Producing number agreement: How pronouns equal verbs
... of a neighboring noun phrase that is not its usual (or its entire) controller. This occurs most often when the neighbor is plural, as in The time for fun and games are over. In this example, the head noun (time) is singular, while the verb (are) is plural. The neighbors responsible for attraction ar ...
... of a neighboring noun phrase that is not its usual (or its entire) controller. This occurs most often when the neighbor is plural, as in The time for fun and games are over. In this example, the head noun (time) is singular, while the verb (are) is plural. The neighbors responsible for attraction ar ...
Iberdrola Style Guide
... and target, targeting, targeted. Avoid the forms inputted and outputted. Instead, write input and output: 70,000 records were input last month. ...
... and target, targeting, targeted. Avoid the forms inputted and outputted. Instead, write input and output: 70,000 records were input last month. ...
a comparative study in English French German and Spanish.
... dent of several languages with a supplementary reference to which he can turn for comparisons of some major grammatical functions and formations existing in Spanish, French, Ger man, and English* Since the task of comparing grammatical points is endless, this paper is far from complete, but it is h ...
... dent of several languages with a supplementary reference to which he can turn for comparisons of some major grammatical functions and formations existing in Spanish, French, Ger man, and English* Since the task of comparing grammatical points is endless, this paper is far from complete, but it is h ...
3. @ The Clause
... allomorphs were viewed as projecting features despite the fact that no element in that slot appeared on the surface, we too view (172b,d) as full clauses which happen to take a zero allomorph (of sorts) in the embedded subject position. In other words, we can argue that subjectless infinitive clause ...
... allomorphs were viewed as projecting features despite the fact that no element in that slot appeared on the surface, we too view (172b,d) as full clauses which happen to take a zero allomorph (of sorts) in the embedded subject position. In other words, we can argue that subjectless infinitive clause ...
2017 Specimen Paper 4 Mark Scheme
... If the first part of the word is correct, small errors in what comes next are less likely to impede communication (unless they suggest another meaning). ...
... If the first part of the word is correct, small errors in what comes next are less likely to impede communication (unless they suggest another meaning). ...
9. THE VERB The verb is defined as a principal part of speech in the
... aspect (indefinite/continuous and perfective/imperfective); voice (active, passive, reflexive), mood (finite forms, e.g. indicative, conditional, subjunctive, imperative and non-finite, e.g. infinitive, gerund, present participle, past participle); tense (present, present perfect, past tense, past p ...
... aspect (indefinite/continuous and perfective/imperfective); voice (active, passive, reflexive), mood (finite forms, e.g. indicative, conditional, subjunctive, imperative and non-finite, e.g. infinitive, gerund, present participle, past participle); tense (present, present perfect, past tense, past p ...
University of Pardubice Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
... representative grammar books and also finds that most grammarians use the term –ing participle or –ing form (2006, 8,9). Vilém Mathesius explains that “owing to the difficulties involved in drawing a clear line between the English gerund and the present participle some grammarians do not distinguish ...
... representative grammar books and also finds that most grammarians use the term –ing participle or –ing form (2006, 8,9). Vilém Mathesius explains that “owing to the difficulties involved in drawing a clear line between the English gerund and the present participle some grammarians do not distinguish ...
Notes for Teachers
... given the instructional material on subjects and verbs, and then the students immediately all try to find the subjects and verbs in a short passage that they wrote. The teacher would go nuts trying to check all of this. In other words, it makes much more sense for the students to all do a few of the ...
... given the instructional material on subjects and verbs, and then the students immediately all try to find the subjects and verbs in a short passage that they wrote. The teacher would go nuts trying to check all of this. In other words, it makes much more sense for the students to all do a few of the ...
Word order and information structure in Makhuwa
... passive past perfective persistive predicative lowering plural plural addressee plurative possessive present pronominal / pronoun prohibitative Portuguese penultimate mora right-dislocation reciprocal reduplication reflexive relative repetetive resumptive form of respect 1. subject; 2. stem singular ...
... passive past perfective persistive predicative lowering plural plural addressee plurative possessive present pronominal / pronoun prohibitative Portuguese penultimate mora right-dislocation reciprocal reduplication reflexive relative repetetive resumptive form of respect 1. subject; 2. stem singular ...
1844
... The pretensions of these tongues, a~e however limited. The circumstance that adjectives, which stand equally attributive to their substantive, must often take, each separately, the verbal or personally inflected form, would alone unfit them for poetry-a string of epithets so encumbered would make an ...
... The pretensions of these tongues, a~e however limited. The circumstance that adjectives, which stand equally attributive to their substantive, must often take, each separately, the verbal or personally inflected form, would alone unfit them for poetry-a string of epithets so encumbered would make an ...
The syntactic analysis of the Dutch absentive
... It is indeed the case that many of my informants prefer the order vissen is in (12a), but the alternative order is vissen is also accepted by at least some of these informants (including myself), for which reason I marked this order by means of a percentage sign. I also found the order zijn–infiniti ...
... It is indeed the case that many of my informants prefer the order vissen is in (12a), but the alternative order is vissen is also accepted by at least some of these informants (including myself), for which reason I marked this order by means of a percentage sign. I also found the order zijn–infiniti ...
8 Causatives - Blackwell Publishing
... the causative sentence. This is most clearly seen in the constructions where the verb stem is intransitive, and the causee may be marked with the accusative or the dative, as in (1) and (2). As originally noted by Kuroda (1965b) and in many subsequent works (e.g. S.-I. Harada 1973, C. Kitagawa 1974, ...
