grammaticalization and the semantic
... stative verbs become partially grammaticalized (yet still lexical) deontic modals in Old English and Old High German. The more grammaticalized, epistemic modals generally do not appear until later in the Middle English and Middle High German periods. And finally, Modern English and New High German a ...
... stative verbs become partially grammaticalized (yet still lexical) deontic modals in Old English and Old High German. The more grammaticalized, epistemic modals generally do not appear until later in the Middle English and Middle High German periods. And finally, Modern English and New High German a ...
Complex Predicates Müller, Stefan
... is relevant for the markedness of examples with reference to indirect objects. In Chapter 5 I show that resultative constructions in German behave like raising constructions. A lexical rule will be suggested that transitivizes intransitive verbs and adds a result predicate. The most complex phenomen ...
... is relevant for the markedness of examples with reference to indirect objects. In Chapter 5 I show that resultative constructions in German behave like raising constructions. A lexical rule will be suggested that transitivizes intransitive verbs and adds a result predicate. The most complex phenomen ...
24 Important Words and Phrases
... extremely useful and beautiful language quickly and effectively. If you are willing to spend just 24 hours of your time studying the grammar, vocabulary, and phrases presented in the lessons, you will find that you will be able to understand and communicate in Spanish in various types of everyday si ...
... extremely useful and beautiful language quickly and effectively. If you are willing to spend just 24 hours of your time studying the grammar, vocabulary, and phrases presented in the lessons, you will find that you will be able to understand and communicate in Spanish in various types of everyday si ...
Grammar in Context Proficiency Level
... although it may be only slight, with grammatical concepts. With the help from time to time of a good dictionary or a teacher, you will be able to read this and the rest of the book with adequate understanding. In short, you will have reached an advanced level in English but you will still be learnin ...
... although it may be only slight, with grammatical concepts. With the help from time to time of a good dictionary or a teacher, you will be able to read this and the rest of the book with adequate understanding. In short, you will have reached an advanced level in English but you will still be learnin ...
as a PDF
... they do not provide objective and empirically testable parameters that could be used to decide on how BH could be classified and the meanings of the verb forms be determined. Some argue that the language is a tense language, some argue that it is an aspect language while others claim that the verbs ...
... they do not provide objective and empirically testable parameters that could be used to decide on how BH could be classified and the meanings of the verb forms be determined. Some argue that the language is a tense language, some argue that it is an aspect language while others claim that the verbs ...
24 Important Words and Phrases
... extremely useful and beautiful language quickly and effectively. If you are willing to spend just 24 hours of your time studying the grammar, vocabulary, and phrases presented in the lessons, you will find that you will be able to understand and communicate in Spanish in various types of everyday si ...
... extremely useful and beautiful language quickly and effectively. If you are willing to spend just 24 hours of your time studying the grammar, vocabulary, and phrases presented in the lessons, you will find that you will be able to understand and communicate in Spanish in various types of everyday si ...
The Syntax of Meteorology: The Linguistic Status of Variadic Functions
... must be very careful when attributing semantic properties to lexical items. It is not enough that the item can be rightly said to have this or that meaning; for some such meaning to be lexical, it must reveal itself structurally. For example, in the case of weather reports, it might well be that spe ...
... must be very careful when attributing semantic properties to lexical items. It is not enough that the item can be rightly said to have this or that meaning; for some such meaning to be lexical, it must reveal itself structurally. For example, in the case of weather reports, it might well be that spe ...
The Expository Composition Developed by Examples
... a process or listing events in chronological order. Examples of this type of writing are cooking instructions, driving directions and instructions on performing a task. Key words such as first, after, next, then, and last usually signal sequential writing. 2- Description: A descriptive essay is a t ...
... a process or listing events in chronological order. Examples of this type of writing are cooking instructions, driving directions and instructions on performing a task. Key words such as first, after, next, then, and last usually signal sequential writing. 2- Description: A descriptive essay is a t ...
ASSIDUE Person prominence and relation prominence
... this work was the fact that Yucatec Maya, a native Indian language of Mexico, backgrounds persons in many syntactic constructions where well-known European languages like German and English put them in a syntactically prominent position. In the present book we investigate this outstanding trait of Y ...
