Tense and Aspect in Urdu
... The role of the case marker in (0b), however, poses a puzzle. As shown below (section 3.3.3), it can also be used in other contexts with verbal nouns/infinitives to express tense. Despite existing work on the future system of Urdu/Hindi (Nespital, 1981), we are not aware of a serious analysis of the ...
... The role of the case marker in (0b), however, poses a puzzle. As shown below (section 3.3.3), it can also be used in other contexts with verbal nouns/infinitives to express tense. Despite existing work on the future system of Urdu/Hindi (Nespital, 1981), we are not aware of a serious analysis of the ...
Formal Semantics of Sign Languages
... More recently, Ananad and Nevins (2004) claimed that in Zazaki (an Indo-Iranian language) and Slave (an Athabaskan language) indexicals may shift their reference in the complements of verbs like ‘‘say’’, ‘‘tell’’, and ‘‘want’’.9 Indexical reference shift in spoken languages has been analyzed by Schl ...
... More recently, Ananad and Nevins (2004) claimed that in Zazaki (an Indo-Iranian language) and Slave (an Athabaskan language) indexicals may shift their reference in the complements of verbs like ‘‘say’’, ‘‘tell’’, and ‘‘want’’.9 Indexical reference shift in spoken languages has been analyzed by Schl ...
Question and Answering System based on Predicate
... that is, keywords techniques. These systems cannot capture semantics in questions, such as relations between words. Our system is based mainly on matching of predicate-argument structures. A predicateargument structure describes what kinds of nouns a verb is related to. Since this is a unit of an ev ...
... that is, keywords techniques. These systems cannot capture semantics in questions, such as relations between words. Our system is based mainly on matching of predicate-argument structures. A predicateargument structure describes what kinds of nouns a verb is related to. Since this is a unit of an ev ...
Shurley and Reading Street Alignment
... Letter writing skills: friendly and business letters, addressing envelopes, thank-you notes, invitations, and using contractions. Unit 7-Combine with the Greek/Latin roots unit (from Shari Alexander). This unit covers dictionary skills and alphabetizing, as well as the Greek/Latin roots. Use Shurley ...
... Letter writing skills: friendly and business letters, addressing envelopes, thank-you notes, invitations, and using contractions. Unit 7-Combine with the Greek/Latin roots unit (from Shari Alexander). This unit covers dictionary skills and alphabetizing, as well as the Greek/Latin roots. Use Shurley ...
The verb krijgen `to get` as an undative verb
... distinction between intransitive, transitive and ditransitive verbs is insufficient. Perlmutter (1978) and Burzio (1986) have shown that the set of monadic verbs (verbs that take a single argument, which is realized as the subject of the clause) can be divided into two distinct subclasses. Next to r ...
... distinction between intransitive, transitive and ditransitive verbs is insufficient. Perlmutter (1978) and Burzio (1986) have shown that the set of monadic verbs (verbs that take a single argument, which is realized as the subject of the clause) can be divided into two distinct subclasses. Next to r ...
Why No Mere Mortal JOHN J. KIM
... subtypes of verbs (those that share some of the distinguishing semantic features) that would be expected to show similar behavior in past tense formation, just as overlap in phonological features defines clusters of verbs with similar past tense forms. But this consequence turns out to be false. The ...
... subtypes of verbs (those that share some of the distinguishing semantic features) that would be expected to show similar behavior in past tense formation, just as overlap in phonological features defines clusters of verbs with similar past tense forms. But this consequence turns out to be false. The ...
Designing a tagset for Malay: slots and fillers - ucrel
... modal verb and the other a noun. By extension, given a word like telephone, we can say that there are two homonyms, i.e. a noun telephone and a verb telephone. An alternative is to say that telephone is used sometimes as a noun and sometimes as a verb. In either case, the homonymy is treated as a s ...
... modal verb and the other a noun. By extension, given a word like telephone, we can say that there are two homonyms, i.e. a noun telephone and a verb telephone. An alternative is to say that telephone is used sometimes as a noun and sometimes as a verb. In either case, the homonymy is treated as a s ...
