Decomposing Existence: Evidence from Germanic
... pronoun, which stands proxy for the subject. For this reason, I refer to them as „impersonal existential constructions” - as opposed to expressions like „X exists”, which involve an existential predicate and a lexical DP subject. In section 2, I will review some basic characteristics of impersonal e ...
... pronoun, which stands proxy for the subject. For this reason, I refer to them as „impersonal existential constructions” - as opposed to expressions like „X exists”, which involve an existential predicate and a lexical DP subject. In section 2, I will review some basic characteristics of impersonal e ...
parameters and micro-parameters in arabic sentence structure
... In particular, the essential architecture of sentences expressing the dependency relations verbs and associated elements have with the 'functional' portion of sentences (i.e., tense/modality properties) is universal in that these dependency relations will be expressed on the basis of the same featur ...
... In particular, the essential architecture of sentences expressing the dependency relations verbs and associated elements have with the 'functional' portion of sentences (i.e., tense/modality properties) is universal in that these dependency relations will be expressed on the basis of the same featur ...
Heroic deeds and devious villains:
... believe it is important to be a good reader, and since we see reading as a meaningful and important activity, we want our children to read as much as possible. We are not indifferent, however, to what kind of literature children should read. Although we usually accept that some books can be read for ...
... believe it is important to be a good reader, and since we see reading as a meaningful and important activity, we want our children to read as much as possible. We are not indifferent, however, to what kind of literature children should read. Although we usually accept that some books can be read for ...
Form and Meaning in the Hebrew Verb
... colleagues are to be thanked for this, but first and foremost, this means my committee. I won’t embarrass myself or my advisor, Alec Marantz, by attempting to wax poetic about his contributions to my intellectual development or about the amazing speed with which he thinks on his feet. Instead, here’ ...
... colleagues are to be thanked for this, but first and foremost, this means my committee. I won’t embarrass myself or my advisor, Alec Marantz, by attempting to wax poetic about his contributions to my intellectual development or about the amazing speed with which he thinks on his feet. Instead, here’ ...
1 On the D-structure position of negative sentence adverbials in
... discussion, attention will be focused on the syntax of pas. The extent to which our account of the syntax of pas can be applied to other negative sentence adverbials, such as those exemplified in (1)-(4) above, will be the subject of later work. Our discussion will be structured in the following way ...
... discussion, attention will be focused on the syntax of pas. The extent to which our account of the syntax of pas can be applied to other negative sentence adverbials, such as those exemplified in (1)-(4) above, will be the subject of later work. Our discussion will be structured in the following way ...
The Bamunka Noun Phrase
... The second line of each example is based on the most current orthography (Blackwell, 2011) but is broken down into individual morphemes, with some spelling adjustments, as deemed necessary to reflect the analysis. Any syllable-final /ŋ/ represents nasalisation of the vowel. It does not represent a s ...
... The second line of each example is based on the most current orthography (Blackwell, 2011) but is broken down into individual morphemes, with some spelling adjustments, as deemed necessary to reflect the analysis. Any syllable-final /ŋ/ represents nasalisation of the vowel. It does not represent a s ...
Sugestões de Conteúdo Bimestre 2º Série: 1ª Disciplina: Lingua
... Friends are people you know well, like and believe in. Your tastes are usually similar and your friends share enjoyable activities with you. They also help you in various situations and give you advice. But for many people, friendship is nothing more than the confidence that someone or something wil ...
... Friends are people you know well, like and believe in. Your tastes are usually similar and your friends share enjoyable activities with you. They also help you in various situations and give you advice. But for many people, friendship is nothing more than the confidence that someone or something wil ...
a case of habere + participle in late latin
... out by the meaning of auditum. It is thus an example of the same type as habeo cognitum/compertum, found in Classical Latin. According to Nuti (2005: 402), these constructions may have contributed to the grammati calization of habere with participle, but did not trigger the process itself. Auditum ...
... out by the meaning of auditum. It is thus an example of the same type as habeo cognitum/compertum, found in Classical Latin. According to Nuti (2005: 402), these constructions may have contributed to the grammati calization of habere with participle, but did not trigger the process itself. Auditum ...
