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Re: Are all "phrasal verbs" idioms?

gleb_chebrikoff — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:56:38 GMT

Dear friend, an interesting question you've asked, and may I present my view on the subject. You accurately define the term idiom, and it logically stems from the definition that all phrasal verbs are idioms, since their meaning, as a rule, cannot be deduced from the meaning of their constituents. However, you need to be aware about the existence of two approaches in grammar considering verb + particle combinations ( eg, take up and take off ). 1. That the literal use of a form like go up is not a phrasal verb as such, but a verb operating with a particle: The balloon went up into the air . The term phrasal verb should properly be reserved for figurative and idiomatic uses: The balloon went up (= The crisis finally happened). Here,...

Re: What tense is this sentence in?

cool breeze — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:39:06 GMT

They had to have that specially made? The sentence is in the past tense. Since English lacks verbs for situations in which person A does something for person B on person B's request, a rather long and awkward structure is used instead: to have something done . Have is the finite verb, in other words, the verb that shows tense . The past participle has absolutely nothing to do with tense as it is always required regardless of the tense. Other examples of the same structure in various tenses: Present tense: He has his house painted every five years. Past tense: He had his house painted last week. Present perfect: He has had his house painted twice. Past perfect/Pluperfect: He had had his house painted needlessly. Present...

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Re: "Gold" vs. "Golden"

anonymous — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:43:42 GMT

As I was taught, it is about the morphology of adjectives. It can probably help you to find out sth about Inherent / noninherent adjectives. Tomy.

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alpheccastars — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:29:12 GMT

The most comprehensive dictionary for English is the Oxford English Dictionary. It is the oldest continuously published dictionary of the language. The printed unabridged edition is about 20 large volumes, covering more than 500,000 words. It is global (dialects from different English-speacking countries), historical (etymology and morphology going back to the roots of words), and current (comprehensive quarterly updates). It is available on line, print, and CD . There is a very limited free on-line resource; the other editions are not inexpensive. The site has a lot of infomation about the dictionary, its history, its philosophy, and structure. Note that there are various editions: The "Concise", the "Shorter"...

Re: The essence purpose of verb pluarality ?

cool breeze — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:24:52 GMT

Thank you Cool Breeze, now I am more certain that inflecitional verb is just a grammatical purpose. You're welcome. I think you're right. There are cases in which having lots of verb forms may help make the meaning clearer. Oddly enough, there's no difference between singular and plural verbs in Swedish, another Germanic language, which is very closely related to English: he sings = han sjunger they sing = de sjunger This is all the more surprising as Swedish grammar and morphology is more complicated than English in other respects. CB

Re: Educated Americans

forbes — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:50:54 GMT

"Standard" and "non-standard" dialects/languages are each complete systems and equally complex with their own rules of syntax, morphology etc. There is no correlation between intelligence and the language faculty. Whilst intelligence (however it is defined or measured) is on a sliding scale, the language faculty is not - either you have it or you do not. A person of below average intelligence brought up in an environment of standard language speakers is going to speak the standard language perfectly. It can therefore be seen that the ability to speak the standard language cannot be an indicator of intelligence. The problem is that people associate intelligence with education, assuming both that the more intelligent...

Re: Educated Americans

forbes — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:25:07 GMT

I think everybody code-switches to some degree, as long as there is some sort of reason to do so in their society. It doesn't mean they use two dialects just as a bilingual uses two languages, because people often respond to dialect as if it is indicitive of attitude (and it may be). I think that code-switching is something more specific than using different languages or varieties in different situations. It is rather changing from one language or variety to another in a conversation, perhaps even in mid-sentence. Linguists support bidialectism? In their function as educators, they spill red ink on the essays of native speakers who use dialect or non-standard forms, give them low marks, and thus prevent them from progressing in our...

Re: apologize or apologise?

alpheccastars — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:25:35 GMT

Although its content is in dispute, the (click here -->) Wiki article on BrE and AmE differences is a good place to start. It describes major categories of differences in spelling, verb morphology, vocabulary, etc. Some vulgarisms in one language are everyday innocent terms in the other. Crossing a street in London was very confusing for me, not just the left-right traffic flows, but barriers were erected at all the intersections preventing crossing. The answer was obvious, but disguised by a language barrier. There were signs all over pointing to "subway." In AmE, a subway is an underground train. In BrE, is is a subterranean walkway! "Tube" in AmE is an electron ray tube (Television display), or something that...

