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Generating A Parsing Lexicon from an LCS-Based Lexicon
... The work of (Brent, 1993) produces a lexicon from a grammar—the reverse of what we aim to do. All of these approaches are specific to English. By contrast, our goal is to have a unified repository that is transferable to other languages—and from which our parsing (and ultimately generation) grammars ...
... The work of (Brent, 1993) produces a lexicon from a grammar—the reverse of what we aim to do. All of these approaches are specific to English. By contrast, our goal is to have a unified repository that is transferable to other languages—and from which our parsing (and ultimately generation) grammars ...
Verb movement in Germanic and Celtic
... The proposal is that if agreement feature bundles in a language should be characterized as consisting of these three features, they take on the same role as that of nominative pronouns, namely the role of subject. Just like a pronominal paradigm can contain an underspecified form that can still func ...
... The proposal is that if agreement feature bundles in a language should be characterized as consisting of these three features, they take on the same role as that of nominative pronouns, namely the role of subject. Just like a pronominal paradigm can contain an underspecified form that can still func ...
Lecture 17: Existential Sentences in Chinese: Syntax and Semantics
... In Lectures 15 and 16 we have seen some of the issues surrounding the semantics of “weak NPs” and the semantic interpretation of existential sentences. These two issues are closely connected, since the main criterion for dividing NPs into ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ is the so-called “Definiteness Effect” ex ...
... In Lectures 15 and 16 we have seen some of the issues surrounding the semantics of “weak NPs” and the semantic interpretation of existential sentences. These two issues are closely connected, since the main criterion for dividing NPs into ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ is the so-called “Definiteness Effect” ex ...
Student`s Translation Quality in Translating English Phrasal Verbs
... translation is one of the subjects learned by the students in English Department of FKIP-UNIB. The objective of this course is to improve the students’ comprehension in translating English into Indonesian and vice versa. In attempts to acquire the target language, the students of English Department ...
... translation is one of the subjects learned by the students in English Department of FKIP-UNIB. The objective of this course is to improve the students’ comprehension in translating English into Indonesian and vice versa. In attempts to acquire the target language, the students of English Department ...
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... come from the transformations involved? Needless to say, tra nsfor mation, in principle, does not change the meaning of sentence. There are many different views current on the nature of deep structure or 'the deep level'. The following view of D.T. Langendoen' s may be among the popular ones (Langen ...
... come from the transformations involved? Needless to say, tra nsfor mation, in principle, does not change the meaning of sentence. There are many different views current on the nature of deep structure or 'the deep level'. The following view of D.T. Langendoen' s may be among the popular ones (Langen ...
THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD Introduction -
... The meaning of this category is the attitude of the speaker, or writer towards the content of the sentence. It is expressed in the form of the verb. There are three moods in English-the indicative mood, the imperative mood and the subjunctive mood. The indicative mood indicates that what is said mus ...
... The meaning of this category is the attitude of the speaker, or writer towards the content of the sentence. It is expressed in the form of the verb. There are three moods in English-the indicative mood, the imperative mood and the subjunctive mood. The indicative mood indicates that what is said mus ...
On the Reciprocal in Ndebele - Nordic Journal of African Studies
... marker (SM) and object marker (OM) that cross-reference noun phrases (NPs), tense/aspect, modality, etc. are prefixed. The reciprocal in Ndebele, like in most Bantu languages, is clearly marked by the verbal suffix -an-. It denotes “action […] performed […] by someone or something upon another and v ...
... marker (SM) and object marker (OM) that cross-reference noun phrases (NPs), tense/aspect, modality, etc. are prefixed. The reciprocal in Ndebele, like in most Bantu languages, is clearly marked by the verbal suffix -an-. It denotes “action […] performed […] by someone or something upon another and v ...
Prefixes and the Delimitation of Events*
... The form and meaning of complex nominal and verbal predicates are partly motivated by the intuition that “we do not use the expressions that chunk up our experience with (singular) expressions that provide that experience already chunked up” (Bach 1981: 74). For example, we judge *a pound of an oran ...
