the passive - englishdepartmentbaio
... They are followed by a bare infinitive in the active, but take a to-infinitive in the passive Active: Her two sisters made him clean the house Passive: He was made to clean the house by her two sisters. In the passive, let is replaced by allowed and is followed by a to-infinitive. Active: The teache ...
... They are followed by a bare infinitive in the active, but take a to-infinitive in the passive Active: Her two sisters made him clean the house Passive: He was made to clean the house by her two sisters. In the passive, let is replaced by allowed and is followed by a to-infinitive. Active: The teache ...
linking in fluid construction grammars
... evolution of language by building experiments with situated embodied agents that self-organise communication systems with natural language like properties [15], [18]. Our earlier work focused on the self-organisation of lexical languages either with single words expressing perceptually grounded cate ...
... evolution of language by building experiments with situated embodied agents that self-organise communication systems with natural language like properties [15], [18]. Our earlier work focused on the self-organisation of lexical languages either with single words expressing perceptually grounded cate ...
A Comparative Study of the Globally Ambiguous
... can be combined with a noun, forming a noun phrase. Therefore the word “falling”, tagged as a gerund, can be collocated with the word “hard”, which is tagged both as an adjective and an adverb. Then we’ll have two sentences with different decoding procedures. To be more specific, the decoding proced ...
... can be combined with a noun, forming a noun phrase. Therefore the word “falling”, tagged as a gerund, can be collocated with the word “hard”, which is tagged both as an adjective and an adverb. Then we’ll have two sentences with different decoding procedures. To be more specific, the decoding proced ...
pronominalised himalayan languages limbu - rai
... The Limbus call themselves as Yakthumba, which means differently as yak herders, fort defenders, hardworking persons etc. The Limbus are called as ‘Lum’ by Lepchas. Bhutias call them as ‘Tsong’. The original homeland of Limbus was supposed to be in the Tsang province of Tibet from where they had mig ...
... The Limbus call themselves as Yakthumba, which means differently as yak herders, fort defenders, hardworking persons etc. The Limbus are called as ‘Lum’ by Lepchas. Bhutias call them as ‘Tsong’. The original homeland of Limbus was supposed to be in the Tsang province of Tibet from where they had mig ...
section 3: Healthy Snacks
... simply means that they may not be as healthy as other choices and they should be eaten in moderation. As an exercise, count the number of foods from each category you eat on a typical school day and on the weekend. Is there a difference or it is the same? On which day do you eat meals which follow m ...
... simply means that they may not be as healthy as other choices and they should be eaten in moderation. As an exercise, count the number of foods from each category you eat on a typical school day and on the weekend. Is there a difference or it is the same? On which day do you eat meals which follow m ...
Phrases
... A prepositional phrase includes a preposition, the object of the preposition, and any modifiers of that object. EXAMPLES during the days with us of noble deeds about them A prepositional phrase can have more than one object. EXAMPLE for the parents and their children EXERCISE A cross-out each prepos ...
... A prepositional phrase includes a preposition, the object of the preposition, and any modifiers of that object. EXAMPLES during the days with us of noble deeds about them A prepositional phrase can have more than one object. EXAMPLE for the parents and their children EXERCISE A cross-out each prepos ...
Aspectual licensing and object shift - bu people
... there are two gaps in his otherwise convincing survey. First, he accepts Westermann’s view that OV order in Gbå gerunds reduces to the prenominal order of possessors. But this correlation fails in ⁄gbo and Yor∞bÄ which have OV gerunds but lack prenominal possessors (Williamson 1986). This doesn’t pr ...
... there are two gaps in his otherwise convincing survey. First, he accepts Westermann’s view that OV order in Gbå gerunds reduces to the prenominal order of possessors. But this correlation fails in ⁄gbo and Yor∞bÄ which have OV gerunds but lack prenominal possessors (Williamson 1986). This doesn’t pr ...
Two-Word Utterances Chomsky`s Influence
... relations actually tells us more about adult interpretation of children’s speech that is does about what the child has in mind. “Overall, the existence of contradictions between the categories presented in Table 1, the fact that some of the categories are not always mutually exclusive and the fact t ...
