When typing the title,I still feel that the definition of lexicon seems more clear to me than morphology. But this is my understanding: Lexicon refers to the set of all the words and idioms of any language; Morphology studies morphemes and their different forms and the way they combine in word formation.
To divide the words into open classes and close classes is kind of new to me, but makes sense, since the open classes are basically content words which are far more than the closed classes which are function words. As we are alking about these two word classes, I was wondering: are we takling about all the languages in general or just English language?
When reading portmanteau words and blends, I was confused if they refer to the same thing. According to wiki, "Portmanteau word" is used to describe a linguistic blend, namely "a word formed by blending sounds from two or more distinct words and combining their meanings." I guess they both mean blend words and "PORTMANTEAU" must be a blend word itself.
One more interesting point I found in this chapter is about adverb. Taken "carefully" as an example, "care" is a verb, "careful" is an adjective, "carefully" is an adverb. So I was thinking if the adverbs are usually dirivations of adjective and verb. "adjective+ verb-----adverb."
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I think you bring up two very important and interesting questions in your blog. I honestly don't know if I can answer them, but I tried to look up some information on how adverbs are created and I think their creations has more to do with their function in a sentence than their constituent parts (but of course the function of their parts partially serves their overall purpose too). So in other words I'm not sure, haha, but I think some good answers to those questions would be very interesting to know for sure.
Thank you for looking into some of my questions! It seemed that my guess was not so reasonable. :-)
Thanks~
Wow! Very interesting post. I think open classes and close classes of words give the same meaning or sense of function word and content word. I don’t think we can generalize the concept of open classes word and close classes word in every languages because there might be more classes of word or might be less classes of word in different languages, for example in my language I do not think if there is any classification of words such as close classes or open classes.
I wonder whether the adverb is really the derivative of two words adjective and verb. It is really a thoughtful question. How about to do research on it!
Wow! Very interesting post. I think open classes and close classes of words give the same meaning or sense of function word and content word. I don’t think we can generalize the concept of open classes word and close classes word in every languages because there might be more classes of word or might be less classes of word in different languages, for example in my language I do not think if there is any classification of words such as close classes or open classes.
I wonder whether the adverb is really the derivative of two words adjective and verb. It is really a thoughtful question. How about to do research on it!
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