Great Grammar Commas - The Described and Captioned Media
... This video is about the proper use of commas in sentences, and it sets the stage by having the viewer imagine he or she is a photographer for a travel magazine. The photographer’s assignment is to travel the world and take pictures of exotic locations such as: Belize, London, New York, and Antarctic ...
... This video is about the proper use of commas in sentences, and it sets the stage by having the viewer imagine he or she is a photographer for a travel magazine. The photographer’s assignment is to travel the world and take pictures of exotic locations such as: Belize, London, New York, and Antarctic ...
Consistency in the evaluation methods of machine translation quality
... Machine translation is the general term for the programs concerning the automatic translation with or without human assistance. It is also an interdisciplinary research area with different questions yet to be answered. One of the fundamental questions of the area is related to the quality assessment ...
... Machine translation is the general term for the programs concerning the automatic translation with or without human assistance. It is also an interdisciplinary research area with different questions yet to be answered. One of the fundamental questions of the area is related to the quality assessment ...
The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin - Ebook-dl
... languages being compared are different. It is obvious that the differences in syntax between BP and, say, Chinese are greater than the differences between EP and BP. Which is the right level of difference to examine? The answer depends on the focus of research. Baker (1996, 2009) provides advantages ...
... languages being compared are different. It is obvious that the differences in syntax between BP and, say, Chinese are greater than the differences between EP and BP. Which is the right level of difference to examine? The answer depends on the focus of research. Baker (1996, 2009) provides advantages ...
Towards a null theory of the passive
... 1. Introduction: The typology of passives as a theoretical problem The Principles and Parameters approach aimed to eliminate syntactic rules and constructions in favor of general movement processes and principles, and to account for language-specific syntax by construction-independent parameters. Di ...
... 1. Introduction: The typology of passives as a theoretical problem The Principles and Parameters approach aimed to eliminate syntactic rules and constructions in favor of general movement processes and principles, and to account for language-specific syntax by construction-independent parameters. Di ...
Applying the Constraint Grammar Parser of English to the Helsinki
... 3. ENGCG analysis of historical texts: the data The Helsinki Corpus covers roughly a millennium, from the eighth century to the early 1700s. 7 Anticipating problems caused by distance in time between early English and the language accounted for in the ENGCG description, we decided to concentrate on ...
... 3. ENGCG analysis of historical texts: the data The Helsinki Corpus covers roughly a millennium, from the eighth century to the early 1700s. 7 Anticipating problems caused by distance in time between early English and the language accounted for in the ENGCG description, we decided to concentrate on ...
Towards deep content extraction from specialized discourse: The case of ver-
... facilitates the extraction of a large number of relations not specified beforehand. This thesis follows the same path. Its goal is to extract all possible verbal relations from a textual description and generalize them to such an extent that they can serve as abstract labels in a conceptual represen ...
... facilitates the extraction of a large number of relations not specified beforehand. This thesis follows the same path. Its goal is to extract all possible verbal relations from a textual description and generalize them to such an extent that they can serve as abstract labels in a conceptual represen ...
MS Word - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... enabling generation of the text for complex procedures in a single style. The task WP6.2 provides an extension of the phenomena for simple procedures researched by the task WP6.1. In the introduction to this delivertable, we discuss the scope of the grammar to be modelled for target languages, prese ...
... enabling generation of the text for complex procedures in a single style. The task WP6.2 provides an extension of the phenomena for simple procedures researched by the task WP6.1. In the introduction to this delivertable, we discuss the scope of the grammar to be modelled for target languages, prese ...
Dictionaries, Lexicography and Language Learning
... The dictionary is the most successful and significant book about language. In Britain, its success is shown by the fact that over 90% of households possess at least one, making the dictionary far more popular than cookery books (about 70%) and indeed significantly more widespread than the Bible (whi ...
... The dictionary is the most successful and significant book about language. In Britain, its success is shown by the fact that over 90% of households possess at least one, making the dictionary far more popular than cookery books (about 70%) and indeed significantly more widespread than the Bible (whi ...
Making Dictionaries
... As the number of SHOEBOX users grew, many began to organize their lexical data and build dictionaries by interlinearizing bodies of vernacular texts. But it soon became apparent that there was a significant need for an easy way to format and print the dictionaries being compiled in SHOEBOX, and to p ...
... As the number of SHOEBOX users grew, many began to organize their lexical data and build dictionaries by interlinearizing bodies of vernacular texts. But it soon became apparent that there was a significant need for an easy way to format and print the dictionaries being compiled in SHOEBOX, and to p ...
Grammar and Language Workbook - ESL
... conjunction and have the same verb. The lantern glows. Moths and bugs fly nearby. 2. The simple predicate is the verb or verb phrase that expresses the essential thought about the subject of the sentence. A compound predicate is made up of two or more verbs or verb phrases that are joined by a conju ...
... conjunction and have the same verb. The lantern glows. Moths and bugs fly nearby. 2. The simple predicate is the verb or verb phrase that expresses the essential thought about the subject of the sentence. A compound predicate is made up of two or more verbs or verb phrases that are joined by a conju ...
Interlingua based English-Hindi Machine
... represented at a level that is independent of the underlying meanings of the source and target sentences. Factoring out these distinctions allows cross linguistic generalizations to be captured at the level of the lexical semantic structure. The work presented here is the only one to our knowledge t ...
... represented at a level that is independent of the underlying meanings of the source and target sentences. Factoring out these distinctions allows cross linguistic generalizations to be captured at the level of the lexical semantic structure. The work presented here is the only one to our knowledge t ...
