Solving the bracketing paradox: an analysis of
... accusative object. The logical subject of the verb is suppressed and the accusative object is promoted to the subject of the adjective. There are also a few -bar-adjectives, such as brennbar ‘flammable ’, which have an intransitive base verb, but these are listed in the lexicon (Riehemann 1998) and ...
... accusative object. The logical subject of the verb is suppressed and the accusative object is promoted to the subject of the adjective. There are also a few -bar-adjectives, such as brennbar ‘flammable ’, which have an intransitive base verb, but these are listed in the lexicon (Riehemann 1998) and ...
PropBank Annotation Guidelines - Computational Language and
... Arg1: further declines in interest rates For some verbs, it is impossible to provide one set of semantic roles for all senses of the verb. For example, the two senses of the verb ‘leave’ in the examples below take different arguments: Mary left the room Mary left her daughter-in-law her pearls in he ...
... Arg1: further declines in interest rates For some verbs, it is impossible to provide one set of semantic roles for all senses of the verb. For example, the two senses of the verb ‘leave’ in the examples below take different arguments: Mary left the room Mary left her daughter-in-law her pearls in he ...
Encoding focus in Kanuri verbal morphology
... morphology. For clarity and ease of reference in the description of Kanuri, therefore, we suggest drawing a distinction between canonical inflexional categories (such as aspect, tense, mood) and non-canonical inflexional categories (such as focus and, possibly, theticity, as well as syntactic depend ...
... morphology. For clarity and ease of reference in the description of Kanuri, therefore, we suggest drawing a distinction between canonical inflexional categories (such as aspect, tense, mood) and non-canonical inflexional categories (such as focus and, possibly, theticity, as well as syntactic depend ...
Chapter 2: The problems with prepositions 0 Introduction
... Jackendoff explains it this way: “By treating particles as a type of preposition, we can claim that particles are related to the corresponding prepositions in much the same way that intransitive verbs such as eat, drink and smoke are related to their transitive counterparts” (1973: 346). [Note that ...
... Jackendoff explains it this way: “By treating particles as a type of preposition, we can claim that particles are related to the corresponding prepositions in much the same way that intransitive verbs such as eat, drink and smoke are related to their transitive counterparts” (1973: 346). [Note that ...
Valence Creation and the German Applicative
... outside of the applicative construction; there is no transfer verb *haaren ('hair').2 The applicative predication in (3) denotes a transfer event of the type denoted by trivalent applicative verbs like laden ('load'), and yet the transfer implication cannot be attributed to the semantics of the base ...
... outside of the applicative construction; there is no transfer verb *haaren ('hair').2 The applicative predication in (3) denotes a transfer event of the type denoted by trivalent applicative verbs like laden ('load'), and yet the transfer implication cannot be attributed to the semantics of the base ...
Unifying everything: Some remarks on simpler syntax, construction
... et al. 2008, 2013), head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG; Haugereid 2009), and tree-adjoining grammar (TAG; Kallmeyer & Osswald 2012). Jackendoff (2011) compares the view currently assumed in minimalist circles with the constraint-based view that underlies LFG, HPSG, and simpler syntax. He arg ...
... et al. 2008, 2013), head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG; Haugereid 2009), and tree-adjoining grammar (TAG; Kallmeyer & Osswald 2012). Jackendoff (2011) compares the view currently assumed in minimalist circles with the constraint-based view that underlies LFG, HPSG, and simpler syntax. He arg ...
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... EPP: Clarification • The EPP is a constraint on TP, it says that SpecTP must be filled. • It is not a property of finite T alone, it is a property of T in general. In particular, the SpecTP position of a nonfinite clause must be filled as well. This will be relevant later today. ...
... EPP: Clarification • The EPP is a constraint on TP, it says that SpecTP must be filled. • It is not a property of finite T alone, it is a property of T in general. In particular, the SpecTP position of a nonfinite clause must be filled as well. This will be relevant later today. ...
