Clausal coordinate ellipsis in German: The TIGER treebank as a
... ‘Hans doesn’t live in Paris and Peter doesn’t in Rome’. • In LDG, the posterior conjunct consists of constituents whose left-hand counterparts belong to different clauses. My son in (3) is the counterpart of my wife in the main clause whereas a motorcycle pairs up with a car in the infinitival compl ...
... ‘Hans doesn’t live in Paris and Peter doesn’t in Rome’. • In LDG, the posterior conjunct consists of constituents whose left-hand counterparts belong to different clauses. My son in (3) is the counterpart of my wife in the main clause whereas a motorcycle pairs up with a car in the infinitival compl ...
Arabic Treebank Guidelines include Penn Arabic Treebank Guidelines
... 1.2.1 Diacritization: Vocalized and Unvocalized text /Case and Mood endings............... 10 ...
... 1.2.1 Diacritization: Vocalized and Unvocalized text /Case and Mood endings............... 10 ...
Revision of English III Grammar
... b) State what type of clause it is, even if it is not a nominal clause, and c) state what its function in the sentence is. (The first one has been done for you). (1) That I want to do (What); Nominal ‘that’ clause; subject is (2)explaining to you(to)explain; non-finite (to) infinitive; complement; ( ...
... b) State what type of clause it is, even if it is not a nominal clause, and c) state what its function in the sentence is. (The first one has been done for you). (1) That I want to do (What); Nominal ‘that’ clause; subject is (2)explaining to you(to)explain; non-finite (to) infinitive; complement; ( ...
Comma Rules and Uses - RISD Writing Center
... Commas, the most frequently used punctuation marks, signal pauses within a sentence. While this sounds like a variable and subjective quality of written language, these pauses are strategically placed to help readers understand. When writers place commas based on their vocal patterns alone, the mean ...
... Commas, the most frequently used punctuation marks, signal pauses within a sentence. While this sounds like a variable and subjective quality of written language, these pauses are strategically placed to help readers understand. When writers place commas based on their vocal patterns alone, the mean ...
Reteach Workbook
... A sentence is a group of words that express a complete thought. If a sentence does not have a subject and a predicate, then it is a fragment. The invention of the steam engine. (A predicate is missing.) • Correct a sentence fragment by adding the missing subject or predicate. The invention of the st ...
... A sentence is a group of words that express a complete thought. If a sentence does not have a subject and a predicate, then it is a fragment. The invention of the steam engine. (A predicate is missing.) • Correct a sentence fragment by adding the missing subject or predicate. The invention of the st ...
Zero Sign (in Morphology - University of Amsterdam
... (within a given language), 2) between impersonal and personal uses of the same verb (Slony sorvali . . . vs. Sorvali . . . ([), and
3) between sentences with impersonal empty non-zero pronouns in some languages and structurally
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... (within a given language), 2) between impersonal and personal uses of the same verb (Slony sorvali . . .
Race-Based Parsing and Syntactic Disambiguution
... the latter attachment with two rules, whereas the former requires only one, as in Figure 1. This assumption about the grammar is ad hoc because it makes a distinction that is not required by the theory of context-free grammars. However, given such a grammar, a parser looking for the preferred attach ...
... the latter attachment with two rules, whereas the former requires only one, as in Figure 1. This assumption about the grammar is ad hoc because it makes a distinction that is not required by the theory of context-free grammars. However, given such a grammar, a parser looking for the preferred attach ...
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... Recall that a characteristic of topics is that they represent old information. At this point it is worth pointing out that the only element which necessarily encodes old information in sentence (21a) is the argument da bwai-deh, and not the temporal adverb yestadei. Indeed, it appears that only topi ...
... Recall that a characteristic of topics is that they represent old information. At this point it is worth pointing out that the only element which necessarily encodes old information in sentence (21a) is the argument da bwai-deh, and not the temporal adverb yestadei. Indeed, it appears that only topi ...
A multivariate analysis of the Old English ACC+DAT double object
... As can be seen from table 1, many morphological distinctions had already been lost in OE; for instance, the distinction between Nom and Acc had largely disappeared. With respect to the ditransitive construction, OE had different case patterns to mark the two objects that the verb could take. These ...
