CLA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Germanic Languages, Water Heating
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Greeks and romans divided words into eight categories. Used to describe greek and latin words. Verbs, nouns, adj, adv, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections. First 4 are for content words- build vocabulary. Morphological test- refers to its form; cat and cats differ in form. If a word can be made plural with an s", it"s a noun. The syntax of a word refers to what position it takes in a sentence"s arrangement. If you can put the, a, many in front it"s a noun** Morph- can be given the endings -er -est (sad) Longer adj say more or most (beautiful) Syntax- does it go well in between the noun marker and the noun. Noun modifiers- nouns that come before other nouns and modify a head noun like adjectives. Water heater water is acting like an adjective.
