Free English Grammar E
... Did you know that about 70% of the time when we use a verb in English, it is an irregular one? That means that learning and using irregular verbs is essential for learning English! The English language has so many irregular verbs that it can make you go crazy… but even irregular verbs follow some pa ...
... Did you know that about 70% of the time when we use a verb in English, it is an irregular one? That means that learning and using irregular verbs is essential for learning English! The English language has so many irregular verbs that it can make you go crazy… but even irregular verbs follow some pa ...
Depictive Secondary Predicates and Small Clause Approaches to
... as a manner modifier. No formal semantics for this manner modification is proposed. Copley and Harley (2015, 131) explain briefly what manner modification would be in the force semantics that they propose. They also state that the verb root adjoins to a predicate headed by vBECOME in an example like ...
... as a manner modifier. No formal semantics for this manner modification is proposed. Copley and Harley (2015, 131) explain briefly what manner modification would be in the force semantics that they propose. They also state that the verb root adjoins to a predicate headed by vBECOME in an example like ...
A Syntactic Analysis of Modal bì 必: Auxiliary Verb or Adverb?
... predicate (1989:245), and it can appear in subordinate and in matrix clauses. What Unger labels as ‘Modalpartikel’ corresponds in general to what the author labels ‘modal adverb’ in accordance with Pulleyblank (1995:18) who lists bì 必 as an adverb (1995:99) and as belonging to one of those “sentence ...
... predicate (1989:245), and it can appear in subordinate and in matrix clauses. What Unger labels as ‘Modalpartikel’ corresponds in general to what the author labels ‘modal adverb’ in accordance with Pulleyblank (1995:18) who lists bì 必 as an adverb (1995:99) and as belonging to one of those “sentence ...
Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection
... labels, not arbitrary or tree-structurally positioned NPs; and this seems to presuppose that there is not more than one Agentive (etc.) NP per clause. (This was modified later; see below.) In order for such systems to work in an account in which the roles Agent, Theme, Goal, etc., are given explicit ...
... labels, not arbitrary or tree-structurally positioned NPs; and this seems to presuppose that there is not more than one Agentive (etc.) NP per clause. (This was modified later; see below.) In order for such systems to work in an account in which the roles Agent, Theme, Goal, etc., are given explicit ...
Unit 10 Grammar overview: Conditionals Vocabulary overview
... was completed at a specific time in the past 2. to talk about 2. Every month my grandfather habitual actions sent me a parcel containing gifts, in the past puzzles and children’s magazines. ...
... was completed at a specific time in the past 2. to talk about 2. Every month my grandfather habitual actions sent me a parcel containing gifts, in the past puzzles and children’s magazines. ...
TWO CLASSES OF DOUBLE OBJECT VERBS: THE ROLE OF
... In this paper, I argue that there are two classes of double object verbs (Class I, Class II), which are realized in two different syntactic structures. Specifically, I demonstrate that double object verbs split into two classes with respect to whether they permit derivational processes such as forma ...
... In this paper, I argue that there are two classes of double object verbs (Class I, Class II), which are realized in two different syntactic structures. Specifically, I demonstrate that double object verbs split into two classes with respect to whether they permit derivational processes such as forma ...
Tagset Manual
... The tag N(sing,forme) is assigned to all forms of the substantive that end in –e, even when it concerns a weak noun that has a stem ending in –e in Middle Dutch (like vrouwe (lady, wife)), or when a Modern Dutch form has a stem ending in –e (like hoeve (farmstead) or bode (messenger)). The tag N(sin ...
... The tag N(sing,forme) is assigned to all forms of the substantive that end in –e, even when it concerns a weak noun that has a stem ending in –e in Middle Dutch (like vrouwe (lady, wife)), or when a Modern Dutch form has a stem ending in –e (like hoeve (farmstead) or bode (messenger)). The tag N(sin ...
Infinitive 1
... 8. The article did serve to restore the balance between the substantive and verbal aspects of the infinitive. 9. The increase in the use of the article with the infinitive kept pace with the growth of the article. 10. The association of the infinitive with the article helped to sustain the substanti ...
... 8. The article did serve to restore the balance between the substantive and verbal aspects of the infinitive. 9. The increase in the use of the article with the infinitive kept pace with the growth of the article. 10. The association of the infinitive with the article helped to sustain the substanti ...
journal of linguistics
... a number of sources. To obtain an adequate sample of temporal adverbials, and some information about their co-occurrence with tenses, a corpus of spoken and written English of some 250,000 words in length was examined (adequate for present purposes, and readily analysable in view of the easily deter ...
