Financial support Basic data Outline of the talk BNs in object position
... (10)(a) *Per fi hem trobat pis, que començarem a reformar molt aviat. for end have found flat that begin.fut to renovate very soon (b) Per fi hem trobat un pis, que començarem a reformar molt aviat. for end have found a flat that begin.fut to renovate very soon ‘At last we have found a flat, which w ...
... (10)(a) *Per fi hem trobat pis, que començarem a reformar molt aviat. for end have found flat that begin.fut to renovate very soon (b) Per fi hem trobat un pis, que començarem a reformar molt aviat. for end have found a flat that begin.fut to renovate very soon ‘At last we have found a flat, which w ...
CONJUNCTIONS AND GRAMMATICAL AGREEMENT WHEN
... Corpus data and sentence production experiments were used to test hypotheses about the mechanisms involved in producing agreement. A search of American English sentences from the World Wide Web revealed that speakers often produce singular verbs with conjoined subjects (28% singular verbs overall), ...
... Corpus data and sentence production experiments were used to test hypotheses about the mechanisms involved in producing agreement. A search of American English sentences from the World Wide Web revealed that speakers often produce singular verbs with conjoined subjects (28% singular verbs overall), ...
The Verb “To Be”
... How to check the spelling of a word The best way to learn how to spell a word is to find it in the Dictionary. To find words in the Dictionary it is important to know the alphabet well. You will need to be able to judge quickly whether any word comes before or after another one, this is called alpha ...
... How to check the spelling of a word The best way to learn how to spell a word is to find it in the Dictionary. To find words in the Dictionary it is important to know the alphabet well. You will need to be able to judge quickly whether any word comes before or after another one, this is called alpha ...
Constructions with and without articles Henriëtte de Swart
... The three languages have a range of weakly referential constructions in common. Bare predication (6a, 7a, 8a) and reduplication (6e, 7h, 8f) are found in English, Dutch and French. The class of bare PPs is split into N-based and P-based bare PPs. In N-based bare PPs, bareness is driven by the noun, ...
... The three languages have a range of weakly referential constructions in common. Bare predication (6a, 7a, 8a) and reduplication (6e, 7h, 8f) are found in English, Dutch and French. The class of bare PPs is split into N-based and P-based bare PPs. In N-based bare PPs, bareness is driven by the noun, ...
the present perfect: an exercise in the study of events
... bypassing linguistic assumptions. Two main perspectives are discerned with respect to approaches to plurals and events. There is the singularist view that defends that plurals can be treated as objects similarly to singular objects using a mereological framework to model the two. Moreover, they assu ...
... bypassing linguistic assumptions. Two main perspectives are discerned with respect to approaches to plurals and events. There is the singularist view that defends that plurals can be treated as objects similarly to singular objects using a mereological framework to model the two. Moreover, they assu ...
Investigating Problems Pertaining to Concord as Encountered by the
... Seliger and Shohamy (1990:176) argue that tests are generally used to collect data about the subjects' ability and knowledge of the language areas such as vocabulary, grammar, reading, etc. They also maintain that the handiness of questionnaire often comes from the fact that ( i ) questionnaires are ...
... Seliger and Shohamy (1990:176) argue that tests are generally used to collect data about the subjects' ability and knowledge of the language areas such as vocabulary, grammar, reading, etc. They also maintain that the handiness of questionnaire often comes from the fact that ( i ) questionnaires are ...
Quantification in German
... Traditional grammars of German partition matrix clauses into three ‘topological fields’: the prefield, the midfield, and the postfield, which are separated from each other by two sentential brackets. In declarative main clauses, the left sentential bracket, which corresponds to the complementizer po ...
... Traditional grammars of German partition matrix clauses into three ‘topological fields’: the prefield, the midfield, and the postfield, which are separated from each other by two sentential brackets. In declarative main clauses, the left sentential bracket, which corresponds to the complementizer po ...
