pronouns and agreement: the information status
... distinguishfour persons(frst, second,third and corefetentialthird), three numbers (singular, dual and plural), and two grammatical roles. (The coreferentialthird-personcatogory,abbreviatedn, is used for participants that are coreferential with the subject of that clauseor a higher one.)There are no ...
... distinguishfour persons(frst, second,third and corefetentialthird), three numbers (singular, dual and plural), and two grammatical roles. (The coreferentialthird-personcatogory,abbreviatedn, is used for participants that are coreferential with the subject of that clauseor a higher one.)There are no ...
Chapter 19: Lexical-Functional Grammar
... checking do not. By contrast, P&P/Minimalism is able to derive word order differences between languages from feature checking and movement. Minimalism thus provides a slightly more explanatory theory of word order than LFG, which uses language-specific phrase structure rules. It is not at all clear ...
... checking do not. By contrast, P&P/Minimalism is able to derive word order differences between languages from feature checking and movement. Minimalism thus provides a slightly more explanatory theory of word order than LFG, which uses language-specific phrase structure rules. It is not at all clear ...
The Syntax of French
... begun to diverge from the Latin of Rome, and this process of divergence accelerated following the loss of the centralising influence of the Empire. Thus, while written Latin remained stable, the vernacular did not. One major factor determining how the Latin of Gaul developed after the fall of Rome w ...
... begun to diverge from the Latin of Rome, and this process of divergence accelerated following the loss of the centralising influence of the Empire. Thus, while written Latin remained stable, the vernacular did not. One major factor determining how the Latin of Gaul developed after the fall of Rome w ...
On Language and Connectionism
... PDP networks would compute the primitive symbol associations (such as matching an input against memory, or pairing the input and output of a rule), but the way the overall output of one network feeds into the input of another would be isomorphic to the structure of the symbol manipulations captured ...
... PDP networks would compute the primitive symbol associations (such as matching an input against memory, or pairing the input and output of a rule), but the way the overall output of one network feeds into the input of another would be isomorphic to the structure of the symbol manipulations captured ...
Prosody Drives the Syntax: O`odham Rhythm
... Tohono O'odham (TO; formerly Papago) is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in southern Arizona. It is a language with free word order, although there are some constraints on where certain elements may or may not appear. The two restrictions relevant for this paper are those placed on the g determiner and ...
... Tohono O'odham (TO; formerly Papago) is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in southern Arizona. It is a language with free word order, although there are some constraints on where certain elements may or may not appear. The two restrictions relevant for this paper are those placed on the g determiner and ...
SAT Subject Tests - collegereadiness
... Choice (A) is correct. The question asks why the members of the Rythme & Blues band don’t often rehearse. Man B (Éric) ...
... Choice (A) is correct. The question asks why the members of the Rythme & Blues band don’t often rehearse. Man B (Éric) ...
the definition of the grammatical category in a syntactically oriented
... proposal is that relational adjectives are actually nominal projections that lack the formal features that they need to play the role of arguments of a predicate; the adjectival morpheme has the function of providing the noun with these features. We propose that the relational adjective moves to the ...
... proposal is that relational adjectives are actually nominal projections that lack the formal features that they need to play the role of arguments of a predicate; the adjectival morpheme has the function of providing the noun with these features. We propose that the relational adjective moves to the ...
The Syntax of Valuation in Auxiliary–participle
... specified for an iT-feature, an element higher than X can value Y, and Y will occur with the morphology corresponding to the higher verb rather than the selecting verb. Second, movement, which changes the syntactic Agree configuration (but not the semantic selectional properties) can affect valuatio ...
... specified for an iT-feature, an element higher than X can value Y, and Y will occur with the morphology corresponding to the higher verb rather than the selecting verb. Second, movement, which changes the syntactic Agree configuration (but not the semantic selectional properties) can affect valuatio ...
comprehension and recall of sentences
... used to link the eight noun pairs. The mediation model of Fig. 1 would suppose that the V term would become associated to four, two, or one different N2 terms, respectively, in the three cases; consequently, correct N2 recall to NI should increase the fewer the sentences in which a given V occurs. H ...
