French Verbs Made Simple(r)
... speaker, since most of the forms parallel or are very close in meaning to those employed in English. One seeming major difference is that French employs two “moods”: the indicative and the subjunctive. The mood of the verb does not refer (at least directly) to the mood of the speaker but rather to t ...
... speaker, since most of the forms parallel or are very close in meaning to those employed in English. One seeming major difference is that French employs two “moods”: the indicative and the subjunctive. The mood of the verb does not refer (at least directly) to the mood of the speaker but rather to t ...
The syntactic analysis of the Dutch absentive
... It is indeed the case that many of my informants prefer the order vissen is in (12a), but the alternative order is vissen is also accepted by at least some of these informants (including myself), for which reason I marked this order by means of a percentage sign. I also found the order zijn–infiniti ...
... It is indeed the case that many of my informants prefer the order vissen is in (12a), but the alternative order is vissen is also accepted by at least some of these informants (including myself), for which reason I marked this order by means of a percentage sign. I also found the order zijn–infiniti ...
Fulltext - UoN Repository
... employs Basic Linguistic Theory and Nurse’s Conceptual Frame Work in the analysis of the distribution and interaction of tense and aspect on the verb phrase in Bemba. The background to the Bemba language of Zambia and to the study is given. The tenets of the Basic linguistic theory and Nurse’s Conce ...
... employs Basic Linguistic Theory and Nurse’s Conceptual Frame Work in the analysis of the distribution and interaction of tense and aspect on the verb phrase in Bemba. The background to the Bemba language of Zambia and to the study is given. The tenets of the Basic linguistic theory and Nurse’s Conce ...
Free PDF - The University of Adelaide
... Clamor Schürmann’s Barngarla grammar Thura-Yura languages historically constituted a dialect spread from the Mount Lofty Ranges in the southeast, up to the northern Flinders Ranges in the north, and across to South Australia's west coast. We know, for example, that the southern languages Kaurna, Nh ...
... Clamor Schürmann’s Barngarla grammar Thura-Yura languages historically constituted a dialect spread from the Mount Lofty Ranges in the southeast, up to the northern Flinders Ranges in the north, and across to South Australia's west coast. We know, for example, that the southern languages Kaurna, Nh ...
German Reflexives as Proper and Improper Arguments
... In (27a), the Thematic Role of sich is the recipient or patiens of anrufen, while in (27b) roughly the same role is jointly assigned by streiten mit, i.e. by the Preposition combined with the Verb. In (28), the Reflexive doesn't have a separate Thematic Role at all, it simply refers to that of the s ...
... In (27a), the Thematic Role of sich is the recipient or patiens of anrufen, while in (27b) roughly the same role is jointly assigned by streiten mit, i.e. by the Preposition combined with the Verb. In (28), the Reflexive doesn't have a separate Thematic Role at all, it simply refers to that of the s ...
A SUBTITLING ANALYSIS OF VERBS AND VERB PHRASES IN
... verb. Frank (1972: 47) defines “a verb is the most complex part of speech. The verb has the grammatical properties of person and number, properties which require agreement with the subject”. Related to the object of this study that is Indonesian verbs and verb phrases, Alwi (2003: 91) states that th ...
... verb. Frank (1972: 47) defines “a verb is the most complex part of speech. The verb has the grammatical properties of person and number, properties which require agreement with the subject”. Related to the object of this study that is Indonesian verbs and verb phrases, Alwi (2003: 91) states that th ...
- Essex - Research Repository
... words of wisdom, and I have to quote here “It only has to be too good to fail”. He is definitely my PhD Guru. I am also grateful to my examiners, Prof. Miriam Butt and Prof. Robert Borsley for their insights and valuable comments, which helped me improve my work and reassured me that my work was rea ...
... words of wisdom, and I have to quote here “It only has to be too good to fail”. He is definitely my PhD Guru. I am also grateful to my examiners, Prof. Miriam Butt and Prof. Robert Borsley for their insights and valuable comments, which helped me improve my work and reassured me that my work was rea ...