... this work was the fact that Yucatec Maya, a native Indian language of Mexico, backgrounds persons in many syntactic constructions where well-known European languages like German and English put them in a syntactically prominent position. In the present book we investigate this outstanding trait of Y ...
Passive in the world`s languages
... actives. Similarly, ‘agent phrases’, such as by Mary in John was slapped by Mary, most commonly take the position and case marking (including choice of pre- and postpositions) of some oblique NPs in active sentences, most usually an instrumental, locative, or genitive. Thus we cannot recognize a pas ...
... actives. Similarly, ‘agent phrases’, such as by Mary in John was slapped by Mary, most commonly take the position and case marking (including choice of pre- and postpositions) of some oblique NPs in active sentences, most usually an instrumental, locative, or genitive. Thus we cannot recognize a pas ...
Form and Meaning in the Hebrew Verb
... The rest of my committee has been just as generous. From day one it was clear to me that I’d want to work with Stephanie Harves; in this I’m not much different than any other NYU-trained syntactician. Stephanie is an inspiring mentor, a prediction generating machine, a true syntactician, an invaluab ...
... The rest of my committee has been just as generous. From day one it was clear to me that I’d want to work with Stephanie Harves; in this I’m not much different than any other NYU-trained syntactician. Stephanie is an inspiring mentor, a prediction generating machine, a true syntactician, an invaluab ...
the syntax of lexical reciprocal constructions
... languages, and periphrastic reciprocal construction in English (i.e., they saw each other) are not able to form the dyadic reciprocal construction. 4. Why there exist in English a small set of so called “naturally symmetric” verbs (such as dance, argue, fight etc. – see Kemmer 1993) which despite no ...
... languages, and periphrastic reciprocal construction in English (i.e., they saw each other) are not able to form the dyadic reciprocal construction. 4. Why there exist in English a small set of so called “naturally symmetric” verbs (such as dance, argue, fight etc. – see Kemmer 1993) which despite no ...
uniwersytet miko łaja kopernika
... expression in the standard literary language. It shall also be acknowledged that we will not discuss structural and morphosyntactical properties of the construction such as, for instance, intransitivity and its relation to transitive forms (for a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of valency, and t ...
... expression in the standard literary language. It shall also be acknowledged that we will not discuss structural and morphosyntactical properties of the construction such as, for instance, intransitivity and its relation to transitive forms (for a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of valency, and t ...
draft - University of Delaware
... In the above examples, get selects goat, and so the two can be interpreted idiomatically; lose selects cool; and so on. Non-selected elements, like adjectives and possessors, can appear in between pieces of idioms, because they do not disrupt this selection. Adjectives and adverbs may be part of an ...
... In the above examples, get selects goat, and so the two can be interpreted idiomatically; lose selects cool; and so on. Non-selected elements, like adjectives and possessors, can appear in between pieces of idioms, because they do not disrupt this selection. Adjectives and adverbs may be part of an ...
Introduction to Specific Language Impairment/SLI
... and Schaeffer (2003) for more detailed discussion of diagnostic criteria for SLI. Prevalence and Persistence of SLI Leonard (1989) estimates that around 6% of children suffer some form of language impairment (with 1.5% having a tested language age of less than two thirds of their tested mental age), ...
... and Schaeffer (2003) for more detailed discussion of diagnostic criteria for SLI. Prevalence and Persistence of SLI Leonard (1989) estimates that around 6% of children suffer some form of language impairment (with 1.5% having a tested language age of less than two thirds of their tested mental age), ...
PropBank Annotation Guidelines - Computational Language and
... Arg0: Portfolio managers REL: expect Arg1: further declines in interest rates For some verbs, it is impossible to provide one set of semantic roles for all senses of the verb. For example, the two senses of the verb ‘leave’ in the examples below take different arguments: Mary left the room Mary lef ...
... Arg0: Portfolio managers REL: expect Arg1: further declines in interest rates For some verbs, it is impossible to provide one set of semantic roles for all senses of the verb. For example, the two senses of the verb ‘leave’ in the examples below take different arguments: Mary left the room Mary lef ...
Progressive Aspect - Západočeská univerzita
... All the English tenses have two forms. These are simple and progressive. The progressive forms are also known as continuous. The progressive forms always consist of the auxiliary verb ´to be´, which is conjugated in proper tense, and present participle. The progressive tenses are more specific than ...
