German Reference Grammar
... In addition to gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and number (singular, plural), all German nouns appear in one of four different cases according to their function within a sentence. For a discussion of the case system, see Adjectives §§3-7. Be sure to read that section before proceeding with this ...
... In addition to gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and number (singular, plural), all German nouns appear in one of four different cases according to their function within a sentence. For a discussion of the case system, see Adjectives §§3-7. Be sure to read that section before proceeding with this ...
1 Using Strong Verbs – Suggested Answers and Teaching Tips
... to maintain consistency of tense with the original. Some students will write “supervised” because they may be more comfortable using the past tense than the present. They should use “supervises.” ...
... to maintain consistency of tense with the original. Some students will write “supervised” because they may be more comfortable using the past tense than the present. They should use “supervises.” ...
Compromising transitivity: the problem of reciprocals
... (1991), in his account of Chichewa reciprocals, which mark reciprocity by verbal affix and reduce the valence of base transitive verbs to one, proposes that there are two arguments (corresponding to agent and patient) present in a-structure (i.e. argument structure, an intermediate stage in the mapp ...
... (1991), in his account of Chichewa reciprocals, which mark reciprocity by verbal affix and reduce the valence of base transitive verbs to one, proposes that there are two arguments (corresponding to agent and patient) present in a-structure (i.e. argument structure, an intermediate stage in the mapp ...
THE SPANISH PRONOUN SYSTEM I. Subject Pronouns
... Now, try the same with the following. What word would you use to replace María? Jaime meets María in the park. He follows María. He helps María with her books. You are right if you replaced the direct object noun María with the direct object pronoun her, as in the following. Jaime meets María in the ...
... Now, try the same with the following. What word would you use to replace María? Jaime meets María in the park. He follows María. He helps María with her books. You are right if you replaced the direct object noun María with the direct object pronoun her, as in the following. Jaime meets María in the ...
Bound nominal roots in Waorani
... are independent words that occupy a specific slot in the noun phrase, and they co-occur with the head nouns which they categorize. The Waorani morphemes differ in a number of ways from the situation in (1). Most obviously, they are not independent words but are bound morphemes. This is most clearly ...
... are independent words that occupy a specific slot in the noun phrase, and they co-occur with the head nouns which they categorize. The Waorani morphemes differ in a number of ways from the situation in (1). Most obviously, they are not independent words but are bound morphemes. This is most clearly ...
perfect - Michel Thomas
... czas ‘time’ (passing of time); Miałam czas wczoraj ‘I (fem) had time yesterday’; o tym ‘about it’; Nie wiedziałem nic o tym ‘I (masc) didn’t know anything about it’ (lit. ‘not I knew nothing about it’); widzieć ‘to see’; widziałem ‘I (masc) saw / have seen’; Nie widziałam tego ‘I (fem) didn’t see i ...
... czas ‘time’ (passing of time); Miałam czas wczoraj ‘I (fem) had time yesterday’; o tym ‘about it’; Nie wiedziałem nic o tym ‘I (masc) didn’t know anything about it’ (lit. ‘not I knew nothing about it’); widzieć ‘to see’; widziałem ‘I (masc) saw / have seen’; Nie widziałam tego ‘I (fem) didn’t see i ...
CD 24614-2 WordSeg2
... word boundaries of text cannot be fully identified by typographic properties(like spaces in English), for example, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, and Mongolian. Part2 focuses on word segmentation for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. These three languages are similar and different in some ...
... word boundaries of text cannot be fully identified by typographic properties(like spaces in English), for example, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, and Mongolian. Part2 focuses on word segmentation for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. These three languages are similar and different in some ...
Antisymmetry
... machinery, what kinds of things will this force us to do with respect to existing analyses? Koopman reviews several potential cases of “heavy pied-piping”—movement of very large phrases leftward (like, for example, inverting the entire IP with C as above). One example—perhaps the most convincing—com ...
... machinery, what kinds of things will this force us to do with respect to existing analyses? Koopman reviews several potential cases of “heavy pied-piping”—movement of very large phrases leftward (like, for example, inverting the entire IP with C as above). One example—perhaps the most convincing—com ...
