Syntax - Morphosyntax: Crash Course Linguistics #3
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Tristan
1) -The employee hired the employer. - is completely grammatical. The subordinate of the CEO hired a manager for a local store location, to employ workers for that store.
2) -Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. - = -Nonpartisan (i. e. neither red nor blue) environmentalist strategies wait, angrily (to be implemented. -
3) What's the answer to life the universe and everything? That's nothin' don't _nobody_ know the answer to. (Using a double negative for emphatic negation to say -That's nothing anybody knows the answer to. -)
4) -It's sees that tailor does the rabbit- makes sense if you're specifying the action that Taylor does (to) the rabbit. The missing -to- is tacit. It might also require orthographical tweaks and/or altered intonation to convey.
Grammar is a sandbox.
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1) -The employee hired the employer. - is completely grammatical. The subordinate of the CEO hired a manager for a local store location, to employ workers for that store.
2) -Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. - = -Nonpartisan (i. e. neither red nor blue) environmentalist strategies wait, angrily (to be implemented. -
3) What's the answer to life the universe and everything? That's nothin' don't _nobody_ know the answer to. (Using a double negative for emphatic negation to say -That's nothing anybody knows the answer to. -)
4) -It's sees that tailor does the rabbit- makes sense if you're specifying the action that Taylor does (to) the rabbit. The missing -to- is tacit. It might also require orthographical tweaks and/or altered intonation to convey.
Grammar is a sandbox.
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andarted
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously? Maybe that's because I'm no linguist, but that make 100% sense for me! I mean, bipartisan _[colorless]_ climate policies _[green ideas]_ are totally absent _[sleep]_ which is pretty upsetting _[furiously]. _ Or in another context the sentence could also mean that ideas that are advertised as green, but are actually colorless doesn't sleep well. Actually they sleep furiously.
. maybe that's the reason I was so bad at school. cause while other students were listening I was busy thinking about why the teachers are claiming things that for me obvious weren't true at all.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously? Maybe that's because I'm no linguist, but that make 100% sense for me! I mean, bipartisan _[colorless]_ climate policies _[green ideas]_ are totally absent _[sleep]_ which is pretty upsetting _[furiously]. _ Or in another context the sentence could also mean that ideas that are advertised as green, but are actually colorless doesn't sleep well. Actually they sleep furiously.
. maybe that's the reason I was so bad at school. cause while other students were listening I was busy thinking about why the teachers are claiming things that for me obvious weren't true at all.
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RyKloog
One of my favourite grammatical features of my dialect is the order in which subject pronouns are said in. The rule is you say the second person pronoun first, then third person, then first person. So an example sentence would be -how about you, him, and I go to the movies later? -. -How about me, you, and him- sounds not too weird to me as I-ve gotten used to others saying it, but it is still a little awkward to say.
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One of my favourite grammatical features of my dialect is the order in which subject pronouns are said in. The rule is you say the second person pronoun first, then third person, then first person. So an example sentence would be -how about you, him, and I go to the movies later? -. -How about me, you, and him- sounds not too weird to me as I-ve gotten used to others saying it, but it is still a little awkward to say.
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crash_course
Is that cleft sentence not simply a main clause with a relative clause, where both need a subject and a verb? All examples of Latin apply to German though, I love Latin but I would have used German to show the word order stuff instead as it is closer related to English and the comparisons easier to make, especially for that 'cleft sentence'. There also simpler ways to explain this system.
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Is that cleft sentence not simply a main clause with a relative clause, where both need a subject and a verb? All examples of Latin apply to German though, I love Latin but I would have used German to show the word order stuff instead as it is closer related to English and the comparisons easier to make, especially for that 'cleft sentence'. There also simpler ways to explain this system.
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Sanyukta
In Hindi, Marathi and other Indian languages, word order is generally SOV, but words can be moved around and still retain the meaning of the original sentence due to particles being attached to words that -assign roles- to them. This is often done in poems a lot. And sometimes while speaking, simple sentences can go SVO
Source: I'm a native Hindi and Marathi speaker
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In Hindi, Marathi and other Indian languages, word order is generally SOV, but words can be moved around and still retain the meaning of the original sentence due to particles being attached to words that -assign roles- to them. This is often done in poems a lot. And sometimes while speaking, simple sentences can go SVO
Source: I'm a native Hindi and Marathi speaker
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Tom--
Czech is not SOV. Well, it can use this word order to emphasize the verb. Czech word order in general is very flexible, mostly depending on which part of the sentence you want to emphasize. Most used word order (when you're not putting emphasis on any particular part of the sentence) is SVO.
Czech works basically the same as Latin does in this regard.
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Czech is not SOV. Well, it can use this word order to emphasize the verb. Czech word order in general is very flexible, mostly depending on which part of the sentence you want to emphasize. Most used word order (when you're not putting emphasis on any particular part of the sentence) is SVO.
Czech works basically the same as Latin does in this regard.
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Laurentium
People keep saying -It's see the rabbit that taylor does- Is ungrammatical, I dont see how it is tho. To better understand the context, in progressive form it's - It's seeing the rabbit that taylor is doing- basicaly what Taylor is doing is Seeing the rabbit. In the simple tense form what Taylor -does- is She -sees that rabbit-.
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People keep saying -It's see the rabbit that taylor does- Is ungrammatical, I dont see how it is tho. To better understand the context, in progressive form it's - It's seeing the rabbit that taylor is doing- basicaly what Taylor is doing is Seeing the rabbit. In the simple tense form what Taylor -does- is She -sees that rabbit-.
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Raeg
I know that even if it should come to pass that it will be many years from now but. I would really love for Crash Course to be able to have series for individual languages. Crash Course Japanese. Crash Course Spanish. Crash Course Latin. Crash Course.
BTW: if learning another language, HiNative is a great free app
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I know that even if it should come to pass that it will be many years from now but. I would really love for Crash Course to be able to have series for individual languages. Crash Course Japanese. Crash Course Spanish. Crash Course Latin. Crash Course.
BTW: if learning another language, HiNative is a great free app
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stecky87
I tried learning Irish, but I couldn't wrap my head around it. Because of how Duolingo teaches it, it didn't click that it was VSO. I thinks that's part of why I had difficulty with it. I'm used to English & Spanish, which are usually SVO
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I tried learning Irish, but I couldn't wrap my head around it. Because of how Duolingo teaches it, it didn't click that it was VSO. I thinks that's part of why I had difficulty with it. I'm used to English & Spanish, which are usually SVO
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Jakub
well, it is precisely for the reason your explained right after the example that you cannot really say that -the employee hired the employer- is ungrammatical - it might be weird semantically, but it is perfectly grammatical
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well, it is precisely for the reason your explained right after the example that you cannot really say that -the employee hired the employer- is ungrammatical - it might be weird semantically, but it is perfectly grammatical
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