Agreement Paper - rci.rutgers.edu
... Abstract: In many languages, adjectives agree with a noun phrase in number and gender, but not in person. In others, ditransitive verbs can agree with their theme argument in number and gender, but not in person (the Person Case Constraint). However, a unified account of these two similar patterns h ...
... Abstract: In many languages, adjectives agree with a noun phrase in number and gender, but not in person. In others, ditransitive verbs can agree with their theme argument in number and gender, but not in person (the Person Case Constraint). However, a unified account of these two similar patterns h ...
Coercion on the edge - Repositorio Académico
... cantado). As it can be seen from the examples, this grammatical aspect is usually expressed by the grammatical rules applied to a verb on a given linguistic construction (conjugation). Nevertheless, there is another distinction to be made when discussing aspect. Many authors began to realise that ve ...
... cantado). As it can be seen from the examples, this grammatical aspect is usually expressed by the grammatical rules applied to a verb on a given linguistic construction (conjugation). Nevertheless, there is another distinction to be made when discussing aspect. Many authors began to realise that ve ...
The semantics of the Turkish accusative marked
... accusative where accusative definites are categorized with respect to their hearer and discourse statuses, which is mostly determined by focus facts, then the information coming from the hearer and discourse statuses of definites is conflated under the notions of existential and pragmatic presupposi ...
... accusative where accusative definites are categorized with respect to their hearer and discourse statuses, which is mostly determined by focus facts, then the information coming from the hearer and discourse statuses of definites is conflated under the notions of existential and pragmatic presupposi ...
Nominal Roots as Event Predicates in English Denominal
... denominal verbs did not make it into this dissertation, I have high hopes that it will see the light of day. Alec Marantz became my co-chair while the dissertation was already underway, when it became clear that his expertise was needed, and since then he has gently coaxed out key data and arguments ...
... denominal verbs did not make it into this dissertation, I have high hopes that it will see the light of day. Alec Marantz became my co-chair while the dissertation was already underway, when it became clear that his expertise was needed, and since then he has gently coaxed out key data and arguments ...
Alexandra Anna Spalek Verb Meaning and Combinatory Semantics: A Corpus-Based Study of
... weggenommen werden. Was du weisst, bleibt immer deins.’ (What you own can be taken away anytime. What you know stays yours for ever.) And yet, even more important than my grandfather’s wise saying was my mother packing and organising everything for me to move just in the very last months of the writ ...
... weggenommen werden. Was du weisst, bleibt immer deins.’ (What you own can be taken away anytime. What you know stays yours for ever.) And yet, even more important than my grandfather’s wise saying was my mother packing and organising everything for me to move just in the very last months of the writ ...
mandarin compound verbs - Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
... ambisyllabic: A segment (vowel or consonant) which forms the coda of the first and onset of the second of two adjacent syllables, e.g. the /l/ in English melon is ambisyllabic. analytic: In this study, analytic is used to describe a construction in which individual elements are in a syntactic rather ...
... ambisyllabic: A segment (vowel or consonant) which forms the coda of the first and onset of the second of two adjacent syllables, e.g. the /l/ in English melon is ambisyllabic. analytic: In this study, analytic is used to describe a construction in which individual elements are in a syntactic rather ...
Thesis - Archive ouverte UNIGE
... languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events described by the alternating verbs are distributed on a scale of increasing likelihood for an ex ...
... languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events described by the alternating verbs are distributed on a scale of increasing likelihood for an ex ...
Dynamics, causation, duration in the predicate
... languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events described by the alternating verbs are distributed on a scale of increasing likelihood for an ex ...
... languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events described by the alternating verbs are distributed on a scale of increasing likelihood for an ex ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Linguistics Journal
... verb-framed and satellite-framed languages based on the incorporation of path and points out that both English and Chinese are satellite-framed languages. However, scholars such as Slobin (2006) argue that Chinese, as a serial verb language, falls into the third category: equipollently-framed langua ...
