The neuter in Bantu A Systemic Functional analysis
... tend to differ from each other, the structural analyses made in this dissertation for a number of Bantu languages are explorative. Most of the descriptive categories are borrowed from Halliday & Matthiessen’s (2014) description of the English grammatical system. Although this is not unproblematic, i ...
... tend to differ from each other, the structural analyses made in this dissertation for a number of Bantu languages are explorative. Most of the descriptive categories are borrowed from Halliday & Matthiessen’s (2014) description of the English grammatical system. Although this is not unproblematic, i ...
word classes and part-of-speech tagging
... tagsets distinguish between possessive pronouns (my, your, his, her, its) and personal pronouns (I, you, he, me). Knowing whether a word is a possessive pronoun or a personal pronoun can tell us what words are likely to occur in its vicinity (possessive pronouns are likely to be followed by a noun, ...
... tagsets distinguish between possessive pronouns (my, your, his, her, its) and personal pronouns (I, you, he, me). Knowing whether a word is a possessive pronoun or a personal pronoun can tell us what words are likely to occur in its vicinity (possessive pronouns are likely to be followed by a noun, ...
Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2
... At the opposite end of the spectrum, some models hold that L1 and L2 rely on largely (DeKeyser, 2000, 2003) or entirely (Bley-Vroman, 1989) different mechanisms. For Bley-Vroman, this distinction is based on the unavailability of Universal Grammar (UG) in later language learning. For DeKeyser, the d ...
... At the opposite end of the spectrum, some models hold that L1 and L2 rely on largely (DeKeyser, 2000, 2003) or entirely (Bley-Vroman, 1989) different mechanisms. For Bley-Vroman, this distinction is based on the unavailability of Universal Grammar (UG) in later language learning. For DeKeyser, the d ...
Observations on the optionality of modern Catalan participle
... The fact that agreement between participles and preceding direct object clitic pronouns is optional in Catalan might indicate that the particular structure is currently in flux in the language. There are two main hypotheses for why this could be true. The first is that Catalan is and always has been ...
... The fact that agreement between participles and preceding direct object clitic pronouns is optional in Catalan might indicate that the particular structure is currently in flux in the language. There are two main hypotheses for why this could be true. The first is that Catalan is and always has been ...
KEY
... Every sentence in English is made up of basic unit(s), called parts of speech. Read the following passage and name the part of speech of each underline word. SWIMMING: Almost all animals and many birds can swim naturally even those that are not accustomed to water. Human beings, however, have to lea ...
... Every sentence in English is made up of basic unit(s), called parts of speech. Read the following passage and name the part of speech of each underline word. SWIMMING: Almost all animals and many birds can swim naturally even those that are not accustomed to water. Human beings, however, have to lea ...
The role of discourse context in the processing of a flexible word
... The existence of word order flexibility raises questions about the relations between the different word orders that are possible in a language. On an intuitive level, native speakers often feel that one of the orders is the basic, ‘default’ order, while the other orders are perceived to be somehow m ...
... The existence of word order flexibility raises questions about the relations between the different word orders that are possible in a language. On an intuitive level, native speakers often feel that one of the orders is the basic, ‘default’ order, while the other orders are perceived to be somehow m ...
a contrastive study of igbo and english affixation
... criticism and guidance of my supervisor, Dr. Chinyere Ngonebu in all the stages of this study. Dr., may God grant all your heart desires. I am thankful to all my lecturers, whose teaching, encouragements and elation have made me to complete this work. I cannot mention them by name but, to all of you ...
... criticism and guidance of my supervisor, Dr. Chinyere Ngonebu in all the stages of this study. Dr., may God grant all your heart desires. I am thankful to all my lecturers, whose teaching, encouragements and elation have made me to complete this work. I cannot mention them by name but, to all of you ...
The Elements of Style - Academic Server| Cleveland State University
... Professor Strunk was a positive man. His book contains rules of grammar phrased as direct orders. In the main I have not tried to soften his commands, or modify his pronouncements, or remove the special objects of his scorn. I have tried, instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while sligh ...
... Professor Strunk was a positive man. His book contains rules of grammar phrased as direct orders. In the main I have not tried to soften his commands, or modify his pronouncements, or remove the special objects of his scorn. I have tried, instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while sligh ...
