Categorization and language Flashcards

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Deference between alienable and inalienable

A

inalienable possesion = refers to properties of nouns or nominal affixes that are always possessed
- ie. body parts and relatives
alienable possession: involves the possession of artifacts and objects that may or may not be possessed

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What are cases for?

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  • Cases signal the specific roles that NPs
    play within a syntactic unit (e.g. sentence
    or phrase).
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3
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What is the nominative case?

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the Subject case (or the unmarked case – often with no extra

ending)
* other cases are marked with affixes (in synthetic languages)

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4
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Give examples of instrumental, locative and vocative cases

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instrumental - with the forest
locative - through the forest
Vocative - Oh my dear forest

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5
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What is Aspect?

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  • The verb form that indicates completion,

duration, or repetition of an action.

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What are the 2 primary aspects in english?

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  • the perfect (sometimes called perfective) and
  • the progressive (also known as the
    continuous form).
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In English, aspect is expressed by means of ?

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particles, separate verbs, and verb phrases.

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What is the perfect aspect?

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The perfect aspect describes events
occurring in the past but linked to a later
time, usually the present. The perfect
aspect is formed with has, have, or had +
the past participle.

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9
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example of perfect aspect past tense

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History HAS remembered the kings and warriors

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10
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example of Perfect aspect, present tense

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At fifteen life HAD taught me

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what is progressive aspect?

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  • It usually describes an event that takes
    place during a limited time period. The
    progressive aspect is made up of a form of
    be + the -ing form of the main verb.
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12
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example of progressive aspect, present tense

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the key

to failure IS trying to please everybody

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13
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example of progressive aspect, past tense

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I WAS reading the dictionary.

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14
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A verb phrase presented as having an

endpoint is said to be

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telic

ex. The soup cooled in ten minutes

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a verb
phrase that is not presented as having an
endpoint is said to be

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atellic

ex. the soup cooled for ten minutes (don’t know if the cooling was over)

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