Morphology

chineselindsay — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:53:41 GMT

Hi teachers, could u give me some theories about morphology?> i want to write an paper about it. can u give me some reference books or websites that i can get to know it. thank u ! best wishes lindsay

Re: Best ways to learn irregular verbs

califjim — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:41:18 GMT

I think language is better learned by real contact with real language than through a quasi-mathematical approach with drills. It seems to me that mistakes are normal in learning, and there is no need to stress students with artificial exercises to master. Personally, I never got a lot out of such drills when I learned foreign languages. If the students are gradually brought into contact with the irregularities of language (whether verbs or other elements), I think they do just as well or better than if a whole batch of irregularities are dropped on them at once with the injunction to "Learn this!" Ideally, an acquaintance with certain adjective forms in conversational settings ( well done, thoughtful, lost dog, newly fallen...

lINGUISTICS as a conversation

noel gomez — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:39:42 GMT

Good day! Hi there! i just would like to know if Lingustics can be used as a tool for everyday's conversations, public speaking and many more; how does it benefit us and what are its effects to us. Thankyou. I just would like to sahre something i've read about linguistics - its history and unique characteristics. Correct me if i'm wrong. The article goes like this: Main article: Arabic grammar Due to the rapid expansion of Islam in the 8th century, many people learned Arabic as a lingua franca . For this reason, the earliest grammatical treatises on Arabic are often written by non-native speakers. The earliest grammarian who is known to us is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Is ḥ āq al- Ḥ a ḍ ramī (d. 735-736 AD, 117 AH...

Re: Which language is most difficult language for people to learn?

forbes — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:40:52 GMT

When you say that English morphology is simple, I assume you are referring to the comparative lack of grammatical inflection. English employs a wide range of prefixes and suffixes to form new words. So, while English is highly analytic, it is by no means totally isolating, though it has isolating tendencies. I think we have some difficulty with the word "grammar". "Grammar" includes not only morphology, but also syntax. When a student says "Latin has a lot of grammar" he means that he has had to memorise conjugations and declensions. Equally, a student of English, when he declares "English has no grammar" means he has not had the chore of memorising lots of paradigms. But clearly English has syntax...

Re: In need of Correction

pao3 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:04:26 GMT

First off, I'm sorry for that mess. It ignored the format I put it into... I'd like to thank You for such a quick response and correction. I'm not sure about "capturing" either^^... I try to "catch" all streptococcus. Mikrochem is a name. I also wasn't sure about "streptococcus"= is it plural?(I research many kinds of them)///EDIT///: plural is streptococci "The subject of my graduation work is capturing Beta-hemolytic streptococci in Mikrochem laboratory during the half year period. In the theoretical section I handle each individual type of Beta-hemolytic streptococci . I describe their morphology, cultivation and diseases that they cause. In the practical section I address methods...

In need of Correction

pao3 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:15:34 GMT

Let me start by saying I apologize for bothering You. Although it might not be obvious from this short message (assumably full of errors) I do not usually have troubles with English. The thing is, the vocabulary this language possesses is so vast I managed to wield decently just snippets(mainly from legal, historical and spoken branch). That's because I'm a close student of the law. Back to the point, I have recently come across a problem. I am yet to succeed in solving it. I was hoping, one could say praying, You would yield a guidance during this task since my English expertise is in different field. I have come up with this so far: "The subject of my graduation work is capturing Beta-hemolytic streptococcus in...

Differences between English and your native language

cool breeze — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:35:56 GMT

There are thousands of languages. It would be interesting to see examples of differences between English and your native language. I don't mean you should provide a complete list of them in one post, just some examples at a time. Your examples may be about vocabulary, morphology, grammar, syntax or anything really. I'll begin by giving a couple of examples of how verbose English sometimes is compared with Finnish: Hän maalasi talonsa. = He painted his house. Hän maalautti talonsa. = He had his house painted. Hän maalautteli taloaan. = He had his house painted frequently. (Finnish: 3 words, English: 6 words) There is a verb for to paint : maalata ; to have painted: maalauttaa and to have painted frequently: maalautella ...

