CLA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Germanic Languages, Pro Tempore, Cathedra
18 Jan 2018
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Person, place, and thing, but with practice it becomes natural. Morphology - refers to the word"s form in greek. This usually involves endings in english (cats vs cat, bake vs baked) If you can make a word plural by adding "s", it"s a noun. Syntax - refers to the word"s position in the sentence. You can see if a word comfortably fits after noun markers" (ex. the, many, a, that, these, etc) Answer how many? , which ones? , what kind? . Morphological test: give the ending -er and -est (sadder, saddest), or more and. Noun modifiers are nouns that come before other nouns and modify a head noun like adjectives. Examples: city streets (city = nm, streets = head) Germanic languages allow one noun to directly modify another noun, but greek and. Results in english speakers confusing noun modifiers with adjectives! Transitive verbs: action goes from the subject across the verb to the object.
