Chapter 11: THE PASSIVE
... 1. We don’t know who made the sweater, and it is not important to know. The equivalent active sentence is “Someone (in England) made my sweater (in England).” The passive is preferred here because the actor is unknown and unimportant. 2. The implied by-phrase is “by people who build highways.” The p ...
... 1. We don’t know who made the sweater, and it is not important to know. The equivalent active sentence is “Someone (in England) made my sweater (in England).” The passive is preferred here because the actor is unknown and unimportant. 2. The implied by-phrase is “by people who build highways.” The p ...
Parent Help Booklet - Shurley Instructional Materials
... Subject, Verb, Com-plete sense, Capital letter, and an end mark, too. That’s what a sentence is all about! ...
... Subject, Verb, Com-plete sense, Capital letter, and an end mark, too. That’s what a sentence is all about! ...
The Tamil Case System
... One must also confront here a problem that comes up in all analyses of case systems, namely, whether something is a “true” case marker, or “just” a postposition. Underlying many analyses of Dravidian systems is an uneasiness in dealing with the genitive, since it seems to stand midway between case a ...
... One must also confront here a problem that comes up in all analyses of case systems, namely, whether something is a “true” case marker, or “just” a postposition. Underlying many analyses of Dravidian systems is an uneasiness in dealing with the genitive, since it seems to stand midway between case a ...
- Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies
... never�occur�unless�attached,�directly�or�indirectly,�to�a root.�Affixes�attach�only� to� specific� classes�of� root-� for� instance,� only�to� noun� roots”� (Spencer� 2006,�p.� 107).�In�a more�recent�view,�“sometimes�an�affix�may�attach�to�stems�of�more� than� one� category”� (Aronoff� & Fudeman,� 2 ...
... never�occur�unless�attached,�directly�or�indirectly,�to�a root.�Affixes�attach�only� to� specific� classes�of� root-� for� instance,� only�to� noun� roots”� (Spencer� 2006,�p.� 107).�In�a more�recent�view,�“sometimes�an�affix�may�attach�to�stems�of�more� than� one� category”� (Aronoff� & Fudeman,� 2 ...
Aspect Marking and Modality in Child Vietnamese
... 2. ADULT VIETNAMESE Vietnamese is an SVO and isolating language, thus has no inflectional morphology. Verbs are not inflected, i.e. they never have a stem change, but there are various markers (separate morphemes) that accompany the verb to express Tense and Aspect. There are two types of expression ...
... 2. ADULT VIETNAMESE Vietnamese is an SVO and isolating language, thus has no inflectional morphology. Verbs are not inflected, i.e. they never have a stem change, but there are various markers (separate morphemes) that accompany the verb to express Tense and Aspect. There are two types of expression ...
Test 16 Writing Answers
... Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by providing three parallel noun phrases to describe what “Many . . . Romantic poets” believed in (“rebellion against social conventions,” “the expression of strong emotions,” and “the power of imagination”). Choice (A) results in faulty par ...
... Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by providing three parallel noun phrases to describe what “Many . . . Romantic poets” believed in (“rebellion against social conventions,” “the expression of strong emotions,” and “the power of imagination”). Choice (A) results in faulty par ...
RTF file
... elsewhere. Tzotzil AF verbs are subject to the further restriction that they occur only in clauses in which the agent is extracted. Once this restriction is taken into account, AF verbs in Tzotzil show striking parallels to better established inverse verbs in other languages. Discussions of AF verbs ...
... elsewhere. Tzotzil AF verbs are subject to the further restriction that they occur only in clauses in which the agent is extracted. Once this restriction is taken into account, AF verbs in Tzotzil show striking parallels to better established inverse verbs in other languages. Discussions of AF verbs ...
Lectures on Functional Syntax
... return to this in more detail in the next lecture; here I simply want to introduce one of the basic aspects of Functional analysis. Consider the concept Noun. Start with the traditional notional definition: '(word whose reference is) a person, place, or thing'. The basic problem with this is that it ...
... return to this in more detail in the next lecture; here I simply want to introduce one of the basic aspects of Functional analysis. Consider the concept Noun. Start with the traditional notional definition: '(word whose reference is) a person, place, or thing'. The basic problem with this is that it ...
