1- Read the questions and the definitions. Try to guess if you do no t know the answers.
1.What is the rank scale analysis ?
a-It is a unit of grammar. It contains at least a Subject and
one main Verb (Alternberg & Vago, 2010, p.207)
Eg.: Jon has two daughters.
2. What is a sentence?
3. What is a clause?
4. What is a phrase/group?
5. What is a word?
6-What is a morpheme?
b- It is the basic element of language. It is relatively fixed
in its internal form and independent in its role in larger
units.
e.g.: house- beautiful - play
c- It is separated according to meaning units;
For example:–‘Jon + has /two daughters’.
= Subject + Predicate
= Noun phrase + verb phrase (+ noun phrase)
OR = Noun Phrase + Verb Phrase + Noun Phrase.
d-The smallest unit of grammatical structure with lexical
or functional meaning. For example, sadness has two
morphemes, the adjectival base or stem sad and the
derivational morpheme –ness . The verb listens is made
up by two morphemes, the verbal stem listen and the
third-person inflectional suffix –s.
e- It is a unit of writing – it starts with a capital letter and
ends with a full stop (Halliday, 1994).
Eg: Jon has two daughters.
f- Sentence+Clause +Group/Phrase + Word +
Morphemes
2. Complete the chart to match the definition to the concept.
GRAPHEMES CLAUSE
IDIOM
WORDS
COLLOCATION
LEXEME
MORPHEMES
PHONEMES
The basic elements of language.
A set of grammatical words which share the same basic meaning, similar
forms and the same word class.
Parts of words (prefixes-stems-suffixes)
Individual sounds which make up language.
A multi-word unit with a meaning that cannot be predicted from the
meanings of its constituent words.
Two or more independent words which commonly appear together.
Written symbols we use to communicate in language.
One or more phrases together.
3- Tick the cells that apply.
Major Families of words
They are the main carriers of information.
They are members of closed classes.
They indicate meaning relationships.
They often have a complex structure.
They often carry emotional and discoursal meaning.
They are used much more frequently in
conversation.
These families are broken down into word classes.
They belong to open classes.
LEXICAL
FUNCTION
INSERTS