Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction
... language. Of course, because the book is written in English it uses English examples to illustrate a number of points, especially in the area of syntax; but examples from many other languages are discussed as well. The book is written for beginners, assuming only some prior knowledge of the most bas ...
... language. Of course, because the book is written in English it uses English examples to illustrate a number of points, especially in the area of syntax; but examples from many other languages are discussed as well. The book is written for beginners, assuming only some prior knowledge of the most bas ...
Definition of Poetic Discourse and Translation
... represents something else – a feeling, a behavior, a view of life as well as itself.’(Newmark, 1988: 164). ...
... represents something else – a feeling, a behavior, a view of life as well as itself.’(Newmark, 1988: 164). ...
Story PowerPoint
... job history or reasons why a person wants to be accepted into a program. Fill in all blanks on an application form unless they are labeled optional. It is important to fill in information ...
... job history or reasons why a person wants to be accepted into a program. Fill in all blanks on an application form unless they are labeled optional. It is important to fill in information ...
Lexical Resources for Noun Compounds in Czech, English and Zulu
... follows. Noun compounds are head-final and thus leftbranching. English has very few compounds like attorney general, where the phrasal head is not the rightmost member. In most compounds, the phrasal head is also the semantic head, i.e., the constituent that expresses the basic meaning of the compou ...
... follows. Noun compounds are head-final and thus leftbranching. English has very few compounds like attorney general, where the phrasal head is not the rightmost member. In most compounds, the phrasal head is also the semantic head, i.e., the constituent that expresses the basic meaning of the compou ...
Distributional Parts of Speech
... “It is frequently assumed that one can satisfactorily describe the word classes of (say) English before going to the ‘meaty’ part of grammar, for which the classes are seen merely as a kind of grammatical shorthand. This is complacency, because to isolate word classes in such a way is both misleadin ...
... “It is frequently assumed that one can satisfactorily describe the word classes of (say) English before going to the ‘meaty’ part of grammar, for which the classes are seen merely as a kind of grammatical shorthand. This is complacency, because to isolate word classes in such a way is both misleadin ...
Punctuation Rules and Capital Letters
... Rule 6 Use the colon to follow the salutation of a business letter even when addressing someone by his/her first name. Never use a semicolon after a salutation. A comma is used after the salutation for personal correspondence. ...
... Rule 6 Use the colon to follow the salutation of a business letter even when addressing someone by his/her first name. Never use a semicolon after a salutation. A comma is used after the salutation for personal correspondence. ...
Document
... a.Bob, an experienced teacher, he knows how to deal with such problems. b.Bob is an experienced teacher since he knowing how to deal with such problems. c.Being an experienced teacher, Bob knows how to deal with such problems. d.Knowing how to deal with such problems, Bob is an experienced teacher. ...
... a.Bob, an experienced teacher, he knows how to deal with such problems. b.Bob is an experienced teacher since he knowing how to deal with such problems. c.Being an experienced teacher, Bob knows how to deal with such problems. d.Knowing how to deal with such problems, Bob is an experienced teacher. ...
Towards a Semantics of X-Bar Theory
... level) is widely accepted. However, syntactically, relational structure is often subordinated to other considerations. Thus, structurally we have VPs and PPs which are relationally incomplete with the subject argument (in the case of a VP) and the modified argument (in the case of a PP) being treate ...
... level) is widely accepted. However, syntactically, relational structure is often subordinated to other considerations. Thus, structurally we have VPs and PPs which are relationally incomplete with the subject argument (in the case of a VP) and the modified argument (in the case of a PP) being treate ...
dependent clauses
... When the relative pronoun is used as the object of a preposition, the adjective clause can take several forms. The most formal way to express these ideas is to place the preposition at the beginning of the adjective clause as in Sentences 1 and 2 (below). In this type of sentence construction, if th ...
... When the relative pronoun is used as the object of a preposition, the adjective clause can take several forms. The most formal way to express these ideas is to place the preposition at the beginning of the adjective clause as in Sentences 1 and 2 (below). In this type of sentence construction, if th ...
Examples - Trimble County Schools
... English contains many words adopted from other languages. In fact, experts estimate 80% of English words originated elsewhere. The biggest influence on the English vocabulary is Latin. ...
... English contains many words adopted from other languages. In fact, experts estimate 80% of English words originated elsewhere. The biggest influence on the English vocabulary is Latin. ...
english tenses
... There are two main kinds of questions in English: those that can be answered by the words yes and no and ...
... There are two main kinds of questions in English: those that can be answered by the words yes and no and ...
Appendix to “Measuring Central Bank
... A verb chunk is defined as zero or more consecutive words tagged as RB, RBR, RBS or WRB, which may optionally be followed by a single word tagged as MD, which may again be followed by zero or more consecutive words tagged as RB, RBR, RBS or WRB. After this group, a word tagged as VB, VBD, VBG, VBN, ...
... A verb chunk is defined as zero or more consecutive words tagged as RB, RBR, RBS or WRB, which may optionally be followed by a single word tagged as MD, which may again be followed by zero or more consecutive words tagged as RB, RBR, RBS or WRB. After this group, a word tagged as VB, VBD, VBG, VBN, ...
dependent clauses
... When the relative pronoun is used as the object of a preposition, the adjective clause can take several forms. The most formal way to express these ideas is to place the preposition at the beginning of the adjective clause as in Sentences 1 and 2 (below). In this type of sentence construction, if th ...