... a number of sources. To obtain an adequate sample of temporal adverbials, and some information about their co-occurrence with tenses, a corpus of spoken and written English of some 250,000 words in length was examined (adequate for present purposes, and readily analysable in view of the easily deter ...
On Indefinite Subject NPs in Chinese
... their references in English. He proposes that English has four forms of NPs: (i) the proper noun, (ii) the definite NP (the NP that is preceded by a definite article, a determiner, or the possessive NP), (iii) the singular indefinite NP (a countable N preceded by an indefinite article ‘a’), and (iv) ...
... their references in English. He proposes that English has four forms of NPs: (i) the proper noun, (ii) the definite NP (the NP that is preceded by a definite article, a determiner, or the possessive NP), (iii) the singular indefinite NP (a countable N preceded by an indefinite article ‘a’), and (iv) ...
The Semantics of Russian Genitive of Negation: The Nature and
... THE SEMANTICS OF RUSSIAN GENITIVE OF NEGATION: PERSPECTIVAL STRUCTURE In the general case, we assume that verbs have their normal literal meaning, which in most cases is not simply "exist" or "be". If the GenNeg construction is used, the hearer uses contextual information to support an accommodatio ...
... THE SEMANTICS OF RUSSIAN GENITIVE OF NEGATION: PERSPECTIVAL STRUCTURE In the general case, we assume that verbs have their normal literal meaning, which in most cases is not simply "exist" or "be". If the GenNeg construction is used, the hearer uses contextual information to support an accommodatio ...
a descriptive analysis of argument alternations
... These necessary premises notwithstanding, we hope that this work will encourage the Italian research community, and whosoever would like to conduct their work on Italian verbs, to carry out further r ...
... These necessary premises notwithstanding, we hope that this work will encourage the Italian research community, and whosoever would like to conduct their work on Italian verbs, to carry out further r ...
ŠIAULIAI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT
... examined from the speech production to mental lexicon by Aitchison (1994). However, there has been little attention paid to the phenomenon of denominal verb in translation from English into Lithuanian, thus the process of rendering denominal verb into Lithuanian is new. The practical value of our re ...
... examined from the speech production to mental lexicon by Aitchison (1994). However, there has been little attention paid to the phenomenon of denominal verb in translation from English into Lithuanian, thus the process of rendering denominal verb into Lithuanian is new. The practical value of our re ...
1 Labeling (Romance) causatives* Adriana Belletti University of
... through Agree to the external argument of the infinitival verb phrase. The causative voice head has the property of attracting the relevant chunk of the infinitival verb phrase into its ...
... through Agree to the external argument of the infinitival verb phrase. The causative voice head has the property of attracting the relevant chunk of the infinitival verb phrase into its ...
Verbal Prefixes in Russian: Conceptual structure - Munin
... (e.g. za-bežatj v magazin ‘to run by the store on the way’). However, the meaning still involves briefly entering some space, so I treat them as a subclass of occlusive meaning. The briefness of the visit seems to arise from context and pragmatic knowledge, as it appears only with certain goalcomple ...
... (e.g. za-bežatj v magazin ‘to run by the store on the way’). However, the meaning still involves briefly entering some space, so I treat them as a subclass of occlusive meaning. The briefness of the visit seems to arise from context and pragmatic knowledge, as it appears only with certain goalcomple ...
what does the greek first class conditional imply? gricean
... that the Greek FCC is well translated with the English causative construction introduced with "since." In this paper a twofold approach is used to show that this claim is in error. First, a methodology for formulating and testing hypotheses concerning historical languages is established. The methodo ...
... that the Greek FCC is well translated with the English causative construction introduced with "since." In this paper a twofold approach is used to show that this claim is in error. First, a methodology for formulating and testing hypotheses concerning historical languages is established. The methodo ...
null object constructions in standard spanish revisited* 111
... order to account for this contrast in grammaticality between (7) and (8). The analysis put forward by Campos ( 1986) for nonarbitrary bare direct objects as variables accounts for the empty category in (7). Following Chomsky (1982:35) the empty category is a variable since "it is in an A-position a ...
