LING 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inflection, Word Grammar, Evidentiality
4 Sep 2015
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How linguists use the word grammar: all languages have a grammar. Grammar: the connection/method/way to connect sound to meaning. Not having a grammar means: varies in flexibility of sentence structure/word order in a sentence, has a form of structure uncommon in most languages. Morphology: to add anecdotes or inflectional morphology to change or assign the subject of each word in a sentence, this lets speakers of this language vary word order in sentences. Parity is the idea that all grammars are equal (in difficulty) These dialects are due to geographical or social differences. A good example of dialects is the deletion of r"s following vowels. The following types of possession vary in translation in some dialects. Evidentiality is the idea that there is no such thing as a simple grammar. Universality is the idea that all grammars are alike in basic ways. Kids can learn any human language if put in an influential situation with said language.
