Journal of Child Language Syntactic and semantic coordination in
... early complement-clause constructions to that of her simple sentences, which matched the target utterance by length (number of words). Furthermore, in order to exclude the possibility that the coordination of matrix and complement clauses is caused by a lack of lexical knowledge (cf. Clahsen & Penke ...
... early complement-clause constructions to that of her simple sentences, which matched the target utterance by length (number of words). Furthermore, in order to exclude the possibility that the coordination of matrix and complement clauses is caused by a lack of lexical knowledge (cf. Clahsen & Penke ...
Navajo Coordination - Swarthmore College
... This car very 3-fast.NI 3-say.NI Conj neg 3-about 4-1-rely.NI neg They say this car is fast but even so I don’t have any expectation for it. ...
... This car very 3-fast.NI 3-say.NI Conj neg 3-about 4-1-rely.NI neg They say this car is fast but even so I don’t have any expectation for it. ...
Sentence Diagraming
... Compound Subjects and Predicates IV Complete Subject and Complete Predicate The complete subject of a sentence consists of the simple subject and all the words that modify it. The complete predicate consists of the simple predicate, or verb, and all the words that modify it or complete its meaning. ...
... Compound Subjects and Predicates IV Complete Subject and Complete Predicate The complete subject of a sentence consists of the simple subject and all the words that modify it. The complete predicate consists of the simple predicate, or verb, and all the words that modify it or complete its meaning. ...
Notes on the formation and usage of subjunctive
... We believe that the subjunctive is something that is learned mechanically. You learn a number of expressions or verbs which always take the subjunctive, learn and practice them, and eventually you will remember to use the subjunctive form after them. Therefore, in this spirit, we are going to offer ...
... We believe that the subjunctive is something that is learned mechanically. You learn a number of expressions or verbs which always take the subjunctive, learn and practice them, and eventually you will remember to use the subjunctive form after them. Therefore, in this spirit, we are going to offer ...
Positional and Grammatical Variations of Time Words in Takivatan
... also the only form that has never been attested with any verbal morphology. Another common form is laupadau ‘now’. It consists of laupa and the mirative suffix -dau, which marks the emotional involvement of the speaker, for instance surprise or happiness (‘now!?’).1 The remaining tokens of laupa in ...
... also the only form that has never been attested with any verbal morphology. Another common form is laupadau ‘now’. It consists of laupa and the mirative suffix -dau, which marks the emotional involvement of the speaker, for instance surprise or happiness (‘now!?’).1 The remaining tokens of laupa in ...
direct object pronoun - Anderson School District 5
... Notice the placement of the direct object pronouns in a sentence with an infinitive construction in Spanish: ...
... Notice the placement of the direct object pronouns in a sentence with an infinitive construction in Spanish: ...
Sentence meaning and compositionality
... â The initiator, performer of controller of an action; typically volitional, typically animate â Typically subject (3) Kim kicked Sandy (4) The ogre leaped into the fray (5) The student watched the video ã (ACTOR) generalization of AGENT that allows non-volitional, non-actor if you use this, then AG ...
... â The initiator, performer of controller of an action; typically volitional, typically animate â Typically subject (3) Kim kicked Sandy (4) The ogre leaped into the fray (5) The student watched the video ã (ACTOR) generalization of AGENT that allows non-volitional, non-actor if you use this, then AG ...
on some basic issues of the theory of functional sentence
... for quite a long time. Henri Weil, who published his important monograph on word order as early as 1844 (Weil 1844), may rightly be regarded as the forerunner of FSP theorists (cf. Firbas 1974.11—2). It would be interesting to establish to what extent and in what way he was developing findings and t ...
... for quite a long time. Henri Weil, who published his important monograph on word order as early as 1844 (Weil 1844), may rightly be regarded as the forerunner of FSP theorists (cf. Firbas 1974.11—2). It would be interesting to establish to what extent and in what way he was developing findings and t ...
Semantic Annotation of Deverbal Nominalizations in the Spanish
... for nominalizations derived from an achievement. States: Verbs included in this semantic class denote states and their corresponding nominalizations are always result nominalizations. Activities: Predicates belonging to this class are unergative and their corresponding nominalizations can only have ...
... for nominalizations derived from an achievement. States: Verbs included in this semantic class denote states and their corresponding nominalizations are always result nominalizations. Activities: Predicates belonging to this class are unergative and their corresponding nominalizations can only have ...
Semantic Annotation of Deverbal Nominalizations in the Spanish
... for nominalizations derived from an achievement. States: Verbs included in this semantic class denote states and their corresponding nominalizations are always result nominalizations. Activities: Predicates belonging to this class are unergative and their corresponding nominalizations can only have ...
... for nominalizations derived from an achievement. States: Verbs included in this semantic class denote states and their corresponding nominalizations are always result nominalizations. Activities: Predicates belonging to this class are unergative and their corresponding nominalizations can only have ...
Accepted Version - Queen Mary University of London
... negative evidence, which is the absence of a construction in the input. Learning a mapping from sentences to grammaticality does not use assumptions about the distribution from which the observed sentences are drawn, so an absent sentence does not give any evidence that it is not grammatical. Thus, ...
... negative evidence, which is the absence of a construction in the input. Learning a mapping from sentences to grammaticality does not use assumptions about the distribution from which the observed sentences are drawn, so an absent sentence does not give any evidence that it is not grammatical. Thus, ...
Weeks 1-12 - Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca
... pictures and diagrams. They are very creative but don’t like details. Larry Dawson is a good example of this kind of learner. He is studying graphic design at Warfield Community College in Ohio. ...
... pictures and diagrams. They are very creative but don’t like details. Larry Dawson is a good example of this kind of learner. He is studying graphic design at Warfield Community College in Ohio. ...
