Towards an understanding of the meaning of nominal tense
... In principle then, the temporal interpretation of noun phrases in Guaranı́ is independent of the time at which the main verb is interpreted. (Similar observations were made for the temporal interpretation of noun phrases in English, see, e.g., Enç 1981, Musan 1995, Tonhauser 2002.) Paraguayan Guara ...
... In principle then, the temporal interpretation of noun phrases in Guaranı́ is independent of the time at which the main verb is interpreted. (Similar observations were made for the temporal interpretation of noun phrases in English, see, e.g., Enç 1981, Musan 1995, Tonhauser 2002.) Paraguayan Guara ...
Grammar Structures
... how languages compare to each other. A contrastive grammar will compare the system of a given language with the system of another given language in order to highlight differences in the structure of these two languages. Thus, the goal of contrastive grammar is to help learners of a new language unde ...
... how languages compare to each other. A contrastive grammar will compare the system of a given language with the system of another given language in order to highlight differences in the structure of these two languages. Thus, the goal of contrastive grammar is to help learners of a new language unde ...
An ERP study of the processing of subject and object relative
... they hear or read them because there are many cues available early on, most notably a relative pronoun immediately following a head noun. In contrast, Japanese comprehenders cannot be certain that there is a RC noun structure until the appearance of its very last word, the head noun. Another importa ...
... they hear or read them because there are many cues available early on, most notably a relative pronoun immediately following a head noun. In contrast, Japanese comprehenders cannot be certain that there is a RC noun structure until the appearance of its very last word, the head noun. Another importa ...
e diachrony of light and auxiliary verbs in Indo-Aryan
... it is to be interpreted. In addition to CVs and converbs, modern IA languages employ other verb-verb collocations (discussed in §3), where the first member appears as a past or present participle, rather than an absolutive; these collocations typically exhibit continuative semantics, rather than the ...
... it is to be interpreted. In addition to CVs and converbs, modern IA languages employ other verb-verb collocations (discussed in §3), where the first member appears as a past or present participle, rather than an absolutive; these collocations typically exhibit continuative semantics, rather than the ...
Constraints on the formal structure of Russian verb clusters
... • дутьi ‘blow’ + подутьp ‘blow a while’ > дунутьp ‘blow once’ • скрипетьi ‘squeak’ + поскрипетьp ‘squeak a while’ > скрипнутьp ‘squeak once’ • работатьi ‘work’ + поработатьp ‘work a while’ > *работнутьp ‘work once’ [NB: Some are formed ad-hoc] Laura A. Janda ...
... • дутьi ‘blow’ + подутьp ‘blow a while’ > дунутьp ‘blow once’ • скрипетьi ‘squeak’ + поскрипетьp ‘squeak a while’ > скрипнутьp ‘squeak once’ • работатьi ‘work’ + поработатьp ‘work a while’ > *работнутьp ‘work once’ [NB: Some are formed ad-hoc] Laura A. Janda ...
C98-1061 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... Union CCITT handbook, also known as The Blue Book, in English, French and Spanish versions. This corpus is the most important collection of telecommunication texts and contains 5M words, automatically tagged by the Spanish version o f the Xerox tagger. We will use the system Slot Unification Grammar ...
... Union CCITT handbook, also known as The Blue Book, in English, French and Spanish versions. This corpus is the most important collection of telecommunication texts and contains 5M words, automatically tagged by the Spanish version o f the Xerox tagger. We will use the system Slot Unification Grammar ...
ÜiÜJ - GAGL
... more morphologically dependent. On the contrary, it changes from what could be called a prefix to an independent auxiliary. The third change I examine involves the progressive construction with on. There is, already in Old English, a 'progressive' form, namely be followed by a Verb in -ing. In Middl ...
... more morphologically dependent. On the contrary, it changes from what could be called a prefix to an independent auxiliary. The third change I examine involves the progressive construction with on. There is, already in Old English, a 'progressive' form, namely be followed by a Verb in -ing. In Middl ...
Toward a balanced formal-functional grammatical description
... Certainly speaker B (a 12 year old Anglo-American girl) had a rule in her grammar that made her response reasonable and communicative. And I venture to guess that most native English speakers will find B's response coherent and interpretable, even if they would never use it themselves (or at least w ...
... Certainly speaker B (a 12 year old Anglo-American girl) had a rule in her grammar that made her response reasonable and communicative. And I venture to guess that most native English speakers will find B's response coherent and interpretable, even if they would never use it themselves (or at least w ...
ra - Stichting Papua Erfgoed
... revealed that human occupation in this area goes back to at least 8,000 years ago (Pasveer ...
