Do you still remember them? Pretend the italicized nonsense words in the following sentences are real words of English. Identify the form class of each one, and state the morphosyntactic properties of each that lead you to assign it to a particular category. (1) a. The dog wugged the ball. b. The dog is wugging the ball. c. The dog likes to wug the ball. d. The dog gently wugged the ball. e. *The wug kicked the ball. f. *The dog chased the wug cat. (2) a. The tall blick sat by the river. b. The blicks played in the park. c. Mary sent a present to her favorite blick. d. Sam is not a blick. e. *Max blicked the cat. f. *The blick animal ran away. (3) a. A nork person walked by the car. b. Mary is very nork. c. *Sam norks. d. *The nork called me yesterday. (4) a. Max walked blishly down the corridor. b. Max walked down the corridor blishly. c. Blishly, Max walked down the corridor. d. Sam did so extremely blishly. e. *Pat is blishly. f. *The blishly woman looked unhappy. Kitty Mana Sutatip Aramsuge Chuenjet Meaw Ativoragoon
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