... The form and meaning of complex nominal and verbal predicates are partly motivated by the intuition that “we do not use the expressions that chunk up our experience with (singular) expressions that provide that experience already chunked up” (Bach 1981: 74). For example, we judge *a pound of an oran ...
Derivational morphology in Distributed Morphology
... Chapter 3 concentrates on lexical causatives in Japanese. There is a widely-held view among linguists (Harley, 1995, 1996, Levin and Rappaport Hovav, 1995, Pinker, 1989, among many), that a lexical causative cannot be derived from a verb which has an agentive subject. Using observations of Matsumoto ...
... Chapter 3 concentrates on lexical causatives in Japanese. There is a widely-held view among linguists (Harley, 1995, 1996, Levin and Rappaport Hovav, 1995, Pinker, 1989, among many), that a lexical causative cannot be derived from a verb which has an agentive subject. Using observations of Matsumoto ...
Reciprocal markers in Adyghe, their relations and interactions
... The first two prefixes, viz. ze- and zere-, occupy the slot of one of the agreement affixes in the verb form, while other slots are occupied by agreement markers. The prefix ze- is used on subject-oriented “canonical”i reciprocals of two-place intransitive bases (cf. (24b)) and subject-oriented “ind ...
... The first two prefixes, viz. ze- and zere-, occupy the slot of one of the agreement affixes in the verb form, while other slots are occupied by agreement markers. The prefix ze- is used on subject-oriented “canonical”i reciprocals of two-place intransitive bases (cf. (24b)) and subject-oriented “ind ...
Serial Verbs in Ibibio - KU ScholarWorks
... ‘Ekpe cooked and ate rice.’ Notice that there are two verbs in the constructions above. The first two verbs combine to form complex verb which means ‘arrive’ in English. The second example forms a complex predicate meaning ‘cook and eat’. Both verbs share the same subject and same object. The constr ...
... ‘Ekpe cooked and ate rice.’ Notice that there are two verbs in the constructions above. The first two verbs combine to form complex verb which means ‘arrive’ in English. The second example forms a complex predicate meaning ‘cook and eat’. Both verbs share the same subject and same object. The constr ...
Chinese Main Verb Identification
... sentences, “从” (cong2, from) sentences, etc. Fan also further subdivides SVB into seven constructions, like the “verb-resultative construction,” “verb-得 construction,” etc. A particular feature of Huang’s work [1987] is the examples he provides from real texts. The sentence patterns listed in his wo ...
... sentences, “从” (cong2, from) sentences, etc. Fan also further subdivides SVB into seven constructions, like the “verb-resultative construction,” “verb-得 construction,” etc. A particular feature of Huang’s work [1987] is the examples he provides from real texts. The sentence patterns listed in his wo ...
How many theta roles in a reflexive verb?
... and its antecedent), we will show that verbal reflexives like (2b)–(5b) are intransitive: They project only one syntactic argument. In other words, this kind of reflexivization must involve detransitivization of a transitive verb. If so, what happens to the other argument, and what happens to its th ...
... and its antecedent), we will show that verbal reflexives like (2b)–(5b) are intransitive: They project only one syntactic argument. In other words, this kind of reflexivization must involve detransitivization of a transitive verb. If so, what happens to the other argument, and what happens to its th ...
The Semantics of Progressive Aspect: A Thorough Study
... he reads a newspaper almost every day. But the second one refers to his activity of reading a newspaper on a particular occasion or during a particular time. In this case, tense without the aspectual distinction fails to convey the difference in meaning between these two sentences, and therefore, as ...
... he reads a newspaper almost every day. But the second one refers to his activity of reading a newspaper on a particular occasion or during a particular time. In this case, tense without the aspectual distinction fails to convey the difference in meaning between these two sentences, and therefore, as ...
Grace Theological Journal 11.1 (1991) 71
... The protasis in all 9 instances is regular, with an optative verb, six are present tense, 3 are aorist. Verb Forms in the Apodosis In every instance the apodosis is either incomplete, irregular, or missing. In four the apodosis is an infinitive in the predicate of the main clause (Acts 17:27, 20:16, ...
