LING 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Future Perfect, Gerund, Pluperfect

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John d. alderete, linguistics 323, simon fraser university. It will provide some of the necessary empirical foundations for motivating word schemas. Keywords: inflectional category, inflectional dimension, paradigm construction, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice markings, dependent verbs. Definitions inflectional category, a morphological distinction made to mark a grammatical function (see prior lecture), e. g. , singular, masculine inflectional dimension, a classification system for a set of inflectional categories, e. g. , number, gender, case, tense, aspect, modality. Example: /-s/ marks the inflectional categories third person, singular, present tense" in. Example: walk-er is the derived noun, formed by adding the derivational suffix /-er/. Assumption: inflectional paradigms represent dimensions as columns or rows, hence usually two dimensional (though more dimensions possible with more tables) Task: produce a three-dimensional paradigm for the verb be based on tense (present, past), person (1 2 3), and number (sg, pl); use the two-table format employed in the book.

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