... used to link the eight noun pairs. The mediation model of Fig. 1 would suppose that the V term would become associated to four, two, or one different N2 terms, respectively, in the three cases; consequently, correct N2 recall to NI should increase the fewer the sentences in which a given V occurs. H ...
some infinitive structures in asturian
... in Asturian, mainly in relative clauses and specifically in different patterns including de preposition: noun + de + infinitive (el llibru de lleer ‘The book that must be read’ o ‘the book that usually is read’) or article + de+ infinitive (Yera la fía la de faelo ‘his daughter was who should do i ...
... in Asturian, mainly in relative clauses and specifically in different patterns including de preposition: noun + de + infinitive (el llibru de lleer ‘The book that must be read’ o ‘the book that usually is read’) or article + de+ infinitive (Yera la fía la de faelo ‘his daughter was who should do i ...
Clause Identification and Classification in Bengali
... The present system is divided into two parts. First, the clause identification task aims to identify the start and the end boundaries of the clauses in a sentence. Second, Clause classification system identifies the clause types. Analysis of corpus and standard grammar of Bengali revealed that claus ...
... The present system is divided into two parts. First, the clause identification task aims to identify the start and the end boundaries of the clauses in a sentence. Second, Clause classification system identifies the clause types. Analysis of corpus and standard grammar of Bengali revealed that claus ...
portuguese syntax
... Morphologically, form is the way in which words are composed and inflected the basic unit being a morpheme - while morphological function deals with a given morphemes function within the word. The word ’comamos’, for instance, can morphologically be analysed as the morpheme-string ’com(1)-a(2)-mos(3 ...
... Morphologically, form is the way in which words are composed and inflected the basic unit being a morpheme - while morphological function deals with a given morphemes function within the word. The word ’comamos’, for instance, can morphologically be analysed as the morpheme-string ’com(1)-a(2)-mos(3 ...
Agreement Morphology, Argument Structure and Syntax
... is in this respect very much like Montague grammar, and there is no derivation needed to get the surface strings right. However, as much as Montague grammar is apt at managing the connections between syntax and semantics, it becomes very problematic when we look at morphology. For some parts of morp ...
... is in this respect very much like Montague grammar, and there is no derivation needed to get the surface strings right. However, as much as Montague grammar is apt at managing the connections between syntax and semantics, it becomes very problematic when we look at morphology. For some parts of morp ...
Gothic Syntax
... Gothic has a system of anaphors consisting of reflexive sik ‘himself, herself, itself’ and the possessive adjective sein- ‘his, her, its (own)’. Sein- can be reflexive or a DISCOURSE ANAPHOR — one that does not require a binder (Kiparsky 2011). A reflexive anaphor requires a binder, traditionally ca ...
... Gothic has a system of anaphors consisting of reflexive sik ‘himself, herself, itself’ and the possessive adjective sein- ‘his, her, its (own)’. Sein- can be reflexive or a DISCOURSE ANAPHOR — one that does not require a binder (Kiparsky 2011). A reflexive anaphor requires a binder, traditionally ca ...
book 7 of caesar`s bellum gallicum
... rather than a self-serving political hack.” (Williams,39 217). (The best introductory work on Caesar as an author is Adcock’s Caesar as a Man of Letters.40 The focus of the book is not Caesar’s political or military career, but instead his literary career and it serves as a good introduction to the ...
... rather than a self-serving political hack.” (Williams,39 217). (The best introductory work on Caesar as an author is Adcock’s Caesar as a Man of Letters.40 The focus of the book is not Caesar’s political or military career, but instead his literary career and it serves as a good introduction to the ...
Topics and Participants in Jamamadí Narrative
... identified may be actor in much of the episode, his downfall is expected. If there is a villain he will be introduced in the same way as the undergoer. In the incident of the burning of the houses 'the houses' are thus identified. This is the only case in about fifty stories where a topic thus ident ...
... identified may be actor in much of the episode, his downfall is expected. If there is a villain he will be introduced in the same way as the undergoer. In the incident of the burning of the houses 'the houses' are thus identified. This is the only case in about fifty stories where a topic thus ident ...
