Uzzi Ornan - CS Technion
... the other words around them: this is the difference between organizing elements and symbolic terms. By “Organizing Elements” we are not referring only to what are called “grammatical words”, such as ki in Hebrew, or “that” in English – words which do not refer to any entity in the world outside the ...
... the other words around them: this is the difference between organizing elements and symbolic terms. By “Organizing Elements” we are not referring only to what are called “grammatical words”, such as ki in Hebrew, or “that” in English – words which do not refer to any entity in the world outside the ...
chapters 4 and 5
... grammarians call them subject and object complements; others subject and object predicatives; yet others call them subject and object attributives. I have chosen subject and object predicate to show that their function is similar to that of the VP predicate. It is as if the AdjP is more important th ...
... grammarians call them subject and object complements; others subject and object predicatives; yet others call them subject and object attributives. I have chosen subject and object predicate to show that their function is similar to that of the VP predicate. It is as if the AdjP is more important th ...
Indirect Objects and Possessives
... Because the pronoun set used after the verb baa is identical to the direct object set, it is common for Hausaists to describe baa äs taking two direct objects. But I would argue that baa is not "aberrant" in having two d.o.'s, but rather is "archaic" in that it has preserved the historically earlier ...
... Because the pronoun set used after the verb baa is identical to the direct object set, it is common for Hausaists to describe baa äs taking two direct objects. But I would argue that baa is not "aberrant" in having two d.o.'s, but rather is "archaic" in that it has preserved the historically earlier ...
Recognize a prepositional phrase when you see one.
... squid eyeball stew. Cookbooks do indeed contain recipes. In this sentence, however, cookbooks is part of the prepositional phrase of these cookbooks. Neither—whatever a neither is—is the subject for the verb contains. Neither is singular, so you need the singular form of the verb, contains. If ...
... squid eyeball stew. Cookbooks do indeed contain recipes. In this sentence, however, cookbooks is part of the prepositional phrase of these cookbooks. Neither—whatever a neither is—is the subject for the verb contains. Neither is singular, so you need the singular form of the verb, contains. If ...
Grimshaw on Inversion
... competitions. The second reason to include semantic information in the input relates to the notion of markedness. A typical linguistic phenomenon involves marked features in a grammatical expression being used to convey special meaning. For example, an alteration to the ‘normal’ word order pattern m ...
... competitions. The second reason to include semantic information in the input relates to the notion of markedness. A typical linguistic phenomenon involves marked features in a grammatical expression being used to convey special meaning. For example, an alteration to the ‘normal’ word order pattern m ...
Name
... PRONOUN: A word that replaces a noun or pronoun. ANTECEDENT: The word that a pronoun refers to is called its antecedent. SUBJECT PRONOUNS – identifies whom or what a sentence is about. It is the “actor” or subject of the sentence. Remember subject pronouns are used after linking verbs if they are pr ...
... PRONOUN: A word that replaces a noun or pronoun. ANTECEDENT: The word that a pronoun refers to is called its antecedent. SUBJECT PRONOUNS – identifies whom or what a sentence is about. It is the “actor” or subject of the sentence. Remember subject pronouns are used after linking verbs if they are pr ...
File - Pastor larry dela cruz
... What something means in Greek has to do with what the writer of the Greek is trying to convey. What is the Greek writer/speaker saying? In trying to decipher what the Greek sentence means, obviously you are required in some sense to translate it into the language you speak/think in. However, you sho ...
... What something means in Greek has to do with what the writer of the Greek is trying to convey. What is the Greek writer/speaker saying? In trying to decipher what the Greek sentence means, obviously you are required in some sense to translate it into the language you speak/think in. However, you sho ...
Missing arguments in earlier English clause structures
... Spec-Head agreement. That is, pro is licensed by a functional category. Hence, if pro occurs in early child English, it follows that child grammar has an established I-system, a functional category. There are many problems with this account, however. Languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean al ...
... Spec-Head agreement. That is, pro is licensed by a functional category. Hence, if pro occurs in early child English, it follows that child grammar has an established I-system, a functional category. There are many problems with this account, however. Languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean al ...
adjectives test 1.
