A note on non-canonical passives: the case of the get
... status of the participle is unlike its be-counterpart, namely it involves an adjectival participle. The question I turn to here is what type of adjectival participle is actually present in the structure, in view of recent work by Kratzer (2001), Embick (2003) and others. These authors pointed out th ...
... status of the participle is unlike its be-counterpart, namely it involves an adjectival participle. The question I turn to here is what type of adjectival participle is actually present in the structure, in view of recent work by Kratzer (2001), Embick (2003) and others. These authors pointed out th ...
book
... manuscripts. Of this literature a poem called Kanturuna mohelana (The lamp: of the sailor) is best known. For writing Wolio, Arabic character is most used, but formerly Macassar script seems to have been used also. In recent times the modern school-education has propagated the use of Roman character ...
... manuscripts. Of this literature a poem called Kanturuna mohelana (The lamp: of the sailor) is best known. For writing Wolio, Arabic character is most used, but formerly Macassar script seems to have been used also. In recent times the modern school-education has propagated the use of Roman character ...
File grammar
... then the verb must also be singular. In order to decide whether or not a verb is singular, simply remember that singular verbs end in s. In the incorrect sentence, the verb are is plural. To make the sentence correct, the verb must be singular (end in s). Are must be changed to is. If you will elimi ...
... then the verb must also be singular. In order to decide whether or not a verb is singular, simply remember that singular verbs end in s. In the incorrect sentence, the verb are is plural. To make the sentence correct, the verb must be singular (end in s). Are must be changed to is. If you will elimi ...
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... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IMPERATIVES ( e.g. Be heard! or Don't be taken! ) -----------------DEPONENT IMPERATIVES ------------------------------------Genera ...
... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IMPERATIVES ( e.g. Be heard! or Don't be taken! ) -----------------DEPONENT IMPERATIVES ------------------------------------Genera ...
Western Scholars Opinions on Rendering the Tense by Means of
... Western scholars have devoted a number of investigations to the study of the verbal system in the Semitic languages and, namely, in Arabic. In the discussions of the system, the issue of tense has always been a matter of debates. Zafer Youssef notes that, while expressing their opinions concerning t ...
... Western scholars have devoted a number of investigations to the study of the verbal system in the Semitic languages and, namely, in Arabic. In the discussions of the system, the issue of tense has always been a matter of debates. Zafer Youssef notes that, while expressing their opinions concerning t ...
08 Grammar Past Participles
... BBC Learning English - Quiznet Grammar Past Participles For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer. 1. Did you know over 200 people have successfully ______ solo across the channel from England to France? a. swimmed b. swim c. swam d. swum 2. Hmmm, I love the smell of freshly _____ ...
... BBC Learning English - Quiznet Grammar Past Participles For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer. 1. Did you know over 200 people have successfully ______ solo across the channel from England to France? a. swimmed b. swim c. swam d. swum 2. Hmmm, I love the smell of freshly _____ ...
Grammar Practice Workbook - Muncie Central Early College
... 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The President looked tired and frustrated. 6. The world’s tallest trees are California redwoods. 7. All the actors were prou ...
... 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The President looked tired and frustrated. 6. The world’s tallest trees are California redwoods. 7. All the actors were prou ...
Grammar Practice Workbook
... 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The President looked tired and frustrated. 6. The world’s tallest trees are California redwoods. 7. All the actors were prou ...
... 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The President looked tired and frustrated. 6. The world’s tallest trees are California redwoods. 7. All the actors were prou ...
Grammar Practice Workbook
... 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The President looked tired and frustrated. 6. The world’s tallest trees are California redwoods. 7. All the actors were prou ...
... 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The President looked tired and frustrated. 6. The world’s tallest trees are California redwoods. 7. All the actors were prou ...
A Collocation Database for German Verbs and Nouns
... noun. Table 3 illustrates an example for the noun Buch ‘book’, accompanied by the verbs which most prominently subcategorise the noun as direct object. The verbs refer to different properties of a book, e.g. to its content which is written and read, to the publication process, and to the item which ...
... noun. Table 3 illustrates an example for the noun Buch ‘book’, accompanied by the verbs which most prominently subcategorise the noun as direct object. The verbs refer to different properties of a book, e.g. to its content which is written and read, to the publication process, and to the item which ...
