Ling 001, Week 4
... ‘my father is looking for the cows’ • Here, the meaning of the phrase “look for cows” is expressed in a single word (they can express it with a separate noun as well). • This is similar in many ways to what happens in compounding in English; remember truck driver. In English, though we can’t use thi ...
... ‘my father is looking for the cows’ • Here, the meaning of the phrase “look for cows” is expressed in a single word (they can express it with a separate noun as well). • This is similar in many ways to what happens in compounding in English; remember truck driver. In English, though we can’t use thi ...
MORPHOLOGY - introduction
... people actually say (rather than prescribe what they ought to say). They try to give all the possibilities of the expressions which are grammatically correct, esp. differences between formal and informal English. It´s me It is I more common more formal very informal colloquial 2. Grammar is traditio ...
... people actually say (rather than prescribe what they ought to say). They try to give all the possibilities of the expressions which are grammatically correct, esp. differences between formal and informal English. It´s me It is I more common more formal very informal colloquial 2. Grammar is traditio ...
PSY 369: Psycholinguistics - the Department of Psychology at
... happy, horse, talk unnegative -ness state/quality -s plural -ing duration ...
... happy, horse, talk unnegative -ness state/quality -s plural -ing duration ...
F10_L1_data-collection
... What morphology is used for: Many languages have a distinction between first person plural inclusive (‘we, including you’) and exclusive (‘we, not including you’). This morphological category is generally productive: for a language marking person on verbs, any verb can be marked for either of these ...
... What morphology is used for: Many languages have a distinction between first person plural inclusive (‘we, including you’) and exclusive (‘we, not including you’). This morphological category is generally productive: for a language marking person on verbs, any verb can be marked for either of these ...
The Graeco-Roman Legacy
... • in a transitive sentence, the verb gives a transition from one thing (the subject) to another (the object) • hence transitive sentences do not contrast with intransitives only, but also with reflexive sentences (where subject and object corefer) ...
... • in a transitive sentence, the verb gives a transition from one thing (the subject) to another (the object) • hence transitive sentences do not contrast with intransitives only, but also with reflexive sentences (where subject and object corefer) ...
Zeros, theme vowels, and construction morphology
... semantics. As all Chuck’s students and colleagues know, he is famously opposed to zero morphemes. If all that is added to a construction is meaning, then there are better ways to do that. However, construction morphology crucially introduces the notion that morphemes also have syntactic properties. ...
... semantics. As all Chuck’s students and colleagues know, he is famously opposed to zero morphemes. If all that is added to a construction is meaning, then there are better ways to do that. However, construction morphology crucially introduces the notion that morphemes also have syntactic properties. ...
2. Paolo Acquaviva - University College Dublin Mark
... 1998 and Embick 2000, reject the notion of a lexical category. Instead, it is claimed that categorial distinctions depend on the syntactic context in which category-neutral ROOTS are inserted. A noun is a root inserted as complement to a Determiner, and a verb is a root inserted in a shell of functi ...
... 1998 and Embick 2000, reject the notion of a lexical category. Instead, it is claimed that categorial distinctions depend on the syntactic context in which category-neutral ROOTS are inserted. A noun is a root inserted as complement to a Determiner, and a verb is a root inserted in a shell of functi ...
Morphemes in Competition
... where corresponding synthetic forms are missing, morphology must block syntax (Poser-blocking). This is sharply at odds with the approach taken in Distributed Morphology. DM has no general blocking principle other than the Subset Principle, which resolves competition between morphemes (Vocabulary It ...
... where corresponding synthetic forms are missing, morphology must block syntax (Poser-blocking). This is sharply at odds with the approach taken in Distributed Morphology. DM has no general blocking principle other than the Subset Principle, which resolves competition between morphemes (Vocabulary It ...