The Oxford Guide to English Usage CONTENTS Table of Contents
... widely disliked at present; and C gives a brief description of the characteristics of the five major overseas varieties of English. Concise as it is, the Guide may be found by individual users to cover some ground that is already familiar and some that they consider it unnecessary to know about. It ...
... widely disliked at present; and C gives a brief description of the characteristics of the five major overseas varieties of English. Concise as it is, the Guide may be found by individual users to cover some ground that is already familiar and some that they consider it unnecessary to know about. It ...
POC Sentiment Analysis
... we are giving negative terms like utter a positive value, we are trusting that the negativity of the phrase will appear and get a score in another word. Although, I am just realising, as utter almost always appears with a negative value it always ends up making the phrase it appears in 2 times negat ...
... we are giving negative terms like utter a positive value, we are trusting that the negativity of the phrase will appear and get a score in another word. Although, I am just realising, as utter almost always appears with a negative value it always ends up making the phrase it appears in 2 times negat ...
to basic grammar rules
... verbs, always take a reflexive pronoun after them. When ‘self’ is added to ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘him’, ‘her’, and ‘it’, and ‘selves’ to our and them – they are known as reflexive pronouns. He absented from the class. He absented himself form the class. 13. ‘Who’ denotes the subject and ‘whom’ is used for t ...
... verbs, always take a reflexive pronoun after them. When ‘self’ is added to ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘him’, ‘her’, and ‘it’, and ‘selves’ to our and them – they are known as reflexive pronouns. He absented from the class. He absented himself form the class. 13. ‘Who’ denotes the subject and ‘whom’ is used for t ...
Greek Syntax Search in Accordance
... Searches for the Accusative and Infinitive in the GNT-T syntax can be at the same time powerful and easy to prepare. They can be performed in the Search Text window alone, or in the Greek construct window. The Greek construct is necessary when we want the elements of the search to belong to the same ...
... Searches for the Accusative and Infinitive in the GNT-T syntax can be at the same time powerful and easy to prepare. They can be performed in the Search Text window alone, or in the Greek construct window. The Greek construct is necessary when we want the elements of the search to belong to the same ...
French object clitics: a multimodal analysis 1 Facts on clitics
... special status of such items was recognized by comparative and structuralist linguists who called them clitics." With this characterization, given by Miller in his dissertation ([4]), we take a rst step towards a description of clitics. The purpose of the present Section is to brie y review the con ...
... special status of such items was recognized by comparative and structuralist linguists who called them clitics." With this characterization, given by Miller in his dissertation ([4]), we take a rst step towards a description of clitics. The purpose of the present Section is to brie y review the con ...
Can - E4Thai
... Grammar is without a doubt one of the most daunting aspects of the English language, an area riddled with complexities, inconsistencies, and contradictions. It has also been in a state of flux for pretty much its entire existence. For native speakers of English, as well as for those learning it as a ...
... Grammar is without a doubt one of the most daunting aspects of the English language, an area riddled with complexities, inconsistencies, and contradictions. It has also been in a state of flux for pretty much its entire existence. For native speakers of English, as well as for those learning it as a ...
Presentation sentences in fiction and academic prose: a syntactico
... person. I have always felt honoured to be allowed to work under her supervision. Prof. Dušková‘s dedication to linguistic studies, vast and versatile erudition, and high standards of work formed an inspiring environment in the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology in which students coul ...
... person. I have always felt honoured to be allowed to work under her supervision. Prof. Dušková‘s dedication to linguistic studies, vast and versatile erudition, and high standards of work formed an inspiring environment in the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology in which students coul ...
THE SUBSYSTEMS OF LEXICAL ASPECTS
... A theoretically constructed system of hierarchically organized and structured lexical aspects is then applied to the analysis of Russian verbs which are shown to comprise several distinct semantic and morphological classes corresponding to different cognitive stages of the development of the event-i ...
... A theoretically constructed system of hierarchically organized and structured lexical aspects is then applied to the analysis of Russian verbs which are shown to comprise several distinct semantic and morphological classes corresponding to different cognitive stages of the development of the event-i ...
Syntax of Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek
... THE first edition of this work appeared as a pamphlet in 1888. In issuing this revised and enlarged edition, it seems desirable to state somewhat more fully than was done in the former preface the purpose which it is hoped the book will serve. Classified according to its intent, it belongs among the ...