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

cool breeze — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:52:47 GMT

I meant the morphology is simpler. I'm sorry I didn't express it clearly enough the first time. I disagree with you about all languages being equally complex. In my opinion there is nothing particularly complex in English syntax compared with the syntax of the other languages I am familiar with. To my mind, spelling is by far the most difficult aspect of English, which is manifested in quite a few native speakers' occasional misspellings even in these forums. CB

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

forbes — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:34:43 GMT

Modern English is not simpler than Old English, it has just changed the areas of complexity. All languages are equally complex. English has moved from being a synthetic language to an analytic language. The complexities of Modern English lie in syntax rather than morphology. As you have hinted, analytic languages tend to rely on context for meaning more than synthetic languages do, but no language ever changes so that it ceases to be of use to the people who use it. It is like driving a car. When cars first came out they were difficult to drive, but there were no road traffic regulations. Now cars are easier to drive, but there are a host of road traffic regulations you need to know. So, over all, driving has not become easier.

Re: Is Adam the first man?

anonymous — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:42:11 GMT

Ahmedali111 wrote: The theory that we are all from monkeys degrades our status as humans, and is no consolation to any individual, specially someone who is dying Evolutionary theory suggests that modern monkeys and members of Homo sapiens have common ancestry . That is not quite the same thing as "descent from monkeys". Here is a representative cladogram, based on morphology: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/cl.mo.cl.pdf As you can see, in this particular presentation, New World monkeys diverged from apes, Old World monkeys, and humans before e.g. apes and New World monkeys diverged. Thus the relationships are quite complicated. Best wishes, P.

Need help

cadzao — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:43:06 GMT

http://pd.sparknotes.com/philosophy/beyondgood/section2.html "All psychology hitherto has run aground on moral prejudices and timidities, it has not dared to launch out into the depths. In so far as it is allowable to recognize in that which has hitherto been written, evidence of that which has hitherto been kept silent, it seems as if nobody had yet harboured the notion of psychology as the Morphology and DEVELOPMENT-DOCTRINE OF THE WILL TO POWER, as I conceive of it." Please rephrase the blue clause. It is too complicated for me to get what the author means. Thank you so much. Cadzao

Re: OT -- In your eye, Bilzzard brothers!

mc — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:35:31 GMT

Let there be light. And/ or, let there be the perception of light. Let there be velociraptors and penguins: Dinosaurs breathed like penguins By Helen Briggs Science reporter, BBC News Dinosaurs like Velociraptors owe their fearsome reputation to the way they breathed, according to a UK study. They had one of the most efficient respiratory systems of all animals, similar to that of modern diving birds like penguins, fossil evidence shows. It fuelled their bodies with oxygen for the task of sprinting after prey, say researchers at Manchester University. The bipedal meat-eaters, the therapods, had air sacs ventilated by tiny bones that moved the ribcage up and down. "Finding these structures in modern birds and their extinct dinosaur...

Re: Who's to decide the future?

milky — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:38:31 GMT

<If English morphology is difficult , surely there must be dozens of other inflected forms I have never encountered.> There, again, you are sayin "It is this way, is it not?" "Agree with me, please!" Just accept that it is easy for you and others may find it difficult.

Re: Who's to decide the future?

cool breeze — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:35:17 GMT

Cool Breeze wrote: Anyway, if English morphology is easy , surely there must be dozens of other inflected forms I have never encountered. Sorry again. My sentence should of course read: If English morphology is difficult , surely there must be dozens of other inflected forms I have never encountered. CB

Re: Who's to decide the future?

cool breeze — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:38:56 GMT

Milky wrote: What you're doing, Kooyeen, is the same as CB was doing in earlier posts on the same theme. You are subjectively stating how easy one language is over another. To me, it depends. Indeed, yes. I have stated subjective opinions like everybody else. So far, I haven't seen a single objective opinion on the subject. I have said that English spelling and idioms are difficult and learning the few forms that English words have is easy . I get the impression that you disagree. Could you please post an objective opinion or truth or whatever it is that proves otherwise. In other words, what is the scientific truth that says English spelling is easy and it's easy to learn the idioms . Also, what are the forms English nouns...

