LING 2P10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Auxiliary Verb, Shap
15 Jan 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Are content words that provide imagery and character to discourse by describing the nous in a sentence. Semantic clues: a meaning of a word itself provides a clue to its use basis of their we generally words are adjectives other word classes!) Prototypical adjectives: those that are generally easily identified on the inherent characteristic of describing nouns. Such adjectives are called best example adjectives and are the ones think of when asked to list adjectives. Morphological clues: such as derivational endings, offer clues as to which. Derivational endings: -ist, -ible, -ic, -ive, -ful, -less (be careful can be. Inflectional clues: use comparative (-er) to compare 2 things and compare more than 2 things. It is the coolest day of the year. Adjectives with 2 or more syllable, we add more and most before the. Exceptions are adjectives that end in y or le (pretty, little) Some adjectives cannot be compared (called absolute terms) such as chief,
