LIN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Swazi Language, Inuktitut
23 Feb 2019
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The modification of a word"s form to indicate grammatical information. English inflexion is usually suffixation, but there are other ways to inflect. Other languages have different types of inflection. Siswati (bantu) uses prefixes to distinguish noun classes. Italian uses suffixes to distinguish among noun classes (gender) Latin uses suffixes to indicate the case of a noun (grammatical role of noun) Spanish uses suffixes of the verb to indicate the subject. Verbs: 3rd person singular present -s, progressive -ing, past tense -ed, past participle -ed/-en. Identify recurring strings of sounds and match them with recurring meanings. Don"t assume that the morpheme order is the same as it is in english. Don"t assume that every meaning contrast expressed in english will also be manifested in the language you are analyzing and vice versa. In turkish, there is no morpheme meaning a/the . In inuktituk, there are three number distinctions: singular, dual, and plural.
