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- Nouny POS:
- Noun: inflecting
- Case: {genitive, nongenitive}
- Number: {singular, plural}
- Gender: {masculine, feminine, neuter}
- Examples: cat, dog, horse, sheep,
oxen, man
- Tasks:
- Give the inflectional forms of each example, plus a general
rule describing the inflection formation operation
- For each inflection formation type, make a representing the relation
between inflectional categories and forms.
- Adjective: non-inflecting
- Comparative: positive, comparative, superlative
- Task:
- What are the arguments for regarding Comparative as an
inflectional category,
and what are the arguments for regarding it
as a derivational category.
- Determiner: inflecting
- Number: {singular, plural}
- Task:
- Make a list of all English determiners, their traditional names,
and their inflectional forms
- Pronoun: inflecting
- Case: {genitive, nongenitive}
- Number: {singular, plural}
- Task:
- Make a list of all English pronouns, their traditional names,
and their inflectional forms.
- Verby POS:
- Verb: inflecting
- Person: {first, second, third}
- Number: {singular, plural}
- Tense: {present, past}
- Examples: walk, rush, move, ride, come,
go, bring, be
- Tasks:
- Give the inflectional forms of each example, plus a general
rule describing the inflection formation operation
- For each inflection formation type, make a representing the relation
between inflectional categories and forms.
- Adverb: non-inflecting
- Small POS:
- Preposition: non-inflecting
Task: How do prepositions relate to inflection, if at all?
- Conjunction: non-inflecting
Task: How do conjunctions relate to inflection, if at all?
- Interjection: non-inflecting
Task: How do interjections relate to inflection, if at all?
As a general point for discussion, list the POS of German and French, and compare their properties with those of English in respect of inflection, congruence, etc.
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Dafydd Gibbon
Wed Jun 19 23:14:45 MET DST 1996