Rapport de Maël - ANGLAIS IN FRANCE
... find a spelling pattern. They also wrote a list of words using the letters ‘ow’ but which aren’t pronounced as one expects. This involved much dictionary searching and they both really enjoyed it, coming up with words like ‘doubt’ with its silent ’b’, jowls, snout, towel, compound, but not grown, kn ...
... find a spelling pattern. They also wrote a list of words using the letters ‘ow’ but which aren’t pronounced as one expects. This involved much dictionary searching and they both really enjoyed it, coming up with words like ‘doubt’ with its silent ’b’, jowls, snout, towel, compound, but not grown, kn ...
colon – introductions
... If the question is short but requires special emphasis, it may be treated as a direct question and the colon may introduce the question. The sentence ends with a question mark . The colon has the effect of making the question more formal. EXAMPLES d. My question is: Why? e. My question is: Why not? ...
... If the question is short but requires special emphasis, it may be treated as a direct question and the colon may introduce the question. The sentence ends with a question mark . The colon has the effect of making the question more formal. EXAMPLES d. My question is: Why? e. My question is: Why not? ...
THE EPP, NOMINATIVE CASE and EXPLETIVES
... external θ-role and do not discharge Case with the assistance of I, or in other words, when no I+V complex is formed to check both components of nominative Case. Such cases include not only unaccusative constructions, in which the verb assigns inherent nominative to the postverbal NP, but also cases ...
... external θ-role and do not discharge Case with the assistance of I, or in other words, when no I+V complex is formed to check both components of nominative Case. Such cases include not only unaccusative constructions, in which the verb assigns inherent nominative to the postverbal NP, but also cases ...
Ch 10 - CSU, Chico
... II. The future tense and subordinate adverbial clauses When the main clause verb is in the future tense, the verb in the subordinate adverbial clause is in the simple present. I will be so happy, when I finally finish studying. When I finally finish studying, I will be so happy. Notice that in the examp ...
... II. The future tense and subordinate adverbial clauses When the main clause verb is in the future tense, the verb in the subordinate adverbial clause is in the simple present. I will be so happy, when I finally finish studying. When I finally finish studying, I will be so happy. Notice that in the examp ...
the nature and classification of idioms
... grass. Some idioms are much longer: to fish in troubled waters, to take the bull by the horns, to cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth. An idiom can have a regular structure, an irregular or even a grammatically incorrect structure. The idiom I am good friends with him is irregular or illogical ...
... grass. Some idioms are much longer: to fish in troubled waters, to take the bull by the horns, to cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth. An idiom can have a regular structure, an irregular or even a grammatically incorrect structure. The idiom I am good friends with him is irregular or illogical ...
the demotic verbal system - Oriental Institute
... spoken language, especially when it first came into use, than was the archaic “classical” language preserved in religious texts and hieroglyphic inscriptions. The Demotic script is the most cursive one developed by the Egyptians. It was first used under Psammetichus I (ca. 650 B.C.), early in the 26 ...
... spoken language, especially when it first came into use, than was the archaic “classical” language preserved in religious texts and hieroglyphic inscriptions. The Demotic script is the most cursive one developed by the Egyptians. It was first used under Psammetichus I (ca. 650 B.C.), early in the 26 ...
Uses of ter- in Malay: A corpus-based study
... ‘passive-like’ to a ‘real’ passive has taken place. In (3c) and (3d), by replacing ter- with di- and/or by adding oleh ‘by,’ the original meaning in (2b) previously is altered because now ‘worldly property’ is the ‘agent’ rather than the ‘goal,’ albeit there is a difference between (3c) and (3d), wh ...
... ‘passive-like’ to a ‘real’ passive has taken place. In (3c) and (3d), by replacing ter- with di- and/or by adding oleh ‘by,’ the original meaning in (2b) previously is altered because now ‘worldly property’ is the ‘agent’ rather than the ‘goal,’ albeit there is a difference between (3c) and (3d), wh ...
(Past) Participle Agreement
... difference between the two cases is related to the nature of the past participial morphology which only manifests gender and number features and no person feature. Kayne’s original account, as well as the subsequent literature on the topic, has typically left unexplained why such agreement process s ...
... difference between the two cases is related to the nature of the past participial morphology which only manifests gender and number features and no person feature. Kayne’s original account, as well as the subsequent literature on the topic, has typically left unexplained why such agreement process s ...