... the causative sentence. This is most clearly seen in the constructions where the verb stem is intransitive, and the causee may be marked with the accusative or the dative, as in (1) and (2). As originally noted by Kuroda (1965b) and in many subsequent works (e.g. S.-I. Harada 1973, C. Kitagawa 1974, ...
MMM6 Proceedings - mediterranean morphology meetings
... the setting of norms has always played an important role, and certain features do not reflect the natural change, but rather more or less arbitrary changes, which are imposed by various prescriptivists. This view mirrors the situation in Modern Greek (hereafter MG), as the standard language (hereaft ...
... the setting of norms has always played an important role, and certain features do not reflect the natural change, but rather more or less arbitrary changes, which are imposed by various prescriptivists. This view mirrors the situation in Modern Greek (hereafter MG), as the standard language (hereaft ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Linguistics Journal
... verb-framed and satellite-framed languages based on the incorporation of path and points out that both English and Chinese are satellite-framed languages. However, scholars such as Slobin (2006) argue that Chinese, as a serial verb language, falls into the third category: equipollently-framed langua ...
... verb-framed and satellite-framed languages based on the incorporation of path and points out that both English and Chinese are satellite-framed languages. However, scholars such as Slobin (2006) argue that Chinese, as a serial verb language, falls into the third category: equipollently-framed langua ...
Theme markedness in English and Spanish: A
... Theme is defined, in Halliday’s words, as (Halliday, 1985:38) “the element which serves as the point of departure of the message; it is that with which the clause is concerned.” The thematic structure gives the clause its character as message, some form of organisation giving it the status of a comm ...
... Theme is defined, in Halliday’s words, as (Halliday, 1985:38) “the element which serves as the point of departure of the message; it is that with which the clause is concerned.” The thematic structure gives the clause its character as message, some form of organisation giving it the status of a comm ...
2 The Dative Case
... cannot appreciate the benefit it receives. A mud puddle doesn’t have a story to tell and cannot inspire belief. A refrigerator cannot do anything with money, so there is no point in giving it any. The reason that inanimate objects don’t work in these contexts is that they are incapable of serving as ...
... cannot appreciate the benefit it receives. A mud puddle doesn’t have a story to tell and cannot inspire belief. A refrigerator cannot do anything with money, so there is no point in giving it any. The reason that inanimate objects don’t work in these contexts is that they are incapable of serving as ...
Test 16 Writing Answers
... When Marie Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with two other scientists—her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel—she became the first woman to win the prize. The error in this sentence occurs at (C), where there is an inappropriate verb form. The action of the sentence happens at a s ...
... When Marie Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with two other scientists—her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel—she became the first woman to win the prize. The error in this sentence occurs at (C), where there is an inappropriate verb form. The action of the sentence happens at a s ...
Three-Week Unit Plan SRAICollege Readiness
... Once you understand what specific kinds of fragments you might write, you should be able to eliminate them from your writing. The following pages explain all four types. ...
... Once you understand what specific kinds of fragments you might write, you should be able to eliminate them from your writing. The following pages explain all four types. ...
MeN
... active clause See active voice. active voice The form of transitive clause in which the subject refers to the one who performs the action (the actor) and in which the verb is marked by prefix meN-. actor The participant who carries out the action. The actor is expressed by the subject in an active c ...
... active clause See active voice. active voice The form of transitive clause in which the subject refers to the one who performs the action (the actor) and in which the verb is marked by prefix meN-. actor The participant who carries out the action. The actor is expressed by the subject in an active c ...
Reflexivity and Intensification in Middle English
... As already noted, OE used the simple personal pronoun to express both conjoint and 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/ad ...
... As already noted, OE used the simple personal pronoun to express both conjoint and 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/ad ...
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... indefinite article and the zero article. The semantic presentation of the articles: the definite article - identification, the indefinite article - classifying generalization, the zero article - abstract generalization. Articles with different groups of nouns. Correlation of the articles wiht other ...
... indefinite article and the zero article. The semantic presentation of the articles: the definite article - identification, the indefinite article - classifying generalization, the zero article - abstract generalization. Articles with different groups of nouns. Correlation of the articles wiht other ...
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 ...
2005 - Dr. Lukas Pietsch
... Interestingly, it will be found that just among those modern dialects that otherwise follow the Northern Subject Rule in allowing many non-standard verbal -s forms, there are some that exhibit variation in exactly the opposite direction with respect to the existentials: here, they allow non-standard ...
... Interestingly, it will be found that just among those modern dialects that otherwise follow the Northern Subject Rule in allowing many non-standard verbal -s forms, there are some that exhibit variation in exactly the opposite direction with respect to the existentials: here, they allow non-standard ...
THE ADVERB 1- Read the following sentences:
... normally put between the subject and the verb if the verb consists of only one word; if there is more than one word in the verb, they are put after the first word. His wife never cooks. He has never seen a tiger. I have often told him to write neatly. We usually have breakfast at eight. My uncle ha ...
... normally put between the subject and the verb if the verb consists of only one word; if there is more than one word in the verb, they are put after the first word. His wife never cooks. He has never seen a tiger. I have often told him to write neatly. We usually have breakfast at eight. My uncle ha ...
Overt Nominative Subjects in Infinitival Complements
... control is an instance of movement/chain formation (Hornstein 1999, Boeckx & Hornstein, to app., Bowers, to app.), it is in principle possible for overt DPs to occur in the subject positions mentioned in (11). Languages might choose to pronounce all copies, or just some lower copy. The fact that thi ...
... control is an instance of movement/chain formation (Hornstein 1999, Boeckx & Hornstein, to app., Bowers, to app.), it is in principle possible for overt DPs to occur in the subject positions mentioned in (11). Languages might choose to pronounce all copies, or just some lower copy. The fact that thi ...