Syntax and Morphology.

Catalog description

To introduce ESL (English as a Second Language) students to the richness of English affixes as well as to the rules of sentence formation. Specifically: 1. To familiarize students with the breadth of affixes English possesses 2. To ensure that students appreciate the different types of affixes, distinguishing, inflectional from derivational affixes 3.To deepen students¿ understanding of how derivational affixes can alter the meaning of a root in predictable ways. 4. To deepen students' understanding that some derivational affixes also change the phonetics and stress of the original root 5 To trace the historical development of some of these affixes and search for either cognates or affixes with similar function in the languages of the students.