... relations actually tells us more about adult interpretation of children’s speech that is does about what the child has in mind. “Overall, the existence of contradictions between the categories presented in Table 1, the fact that some of the categories are not always mutually exclusive and the fact t ...
Word order preferences for direct and indirect objects in children
... Interestingly, there seems to be nothing in maternal speech to children that could account for this. In fact, in the course of examining eighteen hours of transcripts of mother-to-child speech for three Korean dyads over a sixmonth period (beginning when the child’s age was ; to ; ), we foun ...
... Interestingly, there seems to be nothing in maternal speech to children that could account for this. In fact, in the course of examining eighteen hours of transcripts of mother-to-child speech for three Korean dyads over a sixmonth period (beginning when the child’s age was ; to ; ), we foun ...
Omission of the primary verbs BE and HAVE in - (BORA)
... teenagers will, once they 'grow up' modify their language and adhere to adult norms of linguistic behaviour. In other words, the nature and extent of the variation between teenage and adult language is an unexplored area of modern linguistics. It is a common sociolinguistic claim that language is a ...
... teenagers will, once they 'grow up' modify their language and adhere to adult norms of linguistic behaviour. In other words, the nature and extent of the variation between teenage and adult language is an unexplored area of modern linguistics. It is a common sociolinguistic claim that language is a ...
Spanish!Grammar!
... chapter. As to grouping of units, it seems to me far more effective strategically and pedagogically to divide the grammar into its unitary difficulties and to attack these units individually, rather than in combinations of four, three, or even two. Hence the thirty-six lessons in this book, each dev ...
... chapter. As to grouping of units, it seems to me far more effective strategically and pedagogically to divide the grammar into its unitary difficulties and to attack these units individually, rather than in combinations of four, three, or even two. Hence the thirty-six lessons in this book, each dev ...
Why would anyone take long? Word classes and Construction
... LONG is always treated as an adjective. See NP measure phrases for the conventions concerning adjectives used as measure phrases. (Santorini 2010: Adjectives and adverbs | Treatment of individual words | LONG) Thus in the Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English (PPCMBE), examples that would con ...
... LONG is always treated as an adjective. See NP measure phrases for the conventions concerning adjectives used as measure phrases. (Santorini 2010: Adjectives and adverbs | Treatment of individual words | LONG) Thus in the Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English (PPCMBE), examples that would con ...
Author: Weymouth, Richard Francis (1822
... wider in sounding them than teach, each, eat your meat, and so on; but it is these latter forms which are the corruptions, though fashion has set her seal upon them, and Devonshire has preserved the genuine older pronunciation. If I may be pardoned for alluding to my own investigations, I may claim ...
... wider in sounding them than teach, each, eat your meat, and so on; but it is these latter forms which are the corruptions, though fashion has set her seal upon them, and Devonshire has preserved the genuine older pronunciation. If I may be pardoned for alluding to my own investigations, I may claim ...
V - UA Campus Repository
... On the desert in Africa oases furnish resting places for travelers. A large crowd waited at the g a t e . ■ Chicago is situated on Lake Michigan. The boys were going down the hil l . The box in the corner is filled with apples. The runaway team dashed down the street. The boys darted away immediatel ...
... On the desert in Africa oases furnish resting places for travelers. A large crowd waited at the g a t e . ■ Chicago is situated on Lake Michigan. The boys were going down the hil l . The box in the corner is filled with apples. The runaway team dashed down the street. The boys darted away immediatel ...
Gros Ventre Student Grammar
... This grammar is designed to be used by Gros Ventre students of the Gros Ventre/White Clay language. It is oriented primarily towards high school and college students and adult learners, rather than children. It will be easiest to use this grammar in conjunction with a class on the language, with a l ...
... This grammar is designed to be used by Gros Ventre students of the Gros Ventre/White Clay language. It is oriented primarily towards high school and college students and adult learners, rather than children. It will be easiest to use this grammar in conjunction with a class on the language, with a l ...
