Classical Academic Press SAMPLER
... which we remember by number. The ones that you learned last year are the 1st and 2nd declensions. The first declension tends to have the letter “a” in its forms and the second declension tends to have “o” or “u” in its endings. There are a couple more things to remember. Sometimes there are minor va ...
... which we remember by number. The ones that you learned last year are the 1st and 2nd declensions. The first declension tends to have the letter “a” in its forms and the second declension tends to have “o” or “u” in its endings. There are a couple more things to remember. Sometimes there are minor va ...
The PIE word for`dry`*) 1. The PIE root for `to be dry, to dry up` has
... In the same way, we expect sausos to yield Aeol. αύος, but in other dialects the lengthening of the a. In fact, we find everywhere αύος, and in Attic (and Doric, see below) αύος. Kiparsky (1967: 627) is therefore forced to assume that αΰος was originally a Lesbian word which was borrowed by Homer, a ...
... In the same way, we expect sausos to yield Aeol. αύος, but in other dialects the lengthening of the a. In fact, we find everywhere αύος, and in Attic (and Doric, see below) αύος. Kiparsky (1967: 627) is therefore forced to assume that αΰος was originally a Lesbian word which was borrowed by Homer, a ...
Slide 1
... 1. What is the Nominative Case of ‘his’? 2. What is the Objective Case of ‘they’? 3. What is the Possessive Case of ‘we’? 4. What is the Nominative Case of ‘his’? 5. What is the Nominative Case of ‘your’? ...
... 1. What is the Nominative Case of ‘his’? 2. What is the Objective Case of ‘they’? 3. What is the Possessive Case of ‘we’? 4. What is the Nominative Case of ‘his’? 5. What is the Nominative Case of ‘your’? ...
Sentences
... The participants are entities playing different roles in the event, referred to as thematic roles (sometimes called semantic roles). The study of entities belongs to lexical semantics, while the roles entities play in an event is an important part of grammatical semantics. Roles differ somewhat from ...
... The participants are entities playing different roles in the event, referred to as thematic roles (sometimes called semantic roles). The study of entities belongs to lexical semantics, while the roles entities play in an event is an important part of grammatical semantics. Roles differ somewhat from ...
An Introduction to Second Language Vocabulary
... American English was done by Liu (2003), who examined three corpora containing a total of six million words. The composite list contains three bands according to the usage. Here are the top 15 idioms (in order of frequency) from Band 1, the most frequently used idioms in spoken American English: kin ...
... American English was done by Liu (2003), who examined three corpora containing a total of six million words. The composite list contains three bands according to the usage. Here are the top 15 idioms (in order of frequency) from Band 1, the most frequently used idioms in spoken American English: kin ...
Cross-LinguistiC Patterns of Linking
... 2. If the predicate has no activity predicate in its LS, it is undergoer. These principles correctly predict the transitivity of the verbs from Brazilian Portuguese and English discussed above. (The LSs for the Brazilian Portuguese verbs are [do´ (x, Ø)] CAUSE [BECOME closed´ (y)] for fechar ‘close’ ...
... 2. If the predicate has no activity predicate in its LS, it is undergoer. These principles correctly predict the transitivity of the verbs from Brazilian Portuguese and English discussed above. (The LSs for the Brazilian Portuguese verbs are [do´ (x, Ø)] CAUSE [BECOME closed´ (y)] for fechar ‘close’ ...
Types of Verbs
... in Berlin for more than two years. In fact, she (live) the Berlin wall came down. ...
... in Berlin for more than two years. In fact, she (live) the Berlin wall came down. ...
Linguistics/Grammar - bergenimpact
... Punctuate an adjective clause correctly. ◦ Punctuating adjective clauses can be tricky. For each sentence, you will have to decide if the adjective clause is essential or nonessential and then use commas accordingly. ◦ Essential clauses do not require commas. An adjective clause is essential when yo ...
... Punctuate an adjective clause correctly. ◦ Punctuating adjective clauses can be tricky. For each sentence, you will have to decide if the adjective clause is essential or nonessential and then use commas accordingly. ◦ Essential clauses do not require commas. An adjective clause is essential when yo ...
Sentence Patterns
... EX: The Nittony Lions football team –talented, experienced, and well-coached—will challenge for a national title. An emergency room doctor, looking very sorrowful, approached the waiting family members. 29. Open with an introductory series of appositives, with a dash and a summarizing subject: A hig ...