The Noun and Verb Phrase in Chrambo (Bambalang)
... The fifth is a noun from gender 1/2: ŋ̀gàŋ ‘person who usually does something’ plural: ghǎŋ e.g. 8. ŋ̀gàŋ pɨ ́ŋ ‘hunter’ ghǎŋ pɨ ́ŋ ‘hunters’ This may be considered an associative noun phrase, in which case the high tone in the plural example may be the c2 associative marker (see secti ...
... The fifth is a noun from gender 1/2: ŋ̀gàŋ ‘person who usually does something’ plural: ghǎŋ e.g. 8. ŋ̀gàŋ pɨ ́ŋ ‘hunter’ ghǎŋ pɨ ́ŋ ‘hunters’ This may be considered an associative noun phrase, in which case the high tone in the plural example may be the c2 associative marker (see secti ...
1 10. Hortative (Excerpt from Eggleston, 2013) The hortative is the
... potential modes. Note that this only occurs with Ø conjugation verbs, and never with na, ga, or ga conjugation verbs. These are notated in the verb theme in parentheses, following the verb’s conjugation prefix and verb type as: CVV Imp/Hort/Pot. For example, the theme for the first example given bel ...
... potential modes. Note that this only occurs with Ø conjugation verbs, and never with na, ga, or ga conjugation verbs. These are notated in the verb theme in parentheses, following the verb’s conjugation prefix and verb type as: CVV Imp/Hort/Pot. For example, the theme for the first example given bel ...
Question and Answering System based on Predicate
... verb is related to. Since this is a unit of an event or an action and captures more semantics than keywords, it is promising that answers can be extracted more precisely. This structure is like a logic form used by Harabagiu et al. [1]. To extract predicate-argument structures from sentences, we emp ...
... verb is related to. Since this is a unit of an event or an action and captures more semantics than keywords, it is promising that answers can be extracted more precisely. This structure is like a logic form used by Harabagiu et al. [1]. To extract predicate-argument structures from sentences, we emp ...
Discrete Skills - Woosterapsi2011
... like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “Even though Tom was _____ Mary thought he was _____.” And the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations, for example, “Even though Tom was shy, Mary thought he was charming,” with the grammatical structure “even though” limiti ...
... like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “Even though Tom was _____ Mary thought he was _____.” And the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations, for example, “Even though Tom was shy, Mary thought he was charming,” with the grammatical structure “even though” limiti ...
The Pieces of Morphology
... with the universally available grammatical features), whatever it may be and however it interacts with the syntax/morphology, is nothing like the internal structure of words and sentences and thus cannot be decomposed or composed in the grammar. See Fodor 1998, Fodor & Lepore 1998 (vs. Pustejovsky a ...
... with the universally available grammatical features), whatever it may be and however it interacts with the syntax/morphology, is nothing like the internal structure of words and sentences and thus cannot be decomposed or composed in the grammar. See Fodor 1998, Fodor & Lepore 1998 (vs. Pustejovsky a ...
COMPARISON IN BAMBARA: AN INFINITIVAL VERB PHRASE* Jan
... An infinitival verb phrase is generated to express comparison in Bambara. In particular, the comparative verb phrase has the structure: INFINITIVE MARKER + INTRANSITIVE VERB + NP + POSTPOSITION. The structural constraints on the comparative verb phrase are not specific to comparison, but are the mor ...
... An infinitival verb phrase is generated to express comparison in Bambara. In particular, the comparative verb phrase has the structure: INFINITIVE MARKER + INTRANSITIVE VERB + NP + POSTPOSITION. The structural constraints on the comparative verb phrase are not specific to comparison, but are the mor ...
Words
... It’s somehow intuitive to think that knowing a language involves knowing the words of the language. Linguists that start with this notion quickly get into trouble by not being clear about what a “word” is such that a speaker might know it or what “know” is such that a speaker might “know” a word. Wh ...
... It’s somehow intuitive to think that knowing a language involves knowing the words of the language. Linguists that start with this notion quickly get into trouble by not being clear about what a “word” is such that a speaker might know it or what “know” is such that a speaker might “know” a word. Wh ...