Document
... We need to use our knowledge of sentence context here to know that we are correct in translating ni-nis-a:n as mountain, because we know that ni-nis-a:n can also have other meanings. The direct translation of ni-nis-a:n is arrived at through the meanings of the root words, “nin’” and “sa’an”. Knowin ...
... We need to use our knowledge of sentence context here to know that we are correct in translating ni-nis-a:n as mountain, because we know that ni-nis-a:n can also have other meanings. The direct translation of ni-nis-a:n is arrived at through the meanings of the root words, “nin’” and “sa’an”. Knowin ...
12110/99
... adjectives which must be case-marked. Unlike nouns, they do not move to receive Case by government; unlike many other adjectives, they do not necessarily inherit Case from a noun. In order to extend OB to account for the case-marking of secondary predicates in Russian, we must allow the possibility ...
... adjectives which must be case-marked. Unlike nouns, they do not move to receive Case by government; unlike many other adjectives, they do not necessarily inherit Case from a noun. In order to extend OB to account for the case-marking of secondary predicates in Russian, we must allow the possibility ...
Functional Analysis of Zero Anaphora in Thai
... the norm of the language is not to express that referent again until there is a syntactic or discourse reason for reintroducing it. Such a norm of anaphora is diametrically opposite to that of Indo-European languages. Thus, when a prototypical isolating language such as Late Archaic Chinese is analy ...
... the norm of the language is not to express that referent again until there is a syntactic or discourse reason for reintroducing it. Such a norm of anaphora is diametrically opposite to that of Indo-European languages. Thus, when a prototypical isolating language such as Late Archaic Chinese is analy ...
gradable and ungradable adjectives
... Little is mostly used in attributive position. We can say A nice little house, but we would probably say The house is small, not *The house is little. Compound adjectives like one-eyed are usually used attributively, and adjectives made from nouns (like sports, in a sports car) are also mostly used ...
... Little is mostly used in attributive position. We can say A nice little house, but we would probably say The house is small, not *The house is little. Compound adjectives like one-eyed are usually used attributively, and adjectives made from nouns (like sports, in a sports car) are also mostly used ...
LEXICAL NEGATION IN ENGLISH: THE CASE OF UN- AND IN-
... comparable in that they appear mainly in adjectives and, to a lesser extent, in nouns. Un- is also a verbal prefix, but historically that prefix is a different one. Because of the word categories they concern, their widespread use, and the gloss they can undergo, one could assume that the only diffe ...
... comparable in that they appear mainly in adjectives and, to a lesser extent, in nouns. Un- is also a verbal prefix, but historically that prefix is a different one. Because of the word categories they concern, their widespread use, and the gloss they can undergo, one could assume that the only diffe ...
Translating Infinitival Structures
... some theory of similarities and contrasts between languages? These are just several questions from many more that, perhaps, bother all language learners and translators. Some of them are more difficult to answer than others. In one way or another, the voluminous literature on translation proves that ...
... some theory of similarities and contrasts between languages? These are just several questions from many more that, perhaps, bother all language learners and translators. Some of them are more difficult to answer than others. In one way or another, the voluminous literature on translation proves that ...
The subjunctive in Spanish
... [edit] The past (imperfect) subjunctive Used interchangeably, the past (imperfect) subjunctive can end either in "-se" or "-ra". Both forms stem from the third person plural (ellos, ellas, ustedes) of the preterite tense. For example, with the verb "estar", when conjugated in the third person plural ...
... [edit] The past (imperfect) subjunctive Used interchangeably, the past (imperfect) subjunctive can end either in "-se" or "-ra". Both forms stem from the third person plural (ellos, ellas, ustedes) of the preterite tense. For example, with the verb "estar", when conjugated in the third person plural ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging and Partial Parsing for Irish using Finite-State Transducers and Constraint Grammar
... In this thesis, we present the development and evaluation of a suite of annotation tools for unrestricted Irish text, which go from tokenization, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, right through to partial parsing. In order to develop such tools, a large body of texts is required for te ...
... In this thesis, we present the development and evaluation of a suite of annotation tools for unrestricted Irish text, which go from tokenization, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, right through to partial parsing. In order to develop such tools, a large body of texts is required for te ...
COMMON NOUNS, CLASSIFIERS, AND QUANTIFICATION IN
... phrases occurring in argument position), and provides empirical support to an existing approach from a cross-linguistic perspective. Chapter 3 examines the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers, to account for its crucial role in combining common nouns with numerals and determiners in Chinese ...