Level 500 Sunrise Edition - Christian Light Publications
... Write singular or plural in the blank. ...
... Write singular or plural in the blank. ...
ENGLISH FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 1 YEAR
... 1. There is a big influence of technique on our daily life. Electronic devices, multimedia and computers are things we have to deal with every day. Especially the Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody as it is one of the newest and most forward-looking media and surely “t ...
... 1. There is a big influence of technique on our daily life. Electronic devices, multimedia and computers are things we have to deal with every day. Especially the Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody as it is one of the newest and most forward-looking media and surely “t ...
a Sample - Rainbow Resource
... like the way its sound rolls off your tongue. Maybe you use it as often as you can, or maybe you save it for special occasions. We want to share one of our favorite words with you. You probably know what it means already, but you may not have thought of it as an exceptional word. Probably few people ...
... like the way its sound rolls off your tongue. Maybe you use it as often as you can, or maybe you save it for special occasions. We want to share one of our favorite words with you. You probably know what it means already, but you may not have thought of it as an exceptional word. Probably few people ...
Participant pack Module 7a Developing the personal English skills
... into smaller units of meaning. Suffixes and prefixes are morphemes. Morphology deals with the structure of words and how this affects meaning, e.g. take / takes; faith / faithful / unfaithful / unfaithfulness. The many modes through which we read, write, hear, etc. For example, song is a mode of hea ...
... into smaller units of meaning. Suffixes and prefixes are morphemes. Morphology deals with the structure of words and how this affects meaning, e.g. take / takes; faith / faithful / unfaithful / unfaithfulness. The many modes through which we read, write, hear, etc. For example, song is a mode of hea ...
Assignment 1: Manual Direct Translation
... sentence. A simplified method that could be used to solve the problem in the example sentence would be to identify np and vp phrases and then check that the word order is correct by checking that it is not the case that the first vp comes earlier than the first np phrase. If they do, we would need t ...
... sentence. A simplified method that could be used to solve the problem in the example sentence would be to identify np and vp phrases and then check that the word order is correct by checking that it is not the case that the first vp comes earlier than the first np phrase. If they do, we would need t ...
Topic 7
... (a) If ands were omitted in linking structures (b) if ands were inserted in listing structures? Note how the list in the Saul Bellow example use in Task B would be slowed down, and so appear less rushed, if listing structures were replaced by linking structures. Task C - nesting What is the effect o ...
... (a) If ands were omitted in linking structures (b) if ands were inserted in listing structures? Note how the list in the Saul Bellow example use in Task B would be slowed down, and so appear less rushed, if listing structures were replaced by linking structures. Task C - nesting What is the effect o ...
2005 - Dr. Lukas Pietsch
... Interestingly, it will be found that just among those modern dialects that otherwise follow the Northern Subject Rule in allowing many non-standard verbal -s forms, there are some that exhibit variation in exactly the opposite direction with respect to the existentials: here, they allow non-standard ...
... Interestingly, it will be found that just among those modern dialects that otherwise follow the Northern Subject Rule in allowing many non-standard verbal -s forms, there are some that exhibit variation in exactly the opposite direction with respect to the existentials: here, they allow non-standard ...
Syntactic retrieval - Machine Translation Archive
... The scope of each pass and the order of the various passes thus together present the most significant design problem of the program. The linguistic considerations entering into this design problem stem from the differential relevance to the over-all structure of the sentence of the various orders of ...
... The scope of each pass and the order of the various passes thus together present the most significant design problem of the program. The linguistic considerations entering into this design problem stem from the differential relevance to the over-all structure of the sentence of the various orders of ...
grammar of the Basque
... shown that it is not really a definite article ('the'), but very often it can be translated as such. In those examples where the determiner a was not the issue, and where its translation was indeed 'the', I have chosen to write 'the' in the gloss, so you can find it easily. Naming morphemes. You wil ...
... shown that it is not really a definite article ('the'), but very often it can be translated as such. In those examples where the determiner a was not the issue, and where its translation was indeed 'the', I have chosen to write 'the' in the gloss, so you can find it easily. Naming morphemes. You wil ...