dholuo grammar - UoN Repository
... today. The language is called Dholuo and the people are Luo or Joluo. The book is titled: Dholuo Grammar Book for Beginners. It is simple enough and who ever speaks English will find it handy and easy to follow. The book will offer readers a chance to learn the language. It should therefore, help yo ...
... today. The language is called Dholuo and the people are Luo or Joluo. The book is titled: Dholuo Grammar Book for Beginners. It is simple enough and who ever speaks English will find it handy and easy to follow. The book will offer readers a chance to learn the language. It should therefore, help yo ...
verb complementation
... complementation after Germanic verba sentiendi renders such descriptions incomplete and in the case of generative descrip tions, too powerful, since they generate ungrammatical embeddings. The present work is intended as a contribution to a more adequate description of embedding processes in German ...
... complementation after Germanic verba sentiendi renders such descriptions incomplete and in the case of generative descrip tions, too powerful, since they generate ungrammatical embeddings. The present work is intended as a contribution to a more adequate description of embedding processes in German ...
Building the PDT-Vallex valency lexicon
... to a particular word either obligatory (that means obligatorily present at the tectogrammatical level) or optional (that means not necessarily present in each sentence where the verb is used). It must be said that this definition of obligatoriness and optionality does not cover surface deletions – t ...
... to a particular word either obligatory (that means obligatorily present at the tectogrammatical level) or optional (that means not necessarily present in each sentence where the verb is used). It must be said that this definition of obligatoriness and optionality does not cover surface deletions – t ...
Building the PDT-VALLEX valency lexicon
... to a particular word either obligatory (that means obligatorily present at the tectogrammatical level) or optional (that means not necessarily present in each sentence where the verb is used). It must be said that this definition of obligatoriness and optionality does not cover surface deletions – t ...
... to a particular word either obligatory (that means obligatorily present at the tectogrammatical level) or optional (that means not necessarily present in each sentence where the verb is used). It must be said that this definition of obligatoriness and optionality does not cover surface deletions – t ...
Complex Feature Values
... of the COMPS list of the head. The 1 ... n notation allows this rule to account for phrases with a variable number of non-head daughters. n stands for any integer greater than or equal to 1. Thus, if a word is specified lexically as [COMPS h AP i], it must co-occur with exactly one AP complement; if ...
... of the COMPS list of the head. The 1 ... n notation allows this rule to account for phrases with a variable number of non-head daughters. n stands for any integer greater than or equal to 1. Thus, if a word is specified lexically as [COMPS h AP i], it must co-occur with exactly one AP complement; if ...
Grammar Book - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... • A command tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. . • An exclamation shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark. ! Write each sentence with the correct punctuation. 1. Are you sure you brought your lunch 2. Maybe Jack took it 3. Class, stay in your seats 4. Don’t ...
... • A command tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. . • An exclamation shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark. ! Write each sentence with the correct punctuation. 1. Are you sure you brought your lunch 2. Maybe Jack took it 3. Class, stay in your seats 4. Don’t ...
Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs - Munin
... 3 Another potential option would be that the gerund is treated as a Cinquean verbal head allowing restructuring (Rizzi 1982). There are two reasons why we do not find this approach plausible for our data. The first one is that given the hierarchical ordering (Cinque 1999), the gerund would precede t ...
... 3 Another potential option would be that the gerund is treated as a Cinquean verbal head allowing restructuring (Rizzi 1982). There are two reasons why we do not find this approach plausible for our data. The first one is that given the hierarchical ordering (Cinque 1999), the gerund would precede t ...
Practice - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... • A declarative sentence makes a statement. It ends with a period. Some people like to snowshoe in the winter. • An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a question mark. Have you ever enjoyed this winter activity? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It end ...
... • A declarative sentence makes a statement. It ends with a period. Some people like to snowshoe in the winter. • An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a question mark. Have you ever enjoyed this winter activity? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It end ...
Junior Skill Builders: Grammar in 15 Minutes a Day
... language (maybe you have studied many of them already at school). Understanding the inner structure of sentences and writing doesn’t have to be mind numbing; it can be fun and challenging if you approach it with the right mindset. You will only benefit from your hard efforts to make heads or tails of ...