114 Raising to Oblique in Modern Greek* Brian D. Joseph University
... 4.1: First, Raising to Oblique in Greek offers a cross-linguistic comparison with English sentences of the type in (15) through (17): (15) a. With John's having stepped forward to confess, your good name is cleared. b. With John having stepped forward to confess, your good name is cleared. (16) a. I ...
... 4.1: First, Raising to Oblique in Greek offers a cross-linguistic comparison with English sentences of the type in (15) through (17): (15) a. With John's having stepped forward to confess, your good name is cleared. b. With John having stepped forward to confess, your good name is cleared. (16) a. I ...
Case marking in infinitive (ad- form)
... forms of the verb, and usually they have the same functions as adjectives. Masdars are also case marked like nouns, but are formed from the fmite forms of the verb and usually have the same functions as nouns. In Old Georgian, a third non-finite form is found. Formally, it is a masdar in the adverbi ...
... forms of the verb, and usually they have the same functions as adjectives. Masdars are also case marked like nouns, but are formed from the fmite forms of the verb and usually have the same functions as nouns. In Old Georgian, a third non-finite form is found. Formally, it is a masdar in the adverbi ...
Dutch Tenses and the Analysis of a Literary Text: The Case of Marga
... simple past. In the Dutch original: "Het Staat vast dat de twee monteurs [...] eerst aanlegden bij De Salamander"; "Het kan zijn dat ze het nog te koud of te donker vonden [...]"; "hei is ook mogelijk dat het kwam door [...]." Surely, these are unusual combinations of plain narrative and objective, ...
... simple past. In the Dutch original: "Het Staat vast dat de twee monteurs [...] eerst aanlegden bij De Salamander"; "Het kan zijn dat ze het nog te koud of te donker vonden [...]"; "hei is ook mogelijk dat het kwam door [...]." Surely, these are unusual combinations of plain narrative and objective, ...
Errors in the Coalface Grammar - Linguistics and English Language
... referred to; we designate its function as Thing. jacaranda denotes the class within this general category; it functions here as Classifier. the has a pointing out function, known as Deictic: it signals that some particular member(s) of this class is or are being referred to. famous is one of a speci ...
... referred to; we designate its function as Thing. jacaranda denotes the class within this general category; it functions here as Classifier. the has a pointing out function, known as Deictic: it signals that some particular member(s) of this class is or are being referred to. famous is one of a speci ...
Nouns and Pronouns
... Verb Forms Directions: Underline the correct verb form in each of the following sentences. Note: (1) Check for the other tenses or clues to determine the time within the sentence. (2) Notice that the verbs "used" and "supposed" should be followed by an infinitive. For example: (I was supposed to go. ...
... Verb Forms Directions: Underline the correct verb form in each of the following sentences. Note: (1) Check for the other tenses or clues to determine the time within the sentence. (2) Notice that the verbs "used" and "supposed" should be followed by an infinitive. For example: (I was supposed to go. ...
Unpersönliche Konstruktionen, Reflexivitat/Reziprozität und
... way a mystery.] Some said that she was carried over [by people], others that she was carried over by some force.' ...
... way a mystery.] Some said that she was carried over [by people], others that she was carried over by some force.' ...
PDF format - Encuentro Journal
... as degrees of certainty and commitment, or alternatively vagueness and lack of commitment, personal beliefs versus generally accepted or taken for granted knowledge. Such language functions to express group membership, as speakers adopt positions, express agreement and disagreement with others, make ...
... as degrees of certainty and commitment, or alternatively vagueness and lack of commitment, personal beliefs versus generally accepted or taken for granted knowledge. Such language functions to express group membership, as speakers adopt positions, express agreement and disagreement with others, make ...
Prepositional Phrase Attachment and
... in linguistics used in this thesis. Chapter five to chapter eight deals with different aspects of attachment problem and semantics generation. Chapter five presents the detailed analysis and strategy of solving the prepositional phrase attachment. Chapter six and seven gives detailed account of ‘of ’ a ...
... in linguistics used in this thesis. Chapter five to chapter eight deals with different aspects of attachment problem and semantics generation. Chapter five presents the detailed analysis and strategy of solving the prepositional phrase attachment. Chapter six and seven gives detailed account of ‘of ’ a ...