... The protasis in all 9 instances is regular, with an optative verb, six are present tense, 3 are aorist. Verb Forms in the Apodosis In every instance the apodosis is either incomplete, irregular, or missing. In four the apodosis is an infinitive in the predicate of the main clause (Acts 17:27, 20:16, ...
Passive verb morphology: The effect of phonotactics on passive
... One of the most severe and widely-reported deficits in SLI affects verb morphology, and in particular the use of suffixes that mark tense and agreement (see review in Leonard, 1998). In English the pattern is one of variable suffix omission, e.g. Yesterday I play_/played football, He always watch_/w ...
... One of the most severe and widely-reported deficits in SLI affects verb morphology, and in particular the use of suffixes that mark tense and agreement (see review in Leonard, 1998). In English the pattern is one of variable suffix omission, e.g. Yesterday I play_/played football, He always watch_/w ...
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... Impersonal expression (this is the “trigger”) +que + new subject + present subjunctive of the verb To use subjunctive with impersonal expressions, you need to have a different subject than what you started with! The formation of the present tense subjunctive will be easy for you because it is exactl ...
... Impersonal expression (this is the “trigger”) +que + new subject + present subjunctive of the verb To use subjunctive with impersonal expressions, you need to have a different subject than what you started with! The formation of the present tense subjunctive will be easy for you because it is exactl ...
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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 ...
greek grammar handout 2012 - University of Dallas Classics
... by punctuation, or by an enclitic (i.e. by a word not accented -- for a list of enclitics see § IX). (2) C i r c u m f l e x ^ can fall only on a long penult or long ult (never before the penult, and never on a short syllable). It appears on any accented penult if that is long, and the ult short, e ...
... by punctuation, or by an enclitic (i.e. by a word not accented -- for a list of enclitics see § IX). (2) C i r c u m f l e x ^ can fall only on a long penult or long ult (never before the penult, and never on a short syllable). It appears on any accented penult if that is long, and the ult short, e ...
Remarks on the Passive Voice in English and Romanian
... And here is the more detailed theoretical presentation of the overall picture of Voice, as its main elements are defined in The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar: “voice. A grammatical category which in English provides two different ways (ACTIVE and PASSIVE) of viewing the action of the verb. Vo ...
... And here is the more detailed theoretical presentation of the overall picture of Voice, as its main elements are defined in The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar: “voice. A grammatical category which in English provides two different ways (ACTIVE and PASSIVE) of viewing the action of the verb. Vo ...
Words and Sentences
... Verbs ending in o typically add -es: veto → vetoes. The third person singular present indicative in English is notable cross-linguistically for being a morphologically marked form for a semantically unmarked one. That is to say the the third person singular is usually taken to be the most basic form ...
... Verbs ending in o typically add -es: veto → vetoes. The third person singular present indicative in English is notable cross-linguistically for being a morphologically marked form for a semantically unmarked one. That is to say the the third person singular is usually taken to be the most basic form ...
University of Groningen Time reference decoupled from tense
... with the TART (Abuom & Bastiaanse, 2010). They showed that the agrammatic speakers were more impaired in reference to the past than to the non-past in production and comprehension in both languages, and overall more impaired in English than in Swahili. As in Abuom, Obler, and Bastiaanse (2011), they ...
... with the TART (Abuom & Bastiaanse, 2010). They showed that the agrammatic speakers were more impaired in reference to the past than to the non-past in production and comprehension in both languages, and overall more impaired in English than in Swahili. As in Abuom, Obler, and Bastiaanse (2011), they ...
Reflexivity and adjustment strategies at the interfaces
... refer to an inanimate antecedent as in (21a). As for the reflexive clitics (7a) in Spanish, sometimes their presence is enough to get a reflexive reading as in (23a). In other cases, it is necessary to use a morphologically complex anaphor (7b), as in (23b). ...
... refer to an inanimate antecedent as in (21a). As for the reflexive clitics (7a) in Spanish, sometimes their presence is enough to get a reflexive reading as in (23a). In other cases, it is necessary to use a morphologically complex anaphor (7b), as in (23b). ...