... As can be seen from table 1, many morphological distinctions had already been lost in OE; for instance, the distinction between Nom and Acc had largely disappeared. With respect to the ditransitive construction, OE had different case patterns to mark the two objects that the verb could take. These ...
space and metaphor in verbs prefixed with od-/ot
... humans, animals, solid objects capable of motion, and certain bodies of water (e.g., tidal waves), verbs such as BCS/Blg. odjeknuti/otekna ‘echo’ and a few others at the bottom of Table 1 on the next page share a common meaning: spreading away from a source. These verbs can be understood as a transi ...
... humans, animals, solid objects capable of motion, and certain bodies of water (e.g., tidal waves), verbs such as BCS/Blg. odjeknuti/otekna ‘echo’ and a few others at the bottom of Table 1 on the next page share a common meaning: spreading away from a source. These verbs can be understood as a transi ...
How to label accent position in spontaneous speech boundary labels.
... [Bat88b, Bat88a], on the other hand, there is some overlap with emphasis or the marking of the emotional state of the speaker. Contrast can be sort of implicit in a neutral reading as well but is most typically conceived of as explicit as in the examples given in the table. Boundaries structure spee ...
... [Bat88b, Bat88a], on the other hand, there is some overlap with emphasis or the marking of the emotional state of the speaker. Contrast can be sort of implicit in a neutral reading as well but is most typically conceived of as explicit as in the examples given in the table. Boundaries structure spee ...
NEGATIVE POLARITY EXPRESSIONS IN NAVAJO Ken Hale and
... satisfied by movement to a position from which it can attach to the verb word, although we must suppose also that the particular target or landing site is determined by more fundamental linguistic principles. Though a number of possibilities suggest themselves, we will be concerned here primarily wi ...
... satisfied by movement to a position from which it can attach to the verb word, although we must suppose also that the particular target or landing site is determined by more fundamental linguistic principles. Though a number of possibilities suggest themselves, we will be concerned here primarily wi ...
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... Present or Simple Past of the verb to be, or the first auxiliary. In the case of the Simple Present or Simple Past of any verb other than the verb to be, the auxiliary to do must be used. ...
... Present or Simple Past of the verb to be, or the first auxiliary. In the case of the Simple Present or Simple Past of any verb other than the verb to be, the auxiliary to do must be used. ...
The Latin Alphabet
... and U could be alternative forms for I and V. A comparison of the Greek and Latin alphabets shows the close relation between the two. Green letters are those introduced later, after the alphabets had been adopted, and red letters are those that were eliminated from the archaic alphabet. The digamma, ...
... and U could be alternative forms for I and V. A comparison of the Greek and Latin alphabets shows the close relation between the two. Green letters are those introduced later, after the alphabets had been adopted, and red letters are those that were eliminated from the archaic alphabet. The digamma, ...
verbs introducing direct speech in late latin texts
... speech are introduced by verbs, both in finite and non-finite forms. Verbal introducers are divided into five groups: 1. dicere ‘to say’ (it includes all verbal forms of dicere except the present participle), 2. ait ‘he/she says/ said’, 3. inquit13 ‘he/she says/said’, 4. the present participle dicen ...
... speech are introduced by verbs, both in finite and non-finite forms. Verbal introducers are divided into five groups: 1. dicere ‘to say’ (it includes all verbal forms of dicere except the present participle), 2. ait ‘he/she says/ said’, 3. inquit13 ‘he/she says/said’, 4. the present participle dicen ...
Coercion on the edge - Repositorio Académico
... cantado). As it can be seen from the examples, this grammatical aspect is usually expressed by the grammatical rules applied to a verb on a given linguistic construction (conjugation). Nevertheless, there is another distinction to be made when discussing aspect. Many authors began to realise that ve ...
... cantado). As it can be seen from the examples, this grammatical aspect is usually expressed by the grammatical rules applied to a verb on a given linguistic construction (conjugation). Nevertheless, there is another distinction to be made when discussing aspect. Many authors began to realise that ve ...
exercise 1 exercise 2 exercise 3 exercise 4
... 1. Yes, the definite article does also participate in a similar sandhi. The indefinite article /æn/ loses its stress and final consonant when not before a vowel in the following syllable; similarly in the case of the definite article the vowel in the following syllable causes its naturally long vowe ...