Re: Scientific paper

feebs11 — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:56:50 GMT

Marco.ra wrote: Good evening I'm a Medical Doctor, Urologist, from Milan, Italy I'm trying to publicate a brief scientific paper. If someone can help me, I would need a brief correction on the following text. It was very complicate description. Is the reading clear? Thank you in advance DUAL-PLANE TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND PROBE INSERTION (part of Material and Methods section) We used dual-plane transrectal probe s in all procedures. Characteristics of the probe tip is shown in figure 1. The i nsertion procedure may be divided into two steps as follow: 1) the sagittal plane of the tip probe is rotated by 90° clockwise with reference to the sagittal plane of the patient; thus, orientation of the ovoid - shaped tip...

Scientific paper

marco.ra — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:02:06 GMT

Good evening I'm a Medical Doctor, Urologist, from Milan, Italy I'm trying to publicate a brief scientific paper. If someone can help me, I would need a brief correction on the following text. It was very complicate description. Is the reading clear? Thank you in advance DUAL-PLANE TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND PROBE INSERTION (part of Matherial and Methods section) We used dual-plane transrectal probe in all procedures. Characteristics of probe tip is showed in figure 1. Insertion procedure may be divided into two steps as follow: 1) the sagittal plane of the tip probe is rotated by 90° clockwise with reference to sagittal plane of patient; thus, orientation of ovoid shaped tip probe cross-section coincides with anal...

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

milky — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:26:34 GMT

<Mastering all the complexities and nuances of a verb is difficult in all languages. Complexities and nuances are not an exclusivity of English. What makes English easier than some other languages, in my opinion, is its simple morphology.> I'd say "relatively" simple.

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

cool breeze — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:28:49 GMT

Milky wrote: He has to go and He must go.> Well, I guess that would be part of the mastering part of the language - i.e. the complex part. It's easy for anyone to claim that English is not complex, or is much simpler than many other languages, if he/she avoids talking about mastering the language. I am not avoiding talking about mastering English. I am just being pragmatic and concentrating on what I consider essential. I don't mind it at all if your ideas about the difficulty of English differ from mine and I fully understand that should is an important modal for some of your students. By all means, teach them what is important to them. What surprises me is the fact that because the English modal auxiliaries have...

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

milky — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:43:46 GMT

1. <<3. that the inflectional morphology, though complex, is regular Correct again. Someone has said that there are ten rules in English grammar and 10,000 exceptions and 10,000 rules in Finnish grammar and ten exceptions. That's not quite true, though. " src="/emoticons/emotion-1.gif">>> < They are the spelling and the idioms and the exceptions, for me anyway.> Most people who talk about an enormous amout of exceptions in English don't know how to evaluate the language. Can you post the exceptions that you have had difficulty with? 2. Can I tell you how difficult it was/is to learn Spanish for this Englisman? It was also very difficult to learn French - even as a child.

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

cool breeze — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:02:24 GMT

Hi Forbes Thank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be difficult for some others as I have already said. However, I have given my honest opinion and I don't think you or anybody else would want me to lie on this forum? I'll add some comments. I thought that might be what you were getting at. I think it is a mistake to equate complexity solely with the degree of inflectional morphology of a language. I agree. I was talking about morphology only. To my mind I made no mistake. I do know what is...

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

forbes — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:39:45 GMT

Hi Cool Breeze I thought that might be what you were getting at. I think it is a mistake to equate complexity solely with the degree of inflectional morphology of a language. I have never studied Finnish, but I would be willing to bet that at least one of the following is true: 1. that a language with at least 30 cases has a corresponding lack of prepositions 2. that word order is fairly free and is used to express different emphases 3. that the inflectional morphology, though complex, is regular 4. that it is perhaps not quite so difficult to learn once you begin to get the hang of it I have to say that I have met one or two Finns and they do seem to relish the idea that Finnish is a "difficult" language. I have...

Re: The difference between a phrase and a sentence (Chris)

anonymous — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:03:01 GMT

Edited by Moderator in include source information: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/clauses/hierarc2.htm Please do not post information from other sites without acknowledging the source. **** Words, phrases, clauses, and sentences constitute what is called the GRAMMATICAL HIERARCHY. We can represent this schematically as follows: sentences consist of one or more... clauses consist of one or more ... phrases consist of one or more...

