Morphology

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Morphology

• Inflection

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Agreement

• I/You always sing/sings the same song.
• She always sing/sings the same song.

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Agreement paradigms

• ég heyr-I I hear við heyr-um we hear
• þú heyr-ir you hear þið heyr-ið you(pl)
  hear
• hann heyr-ir he hears þeir heyr-a they
  hear
• (Icelandic)
• io cred-o I believe noi cred-iamo we
  believe
• tu cred-i you believe voi cred-ete
  you(pl) believe
• lui cred-e he believes loro cred-ono they
  believe
• (Italian)

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• jeg hør-er I hear vi hør-er we hear
• du hør-er you hear I hør-er you(pl) hear
• han hør-er he hears de hør-er they hear
• (Danish)
• ek werk I work ons werk we work
• jy werk you work julle werk you(pl) work
• hy werk he works hulle werk they work
• (Afrikaans)

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Object agreement

• Pe-fi-n iñche metawe.
• see-3singular-1singular I vessel
• I see the vessel
• (Mapudungun)

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Subject/object agreement

• with definite object no definite object
• singular plural singular plural
• 1 szeret-em szeret-jük szeret-ek szeret-ünk
• 2 szeret-ed szeret-itek szeret-sz szeret-tek
• 3 szeret-i szeret-ik szeret szeret-nek
• (Hungarian)

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Adjective-noun agreement

• de koe het paard (Dutch)
• de oud-e koe het oud-e paard
• een oud-e koe een oud paard
• oud-e koeien oud-e paarden

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More gender agreement

• Ov-a star-a knjiga je pal-a.
• this-fem.sg old-fem.sg book(fem.sg) is fallen-
• fem.sg
• (Serbo-Croat)
• bræður mín-ir systur mín-ar
• brothers my-masc.pl sisters my-fem.pl
• (Icelandic)

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Mood

• indicative subjunctive
• sg pl sg pl
• 1 dig-o dec-imos dig-a dig-amos
• 2 dic-es dec-ís dig-as dig-áis
• 3 dic-e dic-en dig-a dig-an
• (Spanish)

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• Imperative mood
• Clean your room right now!

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Tense

• Present Past
• laudo I praise laudabam I praised
• laudas you praise laudabas you
  praised
• laudat s/he praises laudabat s/he
  praised
• laudamus we praise laudabamus we praised
• laudatis you(pl) praise laudabatis
  you(pl) praised
• laudant they praise laudabant they
  praised
• (Latin)

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• Future Perfect
• laudabo I will praise laudavi
  I have praised
• laudabis you will praise
  laudavisti you have praised
• laudabit s/he will praise
  laudavit s/he has praised
• laudabimus we will praise laudavimus
  we have praised
• laudabitis you(pl) will praise
  laudavistis you have praised
• laudabunt they will praise
  laudaverunt they have praised

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• Agreement on a non-finite verb
• Kellemetlen volt Jánosnak az igazságot
  bevalla-ni-a.
• unpleasant was John the truth
  admit-inf-3sg
• It was unpleasant for John to admit the truth.
• (Hungarian)

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Case

• Der Mann gab der Frau den Hut. (German)
• the man gave the woman the hat
• Die Frau gab dem Mann den Hut.
• the woman gave the man the hat
• Die Frau sah den Mann.
• the woman saw the man

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• der Hut des Mann-es
• the hat the-gen man-gen
• the mans hat
• Roughly
• the nominative case for subjects
• the genitive case for possessors of another
  noun
• the dative case for indirect objects
• the accusative case for direct objects

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• singular plural
• nominative femin-a femin-ae
• genitive femin-ae femin-arum
• dative femin-ae femin-is
• accusative femin-am femin-as
• (Latin)

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A bit more case...

• 1 Nominative talo house (subject) (Finnish)
• 2 Genitive talon of a house
• 3 Accusative talon house (certain direct
  objects)
• 4 Partitive taloa house (certain direct objects,
  certain subjects)
• 5 Essive talona as a house
• 6 Translative taloksi to a house (fig.)
• 7 Inessive talossa in a house
• 8 Elative talosta out of a house
• 9 Illative taloon into a house
• 10 Adessive talolla at a house
• 11 Ablative talolta from a house
• 12 Allative talolle to a house (concr.)
• 13 Abessive talotta without a house

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Ergative/absolutive case systems

• a. Der Mann schlief. (German)
• the-nom man slept
• b. Der Mann las den Artikel.
• the-nom man read the-acc article
• a. Arnaq yurartuq. (Yupik)
• woman-abs dances
• b. Angutem tangrraa arnaq.
• man-erg sees woman-abs
• The man sees the woman (NOT The woman
  sees the man.)

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• What may happen if you dont apply agreement,
  mood and case inflection properly
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXbI-fDzUJXI

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Ablaut

• break-ed broke
• steal-ed stole
• sting-ed stung
• ring-ed rang

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Suppletion

• be-ed bong/bung/bang was
• go-ed gong/gung/gang went

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Syncretism

• I walk-ed, you walk-ed, she walk-ed, we walk-ed,
  you walk-ed, they walk-ed
• I rang, you rang, she rang, we rang, you rang,
  they rang
• I went, you went, she went, we went, you went,
  they went

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Blocking

• Why do went and goed, or sang and singed,
• not co-exist?
• Blocking
• A more specific form blocks a less specific form.

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• warmer, faster, quicker
• more warm, more fast, more quick
• beautifuller, comfortabler, typicaller
• more beautiful, more comfortable, more typical