... order to account for this contrast in grammaticality between (7) and (8). The analysis put forward by Campos ( 1986) for nonarbitrary bare direct objects as variables accounts for the empty category in (7). Following Chomsky (1982:35) the empty category is a variable since "it is in an A-position a ...
CHAPTER 5 THE LIGHT VERB SYNTAX IN CHINESE
... Therefore, it must be the case that, firstly, the V-to-Asp0 movement in Mandarin Chinese takes place in LF, and, secondly, the aspectual markers in fact don't occur under Asp0 -Asp0 only contains the relevant aspectual features, and the verb V has already had an aspectual marker suffixed to it at t ...
... Therefore, it must be the case that, firstly, the V-to-Asp0 movement in Mandarin Chinese takes place in LF, and, secondly, the aspectual markers in fact don't occur under Asp0 -Asp0 only contains the relevant aspectual features, and the verb V has already had an aspectual marker suffixed to it at t ...
THE SUBSYSTEMS OF LEXICAL ASPECTS
... In this thesis a system of lexical aspects, or Aktionsarten, is considered fiom the point of view of GuillaumjanPsychomechanics, which is a form of cognitive linguistics. Guillaume proposes that verbal systems have developmental stages, the total system of stages being cded the chronogenesis, that i ...
... In this thesis a system of lexical aspects, or Aktionsarten, is considered fiom the point of view of GuillaumjanPsychomechanics, which is a form of cognitive linguistics. Guillaume proposes that verbal systems have developmental stages, the total system of stages being cded the chronogenesis, that i ...
infinitive clauses - E
... subordinate ones at a fast rate. Middle English is also the time when the infinitive develops possibilities of expressing its own subject. The for-to construction is one of them. Fischer e. a. (2000), propose that infinitive constructions with a lexical subject all represent a by-product of the chan ...
... subordinate ones at a fast rate. Middle English is also the time when the infinitive develops possibilities of expressing its own subject. The for-to construction is one of them. Fischer e. a. (2000), propose that infinitive constructions with a lexical subject all represent a by-product of the chan ...
Depiction Verbs and the Definiteness Effect
... because of their conservativity-domain property. Since ‘several’, for example, is intersective, ‘several trees are in the scene’ has things in the scene as a conservativity domain. ‘Things in the scene’ is itself ambiguous between ‘items reproduced in the scene’ and ‘figures positioned in the scene’ ...
... because of their conservativity-domain property. Since ‘several’, for example, is intersective, ‘several trees are in the scene’ has things in the scene as a conservativity domain. ‘Things in the scene’ is itself ambiguous between ‘items reproduced in the scene’ and ‘figures positioned in the scene’ ...
The origin and originality of passivization in Papiamentu
... condemned the “[w]rong use of passives: Papiamentu is a supporter of active ...
... condemned the “[w]rong use of passives: Papiamentu is a supporter of active ...
The function and the syntax of the verbal particle.
... In the (a) cases, the object of the second sentence is understood to refer to a subset of the set mentioned in the first sentence. In the (b) cases, this reading is unlikely; in fact, the two sentences do not even seem to constitute a coherent text.8 The specificity requirement on themes functioning ...
... In the (a) cases, the object of the second sentence is understood to refer to a subset of the set mentioned in the first sentence. In the (b) cases, this reading is unlikely; in fact, the two sentences do not even seem to constitute a coherent text.8 The specificity requirement on themes functioning ...
Verb Sophistication
... Developing Verb Sophistication (EO/P): [Researcher: Can you tell her how to do it? Can you tell her why this way helps?] You said how to use cubes. [Researcher: So you can learn and count. To learn and So can you tell him?] Be very gentle with count when you grow, you could count cubes. There's litt ...
... Developing Verb Sophistication (EO/P): [Researcher: Can you tell her how to do it? Can you tell her why this way helps?] You said how to use cubes. [Researcher: So you can learn and count. To learn and So can you tell him?] Be very gentle with count when you grow, you could count cubes. There's litt ...
Gerund or Infinitive?
... 2. Infinitives are the "to" form of the verb. The infinitive form of "learn" is "to learn." You can also use an infinitive as the subject, the complement, or the object of a sentence. Examples: To learn is important. subject of sentence The most important thing is to learn. complement of sentence ...
... 2. Infinitives are the "to" form of the verb. The infinitive form of "learn" is "to learn." You can also use an infinitive as the subject, the complement, or the object of a sentence. Examples: To learn is important. subject of sentence The most important thing is to learn. complement of sentence ...