Grammar in Newspaper Headlines
... interpret, therefore, and further knowledge of the context seems necessary (as it was evident in some of the headlines listed above). Next chapter introduces two basic aims of this paper and the method which was used for its purpose. ...
... interpret, therefore, and further knowledge of the context seems necessary (as it was evident in some of the headlines listed above). Next chapter introduces two basic aims of this paper and the method which was used for its purpose. ...
6 A-movement
... sentence Students protested has the categorial status of a clause which is finite in nature (by virtue of denoting an event taking place at a specific time), and has the semantic function of expressing a proposition which is declarative in force (in that it is used to make a statement rather than e. ...
... sentence Students protested has the categorial status of a clause which is finite in nature (by virtue of denoting an event taking place at a specific time), and has the semantic function of expressing a proposition which is declarative in force (in that it is used to make a statement rather than e. ...
Spanish Clitics, Events and Opposition Structure
... ethical dative, and a very well known example from Spanish is (11a) a variant of which is quoted by Jaeggli (1986).5 The problem that non-argument clitics pose has been addressed in the following ways: a suggestion that seems plausible is to assume that these clitics [ethical datives] are not assign ...
... ethical dative, and a very well known example from Spanish is (11a) a variant of which is quoted by Jaeggli (1986).5 The problem that non-argument clitics pose has been addressed in the following ways: a suggestion that seems plausible is to assume that these clitics [ethical datives] are not assign ...
A Sentential Stress Parameter? Emma Shaw
... determine the rules according to which smaller parts of speech are assembled into larger constituents and phrases in a particular language. 2 Form is understood here. to denote sound, or, in the case of signed languages, gesture. ...
... determine the rules according to which smaller parts of speech are assembled into larger constituents and phrases in a particular language. 2 Form is understood here. to denote sound, or, in the case of signed languages, gesture. ...
Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head
... sentence boundaries; rather this function is taken over by verbs in THL (see also McKay 2008: 10). In her discussion of the Afroasiatic language Bedja, Vanhove (2005) suggests that the phenomenon of repetition could compensate for the lack of 3rd person anaphoric pronouns in the language. Another i ...
... sentence boundaries; rather this function is taken over by verbs in THL (see also McKay 2008: 10). In her discussion of the Afroasiatic language Bedja, Vanhove (2005) suggests that the phenomenon of repetition could compensate for the lack of 3rd person anaphoric pronouns in the language. Another i ...
Contextually-Dependent Lexical Semantics
... What emerges very clearly from the recent work on the interface between lexical and nonlexical semantic information is that polysemy is not a single, monolithic phenomenon. Rather, it is the result of both compositional operations in the semantics [...] and of contextual effects, such as the structu ...
... What emerges very clearly from the recent work on the interface between lexical and nonlexical semantic information is that polysemy is not a single, monolithic phenomenon. Rather, it is the result of both compositional operations in the semantics [...] and of contextual effects, such as the structu ...
The Characteristics of English Linking Adverbials
... the writer's thoughts are going. They tie speech ideas together and provide consistency of movement because they enable the speaker to move smoothly from one point to the next. They can also connect ideas, distinguish conditions or exceptions, or point out a new direction of thought. ...
... the writer's thoughts are going. They tie speech ideas together and provide consistency of movement because they enable the speaker to move smoothly from one point to the next. They can also connect ideas, distinguish conditions or exceptions, or point out a new direction of thought. ...
Diachrony in Clause Linkage and Related Issues By Toshio Ohori
... First, notionally at least, there is a difference in orientation between psychological and sociological approaches. Of course, this division is artificial given that language is precisely what mediates between ideation and interaction. Linguists may differ, however, with respect to the ontological i ...
... First, notionally at least, there is a difference in orientation between psychological and sociological approaches. Of course, this division is artificial given that language is precisely what mediates between ideation and interaction. Linguists may differ, however, with respect to the ontological i ...
The secret life of focus exponents, and what it tells us about fronted
... disjunct specifies under which circumstances focus can project in the verbal domain: a phrase headed by a verb can only be in the focus (i.e., its entire logical form is token identical to an element of its focus value) if the daughter that has the focus projection potential (FPP plus) is entirely ...
... disjunct specifies under which circumstances focus can project in the verbal domain: a phrase headed by a verb can only be in the focus (i.e., its entire logical form is token identical to an element of its focus value) if the daughter that has the focus projection potential (FPP plus) is entirely ...
1 The grammar of knowledge: a cross-linguistic
... and how it is expressed in culturally appropriate ways in each language. There are, however, significant differences between evidentials and non-primarily evidential means 'co-opted' to cover some information sources. In a nutshell: grammatical evidential systems are closed and restricted, with limi ...
... and how it is expressed in culturally appropriate ways in each language. There are, however, significant differences between evidentials and non-primarily evidential means 'co-opted' to cover some information sources. In a nutshell: grammatical evidential systems are closed and restricted, with limi ...
Tips for Writing Theses for non
... • However, it is also not necessary to say that you found the response. If you say what the response was, then you must have found it. ...
... • However, it is also not necessary to say that you found the response. If you say what the response was, then you must have found it. ...
METAPHORS IN LEIBNIZ`S PHILOSOPHY
... 'organized multiple-access plural-unity', a notion that emerges at the level of the 'blend space' engendered by the metaphorical use of 'ocean' and its cognates in the conceptualization of the organization and advancement of knowledge. In addition to the target 'knowledge', the input source 'ocean' ...
... 'organized multiple-access plural-unity', a notion that emerges at the level of the 'blend space' engendered by the metaphorical use of 'ocean' and its cognates in the conceptualization of the organization and advancement of knowledge. In addition to the target 'knowledge', the input source 'ocean' ...