Building Statives
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
AK - KISS Grammar
... Verbals” is very important preparation for KISS Level Three—clauses. A clause is a subject / (finite) verb / complement pattern. Students who cannot distinguish finite verbs from verbals will therefore have serious difficulties in KISS Level Three. KISS Level 2.2.1—“The ‘To’ Problem ...
... Verbals” is very important preparation for KISS Level Three—clauses. A clause is a subject / (finite) verb / complement pattern. Students who cannot distinguish finite verbs from verbals will therefore have serious difficulties in KISS Level Three. KISS Level 2.2.1—“The ‘To’ Problem ...
Object agreement, grammatical relations, and information structure. In
... In previous descriptions of Ostyak the presence of object agreement (the objective conjugation) has been stated to be conditioned by the definiteness of the direct object (Rédei 1965; Honti 1984, and many others). The term “definite,” in its turn, is taken to denote the formal properties of object N ...
... In previous descriptions of Ostyak the presence of object agreement (the objective conjugation) has been stated to be conditioned by the definiteness of the direct object (Rédei 1965; Honti 1984, and many others). The term “definite,” in its turn, is taken to denote the formal properties of object N ...
Participle - WordPress.com
... Present Participle A form of a verb which in English ends in '-ing' and comes after another verb to show continuous action. It is used to form the present continuous (tense). Present participle has three functions, there are: a. Present Participle as Attribute b. Present Participle as Opening c. Pre ...
... Present Participle A form of a verb which in English ends in '-ing' and comes after another verb to show continuous action. It is used to form the present continuous (tense). Present participle has three functions, there are: a. Present Participle as Attribute b. Present Participle as Opening c. Pre ...
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... include an appositive phrase For example: The insect, a cockroach, is crawling ...
... include an appositive phrase For example: The insect, a cockroach, is crawling ...
Building Statives - Semantics Archive
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
The Science of Scientific Writing Writing with the Reader in Mind
... the subject is doing, or what the sentence is all about. As a result, the reader focuses attention on the arrival of the verb and resists recognizing anything in the interrupting material as being of primary importance. The longer the interruption lasts, the more likely it becomes that the "interrup ...
... the subject is doing, or what the sentence is all about. As a result, the reader focuses attention on the arrival of the verb and resists recognizing anything in the interrupting material as being of primary importance. The longer the interruption lasts, the more likely it becomes that the "interrup ...
THE ENGLISH -ING FORM FROM A
... studies discussed lack: when children used the novel verbs, cases occurred where the meaning of the word and the child's treatment of it were difficult to distinguish. The most common of these was when the child used a form of the verb (often with -ing), as a noun, which all the eight participating ...
... studies discussed lack: when children used the novel verbs, cases occurred where the meaning of the word and the child's treatment of it were difficult to distinguish. The most common of these was when the child used a form of the verb (often with -ing), as a noun, which all the eight participating ...
The lexical category auxiliary in Sinhala
... for empirical data to decide whether there are elements that exist somewhere along the Verbto-TAM chain, what their lexical sources are, and how far they are along in the process of grammaticization. The present study uses functional and formal criteria to heuristically arrive at a set of possible c ...
... for empirical data to decide whether there are elements that exist somewhere along the Verbto-TAM chain, what their lexical sources are, and how far they are along in the process of grammaticization. The present study uses functional and formal criteria to heuristically arrive at a set of possible c ...
Style Guide - School of Communication and Arts
... true that knowledge of grammar does not make a good writer, good writing depends on good grammar. WORD CLASSES Recognising particular word classes (formerly known as “parts of speech”) makes discussion of grammatical rules easier to understand. • Nouns describe “things”, whether concrete (you can to ...
... true that knowledge of grammar does not make a good writer, good writing depends on good grammar. WORD CLASSES Recognising particular word classes (formerly known as “parts of speech”) makes discussion of grammatical rules easier to understand. • Nouns describe “things”, whether concrete (you can to ...
VILNIUS PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
... to the scholar, the failure of the bus to turn up functions as cause, and my being late for the meeting functions as effect. These two micro-situations form a single complex macro-situation, that is, the causative situation. In this case, it would be possible to express the macro-situation by combin ...
... to the scholar, the failure of the bus to turn up functions as cause, and my being late for the meeting functions as effect. These two micro-situations form a single complex macro-situation, that is, the causative situation. In this case, it would be possible to express the macro-situation by combin ...
Gerund and gerundive
... Here we have the gerund legendō in the dative as the indirect object of the phrase operam dat, with librōs tacked on as the object, in turn, of legendō. Thus is rather inelegant. (Believe it or not, the Romans do like to be direct on occasion.) To get around this, what they will do in such cases is ...
... Here we have the gerund legendō in the dative as the indirect object of the phrase operam dat, with librōs tacked on as the object, in turn, of legendō. Thus is rather inelegant. (Believe it or not, the Romans do like to be direct on occasion.) To get around this, what they will do in such cases is ...
docx - University of Liverpool
... facts about the adult grammar, we now consider possible explanations for how children could identify instances of this category in the input. Pinker’s (1984) semantic bootstrapping hypothesis assumes not just innate syntactic categories of NOUN and VERB but also innate linking rules which map “name ...
... facts about the adult grammar, we now consider possible explanations for how children could identify instances of this category in the input. Pinker’s (1984) semantic bootstrapping hypothesis assumes not just innate syntactic categories of NOUN and VERB but also innate linking rules which map “name ...