... language (maybe you have studied many of them already at school). Understanding the inner structure of sentences and writing doesn’t have to be mind numbing; it can be fun and challenging if you approach it with the right mindset. You will only benefit from your hard efforts to make heads or tails of ...
Notes on Demonstratives in Kutenai
... (iii) as demonstrative pronouns functioning as grammatical arguments of the verb (iv) as demonstrative pronouns functioning grammatically as nonarguments of the verb. Use (iv) is much more frequent than the other three uses. As discussed below, there are many examples whose proper analysis is ambigu ...
... (iii) as demonstrative pronouns functioning as grammatical arguments of the verb (iv) as demonstrative pronouns functioning grammatically as nonarguments of the verb. Use (iv) is much more frequent than the other three uses. As discussed below, there are many examples whose proper analysis is ambigu ...
File - Gwen Holladay
... Typical exceptions to beginning steps with action verbs are conditional statements and permissive steps (i.e., using may). For more information about conditional statements, refer to Section 6.5. Word your steps in the positive by stating what to do rather than what not to do. When negative statemen ...
... Typical exceptions to beginning steps with action verbs are conditional statements and permissive steps (i.e., using may). For more information about conditional statements, refer to Section 6.5. Word your steps in the positive by stating what to do rather than what not to do. When negative statemen ...
12110/99
... with semantics. Instruments, not surprisingly, take instrumental case. Likewise, adjunct modifiers which are time expressions (i.e. which form a semantic class) all take accusative case. The examples in this section have all been simple declarative sentences, and different types of constructions sho ...
... with semantics. Instruments, not surprisingly, take instrumental case. Likewise, adjunct modifiers which are time expressions (i.e. which form a semantic class) all take accusative case. The examples in this section have all been simple declarative sentences, and different types of constructions sho ...
here
... 6. Prefer separating participants from their relations where possible. 7. Do not create units only to be used later as a remote unit. Use existing units instead. 8. Since morphology in English is very impoverished, we take a pragmatic approach and in our primary layer do not annotate parts of words, ...
... 6. Prefer separating participants from their relations where possible. 7. Do not create units only to be used later as a remote unit. Use existing units instead. 8. Since morphology in English is very impoverished, we take a pragmatic approach and in our primary layer do not annotate parts of words, ...
Chapter 3
... ‘While hei sat, Fredj ate.’ (Roberts 1988: 57) As we can see, in (3.6) it is possible to add a pronoun to the first clause, so that the pronoun could refer to the noun Fred in the second clause. It provides a solid proof that the first clause is subordinate to the second one. A different situation c ...
... ‘While hei sat, Fredj ate.’ (Roberts 1988: 57) As we can see, in (3.6) it is possible to add a pronoun to the first clause, so that the pronoun could refer to the noun Fred in the second clause. It provides a solid proof that the first clause is subordinate to the second one. A different situation c ...
Practice - TeacherLINK
... • A declarative sentence makes a statement. It ends with a period. Some people like to snowshoe in the winter. • An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a question mark. Have you ever enjoyed this winter activity? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It end ...
... • A declarative sentence makes a statement. It ends with a period. Some people like to snowshoe in the winter. • An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a question mark. Have you ever enjoyed this winter activity? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It end ...
Kamasau (Wand Tuan) Grammar Morpheme to Sentence
... Province by about 700 people. Wand Tuan is part of the Marienberg stock-level family of the Torricelli Phylum (Laycock, 1973:16,74). This description is hierarchical, beginning with morphology and word structure and proceeding through phrases and clauses. I view language as a functional, dynamic sys ...
... Province by about 700 people. Wand Tuan is part of the Marienberg stock-level family of the Torricelli Phylum (Laycock, 1973:16,74). This description is hierarchical, beginning with morphology and word structure and proceeding through phrases and clauses. I view language as a functional, dynamic sys ...
Meaning Through Syntax: Language
... below. For instance, for the reduced relative clause Cars and trucks abandoned in a terrifying scramble to safety, the verb used in denoting the event is abandoned, and the entity denoted by the reduced relative is “cars and trucks caused by some external force or entity to be abandoned in a terrify ...
