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19 Cards in this Set
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Noun Phrases |
a. basic sentence constituent
b. consists of noun (n) and determiner (det) |
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Features of Nouns [ ] |
a. +- human
b. +- animal c. +- concrete (vs abstract) d. +- count e. +- common (vs roper) f. +- singular |
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Count Nouns |
a. all human and animate nouns
b. mass = -count c. imposes restriction on what determiners can be used |
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Concrete Nouns |
a. -count = happiness, loyalty, idea
b. all except those referring to mass are +count (idea vs happiness) |
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Determiners |
a. signal or determine that nouns will follow
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a
Types of Determiners (7) |
a. articles
b. demonstratives c. cardinals d. ordinals e. comparatives f. prearticles g. genitives |
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aa
Articles |
a. either +definitive (def) or - definitive (def)
b. must keep in mind +- count and +-singular c. most common = a, an, the, some d. a, some = code new info e. the = indicate old ino |
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aaa
+Def |
a. the
b. each c. every d. either e. neither |
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aaaa
-Def |
a. a/an (a before con, an before vowels or diphthongs)
b. some c. any d. another e. no f. enough |
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aaaaa
Demonstratives |
a. this
b. that c. these d. those e. can indicate proximity (these vs those) |
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b
Cardinals |
a. one - as far as you can count
b. many c. few d. several e. refers to the number of items in a set f. always = -def |
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bb
Ordinals |
a. first, second, third, etc
b. last c. final d. other e. middle f. next g. preceded by other det, like art or dem |
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bbb
Comparative |
a. more
b. most c. less d. least e. fewer f. fewest g. in NP, occur after art like "some, the" |
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bbbb
Prearticles |
a. just
b. only c. even d. all of e. two of f. a quarter of g. both of h. lots of i. -of can be deleted sometimes j. occur as first element in an NP preceding the article |
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bbbbb
Genitives |
a. my
b. your c. his/hers d. its e. our f. their g. possessive pronouns h. always +def if first det and can only be preceded by prearticle |
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Inflections |
a. affix
b. prefix c. suffix. d. morpheme = smallest unit of meaning in our lang |
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cc
Free & Bound Morphemes |
a. free = base words that stand alone
b. bound = affixes added to base word |
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Allomorphs |
a. variants of morpheme
b. plural c. possessive d. /s/, /z/, /iz/ |
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Derivational Affixes |
a. used to derive words from base words of same or diff class
b. increase our vocabs c. -ment, -er, -ion d. -ness, -y, -ty, -ance e. -ship, -hood, -ry |