Contrastive collostructional analysis: Causative
... the ‘accusative and infinitive’ or ‘nominative and infinitive’ construction, and compare the English and Dutch constructions on this basis. While the comparison itself is rather limited due to the relatively low frequency of the Dutch constructions, it reveals some interesting tendencies and, most i ...
... the ‘accusative and infinitive’ or ‘nominative and infinitive’ construction, and compare the English and Dutch constructions on this basis. While the comparison itself is rather limited due to the relatively low frequency of the Dutch constructions, it reveals some interesting tendencies and, most i ...
Ten-Minute Grammar
... Have the day’s bell ringer activity up on a projector when the students come to class each day. I have my students do the assignment on quarter sheets of paper (I cut them up and have a stack available each day). Some days in each unit require copyediting; since it takes too long for students to cop ...
... Have the day’s bell ringer activity up on a projector when the students come to class each day. I have my students do the assignment on quarter sheets of paper (I cut them up and have a stack available each day). Some days in each unit require copyediting; since it takes too long for students to cop ...
Mini-tests in Grammar № 4 Name - Кам`янець
... verbs which cannot be used in any of the continuous forms. But under some circumstances they can be used in the continuous forms without changing their meaning, though much rarer than others (as in the sentence “He was being polite to you”). The second example is a blunt formulation of the rule ‘In ...
... verbs which cannot be used in any of the continuous forms. But under some circumstances they can be used in the continuous forms without changing their meaning, though much rarer than others (as in the sentence “He was being polite to you”). The second example is a blunt formulation of the rule ‘In ...
A Dynamic Account of Clitic Climbing: A first sketch
... The version of the DS framework I’m going to use has its basis in the version presented in Cann et al. (2005). I further assume a situation argument being present in the tree structure functioning as the locus where tense and aspect properties are encoded. Building on assumptions by Gregoromichelaki ...
... The version of the DS framework I’m going to use has its basis in the version presented in Cann et al. (2005). I further assume a situation argument being present in the tree structure functioning as the locus where tense and aspect properties are encoded. Building on assumptions by Gregoromichelaki ...
Lecture 07
... A transformation converts this deep structure into the corresponding surface structure. It moves the wh phrase from its position in D-structure to a position at the beginning of the sentence. This transformation is called: ...
... A transformation converts this deep structure into the corresponding surface structure. It moves the wh phrase from its position in D-structure to a position at the beginning of the sentence. This transformation is called: ...
Double obj pronouns
... Spanish direct and indirect object pronouns may be used together in the same sentence just as in English. As with most all pronoun use, the objective is to reduce the length, complexity, or redundancy of the language. ...
... Spanish direct and indirect object pronouns may be used together in the same sentence just as in English. As with most all pronoun use, the objective is to reduce the length, complexity, or redundancy of the language. ...
Double Object Pronouns
... Spanish direct and indirect object pronouns may be used together in the same sentence just as in English. As with most all pronoun use, the objective is to reduce the length, complexity, or redundancy of the language. ...
... Spanish direct and indirect object pronouns may be used together in the same sentence just as in English. As with most all pronoun use, the objective is to reduce the length, complexity, or redundancy of the language. ...
DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR (SYNTAX)–Section 1 Parts of speech 1
... a/ Articles can be definite, e.g. the book, or indefinite, e.g. a book. b/ Definite articles can be specific, e.g. The Italian is drinking coffee, or generic, e.g. The Italian is an artist. c/ Indefinite articles can be specific, e.g. There’s an Italian in the room, or generic, e.g. An Italian is an ...
... a/ Articles can be definite, e.g. the book, or indefinite, e.g. a book. b/ Definite articles can be specific, e.g. The Italian is drinking coffee, or generic, e.g. The Italian is an artist. c/ Indefinite articles can be specific, e.g. There’s an Italian in the room, or generic, e.g. An Italian is an ...
Unit 10: Parts of Speech
... It ran away. [It refers to the dog mentioned in the previous sentence.] ...
... It ran away. [It refers to the dog mentioned in the previous sentence.] ...
Relative clauses SUBORDINATE CLAUSE
... - Such as (listing examples) as (in the function of) - Comparison and manner: As (+entire clause) like (+noun) - Wal-Mart is one of the largest employers in the US. In fact it’s the largest (A dire il vero) - Industry usually means productive sector. Plant, factory (are the words for the place wher ...
... - Such as (listing examples) as (in the function of) - Comparison and manner: As (+entire clause) like (+noun) - Wal-Mart is one of the largest employers in the US. In fact it’s the largest (A dire il vero) - Industry usually means productive sector. Plant, factory (are the words for the place wher ...
Grammar Practice Workbook
... Distinguishing Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ...
... Distinguishing Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ...
Notes on the verbal system of Gulf Pidgin Arabic
... such it also forms an important component of the laughter stock, the favorite lingo of cartoons, comic strips bubbles, and social satirical commentary in the media.2 The emergence of GPA looks like a textbook example of the situation that breeds pidginization. It is a situation of ‘unbalanced demogr ...
... such it also forms an important component of the laughter stock, the favorite lingo of cartoons, comic strips bubbles, and social satirical commentary in the media.2 The emergence of GPA looks like a textbook example of the situation that breeds pidginization. It is a situation of ‘unbalanced demogr ...