The Double-O Constraints in Japanese* William J. Poser
... The Double-O Constraint (Harada 1973), is intended to account for the ungrammaticality of clauses containing two accusative Noun Phrases. It has been discussed by numerous authors in various formulations. This paper attempts to clarify the phenomena involved and to reduce the class of possible analy ...
... The Double-O Constraint (Harada 1973), is intended to account for the ungrammaticality of clauses containing two accusative Noun Phrases. It has been discussed by numerous authors in various formulations. This paper attempts to clarify the phenomena involved and to reduce the class of possible analy ...
The state of present-day Domari in Jerusalem
... degrees, while the younger generation under twenty years of age is familiar at ...
... degrees, while the younger generation under twenty years of age is familiar at ...
TWO CLASSES OF DOUBLE OBJECT VERBS: THE ROLE OF
... assume that either the overt theme is licensed by covert incorporation (Noun Reanalysis, Baker 1988) or it has the status of an adjunct modifying the null theme that, in such a view, is present. In section 3.5 I will present some evidence from Greek that in fact both options seem to be instantiated. ...
... assume that either the overt theme is licensed by covert incorporation (Noun Reanalysis, Baker 1988) or it has the status of an adjunct modifying the null theme that, in such a view, is present. In section 3.5 I will present some evidence from Greek that in fact both options seem to be instantiated. ...
Run-on sentences and sentence fragments
... The following chapters will examine what the research says about run-ons and fragments, what students' errors reveal about the problems and solutions, and what handbooks present as explanation and remediation. ...
... The following chapters will examine what the research says about run-ons and fragments, what students' errors reveal about the problems and solutions, and what handbooks present as explanation and remediation. ...
The morphome vs. similarity-based syncretism
... The overall programme is to identify the non-arbitrary mechanisms behind productive instances of SAS and to learn more in the process about the formal nature of exponence mechanisms. A secondary proposal is that a new type of constraint may prove useful in analysing SAS. It requires pairs of exponen ...
... The overall programme is to identify the non-arbitrary mechanisms behind productive instances of SAS and to learn more in the process about the formal nature of exponence mechanisms. A secondary proposal is that a new type of constraint may prove useful in analysing SAS. It requires pairs of exponen ...
Kristine Eide
... The aim of this thesis is to describe the change in Portuguese word order with unaccusative verbs from a predominantly Verb – Subject (henceforth VS) pattern to a predominantly Subject – Verb (henceforth SV) pattern that took place between the 16th and the 20th century. It will be shown that a chang ...
... The aim of this thesis is to describe the change in Portuguese word order with unaccusative verbs from a predominantly Verb – Subject (henceforth VS) pattern to a predominantly Subject – Verb (henceforth SV) pattern that took place between the 16th and the 20th century. It will be shown that a chang ...
word classes and part-of-speech tagging
... transparency of their role in human language. More recent lists of parts-of-speech (or tagsets) have many more word classes; 45 for the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al., 1993), 87 for the Brown corpus (Francis, 1979; Francis and Kučera, 1982), and 146 for the C7 tagset (Garside et al., 1997). The signi ...
... transparency of their role in human language. More recent lists of parts-of-speech (or tagsets) have many more word classes; 45 for the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al., 1993), 87 for the Brown corpus (Francis, 1979; Francis and Kučera, 1982), and 146 for the C7 tagset (Garside et al., 1997). The signi ...
A multivariate analysis of the Old English ACC+DAT double object
... John gave it to her. John gives her it. ...
... John gave it to her. John gives her it. ...
Verb Sophistication
... [Researcher: Can you tell her how to do it? Can you tell her why this way helps?] You said how to use cubes. [Researcher: So you can learn and count. To learn and So can you tell him?] Be very gentle with count when you grow, you could count cubes. There's little squares of cubes in and learn. [Rese ...
... [Researcher: Can you tell her how to do it? Can you tell her why this way helps?] You said how to use cubes. [Researcher: So you can learn and count. To learn and So can you tell him?] Be very gentle with count when you grow, you could count cubes. There's little squares of cubes in and learn. [Rese ...