Valence Creation and the German Applicative
... argument-structure alternations are licensed by narrow semantic classes of verbs (Levin 1993; Gropen et al. 1989) has led to lexically based accounts of alternations, most of which posit minimally specified verbal valence structures along with general principles ('linking rules') governing the inter ...
... argument-structure alternations are licensed by narrow semantic classes of verbs (Levin 1993; Gropen et al. 1989) has led to lexically based accounts of alternations, most of which posit minimally specified verbal valence structures along with general principles ('linking rules') governing the inter ...
Report of group II of the GU project in MT research
... that they go into effect only if a clause fulcrum, that is, a predicate block, is present in the sentence - since syntactic searching is required for clause sentences only, not for clauseless sentences, for which a string or semi-syntactic operation* is sufficient. Thus, the identification of the pr ...
... that they go into effect only if a clause fulcrum, that is, a predicate block, is present in the sentence - since syntactic searching is required for clause sentences only, not for clauseless sentences, for which a string or semi-syntactic operation* is sufficient. Thus, the identification of the pr ...
The message in the navel: (ir)realisness in Swahili
... expressed by different linguistic forms (see e.g. Langacker 1988, pp. 6-10), analysis of propositions leaves open the question of the meanings of linguistic forms. Another reason why it is problematic to define coding of realis status in terms of messages conveyed in discourse rather than in terms o ...
... expressed by different linguistic forms (see e.g. Langacker 1988, pp. 6-10), analysis of propositions leaves open the question of the meanings of linguistic forms. Another reason why it is problematic to define coding of realis status in terms of messages conveyed in discourse rather than in terms o ...
Introducing the CEFR for English
... Canunderstandthemainideasofcomplextextonbothconcreteandabstracttopics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible ...
... Canunderstandthemainideasofcomplextextonbothconcreteandabstracttopics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible ...
Enhancing Object-Oriented UML for Developing an Intelligent
... SEMANTIC dictionary system. For example, the super class 'human' inherits the public operation 'eat' to its subclass 'boy' and therefore we can generate or check the simple sentence ‘boy eats food’ or 'boys eat food' with semantic meaning. The work in this research signifies that SEMANTIC dictionary ...
... SEMANTIC dictionary system. For example, the super class 'human' inherits the public operation 'eat' to its subclass 'boy' and therefore we can generate or check the simple sentence ‘boy eats food’ or 'boys eat food' with semantic meaning. The work in this research signifies that SEMANTIC dictionary ...
7116 Sentence Building Int.
... word out, explain that some verbs describe mental actions that are not easily seen, so they are not easy to act out. Challenge children to locate other verb Rods that show mental actions that are not easy to act out (like, knew, mean, become, etc.). Have students link together a Rod train of action ...
... word out, explain that some verbs describe mental actions that are not easily seen, so they are not easy to act out. Challenge children to locate other verb Rods that show mental actions that are not easy to act out (like, knew, mean, become, etc.). Have students link together a Rod train of action ...
The Grammar of Adjectives
... Adjectives!! Summary. Adjectives tell you more about nouns. In English, adjectives don't change! They are always singular (even if the noun is plural). You can use several adjectives before a noun, or you can use the adjective on its own in a phrase. There are different kinds of adjectives, and they ...
... Adjectives!! Summary. Adjectives tell you more about nouns. In English, adjectives don't change! They are always singular (even if the noun is plural). You can use several adjectives before a noun, or you can use the adjective on its own in a phrase. There are different kinds of adjectives, and they ...
Perception and Causative Structures in English and European
... Nunes 1995), the paper proposes that in active structures, the infinitival head and the embedded subject can both agree with the matrix light verb and so “share” the accusative Case it licenses. In passive structures, on the other hand, the intervening φ-features of the participial head block the ag ...
... Nunes 1995), the paper proposes that in active structures, the infinitival head and the embedded subject can both agree with the matrix light verb and so “share” the accusative Case it licenses. In passive structures, on the other hand, the intervening φ-features of the participial head block the ag ...
An Interaction Grammar of Interrogative and Relative Clauses in
... The underspecified dominance relation is represented in figure 3 with a dashed vertical line. The line is labelled with two neutral features cat = s and funct = obj, which mean that all nodes dominated by OBJ3 and dominating OBJ4 in a large sense, must be equipped with both features. The features la ...
... The underspecified dominance relation is represented in figure 3 with a dashed vertical line. The line is labelled with two neutral features cat = s and funct = obj, which mean that all nodes dominated by OBJ3 and dominating OBJ4 in a large sense, must be equipped with both features. The features la ...
Clause processing in complex sentences
... involves the ability to partition a given sentence into hierarchical segments, not only at word level but also above the word (such as phrases and clauses), and below it (including prefixes and suffixes). Segmentation at all these levels is important for NLP, but some areas have received very little ...
... involves the ability to partition a given sentence into hierarchical segments, not only at word level but also above the word (such as phrases and clauses), and below it (including prefixes and suffixes). Segmentation at all these levels is important for NLP, but some areas have received very little ...
a descriptive analysis of argument alternations
... “In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in certain recurrent and yet not fully predictable pattern ...
... “In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in certain recurrent and yet not fully predictable pattern ...
Norbert Hornstein, Ana Maria Martins and Jairo Nunes This
... head, which does not have this feature, and cannot by itself empower the participial head with Case-valuation properties.7 Given that the embedded subject in the constructions under discussion has its Case valued by an external probe, the infinitival T should not have a person feature either. Once p ...
... head, which does not have this feature, and cannot by itself empower the participial head with Case-valuation properties.7 Given that the embedded subject in the constructions under discussion has its Case valued by an external probe, the infinitival T should not have a person feature either. Once p ...