Difference between revisions of "Mixe and English/Contrastive Grammar"
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+ | very different grammatical tags on verbs | ||
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+ | |+ Verb grammatical tags | ||
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+ | ! mto !! eng | ||
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+ | | aspect: <icpl>, <cpl>, <irr> || tense: <pres>, <past>, etc. | ||
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+ | | independent vs. dependent predicates; <idt>, <dep> || -- | ||
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+ | | person is always marked with a prefix that agrees with the aspect suffix || person sometimes affects present-tense verb inflection | ||
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+ | On predicate types in mto: | ||
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+ | * Independent predicates are part of an affirmative clause that has no pre-verbal elements that are associated with dependent clauses. Such elements include adverbs, interrogative pronouns, quantifiers, auxiliary verbs, negation, and others. | ||
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very different grammatical tags on verbs
mto | eng |
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aspect: <icpl>, <cpl>, <irr> | tense: <pres>, <past>, etc. |
independent vs. dependent predicates; <idt>, <dep> | -- |
person is always marked with a prefix that agrees with the aspect suffix | person sometimes affects present-tense verb inflection |
On predicate types in mto:
- Independent predicates are part of an affirmative clause that has no pre-verbal elements that are associated with dependent clauses. Such elements include adverbs, interrogative pronouns, quantifiers, auxiliary verbs, negation, and others.