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After reading chapter 2, you should walk away having mastered the following ideas and skills:

1 Distinguish between distributional and semantic definitions of parts of speech.

2 Identify a part of speech by its distribution.

3 Identify cases of complementary distribution.

4 Know the difference between an open-class and a closed-class part of speech.

5 Explain the difference between lexical and functional categories.

6 Identify different subcategories using feature notations.

7 Identify plural nouns, mass nouns, and count nouns and distinguish them with features.

8 Explain the difference between predicates and arguments.

9 Categorize verbs according to their argument structure (intransitive, transitive, ditransitive) and represent this using features.