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ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS (2)
ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS (2)

... adj., e.g. certain, definite, sheer, complete, slight b) central – e.g. hungry, ugly, funny, stupid, silent, rich, empty c) postcentral – participles – e.g. retired, sleeping, + colours d) prehead – denominal adjectives denoting nationality, ethnic background (Austrian), and denominal adjectives wit ...
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... Adverbs, on the other hand, modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, and even whole clauses. Adverbs can tell us how something is done, when it is done, and where it is done. Examples of some common adverbs are: really, quickly, especially, early, well, immediately, yesterday. While many adverbs do ...
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The + adjective

... • It can be used as an attributive adjective when it precedes the subject. (e.g. The black boy said to the white boy…) • It can be used as a predicative adjective when it follows the subject or the verb. (e.g. Life is short.) Some adjectives can be used in this position only, e.g. afraid, asleep. ...
Investigating the Students` Ability to Recognize Adjectives
Investigating the Students` Ability to Recognize Adjectives

... more colorful. They add color and vibrancy to our language much like the rainbow, whether there are many of them in a text, speech or whether they are used sparingly. They are words that give your writing and speech flavor (woods:Int). Knowing as much adjectives as possible will build up the student ...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 47, 2
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 47, 2

... jective). The OE word Indisc is revived only in 1398 by Trevisa. In a slightly earlier text, i.e., Gower’s Confessio Amantis (1393), we find the word Indien, which later appears three more times in Kyng Alisaunder (1400) and once in Mandeville’s Travels (1425); however, this is with a nominal functi ...
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... inflectionally, always take the inflection of the declension class of nouns terminating in -a (class 2) in the three languages (see Täbles 1, 2, & 3), this rvithout any exceptions. Note, however, that whereas nouns derived with a special gender suffix are always feminine, nouns terminating in -a are ...
The agent suffixes as a window into Vedic grammar
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... The first additional meaning component of ′ -tar- according to Pān.ini, noted by almost all writers on the topic, restricts it to habitual, professional, or expert agents (P. 3.2.135 ā kves tacchı̄lataddharmatatsādhukāris.u). As a shorthand term, I’ll refer to this as the HABITUAL / GENERIC mean ...
Chapter XI: Latin Suffixes
Chapter XI: Latin Suffixes

... • The past participle already has a thematic vowel and so the vowel of -ible cannot be the thematic vowel as it is in credible. • This is a newer formation than the original which was formed by adding -ble to the thematic stem. • What seems to have happened it that the past participle became opaque ...
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...  Most possessives are created by adding “-‘s” to a word. However, some words—like proper names and lots and lots of plurals--already end in “s,” so, in that case, usually all that’s needed is to add the apostrophe. Look this up in your book or a grammar handbook and familiarize yourself with enough ...
Diminutive as an Inflectional Category in Walman
Diminutive as an Inflectional Category in Walman

... baby cassowary; thus (39a) above is appropriate even if the cassowary referred to is a baby. The second difference between the option of diminutive forms and the option of plural forms is that if two agreement forms occur where both are associated with the same referent, then both forms must be plur ...
“Psilo”: Exploring the Case of a Diminutive Prefix in
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... psilo- has undergone bleaching, that is, it has lost some of its semantic features and become more and more abstract (see Jurafsky 1996: 551). 5. Just a diminutive? In all cases we have seen so far, the import of psilo- to the stems it combines with could be taken to be that of a “diminutive”, as re ...
Some Observations On the Suffix -nt- in the Indo
Some Observations On the Suffix -nt- in the Indo

... meaning of the participle was not related to a specific connotations of voice. Thus in Hittite this participle expressed state. It could be said that its meaning, when formed from a transitive verb expressing a state of the object or a person affected upon, was close to the meaning of a passive part ...
Diminutives and augmentatives in Beja (North-Cushitic) - Hal-SHS
Diminutives and augmentatives in Beja (North-Cushitic) - Hal-SHS

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Harmony that cannot be represented (abstract)

... Invariant suffixes that contain a neutral vowel (henceforward ‘IN suffixes’; e.g., adjective-forming -i, verbforming -ít, possessive -é, familiar plural -ék) behave differently from alternating suffixes that have a neutral vowel in their front alternant (henceforward ‘AN suffixes’; e.g., 3sg. defini ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Adjective Suffixes
PowerPoint Presentation - Adjective Suffixes

...  One method for creating adjectives is to add a suffix to either a noun or verb.  If suffix that you are adding to the word begins with a vowel and the word that you are changing ends in silent “e,” you would generally remove this e.  Sometimes a verb can be the same word as a noun. Ex. running b ...
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