LIN203H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Nominative Case, National Institute Of Statistics And Census Of Argentina, Chiropractic
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Whenever english borrows a latin or greek noun whole, without stripping off its endings, it virtually always borrows the word in the nominative case. The nominative case is the one used for the subject of a sentence: taurus vidit agricolam (the bull sees the farmer). Note: plural form of apparatus is still apparatus. There are words that have s in the singular and es in the plural. In latin, /kx/ is spelled x, so we get words like appendix, plural appendices. Very often, some additional changes happen in the pronunciation as well. But phonation assimilation would change voiced /g/ to voiceless /k/ before voiceless consonant /s/, now we have larynkx, that plus spelling rule for x gets us to the expected spelling larynx. Plus spelling rule for x gets us to the expected spelling index. Add es to give indeces plural, but applying the rule of latin /e/ weakening takes us to indices.