Open Information Extraction from Real Internet Texts in Spanish
... relation or its possible arguments. In Open IE, a unit of extracted information is presented as a “relation tuple,” most commonly a triple. For
example, a relation tuple corresponding to the phrase “Benito Juárez nació en San Pablo
Guelatao, Oaxaca” (“Benito Juárez ...
... relation or its possible arguments. In Open IE, a unit of extracted information is presented as a “relation tuple,” most commonly a triple
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
... If you embark on the study of Greek or Latin, what sort of language will you be learning? What are their distinctive features? What do they share in common with other languages? We can start with one obvious characteristic. Both are referred to as ‘classical’ languages, a word which seems to endow t ...
... If you embark on the study of Greek or Latin, what sort of language will you be learning? What are their distinctive features? What do they share in common with other languages? We can start with one obvious characteristic. Both are referred to as ‘classical’ languages, a word which seems to endow t ...
Very Exceptional Case
... The latter two properties of the construction in (1) fall out from the fact that the predicate position of the verb's complement SC is occupied by the empty locative predicate in (22), and hence cannot be taken up by any other secondary predicates. Particles like uit `out' in (15) are generated as t ...
... The latter two properties of the construction in (1) fall out from the fact that the predicate position of the verb's complement SC is occupied by the empty locative predicate in (22), and hence cannot be taken up by any other secondary predicates. Particles like uit `out' in (15) are generated as t ...
some recent trends in grammaticalization
... pointed out numerous cross-linguistic consistencies in the ways that lexical items are pressed into service as grammatical categories; for example (41:222), typically tense, aspect, and modality markers derive from a rather small group of verbs: want → FUTURE go → IRREALIS → FUTURE come → PERFECTIVE ...
... pointed out numerous cross-linguistic consistencies in the ways that lexical items are pressed into service as grammatical categories; for example (41:222), typically tense, aspect, and modality markers derive from a rather small group of verbs: want → FUTURE go → IRREALIS → FUTURE come → PERFECTIVE ...
the error analysis of students` descriptive writing
... difficult skill to be learnt. James A.W Heffernan and John E. Lincoln in their book said that: Writing, then, is a way of communication you must consciously learn. And part of what make it hard to learn is that written words usually has to express your meaning in your absence have to speak all by th ...
... difficult skill to be learnt. James A.W Heffernan and John E. Lincoln in their book said that: Writing, then, is a way of communication you must consciously learn. And part of what make it hard to learn is that written words usually has to express your meaning in your absence have to speak all by th ...
Teaching Essay Strategies Table of Contents
... Prepositional Phrase—A preposition frequently describes location (above the roof), tells time (after a while), or shows a relationship (with his friend). The prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with the object (a noun or pronoun) that connects to the preposition. Place a comma af ...
... Prepositional Phrase—A preposition frequently describes location (above the roof), tells time (after a while), or shows a relationship (with his friend). The prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with the object (a noun or pronoun) that connects to the preposition. Place a comma af ...
Understanding Natural Language - Department of Information and
... though we used the robot as our test area, the language programs do not depend on any special subject matter, and they have been adapted to other uses. The second goal is gaining a better understanding of what language is and how it is put together. To write a program we need to make all of our know ...
... though we used the robot as our test area, the language programs do not depend on any special subject matter, and they have been adapted to other uses. The second goal is gaining a better understanding of what language is and how it is put together. To write a program we need to make all of our know ...
indian grammatical theory
... mieaningless', Yi~i:ska (1Oth century B.C.) formulated Nirukta 6 and Nigha~zJu 7 • Nigha~z._tu is the enumeration of words and Nirukta is the exposition of words. When both the texts ar-e put in rdation, the former is the commentary of the latter. However, it is not a complete list of Vedic words, o ...
... mieaningless', Yi~i:ska (1Oth century B.C.) formulated Nirukta 6 and Nigha~zJu 7 • Nigha~z._tu is the enumeration of words and Nirukta is the exposition of words. When both the texts ar-e put in rdation, the former is the commentary of the latter. However, it is not a complete list of Vedic words, o ...
CONTENTS
... 7) Adjectives: Next! 8) Numerals: One, two, three! Two, please! 9) The negative "No", e.g. No! No! In terms of function, grammatically complete sentence-patterns are immensely varied. Which different functions are fulfilled through their distinctive forms in Modern English will be the subject-matter ...
