LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reduplication
3 Sep 2016
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Quiz due today no later than 11:30 pm. Start reading chapter 3 of fromkin, rodman, and hyams, Descriptive and prescriptive grammar assignment (discussion) dye wednesday at 11:30pm. Syllabus has been revised, with slightly adjusted quiz dates. The semantic definitions of grammar are, for example, a noun is a person place or thing. But, these seem to be inadequate after getting out of a small circle of words, and they cannot complete describe the ways that word categories function in language. A speaker does not focus on simply a definition, but the native intuition that you learn. Most often you will focus on syntax and morphology to be able to tell what is grammatical in a sentence. In other languages, while we use many adjectives, some may use none as all. Instead of saying the book is blue, they might say the book blues. The book is in the state of blueing currently.
