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Structure of English (A Definition)
The document discusses the structure of English, focusing on the study of components such as morphology, syntax, discourse, phonetics, and orthography. It highlights how simple and complex words are formed, organized, and analyzed within the language and compares these elements to other languages. The goal of studying the structure of English is to gather and analyze data on its usage in authentic discourse.
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- 1. Structure of English A Definition Reportedby: Myra Sarmiento-Candol
- 2. How do westudy SoE study classes of words (parts of speech) meanings of words, with or without considering changes of meaning (semantics) how words are organised in relation to each other and in larger constructions (syntax) how words are formed from smaller meaningful units (morphology)
- 3. the sounds ofwords (perception and pronunciation or articulation) how they form patterns of knowledge in the speaker's mind (phonetics and phonology) how standardized written forms represent words (orthography). and how written forms represent these (lexicography). How do we study SoE (con)
- 4. • The mostbasic units of meaning are simple words (e.g.: dog, yes and swim) or the elements of complex words (e.g.: un- -happi- and -ness in unhappiness). These basic elements are called morphemes, and the study of how they are combined in words is morphology. • The study of how words are organised into phrases, clauses and sentences is usually referred to as syntax. • A longer stretch of language is known as discourse, the study of its structure as discourse analysis. • This hierarchy is partly explained by the table , from David Crystal's The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. The right hand column should be read upwards, in the direction of the arrow.
- 5. Morphology Syntax Discourse morphemes ↓ words phrases ↓ clauses ↓ sentences relationships between sentencesin longer stretches of language Three-part model of English
- 6. sentences are analysed into clauses areanalysed into phrases are analysed into words are analysed into morphemes ↓ ↑ sentences are used to build clauses are used to build phrases are used to build words are used to build morphemes Outline structure of English
- 7. Basic constituent structure analysisof a sentence
- 8. Morphology: the studyof the structure of words
- 9. Your own Definitionof SoE: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________
- 10. Definition of Structureof English: It refers to the structure or unit of language It focuses mainly on a variety of basic and complex structures of English, (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling, comprehension and writing) phonology, semantic, lexical, syntax and morphology comparing them to structures of other languages. SoE requires us to gather and analyze information and data on English usage in current authentic discourse.
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- 12. http://www.hum.uit.no/a/moren/what1a.htm http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/engstruct.htm http://eiilmuniversity.ac.in/coursepack/humanities/Struct ure_of_Modern_English.pdf. The structure ofModern English A Linguistic Introduction by Laurel J. Briton The structure of English by Andrew Moore References: