"Pleaseth your lordship to be advertised..."
- I. Nouns
- A.Gender
- B.Number
- [*Case]
- [*stems]
- C. Determination(definiteness/articles)
- i.Use of Articles
- [*strong/weak declension]
- E.Formation of Nouns
- [*irregular nouns:indeclinable, defective, heteroclites, heterogeneous]
- II.Modifiers
- A.Adjectives
- i.gender
- ii.plural
- iii. definte article
- [*strong/weak declension of adjectives]
- [*types:qualitive, relative(metaphorical),]
- [*syntactic function]
- iv.degrees of comparison [*qualitative adjectives]
- [*form]
- [*inflection]
- [*suppletive]
- [*relative adjectives: no comparative degree, increased adverbially]
- v.formation of adjectives
- B.Adverbs
- i.classification
- ii.derivation
- iii.degrees of comparison
- iv.syntactic function.
- [*types: 1.temporal (deictic,initial/final points of action,parts of day,
- durativity/interativity), 2.locative, 3.of manner, 4.of measure, 5.intensity(emphasis),6.cause ]
- C.Numerals
- i.cardinal numerals
- ii.ordinal numerals
- [*other numerical expressions:trio, onefold,half, one-and-a-half, another, twice, etc]
- [*mathematical expressions: fractions, distributive, counting, proportional, multiplicative]
- [*negation]
- III. Pronouns
- A.Personal pronouns
- B.Posessive Pronouns
- C.Reflexive Pronouns
- D.Demonstrative Pronouns
- E.Interrogative Pronouns
- F.Relative Pronouns
- G.Indefinite Pronouns
- H.Negative Pronouns
- I.Generalising Pronouns
- [*emphatic pronouns]
- [*reciprocal pronouns: each other, one another]
- [*determinative/quantifier:all/each]
- IV.Verbs
- A.Classification of Verbs
- i.transitive/intransitive
- ii.personal/impersonal
- iii.reflexive/non-reflexive
- iv.simple/compound
- [*strong/weak verbs]
- B.Grammatical Categories
- i.person and number
- ii.aspect
- iii.tense
- a.present
- b.imperfect past
- c.aorist past
- d.perfect
- e.past perfect
- f.future
- g.future in past tense
- h.future perfect
- i. future perfect in past tense
- iv.voice
- a.passive voice
- b.active voice
- v.mood
- a.indicative
- b.imperative
- c.conditional
- d.renarrated
- [*subjunctive]
- [*obligative]
- [*optative]
- [*strong/weak conjugations; irregular verbs]
- C.non-finite verb forms
- i.participles
- a.active present participle
- b.active imperfect past participle
- c.active aorist past participle
- d. passive past participle
- ii.verbal adverbs
- iii.verbal nouns
- iv.infinitive
- D.Verb Formation
- i.derivation of verbs of perfective aspect
- ii.derivation of imperfective verbs
- iii.derivation of verbs of other categories
- [*verb forming suffixes, prefixes]
- V.Relationships
- A.Prepositions
- [*case of object determined by leading preposition]
- [*types:location,time,accompaniment,exception,cause,reference,purpose,manner,measure,support, opposition]
B.Conjunctions
- [*subordinating]
- [*temporal,comparative,conditional,concessional,final(purposeful),consecutive(consequence),causal,interrogative]
- [*coordinating]
- [*copulative(union),disjunctive(seperated),adversative(opposition,illative(inference),causal]
VI. Stress Assignment
- [*simplex words]
- [*compound words -- secondary stress]
- [*prefixes/suffixes]
- [*clitics, proclitic, enclitic:unstressed word attatched to a host]
- [*minimal pairs]
- [*distinctiveness]
- [*stress shifting--inflection] [saussure's law
- [*vowel quantity/length]
- [*morphemic structure conditions stress]
VII.Syntax/Word Order
- [*clauses]
- [*sentence types]
- [*statements]
- [*commands]
- [*wishes]
- [*questions]
- [*simple sentence:normal "unmarked" word order]
- [*stylistic violations of unmarked word order]
- [*word order]
- [*verb position]
- [*postpositive, prepositive]
- [*subject]
- ["null subject":contrast,emphatic, disambiguation]
- [*object]
- [*predicate]
- [*noun phrase/verb phrase]
- [*compound sentences: coordinating/subordinating conjunctions]
- [*relative clause]
- [*adverbial clause]
- [*complement clause]
- [*infinitives]
- [*participles]
- [*phrases]
- [*attributive adjectives]
- [*predicative adjectives]
- [*comparative/superlative phrases]