Jan 22 - Inflectional Values Flashcards
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marks the subject
CASE: nominative
Marks the direct object
CASE: accusative
Marks the possessive
CASE; genitive
Marks the indirect object
CASE: dative
means ‘movement away from’
CASE: ablative
Marks masculine, feminine or neutral, or noun class
GENDER/NOUN CLASS
Marks number
PERSON (1st, 2nd, or 3rd)
What are the inflectional features of “I”?
PERSON: 1st
NUMBER: SG
CASE: nom
What are the inflectional features of “him”?
PERSON: 3rd
NUMBER: SG
CASE: acc
GENDER: masc
What are the inflectional features of “our”?
PERSON: 1ST
NUMBER: PL
CASE: gen
Marks past, present, future, present perfect, imperfect, etc.
TENSE
What are the inflectional values of “eats”?
PERSON: 3rd
NUMBER: SG
TENSE: present
Marks the temporal unfolding of an event (perfect, imperfect, progressive, inceptive, habitual)
ASPECT
Marks indicative, imperative, subjunctive, realis, irrealis, etc.
MOOD
What inflectional features are common of nouns and pronouns?
NUMBER, CASE, GENDER, PERSON
What inflectional features are common of verbs?
NUMBER, PERSON, TENSE, ASPECT, MOOD, POLARITY
What inflectional features are common of adjectives, demonstratives, relative pronouns, and adpositions?
NUMBER, CASE, GENDER, PERSON, DEGREE
Marks given evidence to a claim
EVIDENTIALITY
Marks affirmative or negative
POLARITY
Marks positive, superlative, comparison, equative
DEGREE
Marks verb as finite, infinitive, past participle, present participle, etc.
VERB FORM
What is the VFORM of the English word eaten?
VFORM: Past participle (PSP)
What are the nine inflectional affixes in English?
- s to nouns for PLURAL NUMBER
- ’s to nouns for CASE GENITIVE
- s to verbs for NON-PAST TENSE 3RD PERSON SINGULAR
- ed on verbs indicates TENSE PAST
- ing on verbs forms PAST PARTICIPLE VFORM
- en or -ed on verbs forms PAST PARTICIPLE VFORM
- n’t on auxiliary verbs notes POLARITY NEGATIVE
- er on adjectives indicates DEGREE COMPARITIVE
- est on adjectives indicates DEGREE SUPERLATIVE
-s
-s to nouns for PLURAL NUMBER
