LING 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Grammatical Number, Dative Case, Preposition And Postposition
9 Feb 2016
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Numbering is supposed to go: singular, dual, paucal, plural. Ablative (object of a preposition and everything else) Cases tell you the nouns job in a sentence. 1st person plural; we, inclusive/exclusive when the 1st person speaker. Participant (1 & 2)/ else (3) includes and/or excludes the 2nd person. Impersonal pronouns one (formal), you (informal) person) 3rd person obviative well removed from the conversation (aka 4th. 3rd person proximate they are close to the conversation. Adjectives: can be marked for gender, number, case, to tell the adjectives what its head noun is what do i go with? still be found. Adjectives are also independent of a noun, so they can be moved and. When something happened, where the event is in that time span. Verbs: tenses: past, present, future; conditional, etc relative to us. Future marking in english: non really, no marking. You can"t use present tense to refer to present tense.