... Muck: Soil with mud, muck, or mire- "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" The word “his” is a possessive noun and it is complementing the noun “frustration,” and “was” is there as a linking verb. Now, “due to the mucked up windscreen” itself is an adjectival prepositional ...
... Muck: Soil with mud, muck, or mire- "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" The word “his” is a possessive noun and it is complementing the noun “frustration,” and “was” is there as a linking verb. Now, “due to the mucked up windscreen” itself is an adjectival prepositional ...
Phrases - Buckeye Valley
... that is used as a single part of speech and that does not contain both a verb and its subject. ...
... that is used as a single part of speech and that does not contain both a verb and its subject. ...
Syntax: Phrases
... Lexical verbs 3 Types of Auxiliary verbs 1. Modal auxiliary verbs: can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might and must, which if the verb phrase has one, always come first; 2. Aspect auxiliaries, have and be, which if they are present, come in that order and after any modal auxiliary verb; a ...
... Lexical verbs 3 Types of Auxiliary verbs 1. Modal auxiliary verbs: can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might and must, which if the verb phrase has one, always come first; 2. Aspect auxiliaries, have and be, which if they are present, come in that order and after any modal auxiliary verb; a ...
Тема 6 THE PASSIVE VOICE The voice is one of the categories of
... His last film is much talked about. His jokes are always laughed at. Notice that the prepositional passive construction is not used with such verbs as: to explain, to point out, to announce, to dedicate, to devote, to say, to suggest, to propose; They take two objects, direct and prepositional in ac ...
... His last film is much talked about. His jokes are always laughed at. Notice that the prepositional passive construction is not used with such verbs as: to explain, to point out, to announce, to dedicate, to devote, to say, to suggest, to propose; They take two objects, direct and prepositional in ac ...
David L. Appleyard, SOAS, University of London, 2007.
... Afroasiatic. All of the Agaw languages have for some time been under pressure from one or more of the dominant Semitic languages of the region, Tigre and Tigrinya in the case of Bilin, and all show the pervasive influence of their dominant neighbours. This is mostly typified by the varying extent of b ...
... Afroasiatic. All of the Agaw languages have for some time been under pressure from one or more of the dominant Semitic languages of the region, Tigre and Tigrinya in the case of Bilin, and all show the pervasive influence of their dominant neighbours. This is mostly typified by the varying extent of b ...
УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЙ КОМПЛЕКС
... Vinogradov who identifies modality as a linguistic category expressed by syntactic, morphological and lexical means. Correlation in occurrence of different linguistic units in one semantic field makes it possible to suggest that there are certain regularities of their functioning in language activit ...
... Vinogradov who identifies modality as a linguistic category expressed by syntactic, morphological and lexical means. Correlation in occurrence of different linguistic units in one semantic field makes it possible to suggest that there are certain regularities of their functioning in language activit ...
ADJECTIVE An adjective is a word or word group that is used to
... 2. She recalled that discoveries have often been made accidentally. (2) 3. Air travel depends heavily on instruments that were completely unknown before 1940. (2) 4. Meteorologists can certainly predict the weather quite accurately. (3) 5. The rain came rather suddenly, which caused him to slam on h ...
... 2. She recalled that discoveries have often been made accidentally. (2) 3. Air travel depends heavily on instruments that were completely unknown before 1940. (2) 4. Meteorologists can certainly predict the weather quite accurately. (3) 5. The rain came rather suddenly, which caused him to slam on h ...
French Verb Summary
... Ces sont les portefeuilles que j'ai perdus. These are the wallets that I lost. ...
... Ces sont les portefeuilles que j'ai perdus. These are the wallets that I lost. ...
Towards a structural typology of verb classes
... some items seem to be wrongly classified: nouns such as journey, war, and game denote events rather than objects, while verbs such as resemble, exist, be above, and be tall do not denote events. One point to be made here is that some languages (such as English) in addition to verbs and nouns also ha ...
... some items seem to be wrongly classified: nouns such as journey, war, and game denote events rather than objects, while verbs such as resemble, exist, be above, and be tall do not denote events. One point to be made here is that some languages (such as English) in addition to verbs and nouns also ha ...
The Special Datives
... 3. Dative with Special Intransitive Verbs parco, mando, impero, noceo, resisto, studeo, etc. 4. Dative with Certain Compound Verbs praesum, praeficio, occurro, etc. (often verbs with prefixes of ob- and prae-) ...