... THE first edition of this work appeared as a pamphlet in 1888. In issuing this revised and enlarged edition, it seems desirable to state somewhat more fully than was done in the former preface the purpose which it is hoped the book will serve. Classified according to its intent, it belongs among the ...
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... the Fulbright Foundation for full financial support from 1985 to 1987, the P.E.O. Foundation for partial financial support during the years 1987-1990, the Department of Linguistics, U. of Arizona for teaching assistantships from 1987 to 1990, and Chiang Mai University, Thailand, for permission of my ...
... the Fulbright Foundation for full financial support from 1985 to 1987, the P.E.O. Foundation for partial financial support during the years 1987-1990, the Department of Linguistics, U. of Arizona for teaching assistantships from 1987 to 1990, and Chiang Mai University, Thailand, for permission of my ...
9. - Universität Erfurt
... grammaticalization can contribute anything towards their clarification. The various modes of contrasting different languages, including language typology and universals research, are discussed in the perspective of grammaticalization in ch. 7. Ch. 8 concentrates on the diachronic aspect of grammatic ...
... grammaticalization can contribute anything towards their clarification. The various modes of contrasting different languages, including language typology and universals research, are discussed in the perspective of grammaticalization in ch. 7. Ch. 8 concentrates on the diachronic aspect of grammatic ...
inquiries into the lexicon-syntax relations in basque
... retrieved by automatically analyzing large corpora. s However, it is not the case that they do not involve any basic linguistic knowledge. Rather, manual work on creating grammars is minimized to the limit, and linguistic knowledge from tagged corpora is retrieved by probabilistic means. Most probab ...
... retrieved by automatically analyzing large corpora. s However, it is not the case that they do not involve any basic linguistic knowledge. Rather, manual work on creating grammars is minimized to the limit, and linguistic knowledge from tagged corpora is retrieved by probabilistic means. Most probab ...
a descriptive analysis of argument alternations
... approach known as “structural linguistics”. In particular, De Saussure (1916) put forward a model according to which a linguistic sign or unit is a double entity consisting of a signifier (its ...
... approach known as “structural linguistics”. In particular, De Saussure (1916) put forward a model according to which a linguistic sign or unit is a double entity consisting of a signifier (its ...
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... grammaticalization can contribute anything towards their clarification. The various modes of contrasting different languages, including language typology and universals research, are discussed in the perspective of grammaticalization in ch. 7. Ch. 8 concentrates on the diachronic aspect of grammatic ...
... grammaticalization can contribute anything towards their clarification. The various modes of contrasting different languages, including language typology and universals research, are discussed in the perspective of grammaticalization in ch. 7. Ch. 8 concentrates on the diachronic aspect of grammatic ...
IRREGULAR VERBS
... Shrunken is an adjective that is used both before a noun and after a verb: a shrunken old woman; She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic. The programme’s audience has shrunk dramatically in the last few months. Note the film title: Honey I Shrunk the Kids. ...
... Shrunken is an adjective that is used both before a noun and after a verb: a shrunken old woman; She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic. The programme’s audience has shrunk dramatically in the last few months. Note the film title: Honey I Shrunk the Kids. ...
grammaticalization and the semantic
... which lexical items lose their semantic features and/or formal markings to serve grammatical functions. The beginnings of this process are found in Proto-Germanic, where fully lexical, stative verbs become partially grammaticalized (yet still lexical) deontic modals in Old English and Old High Germa ...
... which lexical items lose their semantic features and/or formal markings to serve grammatical functions. The beginnings of this process are found in Proto-Germanic, where fully lexical, stative verbs become partially grammaticalized (yet still lexical) deontic modals in Old English and Old High Germa ...
Kim, Kyumin - University of Toronto
... The reflexive morpheme is not a detransitivizing morpheme: Evidence In this section, I show that while both reflexives and inchoatives are intransitive, the Esan reflexive morpheme is not a detransitivizing morpheme. The dichotomy between transitives and intransitives has less syntactic motivation i ...
... The reflexive morpheme is not a detransitivizing morpheme: Evidence In this section, I show that while both reflexives and inchoatives are intransitive, the Esan reflexive morpheme is not a detransitivizing morpheme. The dichotomy between transitives and intransitives has less syntactic motivation i ...
