LIN231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Radiance, Preposition And Postposition, Grammatical Gender
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Derivation new lexeme is created; adds lexical meaning; new meaning. Inflection used to express grammatical meaning; information about grammar; depends on a context (it is contextual) Form morphological process; function deals with meaning and if a new lexeme is created. You walk, you walk. (cid:523)it should agree with the subject(cid:524), ex (cid:498)the student arrives(cid:499), (cid:498)the students arrive (cid:499) the verb (cid:498)to be(cid:499). In persian, raft-am (i went), raft-i (you went), raft- (he,she, it went), raft-im. Except with (we went), raft-id (you went), raft-end (they went) this is called a pro- drop language, meaning you can drop the pronoun, omit the pronoun subject. Some language make a distinction between inclusive (includes me and you) 1st person plural and exclusive (me and someone else, not you) 1st person plural: gender marked on nouns only. Natural gender is the gender of a person; Nouns in different languages are categorized in different groups, ex.
