1. Meaning determined by or through syntax and morphology - Grammatical meaning
- Through the reference to its function in a sentence and determining the meaning of a word by word order is known as grammatical meaning.
For example, - sat on Humpty Dumpty a wall. ( without grammatical meaning)
- Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. (with grammatical meaning)
2.The aspect of grammar dealing with word order and word relationships- Syntax
- Syntax refers to the arrangement of a word in a proper sentence to create a sense.
For example
- The girl played joyously
- The girl joyously played
-Joyously, the girl played.
Each sentence is correct in its form grammatically.
3. The relationship of word parts to one another- Morphology
'Morph' means to form or shape and '-ology' means a study of something. Hence it refers to the study of the structures internally.
4.The smallest unit of semantic or grammatical meaning, including words, bases, affixes, and inflections - morpheme
- It refers to the word or part of a word that derives a meaning. Also known as the root or base word which gives the principal meaning to a word.
For example
- the base word 'healthy', when affix '-un' occurs it becomes 'unhealthy'.
5. A word part used to indicate tense, mood, gender, case, and number - inflection.
For example
- verbs are inflected into tenses (ride- riding),
-nouns are inflected in the plural ( bus- buses),
-adjectives are inflected into superlative/comparative (happy- happier).
