beyond its semantic meaning, having into account the intentions, context, and other relevant extralinguistic factors conditioning...
In English, only two numbers are distinguished, singular, which denotes one, and plural, which denotes more than one. The survivals of a dual number are few: twice, both...
Definition: Word that qualifies a noun, adds to its meaning but limits its application...
According to quirk, case is the “gramatical category that can express a number of different relationships between nominal elements”. In English there are two cases: a common case, and a genitive case...