1 Possessive voice in Wolof: A rara type of valency operator 1
... Thus, each suffix has a particular effect, and the specific meaning is linked to particular verbal classes. The same distinction is established when different suffixes are listed for a specific voice. In some cases a diachronic hypothesis can be made for the emergence of this plurality of forms, but ...
... Thus, each suffix has a particular effect, and the specific meaning is linked to particular verbal classes. The same distinction is established when different suffixes are listed for a specific voice. In some cases a diachronic hypothesis can be made for the emergence of this plurality of forms, but ...
The Pronominal System in Standard Arabic: Strong, Clitic and Affixal
... Some words have a tendency to cliticise to other words in connected speech regardless of syntactic structures; they have shortened variants with which they can alternate almost unrestrictedly. For instance, have in English can encliticise to a preceding pronoun provided that it is not separated from ...
... Some words have a tendency to cliticise to other words in connected speech regardless of syntactic structures; they have shortened variants with which they can alternate almost unrestrictedly. For instance, have in English can encliticise to a preceding pronoun provided that it is not separated from ...
English Co-reference Guidelines
... According to the guidelines written for a name-tagging task at Georgetown University, "A human reading [a text] is able to understand it using her knowledge of language as well as her knowledge of the world. To get a computer to do the same, it is helpful to prepare examples of text marked up with w ...
... According to the guidelines written for a name-tagging task at Georgetown University, "A human reading [a text] is able to understand it using her knowledge of language as well as her knowledge of the world. To get a computer to do the same, it is helpful to prepare examples of text marked up with w ...
Sentence Types - The Syracuse City School District
... The boy runs very slowly. (same sentence, but now I’ve added two adverbs, “very” and “slowly”) The tall boy runs. (same sentence, but now I’ve added the adjective, “tall” Wanting to join a sport’s team, the boy runs for the high school track team. (same sentence, but now I’ve added the participial p ...
... The boy runs very slowly. (same sentence, but now I’ve added two adverbs, “very” and “slowly”) The tall boy runs. (same sentence, but now I’ve added the adjective, “tall” Wanting to join a sport’s team, the boy runs for the high school track team. (same sentence, but now I’ve added the participial p ...
Sentence Types As you know, in order to form a sentence in English
... As you know, in order to form a sentence in English, you must have two components, a subject and a verb. Needless to say, however, almost all English sentences consist of more than a subject and a verb, and often you will find multiple subjects and verbs in a single sentence. This lesson will help y ...
... As you know, in order to form a sentence in English, you must have two components, a subject and a verb. Needless to say, however, almost all English sentences consist of more than a subject and a verb, and often you will find multiple subjects and verbs in a single sentence. This lesson will help y ...
Reconsidering the Dative Shift Szabóné Papp Judit
... the participation of certain semantically delineated verb classes in the dative shift. It is also claimed by cognitive grammar that language would not be able to exist as a means of communication without metaphor and polysemy since the human brain would not be able to describe the infinite world wit ...
... the participation of certain semantically delineated verb classes in the dative shift. It is also claimed by cognitive grammar that language would not be able to exist as a means of communication without metaphor and polysemy since the human brain would not be able to describe the infinite world wit ...
Authier_revised_3_March_2010
... inherent ‘orientation’ of the participle employed. The De-participle had an inherited, ergatively patterned orientation, permitting relativisation of intransitive subjects and direct objects, while for the relativisation of an agent another participle, lost in Tati, was used. Nevertheless, the once ...
... inherent ‘orientation’ of the participle employed. The De-participle had an inherited, ergatively patterned orientation, permitting relativisation of intransitive subjects and direct objects, while for the relativisation of an agent another participle, lost in Tati, was used. Nevertheless, the once ...
The message in the navel: (ir)realisness in Swahili
... In this paper I will use the expression “Tense-Aspect-Modality” (TAM) to refer to a set of prefixes and suffixes that are attached to verb stems in Swahili, even though some of these affixes signal information that falls outside the scope of traditional definitions of tense, aspect, and modality (se ...
... In this paper I will use the expression “Tense-Aspect-Modality” (TAM) to refer to a set of prefixes and suffixes that are attached to verb stems in Swahili, even though some of these affixes signal information that falls outside the scope of traditional definitions of tense, aspect, and modality (se ...
Exercise : Faulty Parallelism
... - Using the same pattern of words. - In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. ...
... - Using the same pattern of words. - In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. ...
File - Gwen Holladay
... Typical exceptions to beginning steps with action verbs are conditional statements and permissive steps (i.e., using may). For more information about conditional statements, refer to Section 6.5. Word your steps in the positive by stating what to do rather than what not to do. When negative statemen ...
... Typical exceptions to beginning steps with action verbs are conditional statements and permissive steps (i.e., using may). For more information about conditional statements, refer to Section 6.5. Word your steps in the positive by stating what to do rather than what not to do. When negative statemen ...
Fundamental Notions in Semantics
... The forms, however, is more than an arbitrary collection of things. There are rules and principles responsible for generating the forms of a language. Remember that language is a recursive system, and that it can build an infinite number of sentences from a limited set of lexical items by the aid of ...
... The forms, however, is more than an arbitrary collection of things. There are rules and principles responsible for generating the forms of a language. Remember that language is a recursive system, and that it can build an infinite number of sentences from a limited set of lexical items by the aid of ...
Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach
... happened to you? I was riding down the hill and some yuppie got out of his Porsche and doored me. It seems then that even though most of us seem to know what nouns and verbs are, it is not easy to come up with a precise definition of these two lexical categories. This apparently trivial question has ...
... happened to you? I was riding down the hill and some yuppie got out of his Porsche and doored me. It seems then that even though most of us seem to know what nouns and verbs are, it is not easy to come up with a precise definition of these two lexical categories. This apparently trivial question has ...
