LING477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Preposition And Postposition, Perfective Aspect, Infinitive
16 Oct 2017
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Possessive pronouns (me, our, your, his, her, their) Many are formed by adding -ly to an adjective. They also can follow the auxiliary am/is/are/was/were/be/been/being (this distribution overlaps with verbs) Adjectives can be modified by the adverb very (this distribution overlaps with adverbs) On rare occasions they can be used comparatively and follow the word more: Adverbs can"t appear between a determiner and a noun or after is. Can really appear pretty much anywhere else in the sentence, although typically they either appear at the beginning or end of the clause/sentence. Can be modified by the adverb very. Typically relate objects, people, or events in space or time. Do not have different forms, unlike nouns, verbs, adjectives. Follow auxiliaries and modals and the special infinitive marker to. Can be negated with not (as opposed to no) Infinitival = to + verb basic form (without any inflection) To really impress her, you have to be well-traveled and multilingual.
