English‚ Old English also marks grammatical gender on demonstratives‚ adjectives‚ and nouns. The grammatical gender of the noun determines the gender of the demonstrative and the adjective. Thus‚ the masculine forms of the demonstrative and adjective are used before masculine nouns such as cyning ‘king’; the feminine forms are used before feminine nouns such as lufu ‘love’; and the neuter forms are used before neuter nouns such as godspel ‘gospel’. The grammatical gender need not correspond to
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associated with the birth of Jesus on some calendars but the entry of Mohammed into Mecca on other calendars. Time and Language Using a tensed verb is a grammatical way of locating an event in time. All the world’s cultures have a conception of time‚ but in only half the world’s languages is the ordering of events expressed in the form of grammatical tenses. For example‚ the Chinese‚ Burmese and Malay languages do not have any tenses. The English language expresses conceptions of time with tensed verbs
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processed). Processes can’t be imagined without persons. The grammatical category of person speaks of the role that each participant plays in the process. When the speaker has himself in mind‚ we have the 1st person (e.g. I’m walking now). When the speaker speaks to addressee‚ we have the 2nd person (e.g. You are to work harder). When the speaker refers neither to himself‚ nor to the addressee‚ we have the 3rd person. The grammatical category of person refers to the role of each participant in the
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ransposition of lexico-grammatical classes of nouns. Stylistic function of articles‚ genitive case‚ plural number. Stylistic functions of different grammatical categories in different parts of speech. 1) Stylistic transposition of pronouns. 2) Adjectives‚ stylistic function of degrees of comparison. 3) Stylistic functions of verbal categories. 4) Stylistic functions of adverbs. Style is less investigated on the morphological level than on any other one because very many scholars hold
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Seminar 3 1. Categorial functional properties The categorial functional properties of the noun are determined by its semantic properties. The most characteristic substantive function of the noun is that of the subject in the sentence‚ since the referent of the subject is the person or thing immediately named. The function of the object in the sentence is also typical of the noun as the substance word. Other syntactic functions‚ i.e. attributive‚ adverbial‚ and even predicative‚ although performed
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of the most productive morphological processes in Bantawa language. Commonly‚ this process has two major functions‚ namely morphology and semantics. According to Apte (1969)‚ the morphological function of reduplication is to indicate the various grammatical categories such as number‚ gender‚ tense and mode etc. This function is not common in most of the languages. Furthermore‚ Bloomfield gives some of the examples of this type from tagalong and Fox. Whereas‚ the semantic function of reduplication is
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Adrian Jordan University of Leicester‚ England Contents Section 1. Introduction. Section 2 The learning challenges that students face when using articles. Section 3 A grammatical look at the English article system and how the students’ L1 interferes with their learning process. Section 4 Conclusion. 1. Introduction. The English article system is complex
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English Philology Department Gender in the English language: a diachronic perspective 8.030502 – the English Language and Literature Course Paper CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………3-5 CHAPTER I. THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE STUDY OF THE CATEGORY OF GENDER IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1.1. The study of Gender in Modern Linguistics……………………….6-8 1.2. Contradictory Views on Gender in Modern English………………8-10 1.3. The Category of Gender in Germanic
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in the teaching of grammar‚ learners are taught rules of language commonly known as sentence patterns. According to Ur (1999)‚ in the case of the learners‚ grammatical rules enable them to know and apply how such sentence patterns should be put together. The teaching of grammar should also ultimately centre attention on the way grammatical items or sentence patterns are correctly used. In other words‚ teaching grammar should encompass language structure or sentence patterns‚ meaning and use. Further
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Nermina Abdulahović 10.03.2013 Language learning in early childhood SUMMARY When we assume that language is nothing more than a means of communicating‚ then it can be said that language acquisition is nothing more or less than learning how to communicate. Although how children learn to speak is not perfectly understood
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