LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nonfinite Verb, Finite Verb, African American Vernacular English
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Case inflection on noun phrases i: creation of nouns (derivational, 1. Combining 2 words: air + port, dish + washer ii. 1: creation of nouns: derivational affixes and compounding. Chapter 4 the noun phrase: introducers of np: determiners, definiteness, a definite noun (phrase) is known to both speaker and hearer. B: number (singular/plural, examples: a letter, some letters, this letter, these letters, these determiners distinguish singular/plural, proximity, examples, this, that, these, those, these determiners distinguish proximity to the speaker, they are demonstratives. Numerals: quantity, one frog v ten frogs, order, first v second. Indefiniteness: two frogs jumped in the pond. i. By itself, the phrase is indefinite because the speaker and hearer don"t know which two frogs: compare: those two frogs jumped in the pond. Quantifiers: semantic function: quantifiers pick out members of a set in ways other than by counting them, every student, few students, no student.