... When the relative pronoun is used as the object of a preposition, the adjective clause can take several forms. The most formal way to express these ideas is to place the preposition at the beginning of the adjective clause as in Sentences 1 and 2 (below). In this type of sentence construction, if th ...
Antisymmetry
... • “Multiple specifiers” can exist in a similar way, adjoined to one another, allowing an explanation for the apparent ability for the highest specifier to “c-command out” (more below). ...
... • “Multiple specifiers” can exist in a similar way, adjoined to one another, allowing an explanation for the apparent ability for the highest specifier to “c-command out” (more below). ...
Natural Language Processing
... Getting this right requires an association between tree and bough. In the past, attempts might have been made to hand-code this in terms of general knowledge of trees and their parts. However this sort of hand-coding is not suitable for applications that work on unbounded domains. These days machine ...
... Getting this right requires an association between tree and bough. In the past, attempts might have been made to hand-code this in terms of general knowledge of trees and their parts. However this sort of hand-coding is not suitable for applications that work on unbounded domains. These days machine ...
The Bristol University (England) Grammar and Style Guide
... To introduce an idea. The colon has two main uses. Firstly it is used to introduce an idea that is an explanation or continuation of the one that comes before the colon. The colon can be considered as a gateway inviting the reader to go on. Have a look at these examples: You are left with only one o ...
... To introduce an idea. The colon has two main uses. Firstly it is used to introduce an idea that is an explanation or continuation of the one that comes before the colon. The colon can be considered as a gateway inviting the reader to go on. Have a look at these examples: You are left with only one o ...
UNIDAD 1b NOTE TO THE STUDENT
... Teachers often talk to each other about their students. If you listened to those conversations, you’d realize that teachers have a way of recognizing students’ learning patterns, the “types of learners” that they are. It’s too bad that more teachers don’t share these observations with their students ...
... Teachers often talk to each other about their students. If you listened to those conversations, you’d realize that teachers have a way of recognizing students’ learning patterns, the “types of learners” that they are. It’s too bad that more teachers don’t share these observations with their students ...
Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives
... • the attributive/predicative distinction, dominating the current scholarship on the adjective, has virtually no semantic significance, thus essentially crushing any hope to derive meaning from deep syntactic analysis; • there is a significant gap in our knowledge about relations between truly relat ...
... • the attributive/predicative distinction, dominating the current scholarship on the adjective, has virtually no semantic significance, thus essentially crushing any hope to derive meaning from deep syntactic analysis; • there is a significant gap in our knowledge about relations between truly relat ...
Conjunctions - BasicComposition.Com
... S UBORD IN ATIN G CON JUN CTION S A subordinating conjunction p laced at the beginning of an ind ep end ent clau se changes it into a subordinate or dependent clause (no longer a com p lete sentence). It introd u ces the d epend ent clau se and show s how it relates to the ind ep end ent clau se to ...
... S UBORD IN ATIN G CON JUN CTION S A subordinating conjunction p laced at the beginning of an ind ep end ent clau se changes it into a subordinate or dependent clause (no longer a com p lete sentence). It introd u ces the d epend ent clau se and show s how it relates to the ind ep end ent clau se to ...
Lecture Notes: Linguistics
... 3. morphology - what are words? are they the basic units of phrases and of meaning? 4. syntax - how are phrases built from those basic units? 5. semantics - how is the meaning linguistic units and complexes determined? A grammar is a speaker’s knowledge of all of these 5 kinds of properties of langu ...
... 3. morphology - what are words? are they the basic units of phrases and of meaning? 4. syntax - how are phrases built from those basic units? 5. semantics - how is the meaning linguistic units and complexes determined? A grammar is a speaker’s knowledge of all of these 5 kinds of properties of langu ...
A Brief Syntactic Typology of Philippine Languages
... that verbal affixation alone is an insufficient criterion. Attention is paid to the notion of “focus”, with rejection of the concept of “voice” as an explanation for the phenomenon. The various forms of syntactically transitive verbs that have been described by others, for example, as signaling agre ...
... that verbal affixation alone is an insufficient criterion. Attention is paid to the notion of “focus”, with rejection of the concept of “voice” as an explanation for the phenomenon. The various forms of syntactically transitive verbs that have been described by others, for example, as signaling agre ...
The Semantics of Russian Genitive of Negation: The Nature and
... Pesetsky ( 1 982) to Harves (2002), would argue that being an underlying direct object is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the occurrence of Gen Neg, so ( 1 1 ) needs further explanation but is not a "counterexample"; they would presumably argue that the verb has been shifted to an Una ...
... Pesetsky ( 1 982) to Harves (2002), would argue that being an underlying direct object is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the occurrence of Gen Neg, so ( 1 1 ) needs further explanation but is not a "counterexample"; they would presumably argue that the verb has been shifted to an Una ...
Reflexive - Hints for Translations
... If a grammatical object in the sentence is the same as the subject, the grammatical object is required to take the reflexive form in German. However, there is no single English equivalent for this use of sich. When translating from German to English, look for an appropriate equivalent in English. Tr ...
... If a grammatical object in the sentence is the same as the subject, the grammatical object is required to take the reflexive form in German. However, there is no single English equivalent for this use of sich. When translating from German to English, look for an appropriate equivalent in English. Tr ...