Clitics in Word Grammar
... as the intermediate forms recognised in traditional inflectional morphology (e.g. the various tense forms in Latin to which person and number affixes are added). This hierarchical subclassification of forms is clearly different from any hierarchy that would apply to words, as can be seen from Figure ...
... as the intermediate forms recognised in traditional inflectional morphology (e.g. the various tense forms in Latin to which person and number affixes are added). This hierarchical subclassification of forms is clearly different from any hierarchy that would apply to words, as can be seen from Figure ...
Re-discovering the Quechua adjective
... different features tend to align along the noun/adjective border, in my view, outweighs the relative importance of each individual criterion alone. There will always be “mis-matched” languages as well, in which these different dimensions do not neatly align (Olawsky 2004, Nikolaeva 2008). These diff ...
... different features tend to align along the noun/adjective border, in my view, outweighs the relative importance of each individual criterion alone. There will always be “mis-matched” languages as well, in which these different dimensions do not neatly align (Olawsky 2004, Nikolaeva 2008). These diff ...
Reflexivity and Intensification in Middle English
... disjoint reference; a sentence like Judasi hinei,j aheng is therefore ambiguous between two interpretations: Judas might have hanged himself or somebody else9. Mitchell (1985: 187ff.) classifies OE SELF as ‘pronoun/adjective’ and further categorizes it as an ‘indefinite’ belonging to the subgroup of ...
... disjoint reference; a sentence like Judasi hinei,j aheng is therefore ambiguous between two interpretations: Judas might have hanged himself or somebody else9. Mitchell (1985: 187ff.) classifies OE SELF as ‘pronoun/adjective’ and further categorizes it as an ‘indefinite’ belonging to the subgroup of ...
DAY ONE
... Workbook that Enrique used the verb Gustar to describe the months and seasons he likes? In Spanish, to express that you like something you would say: Me gusta… (if the thing you like is in the singular) and Me gustan… (if the thing you like is in the plural) and then place what you like directly aft ...
... Workbook that Enrique used the verb Gustar to describe the months and seasons he likes? In Spanish, to express that you like something you would say: Me gusta… (if the thing you like is in the singular) and Me gustan… (if the thing you like is in the plural) and then place what you like directly aft ...
1 CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Being a mere
... explained by Labov (1969) in Wardaugh (1992: 335). Therefore, if we can contract is in the sentence everybody’s not happy, then in AAVE the contracted ’s becomes everybody not happy. However, if is cannot be contracted like in I know where he is cannot be contracted to I know where he’s. Therefore, ...
... explained by Labov (1969) in Wardaugh (1992: 335). Therefore, if we can contract is in the sentence everybody’s not happy, then in AAVE the contracted ’s becomes everybody not happy. However, if is cannot be contracted like in I know where he is cannot be contracted to I know where he’s. Therefore, ...
Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database (Revised
... Jones’s data cannot be explained as association by continguity. The price of imposing this syntactic categorization on WordNet is a certain amount of redundancy that conventional dictionaries avoid—words like back, for example, turn up in more than one category. But the advantage is that fundamental ...
... Jones’s data cannot be explained as association by continguity. The price of imposing this syntactic categorization on WordNet is a certain amount of redundancy that conventional dictionaries avoid—words like back, for example, turn up in more than one category. But the advantage is that fundamental ...
Some Vietnamese Students` Problems with English
... mark them when needed. For example, the Vietnamese sentence Anh ấy ngủ [brotherthere-sleep] can be translated into English as He is sleeping, He slept, He sleeps, or He has slept, depending on the context. When adverbial elements such as trước đây [ago, before] or bây giờ [now, at the moment] are us ...
... mark them when needed. For example, the Vietnamese sentence Anh ấy ngủ [brotherthere-sleep] can be translated into English as He is sleeping, He slept, He sleeps, or He has slept, depending on the context. When adverbial elements such as trước đây [ago, before] or bây giờ [now, at the moment] are us ...
Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database
... Jones’s data cannot be explained as association by continguity. The price of imposing this syntactic categorization on WordNet is a certain amount of redundancy that conventional dictionaries avoid—words like back, for example, turn up in more than one category. But the advantage is that fundamental ...
... Jones’s data cannot be explained as association by continguity. The price of imposing this syntactic categorization on WordNet is a certain amount of redundancy that conventional dictionaries avoid—words like back, for example, turn up in more than one category. But the advantage is that fundamental ...
The invisible hand of grammaticalization
... German as well as in other West-Germanic languages will be focused on, with the aim of showing that this quirky feature may be explained as a side-effect of the grammaticalization of the perfect periphrasis in the Middle Ages. The paper is structured as follows: Section 2 provides a survey of differ ...
... German as well as in other West-Germanic languages will be focused on, with the aim of showing that this quirky feature may be explained as a side-effect of the grammaticalization of the perfect periphrasis in the Middle Ages. The paper is structured as follows: Section 2 provides a survey of differ ...
1. High school produces few students truly prepared for the zombie
... 10. The point of chasing humans is to partake of their fleshy goodness. ...
... 10. The point of chasing humans is to partake of their fleshy goodness. ...
Relational Words - Kathy Hirsh
... explain why verbs and other relational terms are generally harder to learn than words from other lexical classes such as nouns; Golinkoff and colleagues (1996) built on this framework. First, verbs are polysemous. They are more likely to have multiple meanings than nouns. For example, Merriam-Webste ...
... explain why verbs and other relational terms are generally harder to learn than words from other lexical classes such as nouns; Golinkoff and colleagues (1996) built on this framework. First, verbs are polysemous. They are more likely to have multiple meanings than nouns. For example, Merriam-Webste ...