PPT-Verb position and prosody

in Estonian Heete Sahkai Institute of the Estonian Language Introduction The generalisations that can be formulated about verb placement in. date Title of document Format Retrieved from httpURL Author is missing Substitute title for the author Title of document Format date Retrieved from httpURL Date is missing Use nd for no date Author A nd Title of document Format Retrieved from httpUR “They need to work together!”. NOUN AND VERB AGREEMENT. Nouns and verbs need to work together to create a complete thought. (sounds right). Nouns can be plural or singular.. Singular= one (dog). . As you click through this . powerpoint. , you will need to answer the questions on your worksheet. At the end, you will need to check AND CORRECT your answers. Let’s review subject pronouns first. . Dr. Rachel Mitchell. Dept. of Psychology, Durham Univ.. What is prosody?. Higher order language function:. Paralinguistic. or . pragmatic. phenomenon that accompanies words & can modify or influence meaning . Matching the subject with the verb.. The subject and verb must agree in number. First, the subject must be determined.. The . child. . sings. .. The . children. . sing. .. The . frog. . jumps. .. Why do Subjects and Verbs have to agree?. What’s wrong with this?. . Mr. Jefferson eat his peas.. Or. The ghostly dogs barks at the moon.. Or. . Anyone who think we are wrong is a jerk!. Subjects and Verbs. (verb)(verb) (verb)(verb) to surrenderto surrender Synonyms:Synonyms: surrendersurrender yield yield ( noun ( noun () Pressure from the general caused the Pressure from the general caused the men to Past, Present, and Future Tense. TENSE. What does . tense. mean?. The tense of a verb tells us when an action is happening.. Is it happening now? In the past? In the future? All of these are different tenses.. Fix the verb that doesn't match the tense of the verb in bold.. Sam.  . always.  . neglects.  . the.  . . . trash,.  . so.  . each.  . week.  . his.  . wife dragged.  . the.  . can. Pre-Assessment-verb mood. Match the sentence with the correct verb mood.. Sentences. ___ 1. Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas.. ___ 2. If he were governor, we’d be in better fiscal shape. . ___ 3. the cat may scratch me if I step on its tail.. The verb can be either an action or a state of being like . is. or . was. . . Name the verb in the following sentence.. The cat jumped over the moon.. Mrs. Martin is my favorite teacher of all time. . Prosody. Sometimes we put some spoken utterances in double quotation marks to distinguish them from the sentences. . In speech, the way we use to say something is very important to make the message clear.. Noun . -. s. : Friend. s. are important.. Noun . -. es. : I like my class. es. .. A final -. s. or . -. es. is added to a noun to make the noun plural.. Friend and class = singular nouns. Gregory D. S. Anderson. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. livingtongues@gmail.com. Westermann 100 Celebration, Berlin. 1. 2. Road Map. 1 Introduction. 2 Typological variation in Chadic verb words.