Suggested Answers for Check Questions

Morphological properties, i.e. inflectional endings associated with Ns, Vs, etc.; irregular forms should be mentioned as well. Distributional criteria, i.e. in what position in a sentence may a given word appear; verbs which are not interchangeable should be included. Meaning: in what sense do nouns denote things, verbs actions, events, etc. Thematic categories have conceptual meaning, they carry semantic information, while functional categories encode grammatical information.