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LING 106-01, Introduction to Language and Linguistics Homework 6, Due April 20, 2017 In the following sentences, you must identify the word class (noun, verb, adjective, or adverb) of the underline... d word. You must use at least two of the three available criteria (semantic, morphological, and or syntactic) to determine the word class. Be specific in explaining your determination of word classes. (1pt per word, 10pts total) The purpose of the exercise is to help us understand that speakers know what a word is both by the internal structure of the word (morphology) and by where the word falls in a sentence or phrase (syntax). Semantic definitions for nouns (person, place, thing, or idea), verbs (actions and states), adjectives (describes nouns), and adverbs (describes verbs) group words based on what they mean, as opposed to how they function or are morphologically structured. 1. My dog barks loudly in the morning. Loudly: Adverb semantic: describing the verb dance syntactic: go right after the verb morphological: ended in a y 2. The loud music is driving me crazy. Loud: Adjective Semantic: describing a noun syntactic: go right after the article and before a noun 3. This green seems more blue than yellow. Green: Noun syntactic: go after an article, before a verb semantic: name of a color 4. My greenish car just died. Greenish: Adjective morphological: ended in ish syntactic: go before a noun semantic: describing the noun 5. I walk repeatedly around the room. Walk: verb semantic: describing an action �6 �1 � [Show More]

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