Are word order and word relationships aspects of semantics, morphology, syntax, or orthography?
1 Answer
See explanation.
Explanation:
Word order is a part of syntax because it decides how to build different kinds of sentences.
For example if we look at the sentence I am writing a letter. Its word order is S - V - O (subject - verb - object), which makes the sentence indicative.
If we change the order to V-S-O (i.e. exchange verb with subject): Am I writing a letter? the sentence becomes interrogative (question).
On the other hand word relationship is a part of morphology. It studies how can we create one word from the other by adding parts (called morphems).
Example:
We can list many morphems (parts) which turn the word, to which they are added, to its opposite. Examples of such morphems can be:
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im : patient
#-># im patient -
un: tidy
#-># un tidy -
mal: function
#-># mal function
And so on.