The Linguistic Features of Newspapers Headlines
... their special form and content(Al-Salmany,2000:14).Or as Fries (1987;cited in Pajunen,2008:8)indicates, headlines are the starting points depending on which the reader can infer some expectations about the topic of the article. Headlines are special type of text that can outline the reading process ...
... their special form and content(Al-Salmany,2000:14).Or as Fries (1987;cited in Pajunen,2008:8)indicates, headlines are the starting points depending on which the reader can infer some expectations about the topic of the article. Headlines are special type of text that can outline the reading process ...
On expletive subject pronoun drop in Colloquial French
... Since, Fonseca-Greber (2004: 83) argues, ‘impersonal verbs [. . .] (a) exist only in the 3rd person and (b) cannot take a referential subject’.7 Rather than corroborating her analysis, however, this functional explanation severely undermines it. First of all, if expletive subject pronouns were funct ...
... Since, Fonseca-Greber (2004: 83) argues, ‘impersonal verbs [. . .] (a) exist only in the 3rd person and (b) cannot take a referential subject’.7 Rather than corroborating her analysis, however, this functional explanation severely undermines it. First of all, if expletive subject pronouns were funct ...
1. Introduction 2. Nominal compounding
... an (often disputed) rule which tells the writer of Dutch when to write the / / that he hears as e, and when as en: one has to write en if the meaning of the compound necessarily implies that the first constituent receives a plural interpretation. Here, I only want to show that there are a number of ...
... an (often disputed) rule which tells the writer of Dutch when to write the / / that he hears as e, and when as en: one has to write en if the meaning of the compound necessarily implies that the first constituent receives a plural interpretation. Here, I only want to show that there are a number of ...
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses -- Debate
... understood rather than expressed. It, nevertheless, still functions in the sentence. – Ex: The dog sled (that) Ted drove won the race. – Relative adverbs can only act as adverbs within a clause. ...
... understood rather than expressed. It, nevertheless, still functions in the sentence. – Ex: The dog sled (that) Ted drove won the race. – Relative adverbs can only act as adverbs within a clause. ...
root deverbal paradigms as reflected in the Oxford En
... However, owing to the contribution of seven rival suffixes they are represented by 2,463 coinages – downscale, 1036 in -ive, 457 in -ant and 190 in –ent, 317 in -y, 228 in -ory, 95 in ful and 46 in -ous yielding some amount of suffix wise variant adjectives from the same verb. The adjectives reveal ...
... However, owing to the contribution of seven rival suffixes they are represented by 2,463 coinages – downscale, 1036 in -ive, 457 in -ant and 190 in –ent, 317 in -y, 228 in -ory, 95 in ful and 46 in -ous yielding some amount of suffix wise variant adjectives from the same verb. The adjectives reveal ...
Studies in African Linguistics Volume 21, Number 2, August 1990
... relative. Basic-form adjectives invariably occur in post-nominal position like other nominal modifiers with the exception of qualifactive nouns. Polar adjectives can be emphasized, in which case they occur in a suppletive form. When suppleted, emphatic adjectives occur preferentially in the pre-nomi ...
... relative. Basic-form adjectives invariably occur in post-nominal position like other nominal modifiers with the exception of qualifactive nouns. Polar adjectives can be emphasized, in which case they occur in a suppletive form. When suppleted, emphatic adjectives occur preferentially in the pre-nomi ...
Native Languages: A Support Document for the Teaching of
... This resource guide is intended for teachers of Ontario Oneida, Cayuga, and Mohawk as second languages. Its purpose is to describe the language patterns that occur in these Native languages and to reinforce teachers’ knowledge of the structure and functions of the various language elements (words an ...
... This resource guide is intended for teachers of Ontario Oneida, Cayuga, and Mohawk as second languages. Its purpose is to describe the language patterns that occur in these Native languages and to reinforce teachers’ knowledge of the structure and functions of the various language elements (words an ...
(ref) seven serious sentence errors file
... group; e.g., atoms, books, children, dollars, watches, cars, etc. Countable nouns have both singular and plural forms. A non-countable noun represents an abstract concept; the individual parts of it cannot be counted; the total is viewed as one mass; e.g., advice, furniture, traffic, grammar, mail, ...
