Subfieldsof Linguistics Grammatical Errors found In Student Of English department’s Essay
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• houseverb [hawz] • housesplur. noun [hawzz]
-Morphology:Thestudyofthestructureofindividualwordsandofthe smallest
meaningfulunitsalong withtheirpossiblecombinationstoform lexicalitems. • missile:‘ICBM’
• anti-tank-missile:‘missile targettingtanks’ • anti-aircraft-missle:‘missile targettingaircraft’
• anti-missile-missile:‘missile targettingICBMs’
-Syntax:Thestudy ofthegrammaticalrelationsbetweenwords,howthey
combineintolargerunitsandtherules thatmustbeobeyedtoform
sentences. Tobedistinguishedfrom
morphology,whichappliestounits smallerthan
theword. • Isawthewoman with the telescope.
• Iforgothowgood beer tastes.
-Semantics:Thestudy ofthemeaningofpartsofwords,phrases, sentences
and textswiththeaimto explainhowsequencesof language coincidewith their meanings when articulated in particular environments.
• Wescreened the candidates. • Isawher duck.
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• [huwzan frst] Who’son first?Hu’son first.
-Pragmatics:Thestudyofthewaysinwhichasituationinfluencesthe meaning
andunderstanding ofspokenlanguageornon-verbal communication. Q:IsRobertsaRepublican?
A:IsthePopeCatholic? Whatcanbelearnedfromthis quotationis this is phaseorstepsomeoneis going
toundergowhenheorshewantstostarttocommunicatewithotherpeople orontheotherword,
itcanbesaidthat learner
willneverbeable toperceivea
sentenceorutteranceifheskipsoneofthephases.Thisisthereasonthewriter putsthequotations.Fromtheelaboration above,it can bedrawna conclusion that
syntaxisclosely relatedtothisanalysisbecausethissubfieldconcentrateson combination of wordsto produceameaningfulsentence and structure.