The verbal valency in the Prague Dependency Treebank
... dependent node2, etc., then the closing square bracket (‘]’). The requirements on the part-ofspeech and morphemic characteristics of individual nodes are written in a shorthand form (by means of a single character for each category) after the dividing symbol ´.´ (full stop) or ´:´ (colon) in the fol ...
... dependent node2, etc., then the closing square bracket (‘]’). The requirements on the part-ofspeech and morphemic characteristics of individual nodes are written in a shorthand form (by means of a single character for each category) after the dividing symbol ´.´ (full stop) or ´:´ (colon) in the fol ...
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... dependent node2, etc., then the closing square bracket (‘]’). The requirements on the part-ofspeech and morphemic characteristics of individual nodes are written in a shorthand form (by means of a single character for each category) after the dividing symbol ´.´ (full stop) or ´:´ (colon) in the fol ...
... dependent node2, etc., then the closing square bracket (‘]’). The requirements on the part-ofspeech and morphemic characteristics of individual nodes are written in a shorthand form (by means of a single character for each category) after the dividing symbol ´.´ (full stop) or ´:´ (colon) in the fol ...
9. Morphological Typology
... little as English or even Vietnamese (1.5 morphemes per word and barely above 1.0 respectively), such languages equally recognise a distinction between words and morphemes. Turkish, Latin, and English all have two distinct levels of constructions, morphological and syntactic, with morphemes and word ...
... little as English or even Vietnamese (1.5 morphemes per word and barely above 1.0 respectively), such languages equally recognise a distinction between words and morphemes. Turkish, Latin, and English all have two distinct levels of constructions, morphological and syntactic, with morphemes and word ...
Idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms in English
... form sentences; therefore, some components of the idioms such as possessive adjectives, objects of personal pronouns can themselves change in order to keep the agreement among the components in the sentences. 2.5.2. Signs of synonymous idioms It can be said that synonyms are different words with ide ...
... form sentences; therefore, some components of the idioms such as possessive adjectives, objects of personal pronouns can themselves change in order to keep the agreement among the components in the sentences. 2.5.2. Signs of synonymous idioms It can be said that synonyms are different words with ide ...
GP Flash! - Grammar Punk
... GP Flash!™ is perfect for getting things started at the beginning of class, livening up the middle, or revving up the tail end. How many sentences or exercises you want to assign is up to you. The Grammar Punk™ Dice keep things lively and the process of putting pen to paper is right where it belongs ...
... GP Flash!™ is perfect for getting things started at the beginning of class, livening up the middle, or revving up the tail end. How many sentences or exercises you want to assign is up to you. The Grammar Punk™ Dice keep things lively and the process of putting pen to paper is right where it belongs ...
Introduction with a State of the Art in Generative Slovenian Syntax
... briefly touches on the problem of VP-internal-subject and unaccusativity diagnostics in Slovenian. While (17) may be identified as having a VP-internal subject through the fact that some such pre-prefixed verbs exhibit lexical causative counterparts, which is known to be a process that unergative an ...
... briefly touches on the problem of VP-internal-subject and unaccusativity diagnostics in Slovenian. While (17) may be identified as having a VP-internal subject through the fact that some such pre-prefixed verbs exhibit lexical causative counterparts, which is known to be a process that unergative an ...
Title SENTENCE STRESS AND PROSE RHYTHM Author(s)
... Even in Japan every pupil learns word-stress, but nothing has been learned about the more important sentence-stress. If a teacher asks university students to put stress-marks on the following sentences, they will probably say they cannot. They will ...
... Even in Japan every pupil learns word-stress, but nothing has been learned about the more important sentence-stress. If a teacher asks university students to put stress-marks on the following sentences, they will probably say they cannot. They will ...
1 The syntax/morphology interface Heidi Harley, University of
... derivational affixation can change a verb's argument structure requirements, and comparative clauses can be introduced by adjectives which must be appropriately inflected. Complex word-internal structure in polysynthetic languages represents the same logical content as sentence-internal structure in ...
... derivational affixation can change a verb's argument structure requirements, and comparative clauses can be introduced by adjectives which must be appropriately inflected. Complex word-internal structure in polysynthetic languages represents the same logical content as sentence-internal structure in ...