... EX: The Nittony Lions football team –talented, experienced, and well-coached—will challenge for a national title. An emergency room doctor, looking very sorrowful, approached the waiting family members. 29. Open with an introductory series of appositives, with a dash and a summarizing subject: A hig ...
61 tomo santraukos - Lietuvių kalbos institutas
... The segmentation of the Lithuanian subjunctive forms: a problem of synchronic morphology The morphological segmentation of the Lithuanian subjective mood forms from a synchronic point of view is a problem for which no satisfactory solution has been proposed until now. The basic question is whether t ...
... The segmentation of the Lithuanian subjunctive forms: a problem of synchronic morphology The morphological segmentation of the Lithuanian subjective mood forms from a synchronic point of view is a problem for which no satisfactory solution has been proposed until now. The basic question is whether t ...
Some characteristics of deverbal nominals in Slavic and Romance
... Slovenian and Polish) and Romance languages (Italian, French and Spanish) in order to show (i) that affixation corresponds to a specific mode of morphological operations and (ii) that the differences and similarities between deverbal nominals of these two language families follow from the properties ...
... Slovenian and Polish) and Romance languages (Italian, French and Spanish) in order to show (i) that affixation corresponds to a specific mode of morphological operations and (ii) that the differences and similarities between deverbal nominals of these two language families follow from the properties ...
Грамматические категории времени и характера действия
... The category of tense is universally recognised. There has never been any argument about the existence of this grammatical category in Modern English. Nobody has ever suggested to characterise the distinction, for example, between wrote, writes, and will write as other than a tense distinction. But ...
... The category of tense is universally recognised. There has never been any argument about the existence of this grammatical category in Modern English. Nobody has ever suggested to characterise the distinction, for example, between wrote, writes, and will write as other than a tense distinction. But ...
Towards the Automatic Mining of Similes in Literary Texts
... or the canonical vehicle by a related noun or an extended noun phrase. The second and last experiment (Mpouli & Ganascia, 2016b) studies noun+colour term (CT) similes of the type “storm-green sky” in order to investigate if their use of colours correlates the Berlin and Kay’s hypothesis (1969) and h ...
... or the canonical vehicle by a related noun or an extended noun phrase. The second and last experiment (Mpouli & Ganascia, 2016b) studies noun+colour term (CT) similes of the type “storm-green sky” in order to investigate if their use of colours correlates the Berlin and Kay’s hypothesis (1969) and h ...
Lecture 11 - ELTE / SEAS
... pronouns themselves (Binding Theory) The other concentrates on the marking of reflexive verbs with a morpheme which can appear on a pronoun argument ...
... pronouns themselves (Binding Theory) The other concentrates on the marking of reflexive verbs with a morpheme which can appear on a pronoun argument ...
CHAPTER 5 Negation
... appropriate form of do. The meaning of the sentence does not change. As illustrated in (23), the negative raising rule can be applied to a sentence when the main verb expresses an opinion (i.e., think, believe, anticipate, expect, imagine, suppose, etc.) and the that clause contains a modal (should, ...
... appropriate form of do. The meaning of the sentence does not change. As illustrated in (23), the negative raising rule can be applied to a sentence when the main verb expresses an opinion (i.e., think, believe, anticipate, expect, imagine, suppose, etc.) and the that clause contains a modal (should, ...
Resulting States in Niuean
... and in general, they express a descriptive state. In many cases, the fact that the expressed state has resulted from an action is spelled out overtly by a he clause. The fact that ma- can prefix to stative (unaccusative) verbs, unergative verbs, and transitive verbs is allowed in this analysis. In e ...
... and in general, they express a descriptive state. In many cases, the fact that the expressed state has resulted from an action is spelled out overtly by a he clause. The fact that ma- can prefix to stative (unaccusative) verbs, unergative verbs, and transitive verbs is allowed in this analysis. In e ...
Adjectives In English
... b. To describe something that continues over a period of time. Example: Portugal is an ageing society. Increasing oil prices are making certain products very expensive. ageing ...
... b. To describe something that continues over a period of time. Example: Portugal is an ageing society. Increasing oil prices are making certain products very expensive. ageing ...