Language Structure and Reading Skills
... Sometimes the introductory word may be omitted from the adjective clause. Omitted: Most of the things we worry about never happen. Included: Most of the things that we worry about never happen. The best way to recognize these “no signal” clauses within a sentence is to look for a subject-verb combin ...
... Sometimes the introductory word may be omitted from the adjective clause. Omitted: Most of the things we worry about never happen. Included: Most of the things that we worry about never happen. The best way to recognize these “no signal” clauses within a sentence is to look for a subject-verb combin ...
IV Sentence Problems
... ---A driver should never race your motor without a warm-up. ---When I was in high school, you never knew what to expect. But sometimes it is not wrong to write sentences in which all three persons appear, as long as each person applies to a different reference. ---I (person speaking) consider him (p ...
... ---A driver should never race your motor without a warm-up. ---When I was in high school, you never knew what to expect. But sometimes it is not wrong to write sentences in which all three persons appear, as long as each person applies to a different reference. ---I (person speaking) consider him (p ...
Latin Rhetoric in the Signed Poems of Cynewulf
... This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ...
... This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR, TENSES Tenses
... I was doing Past Perfect Tense I had done Past Perfect Continuous Tense I had been doing Future Tense I will do Future Continuous Tense I will be doing Future Perfect Tense I will have done Future Perfect Continuous Tense I will have been doing ...
... I was doing Past Perfect Tense I had done Past Perfect Continuous Tense I had been doing Future Tense I will do Future Continuous Tense I will be doing Future Perfect Tense I will have done Future Perfect Continuous Tense I will have been doing ...
Grammar Essentials 3rd Edition
... Not only do extra words waste space and time, but they may also distort the message or make it difficult to understand. Get in the habit of streamlining your writing, making your sentences as concise as possible. If you use five words where three would do, delete the extra words or structure your se ...
... Not only do extra words waste space and time, but they may also distort the message or make it difficult to understand. Get in the habit of streamlining your writing, making your sentences as concise as possible. If you use five words where three would do, delete the extra words or structure your se ...
JiH Hruska A glance at any English text ensures us that prepositions
... on the whole — voelku, for good — nadobro, all of a sudden — najednou, etc. ...
... on the whole — voelku, for good — nadobro, all of a sudden — najednou, etc. ...
doc - The Afranaph Project
... f) Mary saw a book behind her. (subject/locative) g) John bought the book for himself. (benefactive) Also consider things like experiencer-subject verbs, non-nominative subjects, etc., which have unusual argument structures in many languages. Some verb meanings you might try: A4a) Etta likes herself ...
... f) Mary saw a book behind her. (subject/locative) g) John bought the book for himself. (benefactive) Also consider things like experiencer-subject verbs, non-nominative subjects, etc., which have unusual argument structures in many languages. Some verb meanings you might try: A4a) Etta likes herself ...
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... main causal mechanisms for linguistic innovation, next to mechanisms such as ‘form-meaning reanalysis’, involving a reanalysis of the ‘mapping’ between form and meaning (e.g. the ‘be going to’-construction in examples such as ‘[I am going] [to buy cake]’, whereby the semantic feature of future inten ...
... main causal mechanisms for linguistic innovation, next to mechanisms such as ‘form-meaning reanalysis’, involving a reanalysis of the ‘mapping’ between form and meaning (e.g. the ‘be going to’-construction in examples such as ‘[I am going] [to buy cake]’, whereby the semantic feature of future inten ...
Chapter 2: Aspects of Matter and Time
... Remember the very thin discrete solid objects, like the leaf and the sheet of paper? Their shape is very different from that of other objects because they seem to have no thickness, no middle. Their beginning and ending seem to be in nearly the same place. If an event has no middle, it seems to happ ...
... Remember the very thin discrete solid objects, like the leaf and the sheet of paper? Their shape is very different from that of other objects because they seem to have no thickness, no middle. Their beginning and ending seem to be in nearly the same place. If an event has no middle, it seems to happ ...
AnaPro, tool for identification and resolution of direct anaphora
... AnaPro is software that solves direct anaphora in Spanish, specifically pronouns: it finds the noun or group of words to which the pronoun refers. It locates in the previous sentences the referent or antecedent which the pronoun replaces. An example of a direct anaphora solved is: the pronoun “he” i ...
... AnaPro is software that solves direct anaphora in Spanish, specifically pronouns: it finds the noun or group of words to which the pronoun refers. It locates in the previous sentences the referent or antecedent which the pronoun replaces. An example of a direct anaphora solved is: the pronoun “he” i ...
Attributive clauses in Modern English
... She was thinking how little the opening of this war - which had started that morning at five-eleven with the German army’s marching into Poland - was like the opening of the last. ...
... She was thinking how little the opening of this war - which had started that morning at five-eleven with the German army’s marching into Poland - was like the opening of the last. ...
The Seven Kinds of Nouns
... Sometimes the same word can function as both a common noun and a proper noun, where one such entity is special. For example the common noun god refers to all deities, while the proper noun God specifically refers to the monotheistic God. ...
... Sometimes the same word can function as both a common noun and a proper noun, where one such entity is special. For example the common noun god refers to all deities, while the proper noun God specifically refers to the monotheistic God. ...
deverbal noun complementation rules applied to semantic
... language (Foltran, 2003), and the predicator is its linguistic expression. Traditional grammar divides declarative sentences into subject and predicate, the first part being the recipient or subject of the properties, and the second part containing the relational or nominal properties being assigned ...
... language (Foltran, 2003), and the predicator is its linguistic expression. Traditional grammar divides declarative sentences into subject and predicate, the first part being the recipient or subject of the properties, and the second part containing the relational or nominal properties being assigned ...