... phrases occurring in argument position), and provides empirical support to an existing approach from a cross-linguistic perspective. Chapter 3 examines the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers, to account for its crucial role in combining common nouns with numerals and determiners in Chinese ...
semantic analysis of english performative verbs
... several illocutionary points. For example, an alert is the conjunction of an assertion that some danger is imminent and of a directive suggestion to the hearer to prepare for action in order to avoid misfortune. (6) One must distinguish between speech act verbs like " order" and "promise " that are ...
... several illocutionary points. For example, an alert is the conjunction of an assertion that some danger is imminent and of a directive suggestion to the hearer to prepare for action in order to avoid misfortune. (6) One must distinguish between speech act verbs like " order" and "promise " that are ...
Discontinuous reciprocals Abstract 1 Introduction
... For convenience, I will say that a reciprocal strategy or a reciprocal verb is “used discontinuously” when it is used in a discontinuous reciprocal construction.2 It is easy to show that the construction is not general-purpose adjunction, but is specific to certain reciprocal strategies. In all the ...
... For convenience, I will say that a reciprocal strategy or a reciprocal verb is “used discontinuously” when it is used in a discontinuous reciprocal construction.2 It is easy to show that the construction is not general-purpose adjunction, but is specific to certain reciprocal strategies. In all the ...
C. The Verb
... Though already grammaticalised in Old Egyptian, the progressive and future converbs clearly display the elements of which they were originally composed, viz. prepositions Hr, m, and r, plus infinitive. Hr sdm is — in contrast to Old / Middle Egyptian — not exclusively progressive. Used as a predicat ...
... Though already grammaticalised in Old Egyptian, the progressive and future converbs clearly display the elements of which they were originally composed, viz. prepositions Hr, m, and r, plus infinitive. Hr sdm is — in contrast to Old / Middle Egyptian — not exclusively progressive. Used as a predicat ...
Conditional sentences in Modern Standard Arabic and the Taif Dialect
... the main clause gives the result. Similarly, the relative clause is introduced by the same relative pronouns in the headless relative clause in both dialects and expresses the condition and the main clause the result. Also, the free relative clause gives the condition and the main clause the result. ...
... the main clause gives the result. Similarly, the relative clause is introduced by the same relative pronouns in the headless relative clause in both dialects and expresses the condition and the main clause the result. Also, the free relative clause gives the condition and the main clause the result. ...
1 The grammar of knowledge: a cross-linguistic
... Every language has a way of speaking about how one knows what one says, and what one thinks about what one knows. In any language, there are ways of phrasing inferences, assumptions, probabilities and possibilities, and expressing disbelief. These epistemiological meanings and their cultural correla ...
... Every language has a way of speaking about how one knows what one says, and what one thinks about what one knows. In any language, there are ways of phrasing inferences, assumptions, probabilities and possibilities, and expressing disbelief. These epistemiological meanings and their cultural correla ...
On Comparative Suppletion
... of itself almost certainly insignificant. English, for example, has only a handful of adjectives (and adverbs) that have suppletive comparatives (good/well-better, bad-worse; much/manymore, little/few-less). Over such a small sample size, the absence of the ABA pattern, or of any other pattern, coul ...
... of itself almost certainly insignificant. English, for example, has only a handful of adjectives (and adverbs) that have suppletive comparatives (good/well-better, bad-worse; much/manymore, little/few-less). Over such a small sample size, the absence of the ABA pattern, or of any other pattern, coul ...
Japanese Grammar Guide - Tae Kim`s Guide to Learning Japanese
... Negative Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.6.1 Conjugating verbs into the negative . . . . . . . Past Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7.1 Past tense for ru-verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7.2 Past tense for u-verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7.3 ...
... Negative Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.6.1 Conjugating verbs into the negative . . . . . . . Past Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7.1 Past tense for ru-verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7.2 Past tense for u-verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7.3 ...
Delta Module One - Cambridge English
... There has been no change to this task. For examples of Task One questions, detailed feedback on how to approach this task, and comments on sample answers, see previous Examination Reports on the Cambridge English Teaching Support website and the latest Delta Modules Handbook. In this session, the av ...
... There has been no change to this task. For examples of Task One questions, detailed feedback on how to approach this task, and comments on sample answers, see previous Examination Reports on the Cambridge English Teaching Support website and the latest Delta Modules Handbook. In this session, the av ...