... revealed that human occupation in this area goes back to at least 8,000 years ago (Pasveer ...
complementizer - LingBuzz
... leaves open an interpretation that admits this possibility: elements that are not determiner-like can actually be complementizers in the standard sense of the term. But, at the same time Kayne’s idea that complement clauses are nothing else than relatives, weakens such an interpretation. In other wo ...
... leaves open an interpretation that admits this possibility: elements that are not determiner-like can actually be complementizers in the standard sense of the term. But, at the same time Kayne’s idea that complement clauses are nothing else than relatives, weakens such an interpretation. In other wo ...
lexc
... Write a simple lexc grammar that handles regular English noun plurals. Use the tags +Noun, +Sg and +Pl or, probably better, [Noun], [Sg] and [Pl] on the upper (lexical) side. ...
... Write a simple lexc grammar that handles regular English noun plurals. Use the tags +Noun, +Sg and +Pl or, probably better, [Noun], [Sg] and [Pl] on the upper (lexical) side. ...
1 Background on this module 2 Introduction
... about the -ceive portion in the words receive, perceive and conceive. Although most English speakers probably don’t know what the meaning of the morpheme -ceive is, we can tell that it might be a bound root because it combines with a number of prefixes - bound morphemes that occur before the root of ...
... about the -ceive portion in the words receive, perceive and conceive. Although most English speakers probably don’t know what the meaning of the morpheme -ceive is, we can tell that it might be a bound root because it combines with a number of prefixes - bound morphemes that occur before the root of ...
root deverbal paradigms as reflected in the Oxford En
... (1.06 coinages of suffix-variant ‘source of action’ noun productivity for one verbal stem). There is a compatible (1.07 derivatives for a verbal stem) quota for variant suffix productivity in action nouns that do not tend to lexicalize factitively (d 1) and somewhat higher quotas (respectively, 1.13 ...
... (1.06 coinages of suffix-variant ‘source of action’ noun productivity for one verbal stem). There is a compatible (1.07 derivatives for a verbal stem) quota for variant suffix productivity in action nouns that do not tend to lexicalize factitively (d 1) and somewhat higher quotas (respectively, 1.13 ...
Accepted for publication in the Journal of Semantics, pre
... universal quantification and distinctness of coarguments somehow bundled into it. It therefore should be equally possible to derive the universal features of reciprocity by composing two or more markers which have these more basic notions as their meaning. Thus, the observation that reciprocal const ...
... universal quantification and distinctness of coarguments somehow bundled into it. It therefore should be equally possible to derive the universal features of reciprocity by composing two or more markers which have these more basic notions as their meaning. Thus, the observation that reciprocal const ...
Writing for Broadcast
... confuse past tense with passive voice, which is caused by sentence structure. The future tense indicates the event has not yet taken place. You can often use the present tense in place of the future (as we did above). Since it ties an action to the present, the present perfect is the second most pre ...
... confuse past tense with passive voice, which is caused by sentence structure. The future tense indicates the event has not yet taken place. You can often use the present tense in place of the future (as we did above). Since it ties an action to the present, the present perfect is the second most pre ...
Morphological Typology and First Language Acquisition: Some
... language-specific generalisations, in parallel to the grammatical model espoused, which is Natural Morphology (Dressler et al. 1987, Kilani-Schoch 1988, Dressler 2000) with its three subtheories of universal preferences or universal markedness, of typological adequacy and of language-specific system ...
... language-specific generalisations, in parallel to the grammatical model espoused, which is Natural Morphology (Dressler et al. 1987, Kilani-Schoch 1988, Dressler 2000) with its three subtheories of universal preferences or universal markedness, of typological adequacy and of language-specific system ...
Text - Kesva An Taves Kernewek
... C. Lying, sitting and standing. These English present participles are not usually expressed with ow4 and the verb noun (dyskans 11), but with the corresponding nouns gorwedh, esedh and sav preceded by “a” and a possessive which shows the person referred to: Yth esa nebes korfow a’ga gorwedh war an ...
... C. Lying, sitting and standing. These English present participles are not usually expressed with ow4 and the verb noun (dyskans 11), but with the corresponding nouns gorwedh, esedh and sav preceded by “a” and a possessive which shows the person referred to: Yth esa nebes korfow a’ga gorwedh war an ...