Grammar and Language Workbook
... 1. The simple subject is the key noun or pronoun that tells what the sentence is about. A compound subject is made up of two or more simple subjects that are joined by a conjunction and have the same verb. The lantern glows. Moths and bugs fly nearby. 2. The simple predicate is the verb or verb phra ...
... 1. The simple subject is the key noun or pronoun that tells what the sentence is about. A compound subject is made up of two or more simple subjects that are joined by a conjunction and have the same verb. The lantern glows. Moths and bugs fly nearby. 2. The simple predicate is the verb or verb phra ...
THE POSITION OF THE VERB IN OLD ENGLISH RELATIVE
... Table 1.1: Forms of the relative pronoun se....................25 Table 2.1: Placement of the independent verb in the relative clause..................................................33 Table 2.2: Function of relative pronouns and sentence types in RelX S V constructions ............................ ...
... Table 1.1: Forms of the relative pronoun se....................25 Table 2.1: Placement of the independent verb in the relative clause..................................................33 Table 2.2: Function of relative pronouns and sentence types in RelX S V constructions ............................ ...
Dissertation Body
... my work into a dissertation project. Lieberman et al. looked at irregular Old English (OE) verbs that are still present in the lexicon of PDE. They gathered frequency data for these verbs, and they found that the lower the frequency of a set of verbs, the higher the percentage of verbs that had been ...
... my work into a dissertation project. Lieberman et al. looked at irregular Old English (OE) verbs that are still present in the lexicon of PDE. They gathered frequency data for these verbs, and they found that the lower the frequency of a set of verbs, the higher the percentage of verbs that had been ...
1. Some nouns always take a singular verb
... (J) It also means charges for the labour when used in plural sense. (b) The wages of daily workers have been raised. 8. Also remember the subtle difference in the usage of these pairs of nouns (A) The noun ‘habit’ applies only to an individual whereas ‘custom’ applies to a society or country. (a) Po ...
... (J) It also means charges for the labour when used in plural sense. (b) The wages of daily workers have been raised. 8. Also remember the subtle difference in the usage of these pairs of nouns (A) The noun ‘habit’ applies only to an individual whereas ‘custom’ applies to a society or country. (a) Po ...
French Verbs Made Simple(r)
... lar to virtually all of the nearly 800 “irregular”-er verbs: only two do not follow precise patterns throughout their conjugations. Recognizing and learning these patterns is a far more efficient way to learn French verbs than simply attempting to memorize what may at first seem like almost random irr ...
... lar to virtually all of the nearly 800 “irregular”-er verbs: only two do not follow precise patterns throughout their conjugations. Recognizing and learning these patterns is a far more efficient way to learn French verbs than simply attempting to memorize what may at first seem like almost random irr ...
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... (or, perhaps more correctly, the clauses containing these periphrastic constructions),5 I make use of the notion ‘transitivity’. To be more specific, I will refer to what Lazard (2002:142) calls ‘generalized’, gradual transitivity, and contrasts with ‘restricted’, traditional transitivity. The latte ...
... (or, perhaps more correctly, the clauses containing these periphrastic constructions),5 I make use of the notion ‘transitivity’. To be more specific, I will refer to what Lazard (2002:142) calls ‘generalized’, gradual transitivity, and contrasts with ‘restricted’, traditional transitivity. The latte ...
Statives and Reciprocal Morphology in Swahili
... Section 5 turns our attention to the reciprocal, presenting an overview of the reciprocal morpheme and of the considerable range of variation, in semantics and argument-structure effects, associated with the reciprocal morpheme in Bantu languages. We focus particularly on the sociative and intensiv ...
... Section 5 turns our attention to the reciprocal, presenting an overview of the reciprocal morpheme and of the considerable range of variation, in semantics and argument-structure effects, associated with the reciprocal morpheme in Bantu languages. We focus particularly on the sociative and intensiv ...
draft - University of Delaware
... Marantz (1997) attempts to provide some evidence for his contention that the external-argumentintroducing head is a cut-off point for special interpretations. For instance, he claims that any idiom with a fixed subject must be non-agentive. Idioms like the shit hit the fan, according to Marantz, do ...
... Marantz (1997) attempts to provide some evidence for his contention that the external-argumentintroducing head is a cut-off point for special interpretations. For instance, he claims that any idiom with a fixed subject must be non-agentive. Idioms like the shit hit the fan, according to Marantz, do ...