... group; e.g., atoms, books, children, dollars, watches, cars, etc. Countable nouns have both singular and plural forms. A non-countable noun represents an abstract concept; the individual parts of it cannot be counted; the total is viewed as one mass; e.g., advice, furniture, traffic, grammar, mail, ...
CHAPTER FIVE
... shall, should, can, could, may, might, must, and ought to and the latter includes had better, have (got) to, be able to, used to, and would rather. In this study, only pure modal verbs are analyzed because the meaning of semi-modal verbs is easier than that of pure modal verbs. As for the meanings ...
... shall, should, can, could, may, might, must, and ought to and the latter includes had better, have (got) to, be able to, used to, and would rather. In this study, only pure modal verbs are analyzed because the meaning of semi-modal verbs is easier than that of pure modal verbs. As for the meanings ...
Modal Auxiliary Verbs - KSU Faculty Member websites
... ancestor of English and the other Germanic languages). Modals have always differed from ordinary verbs in Germanic , and in the course of history of English, they have diverged from verbs even further, to the point where they now belong to a syntactic category of their own (Siewierska, 1991).In fact ...
... ancestor of English and the other Germanic languages). Modals have always differed from ordinary verbs in Germanic , and in the course of history of English, they have diverged from verbs even further, to the point where they now belong to a syntactic category of their own (Siewierska, 1991).In fact ...
Word order preferences for direct and indirect objects in children
... The children were asked to respond to requests with the help of stuffed toys and other props provided by the experimenter. All subjects were tested individually in a quiet place. Sentence types There were twenty test sentences, with five tokens of each of the four types exemplified below. In order t ...
... The children were asked to respond to requests with the help of stuffed toys and other props provided by the experimenter. All subjects were tested individually in a quiet place. Sentence types There were twenty test sentences, with five tokens of each of the four types exemplified below. In order t ...
Adjective groups & Phrases
... Using Adjective Groups Why use one adjective when you could be very descriptive and use several to describe an object? A string of adjectives can come together as an adjective phrase in order to describe a noun. • For example, in the sentence “Sally is a nice girl” there is one adjective, ‘nice’. H ...
... Using Adjective Groups Why use one adjective when you could be very descriptive and use several to describe an object? A string of adjectives can come together as an adjective phrase in order to describe a noun. • For example, in the sentence “Sally is a nice girl” there is one adjective, ‘nice’. H ...
“Adjectives” in Tundra Nenets: Properties of Property Words (JSFOu
... arguing that all languages have a distinguishable class of adjectives just like they have word classes for verbs and nouns. He suggests that adjective classes should be distinguished from nouns and verbs of a given language by language-internal criteria. Recently, adjective classes have indeed also ...
... arguing that all languages have a distinguishable class of adjectives just like they have word classes for verbs and nouns. He suggests that adjective classes should be distinguished from nouns and verbs of a given language by language-internal criteria. Recently, adjective classes have indeed also ...
Lecture 5
... Note that Bengali verb morphology only has suffixes Scan a given word from right to left (backward) If the substring seen is a valid suffix, see if the remaining part of the input is a valid stem/root Take care of orthographic changes ...
... Note that Bengali verb morphology only has suffixes Scan a given word from right to left (backward) If the substring seen is a valid suffix, see if the remaining part of the input is a valid stem/root Take care of orthographic changes ...
sentence structure basics
... A. Identify the subjects and verbs in the following sentences by writing an “S” above the subject and a “V” above the verb. Identify the types of clauses by underlining independent clauses once and dependent clauses twice. Then indicate which type of sentence each one is. ...
... A. Identify the subjects and verbs in the following sentences by writing an “S” above the subject and a “V” above the verb. Identify the types of clauses by underlining independent clauses once and dependent clauses twice. Then indicate which type of sentence each one is. ...
Prefixation in English and Albanian languages
... much more seldom than in former times. According to Marchand this is to a certain amount due to the tendency to form more and more post particle words. (Marchand 1969: 131) From Old English onwards, especially locative particles which were connected to verbs were no longer placed before, but after t ...
... much more seldom than in former times. According to Marchand this is to a certain amount due to the tendency to form more and more post particle words. (Marchand 1969: 131) From Old English onwards, especially locative particles which were connected to verbs were no longer placed before, but after t ...