Re: Homosexual marriages- against the natures law?

kirakira — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:28:16 GMT

Hello Pucca I just want to say that: The risk of being homosexual is higher if the child is brought up in a 'special' family because of psychological factors. Of course there are many other factors (kooyeen did indicate) like genes and hormones. No one can assume that a child living with homosexual 'parents' will be a homosexual adult and a child living with heterosexual parents will not. I my self don't think that homosexual relationship is normal. Being homosexual is like suffering from a virtually incurable disease (of course no one want to be in such a condition and this is not their faults to be homosexual), and 'a disease' can't be considered 'normal'. Homosexuals, in my opinion, are symply people who have problems in genes,...

Re: Morphology help! Urgent

kimm — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:00:29 GMT

The problem with "accounting for the ungrammaticality" of a sentence is that its ungrammaticality lies in the structure that a person imposes on it, not in the string of words themselves. How the structure deviates depends not only on the "target", as it were, but also on what structure you imposed on the sentence. I find of poetry in (a) unexpected because I read nothing that it could be an object of. Of poetry cannot be the object of boo because the writer , the subject of the passive, is already the object of the verb. I am not convinced that (b) or (c) is ungrammatical. I can imagine contexts where both are meaningful. For (b), the analysis with pie charts may be being contrasted with analyses without pie charts. For (c), criticise...

Re: Morphology help! Urgent

califjim — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:31:26 GMT

a. I don't know what they're getting at with this one. It should be because of his poetry . Or maybe booed by his students of poetry , which is some kind of word order problem, but check your textbook for the specifics. Maybe someone else can help. b. Possibly that adjuncts like "with pie charts" can only occur after complements like "of the economic situation". That is, the analysis of the economic situation with pie charts is the correct form, because it puts the complement before the adjunct. c. criticize is a verb that requires an object complement. (It cannot be used "absolutely".) This complement is missing in the example. Your teacher may want you to explain it in terms of arguments of the verb or in terms of transitivity....

Morphology help! Urgent

anonymous — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:09:29 GMT

Hello everyone, I need urgent help with the following exercise: "Account for the ungrammaticality of the following sentences. Refer to the specific describtive apparatus (rules, principles, constrains, etc.)" a. *The writer was booed of poetry by his students. b. *Bill read the analysis with pie charts of the economic situation. c. *John criticized at the meeting. Thanks in advance, Mlody

Re: Ungrent! Word Structure - Morphology~ Please help

mister micawber — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:56:56 GMT

Hello, Civic. Please do not post direct links to downloads. If your exam is tomorrow and you have 'no idea' how to answer, then you are really in trouble. Did you Google the terms that I suggested and try to learn about their meanings?

Re: Ungrent! Word Structure - Morphology~ Please help

civicjai_11 — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:28:42 GMT

Hi Mister Micawber: The is not a homework~ Cause i got a exam tomo, so i try to review the past exam paper~ and this is one of the question for my example paper~ but i have no idea how to ask this question~ Many thanks!

Re: Ungrent! Word Structure - Morphology~ Please help

mister micawber — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:21:46 GMT

This looks a lot like homework to me, Civic. Why don't you Google some of these terms?-- inflection, adverb, affix, compound noun .

Ungrent! Word Structure - Morphology~ Please help

civicjai_11 — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:07:06 GMT

Consider the following passage an answer the questions that follow: Whether we eat at his place or mine, Ryan usually prepares the meal. Tonight I'd volunteered. I cook well, but not instinctively. I need recipes. Arriving home at six, I spent a few minutes recapping my day for Birdie, then took out the folder in which I stuff menus clipped from the Gazette. A five-minute search produced a winner. Grilled Chicken breast with melon salsa. Wild Rice. Tortilla with arugula salad. (a) Name four different types of inflection and give one example of each taken from the passage above. (b) Find two adverbs in the passage that are derived from adjectives; Write them down and underline the affix that changed them from an adjective to an...