The Structure of English Language
... An adverb clause begins with a subordinating conjunction--an adverb that connects the subordinate clause to the main clause. The subordinating conjunction may indicate a relationship of cause, concession, comparison, condition, place, manner, purpose, result or time. It is important to remember that ...
... An adverb clause begins with a subordinating conjunction--an adverb that connects the subordinate clause to the main clause. The subordinating conjunction may indicate a relationship of cause, concession, comparison, condition, place, manner, purpose, result or time. It is important to remember that ...
Innu and English Structures - Innu
... Innu and English are alike in many ways, and we highlight these similarities in this booklet. For example, one answer to the question, “How are Innu and English the same?” will be that they have many of the same parts of speech (section 1.4). Teachers can create lessons that focus on identifying the ...
... Innu and English are alike in many ways, and we highlight these similarities in this booklet. For example, one answer to the question, “How are Innu and English the same?” will be that they have many of the same parts of speech (section 1.4). Teachers can create lessons that focus on identifying the ...
-ing English as a Lingua Franca?
... were, why do they do so? And finally: are L2 speakers really just trapped by the teaching they have received or the teaching materials they have used even in their daily spontaneous communicative situations, or could it be that they actually are making use of the resources of the language and being ...
... were, why do they do so? And finally: are L2 speakers really just trapped by the teaching they have received or the teaching materials they have used even in their daily spontaneous communicative situations, or could it be that they actually are making use of the resources of the language and being ...
Negation in Germanic Languages
... This research thesis concentrates on the micro-typological variation in the Germanic languages, focusing on their negation strategies and the syntactical position of negative adverbs; with respect to the subject, verb, and object, in main and subordinate clauses as well as in (negative) imperative / ...
... This research thesis concentrates on the micro-typological variation in the Germanic languages, focusing on their negation strategies and the syntactical position of negative adverbs; with respect to the subject, verb, and object, in main and subordinate clauses as well as in (negative) imperative / ...
An Incremental Procedural Grammar for Sentence Formulation
... view in favor of the position that the three subprocesses run parallel to each other (Kempen, 1977). As soon as a fragment of conceptual content has been computed it is passed over to the formulator which attempts to translate it into a sentence fragment that is then articulated (Figure lb). In the ...
... view in favor of the position that the three subprocesses run parallel to each other (Kempen, 1977). As soon as a fragment of conceptual content has been computed it is passed over to the formulator which attempts to translate it into a sentence fragment that is then articulated (Figure lb). In the ...
An Incremental Proceduml Grammar for Sentence Formulation GERARD KEMPEN
... view in favor of the position that the three subprocesses run parallel to each other (Kempen, 1977). As soon as a fragment of conceptual content has been computed it is passed over to the formulator which attempts to translate it into a sentence fragment that is then articulated (Figure lb). In the ...
... view in favor of the position that the three subprocesses run parallel to each other (Kempen, 1977). As soon as a fragment of conceptual content has been computed it is passed over to the formulator which attempts to translate it into a sentence fragment that is then articulated (Figure lb). In the ...
Notes for Teachers
... Imagine the dilemma of a teacher with twenty students in classroom. The students have been given the instructional material on subjects and verbs, and then the students immediately all try to find the subjects and verbs in a short passage that they wrote. The teacher would go nuts trying to check al ...
... Imagine the dilemma of a teacher with twenty students in classroom. The students have been given the instructional material on subjects and verbs, and then the students immediately all try to find the subjects and verbs in a short passage that they wrote. The teacher would go nuts trying to check al ...
Grammar
... A. Circle the letter of the group of words that is a complete sentence. 1. a. Knows the answer. b. Have you ever? c. The ripe and delicious apple! d. My friend can swim. 2. a. Our first trip to the beach. b. What is your name? c. Blue sky so perfect! d. Rolls happily in the grass. B. Decide if the s ...
... A. Circle the letter of the group of words that is a complete sentence. 1. a. Knows the answer. b. Have you ever? c. The ripe and delicious apple! d. My friend can swim. 2. a. Our first trip to the beach. b. What is your name? c. Blue sky so perfect! d. Rolls happily in the grass. B. Decide if the s ...