Case markings

Question 1

How does OE indicate subject?

Answer 1

By marking on the subject called the nominative case or by marking the person and number (plural/singular) of the subject on the verb, called agreement.

Question 2

What gets the accusative, dative and genitive case in OE?

Answer 2

Direct objects, object of prepostion

Question 3

What is the main function of the nominative case in OE?

Answer 3

The subject

Question 4

What is the main function of the genitive case?

Answer 4

To express possession

Question 5

What is the main function of the dative case?

Answer 5

The indirect object

Question 6

what is the main function of the accusative?

Answer 6

Direct object and object of prepostion

Question 7

What are the main lexical categories? And why are they called lexical?

Answer 7

Noun (table), verb (see), adjective(yellow), adverb (quickly), preposition (across) They are called lexical because they carry meaning, they have synonyms and antonyms.

Question 8

What are the grammatical categories?

Answer 8

Determiner (a, the, those), auxiliary (might), coordinator (and) and complementisers (because) They are called grammatical because they determine the syntactic relationships in a sentence. Prepostitions and adverbs do little of both.

Question 9

Why is the distinction between lexical and grammatical categories important?

Answer 9

Because the change from old to modern english involves an increase in the number of grammatical categories, a process called grammaticalization. The use of grammatical categories is typical for analytic languages.

Question 10

Which category is open and closed of the grammatical and lexical?

Answer 10

Grammatical is a closed category
Lexical category is open
Prepostions are an in-between category