SVEUČILIŠTE U MOSTARU

FILOZOFSKI FAKULTET 2018./2019.

ENGLESKI JEZIK

UVOD U LINGVISTIČKI STUDIJ

SEMINARSKI RAD

Mentor: prof. dr. sc. Izabela Dankić Studentica: Daniela Brekalo

Mostar, siječanj, 2019.

 1. SYNTAX AND TREE DIAGRAM

In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure
of sentences in a given language, usually including word order. It is concerned about how we
put the words in a sentence. Tree diagrams are the notation that most syntacticians use to
describe how sentences are organized in the mental grammar. The syntactic categories are
illustrated in a tree diagram, called phrase structure tree, by supplying the name of the
syntactic category of each word grouping. These names are often referred to as syntactic
labels (usually written by the initials of the categories):

 Sentence – S
 Noun Phrase – NP
 Verb Phrase – VP
 Noun – N
 Proper Noun – PN
 Verb – V
 Adverb – Adv
 Adjective – Adj
 Preposition – Prep
 Article – Art
 Pronoun – Pro
 Prepositional Phrase – PP
 Adverb Phrase – AdvP
 Adjective Phrase – AdjP

Within each sentence, words are grouped into phrases. Phrases can be grouped together to
form other phrases, and to form sentences. They're called tree diagrams because they have lots
of branches: each of these little lines than join things in the diagram is a branch.

Examples:

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2.MORPHOLOGY

Morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words
in the same language. Morphemes are the minimal units of words that have a meaning and
cannot be subdivided further. There are two main types: free and bound. Free morphemes

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can occur alone and bound morphemes must occur with another morpheme. When we talk
about words, there are two groups: lexical and grammatical words. Open class words
include nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. New words can regularly be added to this
group. Closed class words, are conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns; and new
words cannot be added to this class. Free morpheme: a simple word, consisting of one
morpheme eg house, work, high, chair, wrap. They are words in themselves. Bound
morpheme: morphemes that must be attached to another morpheme to receive meaning.
Morphemes are divided into derivational and inflectional, Derivational morphemes carry
lexical meaning and inflectional grammatical meaning. In English there are only eight total
inflectional affixes:

-s 3rd person singular She waits

present
-ed Past tense He walked
-ing Progressive She's watching
-en Past participle She has eaten
-s Plural Three tables
-'s Possessive Mary's cat
-er Comparative You are taller
-est Superlative You are the tallest

Examples:

unlocking – un + lock + ing

un- – prefix, bound, Derivational morpheme

lock – free morpheme, verb

-ing – sufix, inflectional morpheme, progressive

cowardly – coward + ly

coward – free morpheme, noun

-ly – derivational morpheme, adverb

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bars – bar + s

bar – free morpheme, noun

s – inflectional morpheme, plural affix

shouted – shout + ed

shout – free morpheme, verb

-ed – inflectional morpheme, past tense

kept – keep + [-ed] – inflectional morpheme, past tense

boy's – boy + 's

boy – free morpheme, noun

-'s – inflectional morpheme, possessive