The Oxford Guide to English Usage
... drawn from the works of some of the best twentieth-century writers (many equally good writers happen not to have been quoted). Even informal or substandard usage has been illustrated in this way; such examples frequently come from speeches put into the mouths of characters in novels, and hence no ce ...
... drawn from the works of some of the best twentieth-century writers (many equally good writers happen not to have been quoted). Even informal or substandard usage has been illustrated in this way; such examples frequently come from speeches put into the mouths of characters in novels, and hence no ce ...
Understanding Relative Clauses
... in a sentence. It is important therefore that relative pronouns used as subjects in relative clauses take verbs that agree with their antecedents. In addition, relative clauses contain a subject and verb as well as an object or complement. Subject-verb agreement within the clause is determined by as ...
... in a sentence. It is important therefore that relative pronouns used as subjects in relative clauses take verbs that agree with their antecedents. In addition, relative clauses contain a subject and verb as well as an object or complement. Subject-verb agreement within the clause is determined by as ...
EAGLES Recommendations for the Morphosyntactic Annotation of
... attributes or values routinely entered in lexicons are virtually impossible to mark automatically in a corpus without a prohibitive amount of error (e.g. the distinctions between the different functions of the base form of the English verb — indicative plural, imperative, subjunctive, etc. — are vir ...
... attributes or values routinely entered in lexicons are virtually impossible to mark automatically in a corpus without a prohibitive amount of error (e.g. the distinctions between the different functions of the base form of the English verb — indicative plural, imperative, subjunctive, etc. — are vir ...
pages 561–577 - Stanford University
... As formulated by Chomsky (1986), binding theory (hereafter BT) constrained indexings, which were taken to be assignments of indices to the NPs in a phrase. What an index was was irrelevant; what mattered was that they partitioned all the NPs in a phrase into equivalence classes. Phrases, in turn, we ...
... As formulated by Chomsky (1986), binding theory (hereafter BT) constrained indexings, which were taken to be assignments of indices to the NPs in a phrase. What an index was was irrelevant; what mattered was that they partitioned all the NPs in a phrase into equivalence classes. Phrases, in turn, we ...
English as a Germanic Language
... (SVO), but in PDE there survive relics of the older, less rigid system, with an element other than the subject before the verb, for example In the tree lived two owls and Up jumped the prosecutor and “Hello,” said the parrot. The Germanic languages are also innovative in respect to methods of formin ...
... (SVO), but in PDE there survive relics of the older, less rigid system, with an element other than the subject before the verb, for example In the tree lived two owls and Up jumped the prosecutor and “Hello,” said the parrot. The Germanic languages are also innovative in respect to methods of formin ...
Typological variation of the adjectival class
... and syntactic assumptions about the meanings and distributions of parts of speech. Tense in Salish, for instance, might be dismissed as a diagnostic for verbhood given its appearance on the nouns q©iyaÒ©\d ‘slug’ and sç©istx„ ‘husband’ in (4a), but this presupposes the semanticallydriven assumption ...
... and syntactic assumptions about the meanings and distributions of parts of speech. Tense in Salish, for instance, might be dismissed as a diagnostic for verbhood given its appearance on the nouns q©iyaÒ©\d ‘slug’ and sç©istx„ ‘husband’ in (4a), but this presupposes the semanticallydriven assumption ...
Language acquisition without an acquisition device
... verbs in SOV patterns. The younger children (mean age 2 years 9 months) used lowfrequency verbs such as tug in non-canonical SOV patterns almost half the time, but never did so with high-frequency verbs such as push. The older children resisted SOV order for all verbs. Both studies point toward an i ...
... verbs in SOV patterns. The younger children (mean age 2 years 9 months) used lowfrequency verbs such as tug in non-canonical SOV patterns almost half the time, but never did so with high-frequency verbs such as push. The older children resisted SOV order for all verbs. Both studies point toward an i ...
Language Change
... functional load is very slight, that is there are very few words which are distinguished by the difference between /2/ and /3/. Other instances of internal change would be what is called ‘analogy’. This term has a number of meanings; the one intended here can be paraphrased as ‘regularisation of irr ...