Simplenlg v3.7 Overview - 1 - Overview of Simplenlg Package (May
... Overview of Simplenlg Package (May 2008)(v3.7) Simplenlg is a relatively simple Natural Language Generation realiser, with a Java API. It has less grammatical coverage than many other realisers, but it does not require in-depth knowledge of a syntactic theory to use. The core of the package is the r ...
... Overview of Simplenlg Package (May 2008)(v3.7) Simplenlg is a relatively simple Natural Language Generation realiser, with a Java API. It has less grammatical coverage than many other realisers, but it does not require in-depth knowledge of a syntactic theory to use. The core of the package is the r ...
ARKA, I Wayan and Mary DALRYMPLE, 2016. `Number and plural
... can have a positive answer (yes) even if the addressee saw only a single child. Now consider example (2) from Marori, which resembles (1)b in involving a negative context. Here, the nonsingular noun meninggon ‘children’ appears as the object of the verb ‘see’, and the verb stem yafo- ‘see’ is the no ...
... can have a positive answer (yes) even if the addressee saw only a single child. Now consider example (2) from Marori, which resembles (1)b in involving a negative context. Here, the nonsingular noun meninggon ‘children’ appears as the object of the verb ‘see’, and the verb stem yafo- ‘see’ is the no ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
... The Plural of Abbreviations, Numbers and Letters of the Alphabet These categories act like nouns in some cases and they form plurals in a specific way: 1.1.9. abbreviations: bro.(brother)/bros.(brothers 1.1.10. numbers : the 1980's or the 1980s 1.1.11. letters: i's ...
... The Plural of Abbreviations, Numbers and Letters of the Alphabet These categories act like nouns in some cases and they form plurals in a specific way: 1.1.9. abbreviations: bro.(brother)/bros.(brothers 1.1.10. numbers : the 1980's or the 1980s 1.1.11. letters: i's ...
The Syntax of Valuation in Auxiliary–participle
... head are also present on the projection of that head, AuxP can value an unvalued feature of a verb it ccommands.2 This is, I argue, exactly what happens in (6a). The relevant part of the derivation is given in (8). (8a) represents the underlying (semantic) structure of the verbal elements present in ...
... head are also present on the projection of that head, AuxP can value an unvalued feature of a verb it ccommands.2 This is, I argue, exactly what happens in (6a). The relevant part of the derivation is given in (8). (8a) represents the underlying (semantic) structure of the verbal elements present in ...
Non-finite complements and modality in de-na `allow` in Hindi-Urdu
... In (9) and in many examples below, the =ko postposition is ambiguous between dative and accusative case. The contrast of DOM accusative with the goal dative is even clearer in Kashmiri, a language related to Hindi-Urdu and similar in case marking. The Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu permissives are very sim ...
... In (9) and in many examples below, the =ko postposition is ambiguous between dative and accusative case. The contrast of DOM accusative with the goal dative is even clearer in Kashmiri, a language related to Hindi-Urdu and similar in case marking. The Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu permissives are very sim ...
Case-theory: a solution of the bound pronoun problem in Romance
... dative constructions (which are assigned inherent dative Case). Hoekstra comes to the conclusion that 'Se must bear structural Case'. Since he shows that in all four circumstances just mentioned the pronoun har(ren) is allowed, there is another, implicit, conclusion: 'Har( ren) can bear inherent Cas ...
... dative constructions (which are assigned inherent dative Case). Hoekstra comes to the conclusion that 'Se must bear structural Case'. Since he shows that in all four circumstances just mentioned the pronoun har(ren) is allowed, there is another, implicit, conclusion: 'Har( ren) can bear inherent Cas ...
The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor
... What makes a language ancient? The term conjures up images, often romantic, of archeologists feverishly copying hieroglyphs by torchlight in a freshly discovered burial chamber; of philologists dangling over a precipice in some remote corner of the earth, taking impressions of an inscription carved ...
... What makes a language ancient? The term conjures up images, often romantic, of archeologists feverishly copying hieroglyphs by torchlight in a freshly discovered burial chamber; of philologists dangling over a precipice in some remote corner of the earth, taking impressions of an inscription carved ...