Re: passive gerunds?

cool breeze — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:50:13 GMT

The house will have needed repainting is grammatically correct but sounds odd. I can't think of a situation in which I could say it. With regard to your question, there is no such thing as a continuous gerund. Repainting is usually just called a gerund but you can also call it a present gerund. It is an active gerund form, and the structurally active will have needed before it has nothing to do with what it is called. Hearing is a similar active gerund. Your sentence makes sense and is good English. The gerund is structurally as simple as the rest of English morphology; problems and disagreements arise only when people argue about such things as the subject of the gerund, whether a perfect gerund should be used instead of a present one...

Language theory and language technology;competence and performance

de niro — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:08:04 GMT

Summary The current generation of language processing systems is based on linguistically motivated competence models of natural languages. The problems encountered with these systems suggest the need for performance-models of language processing, which take into account the statistical properties of actual language use. This article describes the overall set-up of such a model. The system I propose employs an annotated corpus; in analysing new input it tries to find the most probable way to reconstruct this input from fragments that are already contained in the corpus. This perspective on language processing also has interesting consequences for linguistic theory; some of these are briefly discussed. 1. Introduction. The starting...

Re: subjunctive or past conditional

goodman — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:03:25 GMT

Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of MIT/Tübingen University. I am not completely sure if I understood all thwt he wrote, but I do agree whole-heartedly with his view from what I understood. It's obvious that there are several subjunctive moods and conditionals discussed in great legnth which was exactly the reason causing the confusions on this thread. I find it absoulutely useful so I've extracted a small portion which I beleive was related the posted question. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=type+of+subjunctive ...

Brain Buster

cymensezz — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:16:53 GMT

Give me a non-Lexical (e.g., at the level of the word) sentence that is grammatically correct but culturally unacceptable in the United States. The sentence must use some other level of grammar (e.g. morphology, syntax, ect.). I guess this is not a word game but me and my friends found it very hard to do. See if you can come with something and see how hard it really is.

Re: Correct grammer but not culturally acceptable

clive — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:11:37 GMT

Hi, Welcome to the forum. I am a student and was given an assingment that I am finding difficult to accomplish. My instructer told me to post my question and see if any of you could help me. I need two examples of a piece of language (e.g., sentence) which is grammatically correct but culturally (from an American point of view) unacceptable. Only one of my examples may be lexical (e.g. at the level of the word), the other example must be at some other level of grammar (e.g. morphology, syntax, etc.). If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Much depends on how you define 'culturally unacceptable'. Lexical - How about simply some sentence that expresses a sentiment that most Americans would abhor? eg America is...

Correct grammer but not culturally acceptable

cymensezz — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:51:12 GMT

I am a student and was given an assingment that I am finding difficult to accomplish. My instructer told me to post my question and see if any of you could help me. I need two examples of a piece of language (e.g., sentence) which is grammatically correct but culturally (from an American point of view) unacceptable. Only one of my examples may be lexical (e.g. at the level of the word), the other example must be at some other level of grammar (e.g. morphology, syntax, etc.). If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Morphology

califjim — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:54:44 GMT

You might also talk about register and appropriateness. crushed and disappeared vs. crushed and obliterated , for example. broken vs. cracked , for example. Is it possible that a longer familiarity with the target language allows the choice of words from higher registers and/or words that match the meanings of the original text better? Is the word or phrase appropriate for the given text? Does it match the register of the original text? These are some things you could add to your discussion. CJ P.S. It doesn't seem to me that your question has anything to do with morphology!

Re: Please I need articals related to morphology,, URGENT URGENT URGENT

clive — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:57:31 GMT

Hi Maryam, Have you tried a Google search? I tried one, and got the following hits, so there seesms to be lots of information available. 31,800,000 for morphology 4,720,000 for morphology discussion 1,010,000 for morphology

Please I need morphological articals, URGENT

anonymous — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:20:08 GMT

Dear friends, I am writing this to tell you that I need some links about morphological article, the teacher told us that we should find 15 articles of morphology and analyze them, and criticize them, too. SO PLEASE HELP, I have no time.. I should start my analyses. Thank you for your help in advance. Maryam , United Arab Emirates, Dubai

Please I need articals related to morphology,, URGENT URGENT URGENT

anonymous — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:17:11 GMT