... functional load is very slight, that is there are very few words which are distinguished by the difference between /2/ and /3/. Other instances of internal change would be what is called ‘analogy’. This term has a number of meanings; the one intended here can be paraphrased as ‘regularisation of irr ...
Pronoun PowerPoint 11.15.11
... Directions: Identify the reflexive pronoun in each sentence. To challenge yourself, identify the reflexive pronoun as the direct object, indirect object, or object of the preposition. A chameleon can give itself tasty meals of unsuspecting ...
... Directions: Identify the reflexive pronoun in each sentence. To challenge yourself, identify the reflexive pronoun as the direct object, indirect object, or object of the preposition. A chameleon can give itself tasty meals of unsuspecting ...
sv-lncs
... Obviously, roles like AGENT, PAT, INSTR, RES, LOC, MANN can be found in both lists but still, there is a question how similar they are. We have to be aware of the fact that ILRs are not always associated with the synsets while the derivational relations are always associated with the literals repres ...
... Obviously, roles like AGENT, PAT, INSTR, RES, LOC, MANN can be found in both lists but still, there is a question how similar they are. We have to be aware of the fact that ILRs are not always associated with the synsets while the derivational relations are always associated with the literals repres ...
An analysis of the German Perfekti
... - bare stems that are not finite but can be made finite by fusing them with some FIN; a (simple or complex) form which can be made finite will be called ‘FIN-linkable’; - forms which are explicitly marked as non-finite, i.e., participle and infinitive; these cannot be fused with some FIN; but normal ...
... - bare stems that are not finite but can be made finite by fusing them with some FIN; a (simple or complex) form which can be made finite will be called ‘FIN-linkable’; - forms which are explicitly marked as non-finite, i.e., participle and infinitive; these cannot be fused with some FIN; but normal ...
An analysis of the German Perfekti
... - bare stems that are not finite but can be made finite by fusing them with some FIN; a (simple or complex) form which can be made finite will be called ‘FIN-linkable’; - forms which are explicitly marked as non-finite, i.e., participle and infinitive; these cannot be fused with some FIN; but normal ...
... - bare stems that are not finite but can be made finite by fusing them with some FIN; a (simple or complex) form which can be made finite will be called ‘FIN-linkable’; - forms which are explicitly marked as non-finite, i.e., participle and infinitive; these cannot be fused with some FIN; but normal ...
Faculty of Language Studies EL120: Introduction to English
... We can also make a sentence longer by adding and combining more units together Example: The man you saw waiting for the bus yesterday and who was wearing a kepi hat is my cousin. The study of the internal structure of sentences is called Syntax, which will be discussed in detail in chapters 9-11 5. ...
... We can also make a sentence longer by adding and combining more units together Example: The man you saw waiting for the bus yesterday and who was wearing a kepi hat is my cousin. The study of the internal structure of sentences is called Syntax, which will be discussed in detail in chapters 9-11 5. ...
Passive Resistance in Spanish
... ~ Spanish and English appear to be similar in having parallel passive constructions (be / ser + past participle), but the circumstances in which these can be used are quite different. ~ Spanish actually has a number of constructions which qualify to be called passives in the sense that the subject o ...
... ~ Spanish and English appear to be similar in having parallel passive constructions (be / ser + past participle), but the circumstances in which these can be used are quite different. ~ Spanish actually has a number of constructions which qualify to be called passives in the sense that the subject o ...
sentence
... main idea, ‘The storm flooded Newcastle’s streets’. That main idea could stand alone without the subordinate clause. On the other hand, if we had to rely on the subordinate clause, we would not know what was so noteworthy about the occurrence on June the 8th. When we look at conjunctions (joining wo ...
... main idea, ‘The storm flooded Newcastle’s streets’. That main idea could stand alone without the subordinate clause. On the other hand, if we had to rely on the subordinate clause, we would not know what was so noteworthy about the occurrence on June the 8th. When we look at conjunctions (joining wo ...