... 7) Adjectives: Next! 8) Numerals: One, two, three! Two, please! 9) The negative "No", e.g. No! No! In terms of function, grammatically complete sentence-patterns are immensely varied. Which different functions are fulfilled through their distinctive forms in Modern English will be the subject-matter ...
Recognition of clauses and phrases in machine translation of
... b) When a change in С is indicated without a new clause opener, and the most recent clause is possibly complete (v=l or v=2), then we return to the most recent incomplete clause, i.e., we set the new C equal to the highest C previously used for which v=0 (i.e., equal to the quantity Сc defined belo ...
... b) When a change in С is indicated without a new clause opener, and the most recent clause is possibly complete (v=l or v=2), then we return to the most recent incomplete clause, i.e., we set the new C equal to the highest C previously used for which v=0 (i.e., equal to the quantity Сc defined belo ...
Document
... The discussion of the monosemy/polysemy ambiguity has two sides: the border‑ line between monosemy and polysemy; and, depending on this, the issue of how many senses ought to be attributed to a word. Related to this is the dispute between the monosemic view which in contrast to the polysemic one hol ...
... The discussion of the monosemy/polysemy ambiguity has two sides: the border‑ line between monosemy and polysemy; and, depending on this, the issue of how many senses ought to be attributed to a word. Related to this is the dispute between the monosemic view which in contrast to the polysemic one hol ...
日本語の感情表現文の構造 及び語彙の特徴
... In contrast, in English, expressions like “He is happy” or “He wants water”, are just as grammatical as “I am happy” or “I want water”. Jorden, an American linguist who specialized in the Japanese language, concludes that “culturally we are much less reluctant than the Japanese to describe the feeli ...
... In contrast, in English, expressions like “He is happy” or “He wants water”, are just as grammatical as “I am happy” or “I want water”. Jorden, an American linguist who specialized in the Japanese language, concludes that “culturally we are much less reluctant than the Japanese to describe the feeli ...
Oceanside High School Writing Guide
... A paragraph contains a topic sentence, which it then explains, develops, or supports with evidence. The topic sentence is usually the first sentence of a paragraph, but not necessarily. It may come, for example, after a transition sentence; it may even come at the end of a paragraph. Topic sentences ...
... A paragraph contains a topic sentence, which it then explains, develops, or supports with evidence. The topic sentence is usually the first sentence of a paragraph, but not necessarily. It may come, for example, after a transition sentence; it may even come at the end of a paragraph. Topic sentences ...
INTEX as an educational subject in the Master`s program in
... future in the past, future perfect in the past. At the present moment the students develop FST-s for the passive voice of the indicative mood of all tenses, for conditional mood forms of all tenses. 6th INTEX Workshop, Sofia 28-30 2003 ...
... future in the past, future perfect in the past. At the present moment the students develop FST-s for the passive voice of the indicative mood of all tenses, for conditional mood forms of all tenses. 6th INTEX Workshop, Sofia 28-30 2003 ...
Nouns and Verbs in the Tagalog Mental Lexicon
... and ‘verb’ are also evidenced morphologically with different category markings, such as tense and aspect for verbs and number and case for nouns. Syntactically, the verb typically denotes the event while the noun denotes participants in the event. The categories of ‘noun’ and ‘verb’ are flexible wit ...
... and ‘verb’ are also evidenced morphologically with different category markings, such as tense and aspect for verbs and number and case for nouns. Syntactically, the verb typically denotes the event while the noun denotes participants in the event. The categories of ‘noun’ and ‘verb’ are flexible wit ...
The Simpson`s Teach Complex Sentences
... on its own. It is a complete sentence which expresses a complete thought. ...
... on its own. It is a complete sentence which expresses a complete thought. ...
WORD CLASSES AND PART-OF
... its) and personal pronouns (I, you, he, me). Knowing whether a word is a possessive pronoun or a personal pronoun can tell us what words are likely to occur in its vicinity (possessive pronouns are likely to be followed by a noun, personal pronouns by a verb). This can be useful in a language model ...
... its) and personal pronouns (I, you, he, me). Knowing whether a word is a possessive pronoun or a personal pronoun can tell us what words are likely to occur in its vicinity (possessive pronouns are likely to be followed by a noun, personal pronouns by a verb). This can be useful in a language model ...