LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mass Noun, Infinitive, Preposition And Postposition
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Lecture 21: nouns, morphology can take the plural suffix s. Nouns with irregular plural: ox oxen; goose, geese. Mass noun can"t be pluralized: two snows; five golds: syntax. Can be preceded by the definite article (definite determiner) the the house. English, but are still nouns, e. g. john: verbs, morphology. Can be preceded by an auxiliary verb (can, might ) the canucks might win today. Can be preceded by the infinitive marker to the leafs want to win: adjectives, morphology. Complications: some adjectives just don"t make sense with gradations, so the comparative and superlative forms make no sense: Can be immediately preceded by degree words like very or so: Can come between a determiner and a noun. The difficult assignment: preposition, examples: in, on, under, after, with, before, about, morphology. Cannot be inflected at all (no prefixes or suffixes: syntax. Can always come after a noun followed by another noun phrase, in context.