Teaching Grammar
... text. With certain structures, it is also important to note the phonemic/ graphemic patterns (see the discussion of possessives and phrasal verbs below for examples). In the semantic wedge, we deal with what a grammar structure means. Note that the meaning can be lexical (a dictionary definition for ...
... text. With certain structures, it is also important to note the phonemic/ graphemic patterns (see the discussion of possessives and phrasal verbs below for examples). In the semantic wedge, we deal with what a grammar structure means. Note that the meaning can be lexical (a dictionary definition for ...
Identity of Roots - LingBuzz
... The paper is laid out as follows. In section 2, the relevant aspects of the Distributed Morphology model are reviewed, and its original concept of an un-‐individuated acategorial root node is introduced. ...
... The paper is laid out as follows. In section 2, the relevant aspects of the Distributed Morphology model are reviewed, and its original concept of an un-‐individuated acategorial root node is introduced. ...
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... Grammar Glossary Ambiguous reference—Ambiguous reference occurs when a pronoun incorrectly refers to either of two antecedents. Ambiguous: A tortoise is different from a turtle only in that it lives on land, not in water. Which lives on land—the turtle or the tortoise? ...
... Grammar Glossary Ambiguous reference—Ambiguous reference occurs when a pronoun incorrectly refers to either of two antecedents. Ambiguous: A tortoise is different from a turtle only in that it lives on land, not in water. Which lives on land—the turtle or the tortoise? ...
Inheritance and Complementation: A Case Study of Easy Adjectives
... and Wasow 1985 and Flickinger 1987). In structured lexicons, word classes may stand in a relationship of inheritance to one another, in which case the properties of the bequeathing class accrue automatically to the inheriting class. Once we allow that a single class may be heir to more than one bequ ...
... and Wasow 1985 and Flickinger 1987). In structured lexicons, word classes may stand in a relationship of inheritance to one another, in which case the properties of the bequeathing class accrue automatically to the inheriting class. Once we allow that a single class may be heir to more than one bequ ...
12. Paper 4 - A brief Comparison between some Aspects of Irish and
... Irish: (Occasional): D’imigh na cosa uaigh. – (His) The feet went from under him. Baineadh an lámh ón uileann de. - (His) The arm was amputated at the elbow. German: Ich wasche mir die Hände. - I wash the hands (for myself). (L) Use of the Possessive Dative Case Irish: Tá an leabhar ag mo shean-char ...
... Irish: (Occasional): D’imigh na cosa uaigh. – (His) The feet went from under him. Baineadh an lámh ón uileann de. - (His) The arm was amputated at the elbow. German: Ich wasche mir die Hände. - I wash the hands (for myself). (L) Use of the Possessive Dative Case Irish: Tá an leabhar ag mo shean-char ...
Neural Responses to Structural Incongruencies in Language and Statistical
... years (M = 19.8). All were native speakers of English. ...
... years (M = 19.8). All were native speakers of English. ...
On the superficiality of Welsh agreement
... which only occur with pronouns. Finite verbs agree with a following pronominal subject, prepositions agree with a following pronominal complement, and a particle which introduces non-finite clauses agrees with a following pronominal subject. Similarly, nouns have a preceding clitic agreeing with a f ...
... which only occur with pronouns. Finite verbs agree with a following pronominal subject, prepositions agree with a following pronominal complement, and a particle which introduces non-finite clauses agrees with a following pronominal subject. Similarly, nouns have a preceding clitic agreeing with a f ...
Gradient Data and Gradient Grammars
... satisfies both the constraints on basic sequencing of lexical categories, and the selectional restrictions of the verb. Katz (1964), in another early piece on degrees of acceptability, argues that Chomsky’s proposal is inadequate to capture the full range of intermediate cases. He claims that, for e ...
... satisfies both the constraints on basic sequencing of lexical categories, and the selectional restrictions of the verb. Katz (1964), in another early piece on degrees of acceptability, argues that Chomsky’s proposal is inadequate to capture the full range of intermediate cases. He claims that, for e ...