Translating Inflected Languages S. Harris Inflected languages are
... function and the action function. For naming, we use the Latin word for name, nomen, and call words that name nouns. The portion of the sentence that names is called the noun phrase, or NP. For action or being we use the Latin for word, verbum, and call words that describe activity verbs. The portio ...
... function and the action function. For naming, we use the Latin word for name, nomen, and call words that name nouns. The portion of the sentence that names is called the noun phrase, or NP. For action or being we use the Latin for word, verbum, and call words that describe activity verbs. The portio ...
A Brief Summary of the Latin Noun as Presented in Unit 1 of the
... Most every Latin noun includes a case-ending that by indicating the case of the noun indicates the grammatical role the noun plays in the sentence. ...
... Most every Latin noun includes a case-ending that by indicating the case of the noun indicates the grammatical role the noun plays in the sentence. ...
Latin I Grammar Notes 11-29-2016 NOUNS • We`ve already seen
... o 3rd = -ere (the 1st principal part will end in –ō) o 3rd-io = -ere (the 1st principal part will end in –iō) o 4th = -īre Very often the infinitive is used with verbs like potest (is able), vult (wants), parat (prepares), timet (is afraid), etc. This construction is called a complementary infinit ...
... o 3rd = -ere (the 1st principal part will end in –ō) o 3rd-io = -ere (the 1st principal part will end in –iō) o 4th = -īre Very often the infinitive is used with verbs like potest (is able), vult (wants), parat (prepares), timet (is afraid), etc. This construction is called a complementary infinit ...
Latin Cases
... A knowledge of the meanings and uses of cases is essential to progressing in Latin. There are six cases, each of which uses a different ending to suggest a different use in the sentence. Each word will have, normally, a total of twelve different endings (six cases plus plural and singular.) ...
... A knowledge of the meanings and uses of cases is essential to progressing in Latin. There are six cases, each of which uses a different ending to suggest a different use in the sentence. Each word will have, normally, a total of twelve different endings (six cases plus plural and singular.) ...
Unit II Review
... Genitive Defined by the word ‘of” Possession (the noun which possesses) Equus agricolae – the horse of the farmer Partitive – the ‘whole’ from which a part is taken (copia aquae – a supply of water) Dative Indirect Object (noun to or for whom action done) Accusative Direct Object (receives the ...
... Genitive Defined by the word ‘of” Possession (the noun which possesses) Equus agricolae – the horse of the farmer Partitive – the ‘whole’ from which a part is taken (copia aquae – a supply of water) Dative Indirect Object (noun to or for whom action done) Accusative Direct Object (receives the ...
Grammatical case
Case is a grammatical category whose value reflects the grammatical function performed by a noun or pronoun in a phrase, clause, or sentence. In some languages, nouns, pronouns, and their modifiers take different inflected forms depending on what case they are in. English has largely lost its case system, although case distinctions can still be seen with the personal pronouns: forms such as I, he and we are used in the role of subject (""I kicked the ball""), while forms such as me, him and us are used in the role of object (""John kicked me"").Languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Hungarian, Tamil, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Finnish, Latvian and Lithuanian have extensive case systems, with nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and determiners all inflecting (usually by means of different suffixes) to indicate their case. A language may have a number of different cases (Romanian has five, Latin and Russian each have at least six; Polish, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian, Latvian and Lithuanian have 7; Finnish has 15, Hungarian has 18). Commonly encountered cases include nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive. A role that one of these languages marks by case will often be marked in English using a preposition. For example, the English prepositional phrase with (his) foot (as in ""John kicked the ball with his foot"") might be rendered in Russian using a single noun in the instrumental case, or in Ancient Greek as τῷ ποδί tōi podi, meaning ""the foot"" with both words (the definite article, and the noun πούς pous, ""foot"") changing to dative form.As a language evolves, cases can merge (for instance in Ancient Greek genitive and dative have merged as genitive), a phenomenon formally called syncretism.More formally, case has been defined as ""a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of relationship they bear to their heads."" Cases should be distinguished from thematic roles such as agent and patient. They are often closely related, and in languages such as Latin several thematic roles have an associated case, but cases are a morphological notion, while thematic roles are a semantic one. Languages having cases often exhibit free word order, since thematic roles are not required to be marked by position in the sentence.