... below. For instance, for the reduced relative clause Cars and trucks abandoned in a terrifying scramble to safety, the verb used in denoting the event is abandoned, and the entity denoted by the reduced relative is “cars and trucks caused by some external force or entity to be abandoned in a terrify ...
van Gelderen 2009
... Merge as late as possible. Recently, Economy has come to be seen in terms of what Baker (2008: 156) calls the Borer–Chomsky Conjecture, namely that all variation among languages finds its origin in the lexicon. As a reaction to that, I will reformulate (4) and (5) as principles of Feature Economy, bu ...
... Merge as late as possible. Recently, Economy has come to be seen in terms of what Baker (2008: 156) calls the Borer–Chomsky Conjecture, namely that all variation among languages finds its origin in the lexicon. As a reaction to that, I will reformulate (4) and (5) as principles of Feature Economy, bu ...
A Large-Scale Japanese CFG Derived from a Syntactically
... child node). Yet, in case of Japanese, a verb phrase can be an adnominal phrase, continuous clause, or subordinate clause. In order to decide which one to choose, one has to consider verb conjugation or particles (postpositions) at the end of the phrase. In a sentence like “boushi wo kabutteiru hito ...
... child node). Yet, in case of Japanese, a verb phrase can be an adnominal phrase, continuous clause, or subordinate clause. In order to decide which one to choose, one has to consider verb conjugation or particles (postpositions) at the end of the phrase. In a sentence like “boushi wo kabutteiru hito ...
Case Typology and Case Theory* 1. Overview of the Issues 2
... that nominative is a Case parallel to accusative, which is assigned or checked under analogous circumstances. For example, in classical GB nominative Case is assigned under government by INFL with AGR (just as accusative Case is assigned under government by V), in the Minimalist framework nominative ...
... that nominative is a Case parallel to accusative, which is assigned or checked under analogous circumstances. For example, in classical GB nominative Case is assigned under government by INFL with AGR (just as accusative Case is assigned under government by V), in the Minimalist framework nominative ...
Write for Business Sample
... Closing Summarize your conclusions and recommendations. 3. Revise: (Ideas, Organization, Voice, Words, and Sentences) ■ Have you provided all the details that your readers need? ■ Does the proposal address alternatives, stress benefits, consider ripple effects (who will be affected and how), and sho ...
... Closing Summarize your conclusions and recommendations. 3. Revise: (Ideas, Organization, Voice, Words, and Sentences) ■ Have you provided all the details that your readers need? ■ Does the proposal address alternatives, stress benefits, consider ripple effects (who will be affected and how), and sho ...
Chapter 4 Extragrammatical expression of
... with a special focus on ethnical peculiarities of still undescribed languages. Inflectional markers of information source in local languages attracted the attention of American ethno-linguists, who were particularly interested in those structural peculiarities that might emphasize the differences wi ...
... with a special focus on ethnical peculiarities of still undescribed languages. Inflectional markers of information source in local languages attracted the attention of American ethno-linguists, who were particularly interested in those structural peculiarities that might emphasize the differences wi ...
english back-formation: recent trends in usage
... Graph 13: Representation of individual suffixes subtracted over the whole period after 1961 Graph 14: Proportions of unmarked and stylistically and regionally coloured words in the material over the whole ...
... Graph 13: Representation of individual suffixes subtracted over the whole period after 1961 Graph 14: Proportions of unmarked and stylistically and regionally coloured words in the material over the whole ...
- Essex - Research Repository
... The analysis shows that both tense and aspect can be expressed verbs in ECA, where in simple tense forms the verb carries tense only, while in compound tense, the main predicate marks tense and occupies I while the following lexical verb marks grammatical aspect and occupies V. The bi- prefix marks ...
... The analysis shows that both tense and aspect can be expressed verbs in ECA, where in simple tense forms the verb carries tense only, while in compound tense, the main predicate marks tense and occupies I while the following lexical verb marks grammatical aspect and occupies V. The bi- prefix marks ...