Grammatical change Flashcards

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Word order?

A

Syntax (SVO) is now much more important to language

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What is morphology?

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The study of words, how they are formed and their relationship to other words in same language.

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What does morphology analyse?

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Structure of words and parts of words eg. stems, root words, prefixes and suffixes

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Pronouns

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Old: Thee, thou, thine
New: I, you, we etc.

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5
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Negatives

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Double negatives were used for emphasis, now incorrect

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