The East Papuan Languages: A Preliminary Typological Appraisal
... classi²cation is plotted against Wurm’s in ²gure 1. The fact that just about all of the East Papuan languages, except Sulka on New Britain and Yélî Dnye on Rossel, make a gender distinction somewhere in the pronominal systems may point to some shared feature from before the time of contact with Aust ...
... classi²cation is plotted against Wurm’s in ²gure 1. The fact that just about all of the East Papuan languages, except Sulka on New Britain and Yélî Dnye on Rossel, make a gender distinction somewhere in the pronominal systems may point to some shared feature from before the time of contact with Aust ...
THE NOUN AND THE DICTIONARY IN TSHIVENDA BY SHUMANI
... So, the exact entry in a dictionary has to be considered form the view point of the syntactic and morphological category only. Taking these considerations into account a case can be made for the treatment of nouns in dictionaries. ...
... So, the exact entry in a dictionary has to be considered form the view point of the syntactic and morphological category only. Taking these considerations into account a case can be made for the treatment of nouns in dictionaries. ...
Thongsley_overview_english
... Vocabulary building towards structure/poetic form (2 weeks) – could be split into two separate week blocks, completed in either half term) Experiement with vocabulary, explore a range of poetry and complete ‘workshops’ using different styles e.g. methapors, onomatopeia etc. Personification, metaphor ...
... Vocabulary building towards structure/poetic form (2 weeks) – could be split into two separate week blocks, completed in either half term) Experiement with vocabulary, explore a range of poetry and complete ‘workshops’ using different styles e.g. methapors, onomatopeia etc. Personification, metaphor ...
IN GOD WE TRUST
... preferred • I found it difficult to accept Dr Smith's contention in chapter 3 that the new agonist has superior pharmacokinetics and is therefore more widely used. ...
... preferred • I found it difficult to accept Dr Smith's contention in chapter 3 that the new agonist has superior pharmacokinetics and is therefore more widely used. ...
The Uralic languages - Fennia - International Journal of Geography
... goes back in time, the more difficult it is to recognize linguistic variety. An alternative approach is given in the wave theory, in which the chronological relationships of languages do not have priority. Instead, distribution of various linguistic properties forms areal isoglosses of these propert ...
... goes back in time, the more difficult it is to recognize linguistic variety. An alternative approach is given in the wave theory, in which the chronological relationships of languages do not have priority. Instead, distribution of various linguistic properties forms areal isoglosses of these propert ...
Polite Plurals and Adjective Agreement
... and underwear also have a bipartite structure but the former is an ordinary count noun, the latter a mass noun. Moreover, most pluralia tantum nouns are morphologically plural as well, bearing the plural -s suffix in English. The lexical classification of such nouns as inherently plural may have a s ...
... and underwear also have a bipartite structure but the former is an ordinary count noun, the latter a mass noun. Moreover, most pluralia tantum nouns are morphologically plural as well, bearing the plural -s suffix in English. The lexical classification of such nouns as inherently plural may have a s ...
Non-concord in Existential-There Constructions: A Corpus - S
... Based on Table 7 and 8, Insua & Martinez (2003) affirm that nonconcord occurs more frequently in TCs with coordinated NPs and intervening material. There lie several limitations here as well. First, the samples for both Table 7 and Table 8 are too limited in number. The total number of TCs with coor ...
... Based on Table 7 and 8, Insua & Martinez (2003) affirm that nonconcord occurs more frequently in TCs with coordinated NPs and intervening material. There lie several limitations here as well. First, the samples for both Table 7 and Table 8 are too limited in number. The total number of TCs with coor ...
Morphology and Linguistic Typology
... 2. Protomorphology, a phase in which the child starts to generalise over rotelearned forms, thereby detecting the morphological principle of (de)composing form and meaning word-internally. (S)he begins to construct morphology but also to use morphology creatively in coining first analogical formatio ...
... 2. Protomorphology, a phase in which the child starts to generalise over rotelearned forms, thereby detecting the morphological principle of (de)composing form and meaning word-internally. (S)he begins to construct morphology but also to use morphology creatively in coining first analogical formatio ...
