LING 200 Lecture 1: LING 200 Week 1 Notes Descriptive VS Prescriptive Rule
6 Oct 2015
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Ling 200 week 1 notes (descriptive vs prescriptive rules) Descriptive rules (d-rules): describe language as it is spoken by proficient adult nature speakers: native speakers never made d-rules mistakes, rules: The possessive pro-determiner should be placed before the noun in english. Adverbs of frequency cannot be placed between the verb (vt) and its object (do) Use whom", not who" in object position. Pronouns & determiners must agree in number with their antecedents/referenents. Verbs must always agree in number with the subject complements/predicate nouns. Don"t use seen as the past tense of see. Don"t use an object pronoun for a subject pronoun in a conjoined subject. Don"t use a plural pronoun to refer back to a singular pronoun like everyone, someone .