... 1. Yes, the definite article does also participate in a similar sandhi. The indefinite article /æn/ loses its stress and final consonant when not before a vowel in the following syllable; similarly in the case of the definite article the vowel in the following syllable causes its naturally long vowe ...
reference cohesion within the complex sentence
... The observation above may be true with regard to a language like English which has few inflections. However, in agglutinating languages like Kiswahili, morphosyntactic relationships are such that cohesion within a sentence is of paramount importance, as will be seen in the examples below. Morphologi ...
... The observation above may be true with regard to a language like English which has few inflections. However, in agglutinating languages like Kiswahili, morphosyntactic relationships are such that cohesion within a sentence is of paramount importance, as will be seen in the examples below. Morphologi ...
X-BAR MOTIVATED
... arguments. These requirements are both syntactic and semantic. In John ate disgusting store-bought cookies and John felt deep-rooted emotional pain, both ate and felt have NP subjects and objects. The verbs have c-selected to NPs. But John is an agent of eating and an experiencer of feeling pain. Li ...
... arguments. These requirements are both syntactic and semantic. In John ate disgusting store-bought cookies and John felt deep-rooted emotional pain, both ate and felt have NP subjects and objects. The verbs have c-selected to NPs. But John is an agent of eating and an experiencer of feeling pain. Li ...
Comments on Abusch`s theory of tense
... By standard composition principles, we derive that [[(2)]]g(w) = 1 iff John cries in w at g(1). The variable assignment for free variables is supplied by the utterance context: gc(1) is whichever time the speaker is referring to by her use of PAST1 in the context c. For instance, this may be a time ...
... By standard composition principles, we derive that [[(2)]]g(w) = 1 iff John cries in w at g(1). The variable assignment for free variables is supplied by the utterance context: gc(1) is whichever time the speaker is referring to by her use of PAST1 in the context c. For instance, this may be a time ...
Passive - University of Hawaii
... transitivity of the underlying construction.6 This assumption is crucial in the following two respects. First, assuming that the (syntactic) passive can exist in ergative languages, we would like to avoid obscuring the syntactic differences between the passive and the active. In other words, we woul ...
... transitivity of the underlying construction.6 This assumption is crucial in the following two respects. First, assuming that the (syntactic) passive can exist in ergative languages, we would like to avoid obscuring the syntactic differences between the passive and the active. In other words, we woul ...
Grammar for reading and writing
... Bound morphemes cannot exist alone but are fixed onto words to affect their grammar, leaving their basic meaning unaffected. Such morphemes can be known by the generic term affixes; or prefixes if they are fixed in front and suffixes if placed at the end. For example, the regular English plural morp ...
... Bound morphemes cannot exist alone but are fixed onto words to affect their grammar, leaving their basic meaning unaffected. Such morphemes can be known by the generic term affixes; or prefixes if they are fixed in front and suffixes if placed at the end. For example, the regular English plural morp ...
Unmarked Case
... treated as lacking a value for the CASE feature on the grounds of the use of nominative forms for left-dislocated constituents and nonagreeing predicate modifiers in Icelandic, as well as the lack of quirky nominative. However, approaches of this kind are the exception in generative work. While lack ...
... treated as lacking a value for the CASE feature on the grounds of the use of nominative forms for left-dislocated constituents and nonagreeing predicate modifiers in Icelandic, as well as the lack of quirky nominative. However, approaches of this kind are the exception in generative work. While lack ...
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... linguistic comparison to raise a significant and probing question as to whether Great Andamanese is typologically divergent and genetically distinct language from Jarawa and Onge. The paper discusses the typological issue by presenting non-shared areas such as (i) template morphology of verb complex ...
... linguistic comparison to raise a significant and probing question as to whether Great Andamanese is typologically divergent and genetically distinct language from Jarawa and Onge. The paper discusses the typological issue by presenting non-shared areas such as (i) template morphology of verb complex ...
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
... Exercise 3. Define the structural type of sentences 1. He entered the room. Young. Elegant. Self-confident. 2. To tell me such a thing! Could be more polite. 3. I shall be glad to help you. – You sure? 4. He will be a doctor. 5. A big stuffy room. Old furniture. No curtains. 6. Living in such condit ...
... Exercise 3. Define the structural type of sentences 1. He entered the room. Young. Elegant. Self-confident. 2. To tell me such a thing! Could be more polite. 3. I shall be glad to help you. – You sure? 4. He will be a doctor. 5. A big stuffy room. Old furniture. No curtains. 6. Living in such condit ...