... All the English tenses have two forms. These are simple and progressive. The progressive forms are also known as continuous. The progressive forms always consist of the auxiliary verb ´to be´, which is conjugated in proper tense, and present participle. The progressive tenses are more specific than ...
linguistics
... that, for most of these forms, the secondary character of lability can be demonstrated. Thus, for many labile forms with middle inflection (in particular, forms belonging to the present system), labile patterning results from the polyfunctionality of the middle diathesis (self-beneficent / anticausa ...
... that, for most of these forms, the secondary character of lability can be demonstrated. Thus, for many labile forms with middle inflection (in particular, forms belonging to the present system), labile patterning results from the polyfunctionality of the middle diathesis (self-beneficent / anticausa ...
Meaning Through Syntax: Language
... below. For instance, for the reduced relative clause Cars and trucks abandoned in a terrifying scramble to safety, the verb used in denoting the event is abandoned, and the entity denoted by the reduced relative is “cars and trucks caused by some external force or entity to be abandoned in a terrify ...
... below. For instance, for the reduced relative clause Cars and trucks abandoned in a terrifying scramble to safety, the verb used in denoting the event is abandoned, and the entity denoted by the reduced relative is “cars and trucks caused by some external force or entity to be abandoned in a terrify ...
Putting Pieces Together: Combining FrameNet, VerbNet
... the two participants I and hammer belong to different ontological categories (I refers to a person, and hammer refers to a tool), and thus they are likely to play different semantic roles. Selectional restrictions are explicitly defined in VerbNet as constraints imposed on the arguments of syntactic fr ...
... the two participants I and hammer belong to different ontological categories (I refers to a person, and hammer refers to a tool), and thus they are likely to play different semantic roles. Selectional restrictions are explicitly defined in VerbNet as constraints imposed on the arguments of syntactic fr ...
answer key - Scholastic
... 9. Everyone quickly turned to look at her. 10. Suddenly I lost all interest in Gracie. 11. But now our teacher was watching me. 12. I’ll have to remember what it means to read quietly. ...
... 9. Everyone quickly turned to look at her. 10. Suddenly I lost all interest in Gracie. 11. But now our teacher was watching me. 12. I’ll have to remember what it means to read quietly. ...
The Syntactic Location of Events
... Dutch language area. These patterns include a bare infinitive (as found in the standard Dutch absentive construction), a te-infinitive (as found in for instance the with-infinitive construction in the dialect of Wambeek), and a finite clause (as found in verbal collocations). A more general question ...
... Dutch language area. These patterns include a bare infinitive (as found in the standard Dutch absentive construction), a te-infinitive (as found in for instance the with-infinitive construction in the dialect of Wambeek), and a finite clause (as found in verbal collocations). A more general question ...
How weak and how definite are Weak Definites?
... A reviewer points out that speaker’s usually have their local hospital etc. in mind when using Weak Definites. But my main point is that this is not necessarily so, as can be seen rather clearly from quantified examples like (1), where there may be no one local hospital in that sense. ...
... A reviewer points out that speaker’s usually have their local hospital etc. in mind when using Weak Definites. But my main point is that this is not necessarily so, as can be seen rather clearly from quantified examples like (1), where there may be no one local hospital in that sense. ...
Verb-Initial Clauses in Ancient Greek Prose
... and always humorously, with my more than normally meandering route to a dissertation topic, and, this once chosen, applied his critical acumen to the work-inprogress to improve and enrich it at every level, from the overall approach through many specific analyses down to punctilios of presentation a ...
... and always humorously, with my more than normally meandering route to a dissertation topic, and, this once chosen, applied his critical acumen to the work-inprogress to improve and enrich it at every level, from the overall approach through many specific analyses down to punctilios of presentation a ...
Practice - Royal Holloway
... Many Latin words look like English ones and are often actually the originals from which the English words are derived. But the meaning is not always the same. This is because the meanings of words change over time. A single word in Latin could often acquire a range of meanings, of which one only sur ...
... Many Latin words look like English ones and are often actually the originals from which the English words are derived. But the meaning is not always the same. This is because the meanings of words change over time. A single word in Latin could often acquire a range of meanings, of which one only sur ...