Present Simple
... The Past Continuous with words such as always or constantly expresses the idea that something irritating or shocking often happened in the past. The concept is very similar to the expression used to but with negative emotion. Remember to put the words always or constantly between "be" and "verb+ing. ...
... The Past Continuous with words such as always or constantly expresses the idea that something irritating or shocking often happened in the past. The concept is very similar to the expression used to but with negative emotion. Remember to put the words always or constantly between "be" and "verb+ing. ...
On the expression of TAM on nouns: Evidence from Tundra Nenets
... feature on D(eterminer) is uninterpretable and licenses the nominative Case with all associated effects, a Salishan language Halkomelem possesses interpretable T on D and the category of nominal tense. However, in Matthewson’s (2005) analyses of St’aʹt’imcets, a related Salishan language, the tempor ...
... feature on D(eterminer) is uninterpretable and licenses the nominative Case with all associated effects, a Salishan language Halkomelem possesses interpretable T on D and the category of nominal tense. However, in Matthewson’s (2005) analyses of St’aʹt’imcets, a related Salishan language, the tempor ...
Pronoun Production: Word or World Knowledge?
... However, it turns out that distributivity does affect number agreement in languages other than English (e.g., Vigliocco, Butterworth and Garrett 1996), and sometimes even in English (Eberhard 1999). Notional involvement has also been found in processes of grammatical gender agreement. In a series of ...
... However, it turns out that distributivity does affect number agreement in languages other than English (e.g., Vigliocco, Butterworth and Garrett 1996), and sometimes even in English (Eberhard 1999). Notional involvement has also been found in processes of grammatical gender agreement. In a series of ...
Enhancing Object-Oriented UML for Developing an Intelligent
... Instance Aa1, Instance Aa2 and Instance Aa3. The second super class is called Super class B and it has Subclass Ba. This subclass consists of three instances: Instance Ba1, Instance Ba2 and Instance Ba3. The super classes inherit the public operations (Actions) to its subclasses. Accordingly, these ...
... Instance Aa1, Instance Aa2 and Instance Aa3. The second super class is called Super class B and it has Subclass Ba. This subclass consists of three instances: Instance Ba1, Instance Ba2 and Instance Ba3. The super classes inherit the public operations (Actions) to its subclasses. Accordingly, these ...
resultative predicative adjunct constructions in the gothic bible
... functioning as a resultative proper may employ other bivalent verbs.6 In fact, non-possessive introductory verbs can even be found at later developmental stages of the resultative, i.e. when it functions as a perfect, as demonstrated by the Galician perfect where the verbs dar “give” and levar “lift ...
... functioning as a resultative proper may employ other bivalent verbs.6 In fact, non-possessive introductory verbs can even be found at later developmental stages of the resultative, i.e. when it functions as a perfect, as demonstrated by the Galician perfect where the verbs dar “give” and levar “lift ...
Word-class-changing inflection and morphological theory
... all-or-nothing features. Some linguists (e.g. Dressler 1989, Luraghi 1994) have discussed inflection and derivation in terms of prototypicality, pointing out that some types of affixes are prototypically inflectional (e.g. case affixes and person/number agreement affixes), whereas others are prototy ...
... all-or-nothing features. Some linguists (e.g. Dressler 1989, Luraghi 1994) have discussed inflection and derivation in terms of prototypicality, pointing out that some types of affixes are prototypically inflectional (e.g. case affixes and person/number agreement affixes), whereas others are prototy ...
LE-2 Ch. 2 Lesson 2
... you have selected and set down in your outline. That is, you build your paragraphs to meet the overall structural requirements of your writing project. The guiding principle is to cover one main idea or point in each paragraph. To help you do this, you’ll need to rely on another tool, the topic sent ...
... you have selected and set down in your outline. That is, you build your paragraphs to meet the overall structural requirements of your writing project. The guiding principle is to cover one main idea or point in each paragraph. To help you do this, you’ll need to rely on another tool, the topic sent ...
Workshop7. Logic in Language
... (c) You should find that there is only one row where all terms are true together. This identifies the consistent set of atomic sentences. Write the corresponding mini-term down and the associated sentence in the row. Does the sentence make sense? Now you should attempt either (d) or (e) (d) Construc ...
... (c) You should find that there is only one row where all terms are true together. This identifies the consistent set of atomic sentences. Write the corresponding mini-term down and the associated sentence in the row. Does the sentence make sense? Now you should attempt either (d) or (e) (d) Construc ...