Bare nominals, true and fake vocatives Romance
... Following Dobrovie-Sorin & Laca (2003), Dobrovie-Sorin et al. (2006), and Espinal & McNally (in press) I will assume that bare nominals in object position are NPs or NumPs depending on whether they are unmarked for Number (number neutral bare nominals) or not (bare singulars and bare plurals). Simil ...
... Following Dobrovie-Sorin & Laca (2003), Dobrovie-Sorin et al. (2006), and Espinal & McNally (in press) I will assume that bare nominals in object position are NPs or NumPs depending on whether they are unmarked for Number (number neutral bare nominals) or not (bare singulars and bare plurals). Simil ...
Chapter 5 - public.asu.edu
... marking “are about equally frequent overall” (1992: 95), but this is not clear. Siewierska & Bakker (2009: 299) say that “case marking of arguments is overall considerably less common cross-linguistically than agreement marking”. This section first focuses on the types of Case and how these may be r ...
... marking “are about equally frequent overall” (1992: 95), but this is not clear. Siewierska & Bakker (2009: 299) say that “case marking of arguments is overall considerably less common cross-linguistically than agreement marking”. This section first focuses on the types of Case and how these may be r ...
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... sentence is odd if there is an overt pronoun rather than an empty object. While this point deserves further investigation, the explanation may be independent of the issue of parasitic gaps. The overt pronoun yah ‘3sg this’ and woo ‘3sg that’ have some semantic content in addition to being pronouns, ...
... sentence is odd if there is an overt pronoun rather than an empty object. While this point deserves further investigation, the explanation may be independent of the issue of parasitic gaps. The overt pronoun yah ‘3sg this’ and woo ‘3sg that’ have some semantic content in addition to being pronouns, ...
“Adjectives” in Tundra Nenets: Properties of Property Words (JSFOu
... verbs will be discussed in more detail. I follow Salminen’s (1993) morphological definitions of Nenets major word classes, on basis of which property concept words are divided into two different word classes. My presumption is that despite the fact that property words belong to two different main wo ...
... verbs will be discussed in more detail. I follow Salminen’s (1993) morphological definitions of Nenets major word classes, on basis of which property concept words are divided into two different word classes. My presumption is that despite the fact that property words belong to two different main wo ...
Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives
... mantics of adjectives only partially reflects their possible syntactic distinctions; • the major distinction among adjectives is scalar vs. non-scalar; • the attributive/predicative distinction, dominating the current scholarship on the adjective, has virtually no semantic significance, thus essent ...
... mantics of adjectives only partially reflects their possible syntactic distinctions; • the major distinction among adjectives is scalar vs. non-scalar; • the attributive/predicative distinction, dominating the current scholarship on the adjective, has virtually no semantic significance, thus essent ...
Active/agentive Case Marking and Its Motivations
... 1. INTRODUCTION.It has been known for some time that languages can differ substantially in their marking of case. For centuries, descriptions have been available of languages whose core (direct) case categories differ fundamentally from the subjects and direct objects of more familiar European langu ...
... 1. INTRODUCTION.It has been known for some time that languages can differ substantially in their marking of case. For centuries, descriptions have been available of languages whose core (direct) case categories differ fundamentally from the subjects and direct objects of more familiar European langu ...
Parallelism Rules
... Shortcut Rule 12 : Don't say "family members / cousin brother or cousin sister" but say "The members of the family / he or she is my cousin". Shortcut Rule 13 : When two nouns are connected by "and", and are closely related, add an apostrophe and S to the last noun. Kareena's and Saif's house ☓ (if ...
... Shortcut Rule 12 : Don't say "family members / cousin brother or cousin sister" but say "The members of the family / he or she is my cousin". Shortcut Rule 13 : When two nouns are connected by "and", and are closely related, add an apostrophe and S to the last noun. Kareena's and Saif's house ☓ (if ...
Remarks on Complex Condensation Phenomena in Some English
... Both tables confirm J. Vachek's results quoted in his paper (cf. Note 1): the most frequent condensers in English are the participles, followed by infinitives and gerunds. The most frequent Czech clauses replacing the English participial cases of condensation are paratactically arranged main clauses ...
... Both tables confirm J. Vachek's results quoted in his paper (cf. Note 1): the most frequent condensers in English are the participles, followed by infinitives and gerunds. The most frequent Czech clauses replacing the English participial cases of condensation are paratactically arranged main clauses ...
Conversion
... time, and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. (Loncoln) (to change them into fools) ...
... time, and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. (Loncoln) (to change them into fools) ...
(2002), "An on-line look at sentence processing in the second
... was reported by Segalowitz and Hébert (1990); bilinguals who read slower in their second than native language were more prone to interference from homophones when processing semantically anomalous sentences (e.g. "The weather was fare.") than were bilinguals were read equally fast in their two langu ...
... was reported by Segalowitz and Hébert (1990); bilinguals who read slower in their second than native language were more prone to interference from homophones when processing semantically anomalous sentences (e.g. "The weather was fare.") than were bilinguals were read equally fast in their two langu ...
nominal composition, noun incorporation and non-finite
... (1.2) the stem of the incorporated N+V complex has the properties of a regular verbal stem (in particular, it can serve as a base for finite conjugation); (1.3) noun incorporation is a productive morphological process, operating on a large (ideally, unlimited) set of verbs. Constraint (1.1) distingu ...