SEMANTIC ASPECTS OF THE PATTERN QOTEL
... A III, 12: rzn parallels m/k ), so/er ("officer"), robe ("archer"). 25 boles iiqmim (Amos 7: 14) probably does not denote a temporary activity, as Versions and many commentators have it, but rather "a grower of sycamore trees." haze (Isa 56:10; IQ Isa has the more common /:zoze) should perhaps also ...
... A III, 12: rzn parallels m/k ), so/er ("officer"), robe ("archer"). 25 boles iiqmim (Amos 7: 14) probably does not denote a temporary activity, as Versions and many commentators have it, but rather "a grower of sycamore trees." haze (Isa 56:10; IQ Isa has the more common /:zoze) should perhaps also ...
clean - LAGB Education Committee
... abbreviations are of Latin terms (for example: e.g. = exempli gratia = for example). Names of organisations are often abbreviated using the initial letters of each word (e.g. the NHS (National Health Service)). Some such abbreviations (e.g. NATO, FIFA and UNESCO) are pronounced like ordinary words ( ...
... abbreviations are of Latin terms (for example: e.g. = exempli gratia = for example). Names of organisations are often abbreviated using the initial letters of each word (e.g. the NHS (National Health Service)). Some such abbreviations (e.g. NATO, FIFA and UNESCO) are pronounced like ordinary words ( ...
Grammar Practice Workbook
... Distinguishing Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ...
... Distinguishing Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ...
The LaTin adjecTives wiTh The suffix -idus
... Despite the unquestionable importance of the suffix -idus in Latin word-formative system and in spite of many attempts made to explain its origin, the linguists have so far failed to accomplish the task. The basic problem is that Latin suffix -idus has no clear unequivocal equivalent among other IE ...
... Despite the unquestionable importance of the suffix -idus in Latin word-formative system and in spite of many attempts made to explain its origin, the linguists have so far failed to accomplish the task. The basic problem is that Latin suffix -idus has no clear unequivocal equivalent among other IE ...
Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case-Checking
... pose a challenge to claims made about universal grammar which are based on the study of nonergative languages. In this paper, we investigate a particularly puzzling construction—the spurious antipassive (hereafter, SAP)—in Chukchi, a language that differs from many more wellstudied languages not onl ...
... pose a challenge to claims made about universal grammar which are based on the study of nonergative languages. In this paper, we investigate a particularly puzzling construction—the spurious antipassive (hereafter, SAP)—in Chukchi, a language that differs from many more wellstudied languages not onl ...
GRAMMAR - Royal Fireworks Press
... casting a triple shadow. Strange, yes, but the strangest part is yet to come: the grammar. In this land, the language is just like English, except that certain rules are different. For example: 1. Singular nouns all end in -lo, and plural nouns all end in -lolo, not -s. The subject complement suffix ...
... casting a triple shadow. Strange, yes, but the strangest part is yet to come: the grammar. In this land, the language is just like English, except that certain rules are different. For example: 1. Singular nouns all end in -lo, and plural nouns all end in -lolo, not -s. The subject complement suffix ...
DGP 6th Five-Day Plan Sent. 1
... An intransitive verb does not take a direct object. The object of the preposition follows the preposition and tells “what” or “whom.” A prepositional phrase is a group of words beginning with a preposition and ending with a noun or pronoun. Reflection: Use the reflection space to explain the r ...
... An intransitive verb does not take a direct object. The object of the preposition follows the preposition and tells “what” or “whom.” A prepositional phrase is a group of words beginning with a preposition and ending with a noun or pronoun. Reflection: Use the reflection space to explain the r ...
Inanimate nouns as subjects in Mi`gmaq
... also showed participants pictures, asking them to describe events with one-sentence answers. This section details animacy effects on verbal morphology. I show that the verbal morphology does not index the animacy of the subject noun, but it does index plurality of the subject. When the subject of TI ...
... also showed participants pictures, asking them to describe events with one-sentence answers. This section details animacy effects on verbal morphology. I show that the verbal morphology does not index the animacy of the subject noun, but it does index plurality of the subject. When the subject of TI ...
Holmberg`s Generalization`
... is introduced by Holmberg (1986) as referring to movement of both pronouns and full noun phrases. I believe that these two movements should be kept apart (cf. Zwart 1992a), and will use the terms `pronoun shift' and `clitic placement' here to refer to movement of weak pronouns. `Focus scrambling' (N ...
... is introduced by Holmberg (1986) as referring to movement of both pronouns and full noun phrases. I believe that these two movements should be kept apart (cf. Zwart 1992a), and will use the terms `pronoun shift' and `clitic placement' here to refer to movement of weak pronouns. `Focus scrambling' (N ...
PDF - International Journal of Recent Scientific Research
... language as it is used, which is the basis of most modern attempts to characterize the structure: structural analysis, which investigates the distribution of forms in a language, and the immediate constituent analysis, which shows how small constituents in sentences go together to form larger consti ...
... language as it is used, which is the basis of most modern attempts to characterize the structure: structural analysis, which investigates the distribution of forms in a language, and the immediate constituent analysis, which shows how small constituents in sentences go together to form larger consti ...