Tense, Aspect, Aktionsart and Related Areas
... been a German learner of English for over twenty-five years. He grew up in the Rhineland, which indicates two things concerning the German aspecto-temporal system: his using the German present perfect as a conversational past tense and his using the Rhenish progressive, a colloquial phenomenon not ...
... been a German learner of English for over twenty-five years. He grew up in the Rhineland, which indicates two things concerning the German aspecto-temporal system: his using the German present perfect as a conversational past tense and his using the Rhenish progressive, a colloquial phenomenon not ...
CLIPP Christiani Lehmanni inedita, publicanda
... While in Germanic, one was free to combine an adjective with any noun that made sense, in English one has to append the adverbial suffix according to rules of syntax. Also, Germanic allowed both for prenominal and postnominal position of adjectives; but in the adverb, the adjective has to precede th ...
... While in Germanic, one was free to combine an adjective with any noun that made sense, in English one has to append the adverbial suffix according to rules of syntax. Also, Germanic allowed both for prenominal and postnominal position of adjectives; but in the adverb, the adjective has to precede th ...
Greek Syntax Search in Accordance
... Searches for the Accusative and Infinitive in the GNT-T syntax can be at the same time powerful and easy to prepare. They can be performed in the Search Text window alone, or in the Greek construct window. The Greek construct is necessary when we want the elements of the search to belong to the same ...
... Searches for the Accusative and Infinitive in the GNT-T syntax can be at the same time powerful and easy to prepare. They can be performed in the Search Text window alone, or in the Greek construct window. The Greek construct is necessary when we want the elements of the search to belong to the same ...
Yegana Baghirova MA thesis - Khazar University Institutional
... Infinitive can be of two types: Normal Split Infinitive and Unsplit Infinitive. e.g. The girl seemed always to be in half mourning. (Unsplit infinitive) It is defined as Unsplit as nothing is used between the main verb and particle to. The Split infinitive is very rare in the English language. The i ...
... Infinitive can be of two types: Normal Split Infinitive and Unsplit Infinitive. e.g. The girl seemed always to be in half mourning. (Unsplit infinitive) It is defined as Unsplit as nothing is used between the main verb and particle to. The Split infinitive is very rare in the English language. The i ...
Fulltext: english,
... in that depictives do not designate states that are reliant on the action described by the main verb, whereas phrases designating results are dependent upon the action designated by the verb. According to Levin and Rappaport Hovav (1995), a resultative phrase is an XP that denotes the state achieved ...
... in that depictives do not designate states that are reliant on the action described by the main verb, whereas phrases designating results are dependent upon the action designated by the verb. According to Levin and Rappaport Hovav (1995), a resultative phrase is an XP that denotes the state achieved ...
Adverbs in Kenyang
... sees adverbs as least homogeneous and the hardest to define. According to Payne (1997:69) any word with semantic content (i.e. other than grammatical particles) that is not clearly a noun, a verb, or an adjective is often put into this class of adverbs. In the same light McCawley (1996:664) observes ...
... sees adverbs as least homogeneous and the hardest to define. According to Payne (1997:69) any word with semantic content (i.e. other than grammatical particles) that is not clearly a noun, a verb, or an adjective is often put into this class of adverbs. In the same light McCawley (1996:664) observes ...
1 xxx - Edmond
... 3.7.1.1 At least one H-tone in each stem ................................................................................ 11 3.7.1.2 Lexical tones of verbs ................................................................................................. 11 3.7.1.3 Lexical tone patterns for unsegment ...
... 3.7.1.1 At least one H-tone in each stem ................................................................................ 11 3.7.1.2 Lexical tones of verbs ................................................................................................. 11 3.7.1.3 Lexical tone patterns for unsegment ...
On the Interaction of Root Transformations and Lexical
... why sentence (4) is ungrammatical. Andersson and Dahl present their sentences as counterexamples to the Penthouse Principle of Ross (1973). But it is clear that these are counterexamples to Emonds's theory as well. This does not come as a surprise, since Ross formulates a theory of upper clause and ...
... why sentence (4) is ungrammatical. Andersson and Dahl present their sentences as counterexamples to the Penthouse Principle of Ross (1973). But it is clear that these are counterexamples to Emonds's theory as well. This does not come as a surprise, since Ross formulates a theory of upper clause and ...