Adding Adjectives and Adverbs From
... [The following are examples of phrases: [Define phrase] around the house ...
... [The following are examples of phrases: [Define phrase] around the house ...
Did you go shopping in London?
... ・ Adjectives like nice/ beautiful/ delicious/ interesting are ‘opinion’ adjectives. They tell us what somebody thinks of something or somebody.When you use more than one opinion adjective, it does not usually matter what order they go in, but if one of the adjectives is more general, it i ...
... ・ Adjectives like nice/ beautiful/ delicious/ interesting are ‘opinion’ adjectives. They tell us what somebody thinks of something or somebody.When you use more than one opinion adjective, it does not usually matter what order they go in, but if one of the adjectives is more general, it i ...
On the Reciprocal in Ndebele - Nordic Journal of African Studies
... Bantu extended stems are complex constructions. They consist of the VR (which can be simplex, complex or reduplicated), and one or more verbal extensions attached to the right of the VR. Verbal extensions are distinguished from one another by their shape, syntactic function and meaning. They can be ...
... Bantu extended stems are complex constructions. They consist of the VR (which can be simplex, complex or reduplicated), and one or more verbal extensions attached to the right of the VR. Verbal extensions are distinguished from one another by their shape, syntactic function and meaning. They can be ...
Workshops I_IV
... Additionally, a remarkable feature of clitic placement in Ossetic is that, aside from full-fledged clitic climbing, so-called "weak" clitic climbing is also observed. In this configuration, the clitic is not found in a second position neither in the subordinate nor in the main clause; it is placed " ...
... Additionally, a remarkable feature of clitic placement in Ossetic is that, aside from full-fledged clitic climbing, so-called "weak" clitic climbing is also observed. In this configuration, the clitic is not found in a second position neither in the subordinate nor in the main clause; it is placed " ...
ARKA, I Wayan and Mary DALRYMPLE, 2016. `Number and plural
... (pronouns/nouns/determiners) and verbs, or optionally expressed, for example by reduplication as in Indonesian (Dalrymple & Mofu 2012). It may be expressed only on nouns, as in Chinese (Li & Thompson 1981), or only on verbs or demonstratives (via agreement/indexing) as in Oceanic languages such as S ...
... (pronouns/nouns/determiners) and verbs, or optionally expressed, for example by reduplication as in Indonesian (Dalrymple & Mofu 2012). It may be expressed only on nouns, as in Chinese (Li & Thompson 1981), or only on verbs or demonstratives (via agreement/indexing) as in Oceanic languages such as S ...
A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar for English
... closer to the notion of function in Categorial Grammars. 3There may also be some linguistic generalizations which can not be stated as an explicit representation of implicit lexical information. These would likely be statements concerning the constraints on syntactic structures that are needed to ev ...
... closer to the notion of function in Categorial Grammars. 3There may also be some linguistic generalizations which can not be stated as an explicit representation of implicit lexical information. These would likely be statements concerning the constraints on syntactic structures that are needed to ev ...
Compositionality (Powerpoint)
... No Semantic Closure Intuitively, the failure of the substitutability of synonyms here arises from the fact that the meanings of “‘bachelor’” and of “‘unmarried man’” do not depend on the meanings of “bachelor” and “unmarried man,” respectively. Instead they depend on the words themselves. This is u ...
... No Semantic Closure Intuitively, the failure of the substitutability of synonyms here arises from the fact that the meanings of “‘bachelor’” and of “‘unmarried man’” do not depend on the meanings of “bachelor” and “unmarried man,” respectively. Instead they depend on the words themselves. This is u ...
editing workbook
... If you are an editor and are asked for a quick fix—the techniques we’ll cover should help you. Before we go on, here’s our take on what is grammatically wrong and what is stylistically unacceptable. ...
... If you are an editor and are asked for a quick fix—the techniques we’ll cover should help you. Before we go on, here’s our take on what is grammatically wrong and what is stylistically unacceptable. ...