Accepted for publication in the Journal of Semantics, pre
... recip, a polyadic quantifier, the semantics of which are such that it entails all of the above features. The language-specific morphosyntactic realization of this quantifier is therefore largely semantically irrelevant. In particular, they argued that an account such as Heim et al.’s (1991) which co ...
... recip, a polyadic quantifier, the semantics of which are such that it entails all of the above features. The language-specific morphosyntactic realization of this quantifier is therefore largely semantically irrelevant. In particular, they argued that an account such as Heim et al.’s (1991) which co ...
Number Words as Number Names
... mathematical operations. What about the interpretation of and in (7)? Let us first note that in general, and does not require referential terms (happy and satisfied, came and left), and that the same holds for is, for example, in specificational sentences (what John is is happy). What does this mean ...
... mathematical operations. What about the interpretation of and in (7)? Let us first note that in general, and does not require referential terms (happy and satisfied, came and left), and that the same holds for is, for example, in specificational sentences (what John is is happy). What does this mean ...
Grade 8 - Carson
... A collective noun refers to a single group, so it acts as a singular noun. When a collective noun is plural (refers to more than one group), it acts as a plural noun. ...
... A collective noun refers to a single group, so it acts as a singular noun. When a collective noun is plural (refers to more than one group), it acts as a plural noun. ...
1 Noun classes and classifiers, semantics of
... 4. Some constituent outside the noun itself must agree in gender with a noun. Agreement can be with other words in the noun phrase (adjectives, numbers, demonstratives, articles, etc.) and/or with the predicate of the clause, or an adverb. ...
... 4. Some constituent outside the noun itself must agree in gender with a noun. Agreement can be with other words in the noun phrase (adjectives, numbers, demonstratives, articles, etc.) and/or with the predicate of the clause, or an adverb. ...
Latin Examples
... always the same as the dative-ablative form. Where they differ is in the locative forms for the singulars of the third, fourth and fifth declension. (It probably never occurs in the fifth declension!) For third declension singular, some say that it may take either the dative or the ablative form, wh ...
... always the same as the dative-ablative form. Where they differ is in the locative forms for the singulars of the third, fourth and fifth declension. (It probably never occurs in the fifth declension!) For third declension singular, some say that it may take either the dative or the ablative form, wh ...
R-impersonals in Atlantic and Mande languages
... The reasonable conclusion is that, although R-impersonals are related by family resemblances to the other types of constructions commonly referred to as ‘impersonal’, the precise nature of the relationship cannot be considered as captured satisfactorily by the current definitions of impersonal const ...
... The reasonable conclusion is that, although R-impersonals are related by family resemblances to the other types of constructions commonly referred to as ‘impersonal’, the precise nature of the relationship cannot be considered as captured satisfactorily by the current definitions of impersonal const ...
Making Syntax of Sense: Number Agreement in
... agreement, and because we are dealing with phrases rather than the concepts behind words, we will generally talk about notional number, with the understanding that this usage encompasses what others have termed conceptual number. Grammatical number refers to the linguistic agreement properties of a ...
... agreement, and because we are dealing with phrases rather than the concepts behind words, we will generally talk about notional number, with the understanding that this usage encompasses what others have termed conceptual number. Grammatical number refers to the linguistic agreement properties of a ...
Unit 3 - I blog di Unica
... In order to make the plural of a noun, we need to add an –s to the word end Examples: door – doors window – windows girl – girls car – cars book – books Olga Denti & Luisanna Fodde ...
... In order to make the plural of a noun, we need to add an –s to the word end Examples: door – doors window – windows girl – girls car – cars book – books Olga Denti & Luisanna Fodde ...
445 prefixes and suffixes
... related to related to rather (like) inhabitant of, language of can do, does without like with the quality of having protected/- ing against towards like, characterised by ...
... related to related to rather (like) inhabitant of, language of can do, does without like with the quality of having protected/- ing against towards like, characterised by ...