ENGL 450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nominative Case
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Derivational suffixes (nouns often end in derivational suffixes): Inflectional suffixes (nouns don"t show much inflection, but when pluralized can take suffixes like these below): Binarity- words as a set of binary oppositions. Take the sentence: the new boy likes the old girl. In another language, like spanish, it may look something like this: el chico nuevo which means the new boy . In the spanish phrase above, nuevo , meaning new , comes after the word. Reflexives- needs noun to refer back to (i. e. himself=john) No nominative case reflexive nouns in english language. Because of hierarchical structure, c-command relation only works in one direction. A declarative clause does not require a modal/auxiliary verb. When negation (e. g. , not) is in a sentence, it projects its own phrase (negp) between i and vp. Form yes/no questions by using the phrase cp.
