Glossary - GGradable antonym - [see antonym] gradable means that the word comes in different grades: warm, warmer, warmest. good, better, best cold, colder, coldest. bad, worse, worst warm, warmer, warmst. goed, beter, best. koud, kouder, koudst. slecht, slechter, slechtst (compare to non-gradable) Grammar - phonology, syntax and semantics together. The rules, or the branch of linguistics that studies the rules, for constructing words or sentences (Trask, 110) Grammatical *ER Dutch - ER that is inserted for grammatical reasons. ‘Er was eens een kasteel.’ ‘Er werd veel gelachen’. |
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