... 3. Dative with Special Intransitive Verbs parco, mando, impero, noceo, resisto, studeo, etc. 4. Dative with Certain Compound Verbs praesum, praeficio, occurro, etc. (often verbs with prefixes of ob- and prae-) ...
Interfaces as locus of historical change
... The phenomenon of complex predicates (V-V, N-V or A-V sequences) is extremely pervasive in the South Asian linguistic area, occurring in all of the major language groups (Dravidian, Tibeto-Burmese, Indo-Aryan). Complex predicates have in fact been viewed as an example of areal spread due to language ...
... The phenomenon of complex predicates (V-V, N-V or A-V sequences) is extremely pervasive in the South Asian linguistic area, occurring in all of the major language groups (Dravidian, Tibeto-Burmese, Indo-Aryan). Complex predicates have in fact been viewed as an example of areal spread due to language ...
Investigating the abstractness of children`s early knowledge of
... syntactic categories ; rather, grammatical structure builds around individual lexical items and these item-specific constructions only gradually become more general. Tomasello outlines a position in stark contrast to that proposed in generative accounts of grammatical development, which ascribe adult ...
... syntactic categories ; rather, grammatical structure builds around individual lexical items and these item-specific constructions only gradually become more general. Tomasello outlines a position in stark contrast to that proposed in generative accounts of grammatical development, which ascribe adult ...
adjective phrases
... • Definition: A verb form ending in –ing that is used as a __________. • Because it is a noun, it can play any of the roles a noun can play in a sentence: • Singing always makes me feel better. • They do not appreciate my singing. • My students give studying top priority. • How much time do you devo ...
... • Definition: A verb form ending in –ing that is used as a __________. • Because it is a noun, it can play any of the roles a noun can play in a sentence: • Singing always makes me feel better. • They do not appreciate my singing. • My students give studying top priority. • How much time do you devo ...
Graded representations in the acquisition of English and German
... see Kempe & MacWhinney, 1998; Devescovi, D’Amico, & Gentile, 1999; Slobin & Bever, 1982; Lindner, 2003). One simple proposal is that all things being equal, languages (or constructions within particular languages) which mark semantic roles using two cues (e.g., both word order AND case-marking) shou ...
... see Kempe & MacWhinney, 1998; Devescovi, D’Amico, & Gentile, 1999; Slobin & Bever, 1982; Lindner, 2003). One simple proposal is that all things being equal, languages (or constructions within particular languages) which mark semantic roles using two cues (e.g., both word order AND case-marking) shou ...
Exercise 27, Chapter 15, “Prepositions”
... 5. Prepositional phrases can come at the beginning of a sentence, in the middle of a sentence or at the end of a sentence. 6. To, one of the most common prepositions, always functions as a preposition. 7. A sentence should never end with a preposition. 8. Compound prepositions are more powerful than ...
... 5. Prepositional phrases can come at the beginning of a sentence, in the middle of a sentence or at the end of a sentence. 6. To, one of the most common prepositions, always functions as a preposition. 7. A sentence should never end with a preposition. 8. Compound prepositions are more powerful than ...
Necessitative passive This TV needs fixing. The Department of English
... applying 22 properties to the PDE data. The result is shown in table 1. In terms of historical changes, the characteristics of these verbs have not changed, and we simplify the table by mentioning the result from PDE. Note that we listed only the matching properties in order to save the space. Match ...
... applying 22 properties to the PDE data. The result is shown in table 1. In terms of historical changes, the characteristics of these verbs have not changed, and we simplify the table by mentioning the result from PDE. Note that we listed only the matching properties in order to save the space. Match ...
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A [wikid] GLOSSARY OF SYNTAX
... dependents are taken to be a single component called a verb phrase or the predicate of the clause; thus the clause can be said to consist of subject plus predicate. Dependents include any number of complements (especially a noun phrase functioning as the object), and other modifiers of the verb. Nou ...
... dependents are taken to be a single component called a verb phrase or the predicate of the clause; thus the clause can be said to consist of subject plus predicate. Dependents include any number of complements (especially a noun phrase functioning as the object), and other modifiers of the verb. Nou ...