CHAPTER 1 THE WORD

The Morphology - a branch of grammar together with syntax, phonetics and semantics. These are the basic units of linguistics. Morphology studied the word and constitutes morphemes (a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided,  e.g., in , come , -ing , forming incoming).

CHAPTER 2 THE NOUN

2.1. General Characteristics

2.1.1. Semantics – the noun is a class of words denoting entity (a separate unit that is complete and has its own characteristic). The noun is the central nominative word class. The noun class can be subdivided into the following semantic subclasses:

CHAPTER 3 THE ADJECTIVE

3.1. Semantics

Adjectives relate to nouns. They denote various features of noun referents:

- quality – e.g. a beautiful picture

- material – e.g. a wooden chair

- colour – e.g. a red rose

- dimensions – e.g. a long story

- state – e.g. He was asleep

- position – e.g. the houseboat was located in downtown St. Paul

- quantity or number – e.g. many books