General Semantics - Division of Social Sciences
... of a sentence are located in different possible worlds.) We must have a time coordinate, in view of tensed sentences and such sen tences as 'Today is Tuesday'; aplace coordinate, in view of such sentences as 'Here there are tigers' ; a speaker coordinate in view of such sentences as T am Porky' ; an ...
... of a sentence are located in different possible worlds.) We must have a time coordinate, in view of tensed sentences and such sen tences as 'Today is Tuesday'; aplace coordinate, in view of such sentences as 'Here there are tigers' ; a speaker coordinate in view of such sentences as T am Porky' ; an ...
English national curriculum - St Hilda`s C of E Primary School
... correspondences (GPCs) and revise and consolidate those learnt earlier. The understanding that the letter(s) on the page represent the sounds in spoken words should underpin pupils’ reading and spelling of all words. This includes common words containing unusual GPCs. The term ‘common exception word ...
... correspondences (GPCs) and revise and consolidate those learnt earlier. The understanding that the letter(s) on the page represent the sounds in spoken words should underpin pupils’ reading and spelling of all words. This includes common words containing unusual GPCs. The term ‘common exception word ...
Chicago
... action. Passive verbs lack strength because their subjects receive the action instead of doing it. Forms of be and passive verbs have legitimate uses, but if an active verb can convey your meaning as effectively, use it. BE VERB A surge of power was responsible for the ...
... action. Passive verbs lack strength because their subjects receive the action instead of doing it. Forms of be and passive verbs have legitimate uses, but if an active verb can convey your meaning as effectively, use it. BE VERB A surge of power was responsible for the ...
Lecture 4 - ufal wiki
... Whatever [Y1] I saw [X1,Y2] cost [X2] a fortune NB: We need to distinguish between these clauses and clauses formed with interrogative pronouns: *Who is undertaking the job has to understand this Who is undertaking the job is secret *What I saw cost a fortune What I saw was unclear Novembe ...
... Whatever [Y1] I saw [X1,Y2] cost [X2] a fortune NB: We need to distinguish between these clauses and clauses formed with interrogative pronouns: *Who is undertaking the job has to understand this Who is undertaking the job is secret *What I saw cost a fortune What I saw was unclear Novembe ...
Inherent and context inflection YoM
... inflection. Inherent inflection is the kind of inflection that is not required by the syntactic context, although it may have syntactic relevance. Examples are the category number for nouns, comparative and superlative degree of the adjective, and tense and aspect for verbs. Other examples of inhere ...
... inflection. Inherent inflection is the kind of inflection that is not required by the syntactic context, although it may have syntactic relevance. Examples are the category number for nouns, comparative and superlative degree of the adjective, and tense and aspect for verbs. Other examples of inhere ...
English - Evelyn Street Primary School
... correspondences (GPCs) and revise and consolidate those learnt earlier. The understanding that the letter(s) on the page represent the sounds in spoken words should underpin pupils’ reading and spelling of all words. This includes common words containing unusual GPCs. The term ‘common exception word ...
... correspondences (GPCs) and revise and consolidate those learnt earlier. The understanding that the letter(s) on the page represent the sounds in spoken words should underpin pupils’ reading and spelling of all words. This includes common words containing unusual GPCs. The term ‘common exception word ...
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... premature births and withdrawal symptoms, but their lives will be even harder as they grow up because they are likely to be raised in an environment of poverty and neglect. You think that there should be programs to help these children. You change your thesis to look like this: Programs for crack ki ...
... premature births and withdrawal symptoms, but their lives will be even harder as they grow up because they are likely to be raised in an environment of poverty and neglect. You think that there should be programs to help these children. You change your thesis to look like this: Programs for crack ki ...
to basic grammar rules
... grammar – parts of speech, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, genders, infinitives, participles, subject – verb accord, form of tense, use of articles and certain except ional usages. Hence, it is necessary that all candidates taking up these examinations brush up their esse ...
... grammar – parts of speech, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, genders, infinitives, participles, subject – verb accord, form of tense, use of articles and certain except ional usages. Hence, it is necessary that all candidates taking up these examinations brush up their esse ...