Evolution of the Conception of Parts of Speech
... favor of more modern approaches based on the notion that the same categories cannot be blindly adopted across languages. Still, as Gil (2000, 173) argues, word categorization remains largely Eurocentric: Latin played a huge role in the past; now the same role is played by English. Consequently, whil ...
... favor of more modern approaches based on the notion that the same categories cannot be blindly adopted across languages. Still, as Gil (2000, 173) argues, word categorization remains largely Eurocentric: Latin played a huge role in the past; now the same role is played by English. Consequently, whil ...
Chapter 3 Sentence Structure: Predicates Rule
... Fronted adjuncts are still not part of the main clause’s predicate structure so are not linked to the main clause or its predicate. Fronted is not the default position of adjuncts but it is very common, equivalent to providing new information either asked-for or as if asked for. Unlike complements, ...
... Fronted adjuncts are still not part of the main clause’s predicate structure so are not linked to the main clause or its predicate. Fronted is not the default position of adjuncts but it is very common, equivalent to providing new information either asked-for or as if asked for. Unlike complements, ...
Anaphora Resolution for Question Answering
... the general case, and because these are the most common uses of pronouns. In a system with this focus, the first step in resolving a pronoun is to determine whether it is pleonastic, and if not, to identify all noun phrases occurring before it as possible antecedents. Once the set of potential antec ...
... the general case, and because these are the most common uses of pronouns. In a system with this focus, the first step in resolving a pronoun is to determine whether it is pleonastic, and if not, to identify all noun phrases occurring before it as possible antecedents. Once the set of potential antec ...
1. 名詞子句 - 視聽教學中心
... 2. "Object Pattern" - the relative pronoun is the object of the clause. The people who(m) / that we met seemed very friendly. The people to whom / that we were speaking seemed very friendly. The people who(m) / that we were speaking to seemed very friendly. I recently saw the people to whom / that w ...
... 2. "Object Pattern" - the relative pronoun is the object of the clause. The people who(m) / that we met seemed very friendly. The people to whom / that we were speaking seemed very friendly. The people who(m) / that we were speaking to seemed very friendly. I recently saw the people to whom / that w ...
TABLA PARCIAL DE CONTENIDOS – EXÁMENES DE
... Ways animals are used or treated Ways to commemorate a holiday Ways to describe innovative products Ways to describe possible risks Ways to describe reading material Ways to describe the natural world Ways to disagree politely Ways to express certainty Ways to express fear and fearlessness Ways to p ...
... Ways animals are used or treated Ways to commemorate a holiday Ways to describe innovative products Ways to describe possible risks Ways to describe reading material Ways to describe the natural world Ways to disagree politely Ways to express certainty Ways to express fear and fearlessness Ways to p ...
English Sentence Analysis : an Introductory Course
... variety, not only because this is the variety that we will come across most in academic books and articles, but especially because it is more carefully thought about before put on paper and therefore does not show the kinds of gaps and un¼nished sentences that may occur in spoken language. Another r ...
... variety, not only because this is the variety that we will come across most in academic books and articles, but especially because it is more carefully thought about before put on paper and therefore does not show the kinds of gaps and un¼nished sentences that may occur in spoken language. Another r ...
Journal of Linguistics Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in
... ‘ I’m looking for an apartment. ’ We will show that this non-argumental behavior is intimately connected to the semantics of Spanish and Catalan object BNs, which share semantic properties that have been associated with some types of incorporated nominals (see e.g. Van Geenhoven 1996, Dayal 2003, Fa ...
... ‘ I’m looking for an apartment. ’ We will show that this non-argumental behavior is intimately connected to the semantics of Spanish and Catalan object BNs, which share semantic properties that have been associated with some types of incorporated nominals (see e.g. Van Geenhoven 1996, Dayal 2003, Fa ...
Learning Syntax — A Neurocogitive Approach
... Still under the heading of considering what it is that must be learned in order to have a command of the syntax of a language, let us next be explicit that syntax is concerned with combinations of lexemes and indeed with a hierarchy of combinations — phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. So we need to t ...
... Still under the heading of considering what it is that must be learned in order to have a command of the syntax of a language, let us next be explicit that syntax is concerned with combinations of lexemes and indeed with a hierarchy of combinations — phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. So we need to t ...