A Guide to Writing Better English - U of T : Economics
... RELATIVE/SUBORDINATE CLAUSES: defining (restrictive) and non-defining (nonrestrictive). Since the vast majority of writers, including the vast majority of good writers, neglect to observe the following rule about ‘defining’ and ‘non-defining’ relative clauses, the failure to do so can hardly be cons ...
... RELATIVE/SUBORDINATE CLAUSES: defining (restrictive) and non-defining (nonrestrictive). Since the vast majority of writers, including the vast majority of good writers, neglect to observe the following rule about ‘defining’ and ‘non-defining’ relative clauses, the failure to do so can hardly be cons ...
The Clause Structure of Iraqi Arabic
... Languages that are relatively lax about their word order are of great interest to linguists because they really put the theory of Universal Grammar to the test. The Arabic language has a unique and interesting way of dealing with verb placement in a sentence. It provides us with an excellent opportu ...
... Languages that are relatively lax about their word order are of great interest to linguists because they really put the theory of Universal Grammar to the test. The Arabic language has a unique and interesting way of dealing with verb placement in a sentence. It provides us with an excellent opportu ...
ENGALX Grammar Compendium
... category is by the properties of the words. They use an article and they can take the plural or the singular. E.g. ball, cloud, thought, Englishman The subject in a sentence is normally constituted by a noun phrase, i.e. a phrase where the head is a noun. E.g. in the sentence ‘A big dog walked by’, ...
... category is by the properties of the words. They use an article and they can take the plural or the singular. E.g. ball, cloud, thought, Englishman The subject in a sentence is normally constituted by a noun phrase, i.e. a phrase where the head is a noun. E.g. in the sentence ‘A big dog walked by’, ...
Mini Grammar Handbook - created by Mr. McCain
... EX: He likes to buy electric trains when he is vacationing in the Northeast. The infinitive phrase “to buy electric trains” functions as a noun in the position of the direct object. The word “trains” is the direct object of the verb buy (What? does he like TO BUY). Because verbals are verbs in their ...
... EX: He likes to buy electric trains when he is vacationing in the Northeast. The infinitive phrase “to buy electric trains” functions as a noun in the position of the direct object. The word “trains” is the direct object of the verb buy (What? does he like TO BUY). Because verbals are verbs in their ...
MS Word - U of T : Economics
... RELATIVE/SUBORDINATE CLAUSES: defining (restrictive) and non-defining (nonrestrictive). Since the vast majority of writers, including the vast majority of good writers, neglect to observe the following rule about ‘defining’ and ‘non-defining’ relative clauses, the failure to do so can hardly be cons ...
... RELATIVE/SUBORDINATE CLAUSES: defining (restrictive) and non-defining (nonrestrictive). Since the vast majority of writers, including the vast majority of good writers, neglect to observe the following rule about ‘defining’ and ‘non-defining’ relative clauses, the failure to do so can hardly be cons ...
First Year Grammar
... • John is weak. (The adjective weak tells us something about the subject (John). This is an example of a subject complement.) • John is a chicken. (The noun phrase a chicken tells us something about the subject (John). This is another example of a subject complement.) • The vote made John's position ...
... • John is weak. (The adjective weak tells us something about the subject (John). This is an example of a subject complement.) • John is a chicken. (The noun phrase a chicken tells us something about the subject (John). This is another example of a subject complement.) • The vote made John's position ...
7. Specific Verb Classes and Alternations - Humboldt
... of-then have spoken three Another diagnostic for unaccusatives is locative inversion, in which the subject follows the verb and we find some locative expression in sentence-initial position: (20) a. In the distance appeared the towers and spires of Oxford. b. Out of the house came a tiny old lady. c ...
... of-then have spoken three Another diagnostic for unaccusatives is locative inversion, in which the subject follows the verb and we find some locative expression in sentence-initial position: (20) a. In the distance appeared the towers and spires of Oxford. b. Out of the house came a tiny old lady. c ...
Gerunds - Mrs. Burch
... Their functions, however, overlap. Gerunds always function as nouns, but infinitives often also serve as nouns. Deciding which to use can be confusing in many situations, especially for people whose first language is not English. Confusion between gerunds and infinitives occurs primarily in cases in ...
... Their functions, however, overlap. Gerunds always function as nouns, but infinitives often also serve as nouns. Deciding which to use can be confusing in many situations, especially for people whose first language is not English. Confusion between gerunds and infinitives occurs primarily in cases in ...