CLA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pro Tempore, Cathedra
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Classical (greek/roman) grammarians divided words into 8 categories. Developed to describe greek/latin, sometimes doesn"t fit english well. First 4 = content words; words that carry meaning, build vocab. A course of words has 2 tests to figure out what"s a noun: morphological & syntatical. Ex: the dog chewed a bone. (only dog & bone can be changed with {s}) If a word can be made plural with the morpheme {s}, it"s a noun. Syntax: what position a word takes in a sentence"s arrangement. Asking what position it has; subject, direct object, etc. See if word fits position after noun markers (the, a, many, that, these) Ex: with, horse, accelerate, potato, beautifully (nouns= horse, potato) Answer questions how many, which one, what kind . In morphological test, see if word can be given endings -er & -est . Longer adjectives go with more & most . Does it go well between noun marker & noun? (ex: the good horse)