... (1.2) the stem of the incorporated N+V complex has the properties of a regular verbal stem (in particular, it can serve as a base for finite conjugation); (1.3) noun incorporation is a productive morphological process, operating on a large (ideally, unlimited) set of verbs. Constraint (1.1) distingu ...
Identitate românească în context balcanic
... alive the Romance and Romanian awareness. This is obvious not only in the areas where they form a compact group (for instance, in Pind – Greece, especially in Metsovo, or in the area of Korce-Moscopole in Albania), but also in isolated places showing a great cultural tradition (for instance, Siracu ...
... alive the Romance and Romanian awareness. This is obvious not only in the areas where they form a compact group (for instance, in Pind – Greece, especially in Metsovo, or in the area of Korce-Moscopole in Albania), but also in isolated places showing a great cultural tradition (for instance, Siracu ...
Predicate Adjective
... • So far, we have talked about objects that come after action verbs—direct and indirect objects. • Today, we are learning what comes after linking verbs—predicate nouns and predicate adjectives. ...
... • So far, we have talked about objects that come after action verbs—direct and indirect objects. • Today, we are learning what comes after linking verbs—predicate nouns and predicate adjectives. ...
Prepositional Phrase Attachment and Interlingua
... c. generating a UNL relation (e.g., agt relation between he and is working). Many rules are formed using Context Free (CFG)-like grammar segments, the productions of which help in clause delimitation, prepositional phrase attachment, part of speech (POS) disambiguation and so on. This is illustrated ...
... c. generating a UNL relation (e.g., agt relation between he and is working). Many rules are formed using Context Free (CFG)-like grammar segments, the productions of which help in clause delimitation, prepositional phrase attachment, part of speech (POS) disambiguation and so on. This is illustrated ...
The Semantics of Progressive Aspect: A Thorough Study
... he reads a newspaper almost every day. But the second one refers to his activity of reading a newspaper on a particular occasion or during a particular time. In this case, tense without the aspectual distinction fails to convey the difference in meaning between these two sentences, and therefore, as ...
... he reads a newspaper almost every day. But the second one refers to his activity of reading a newspaper on a particular occasion or during a particular time. In this case, tense without the aspectual distinction fails to convey the difference in meaning between these two sentences, and therefore, as ...
Investigating the abstractness of children`s early knowledge of
... Although Tomasello’s case study was highly informative about what one particular child did and did not produce, it could not control for what the child heard and thus address the issue of how productive her language was. To do this, experimental studies were needed. Tomasello and his colleagues cond ...
... Although Tomasello’s case study was highly informative about what one particular child did and did not produce, it could not control for what the child heard and thus address the issue of how productive her language was. To do this, experimental studies were needed. Tomasello and his colleagues cond ...
a contrastive investigation into linguistic features of socio
... the repeated words stand far from together so as to cause a salient impression and known as anaphora and epiphora. Anaphora can create a strong emotional effect. In contrast, epiphora is repeating words at the clauses' ends, and it can be found as in the following examples: (9) Safety can distinguis ...
... the repeated words stand far from together so as to cause a salient impression and known as anaphora and epiphora. Anaphora can create a strong emotional effect. In contrast, epiphora is repeating words at the clauses' ends, and it can be found as in the following examples: (9) Safety can distinguis ...
Reflexive - Hints for Translations
... If a grammatical object in the sentence is the same as the subject, the grammatical object is required to take the reflexive form in German. However, there is no single English equivalent for this use of sich. When translating from German to English, look for an appropriate equivalent in English. Tr ...
... If a grammatical object in the sentence is the same as the subject, the grammatical object is required to take the reflexive form in German. However, there is no single English equivalent for this use of sich. When translating from German to English, look for an appropriate equivalent in English. Tr ...
Full page photo - UMEXPERT
... In this example the argument “the police” has the role of an agent who is doing an action of arresting “him”. The second argument “him” has the role of theme which undergoes an action of being arrested by the police. In this way the arguments have an agent and a theme theta relation with each other ...
... In this example the argument “the police” has the role of an agent who is doing an action of arresting “him”. The second argument “him” has the role of theme which undergoes an action of being arrested by the police. In this way the arguments have an agent and a theme theta relation with each other ...
Establishing the Thematic Structure and Investigating
... In this example the argument “the police” has the role of an agent who is doing an action of arresting “him”. The second argument “him” has the role of theme which undergoes an action of being arrested by the police. In this way the arguments have an agent and a theme theta relation with each other ...
... In this example the argument “the police” has the role of an agent who is doing an action of arresting “him”. The second argument “him” has the role of theme which undergoes an action of being arrested by the police. In this way the arguments have an agent and a theme theta relation with each other ...
A group of subject-verb agreements: finding quantity in group and
... between determiners and the subject-verb agreements of number of NP (Huddleston & Pullum, 2002, p.350, 502-503; Biber et al., 1999, p. 185). Part of the issue is that certain forms, such as group of NP, have not been adequately described with regards to subject-verb agreement, let alone had pedagogi ...
... between determiners and the subject-verb agreements of number of NP (Huddleston & Pullum, 2002, p.350, 502-503; Biber et al., 1999, p. 185). Part of the issue is that certain forms, such as group of NP, have not been adequately described with regards to subject-verb agreement, let alone had pedagogi ...
The Science of Scientific Writing
... questions present themselves: What has the first sentence of the passage to do with the last sentence? Does the third sentence contradict what we have been told in the second ...
... questions present themselves: What has the first sentence of the passage to do with the last sentence? Does the third sentence contradict what we have been told in the second ...