Translation Studies
... the problem of so-called interlingual asymmetry (Gak in Zlateva 1993) or to use other term, missing categories: some grammatical categories (gender, number, case, article, prepositions, postpositions, verbal prefixes, separable verbal prefixes, definite conjugation) exist in one L, but not in the ot ...
... the problem of so-called interlingual asymmetry (Gak in Zlateva 1993) or to use other term, missing categories: some grammatical categories (gender, number, case, article, prepositions, postpositions, verbal prefixes, separable verbal prefixes, definite conjugation) exist in one L, but not in the ot ...
Past Perfect Progressive Tense
... We often use past progressive tense with simple past tense. We use past progressive tense to express a long action and we use the simple past tense to express a short action that happen in the middle of the long action. We can join the two ideas with when or while. In the following example, we have ...
... We often use past progressive tense with simple past tense. We use past progressive tense to express a long action and we use the simple past tense to express a short action that happen in the middle of the long action. We can join the two ideas with when or while. In the following example, we have ...
Тема 6 THE PASSIVE VOICE The voice is one of the categories of
... 6 Impersonality (the passive is a way of avoiding the naming of a specific person): It has been decided to reduce all salaries by 10%. Test papers are not to be taken outside the examination room. 7 In descriptions of processes, there is emphasis on the actions performed rather than on the people wh ...
... 6 Impersonality (the passive is a way of avoiding the naming of a specific person): It has been decided to reduce all salaries by 10%. Test papers are not to be taken outside the examination room. 7 In descriptions of processes, there is emphasis on the actions performed rather than on the people wh ...
this PDF file
... house-owner, or a relative clause along the lines of one who has a house? The answer to this question is ‘no’. The –yoq-marked phrase cannot be a synthetic compound because Quechua synthetic compounds do not allow plural morphology on the non-head (just as is famously true of English: *rats-eater), ...
... house-owner, or a relative clause along the lines of one who has a house? The answer to this question is ‘no’. The –yoq-marked phrase cannot be a synthetic compound because Quechua synthetic compounds do not allow plural morphology on the non-head (just as is famously true of English: *rats-eater), ...
Grammar - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... • A sentence is a group of words that express a complete thought. • A sentence fragment is a group of words that does not express a complete thought. • A statement is a sentence that tells something. • A question is a sentence that asks something. • All sentences begin with a capital letter and end ...
... • A sentence is a group of words that express a complete thought. • A sentence fragment is a group of words that does not express a complete thought. • A statement is a sentence that tells something. • A question is a sentence that asks something. • All sentences begin with a capital letter and end ...
Grammar Material
... shopping for the items on the list. 13When putting away the groceries, group them according to how they are used in recipes. 14This will make things easier when you are preparing the meal. 15The day before the party, clean the house and add festive touches such as candles or fresh flowers around the ...
... shopping for the items on the list. 13When putting away the groceries, group them according to how they are used in recipes. 14This will make things easier when you are preparing the meal. 15The day before the party, clean the house and add festive touches such as candles or fresh flowers around the ...
indirect object - Mrs. Barry`s Language Arts and Communications
... VERBS WITH INDIRECT OBJECTS Barry 2011 ...
... VERBS WITH INDIRECT OBJECTS Barry 2011 ...
Test 16 Writing Answers
... social conventions,” “the expression of strong emotions,” and “the power of imagination”). Choice (A) results in faulty parallelism. What follows “believers in” should be parallel in structure. Instead, there is a noun phrase, a verb phrase, and another noun phrase. Choice (B) results in an error in ...
... social conventions,” “the expression of strong emotions,” and “the power of imagination”). Choice (A) results in faulty parallelism. What follows “believers in” should be parallel in structure. Instead, there is a noun phrase, a verb phrase, and another noun phrase. Choice (B) results in an error in ...
12. Infinitive Phrase Practice
... Infinitive Phrase = to + verb + all of its accompaniments Like a verb, an infinitive ...
... Infinitive Phrase = to + verb + all of its accompaniments Like a verb, an infinitive ...