3 The Parts of Speech

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Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the definition of morphemes
  • Explore the typology of morphology across the world’s languages
  • Define syntax and syntactic categories

Activities for week 3

Learning Activities

H5P Interactive Video Activity

Living Language

Look at these two sentences and decide which one seems normal to you:

  1. Paul gave Mary a new book.
  2. Paul new a book Mary gave.

Why is one not considered correct even though it contains all the same words? Can you articulate the rules that govern your decision or are they intuitive?

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