... verb-framed and satellite-framed languages based on the incorporation of path and points out that both English and Chinese are satellite-framed languages. However, scholars such as Slobin (2006) argue that Chinese, as a serial verb language, falls into the third category: equipollently-framed langua ...
1844
... part, so familiarize them to the mind, that they may, after the lapse of many years, become as spontaneously the vehicle of his thoughts as his mother tongue. Such in fact was my own case, and this circumstance will, I hope, plead as my apology for any errors in style or phraseology which may be fou ...
... part, so familiarize them to the mind, that they may, after the lapse of many years, become as spontaneously the vehicle of his thoughts as his mother tongue. Such in fact was my own case, and this circumstance will, I hope, plead as my apology for any errors in style or phraseology which may be fou ...
The finite independency A study of the relevance of the notion of
... 1.3 The definition of finiteness In the article Finiteness, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (1994: 1245ff) raises the question of the universality of the notion of finiteness. She also points out that the definition of finite and nonfinite clauses is far from consensus. The traditional view has been that f ...
... 1.3 The definition of finiteness In the article Finiteness, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (1994: 1245ff) raises the question of the universality of the notion of finiteness. She also points out that the definition of finite and nonfinite clauses is far from consensus. The traditional view has been that f ...
A Description of Preverb and Particle Usage in Innu - Innu
... The subject of this thesis is the particles and preverbs of Innu-aimûn (Montagnais). Algonquian languages, including Innu-aimûn, encode adverbial information in many different ways: through the use of particles of time and manner; with preverbs; and with verbal suffixes. Preverbs display regular ord ...
... The subject of this thesis is the particles and preverbs of Innu-aimûn (Montagnais). Algonquian languages, including Innu-aimûn, encode adverbial information in many different ways: through the use of particles of time and manner; with preverbs; and with verbal suffixes. Preverbs display regular ord ...
A Text-based Grammar for Expository Writing
... homes where English is not spoken and communities where non-standard forms of English predominate. The high rates of remediation at the university level are testimony that simply waiting for language acquisition to provide students with proficiency is doing them a grave disservice. At the same time, ...
... homes where English is not spoken and communities where non-standard forms of English predominate. The high rates of remediation at the university level are testimony that simply waiting for language acquisition to provide students with proficiency is doing them a grave disservice. At the same time, ...
he - MPG.PuRe
... part, so familiarize them to the mind, that they may, after the lapse of many years, become as spontaneously the vehicle of his thought0 as his mother tongue. Such in fact was rlly own case, and this circumstance will, I hope, plead as my apology for any errors in style or phraseology which may be f ...
... part, so familiarize them to the mind, that they may, after the lapse of many years, become as spontaneously the vehicle of his thought0 as his mother tongue. Such in fact was rlly own case, and this circumstance will, I hope, plead as my apology for any errors in style or phraseology which may be f ...
What Do Learners Need to Know about the - e
... class. Nor was it predictable from basic frequency measures in the corpus or our intuitions that one sense would be more transparent than another. Moreover, it was impossible to map the senses of the words we explored along a single continuum, and they seemed to fit more naturally into a type of ‘tr ...
... class. Nor was it predictable from basic frequency measures in the corpus or our intuitions that one sense would be more transparent than another. Moreover, it was impossible to map the senses of the words we explored along a single continuum, and they seemed to fit more naturally into a type of ‘tr ...
Verb Phrases - E
... is suffixed to the locative nouns when the head verb follows them, but the locative pronouns do not take any locative marker. When a verb belonging to the movement class of verbs (movement class of verbs are po:vu - ‘go’, vellu- ‘go’ ce:ru-’reach’, vatstsu-’come’, nadutsu-’walk’, parigettu-’run’, et ...
... is suffixed to the locative nouns when the head verb follows them, but the locative pronouns do not take any locative marker. When a verb belonging to the movement class of verbs (movement class of verbs are po:vu - ‘go’, vellu- ‘go’ ce:ru-’reach’, vatstsu-’come’, nadutsu-’walk’, parigettu-’run’, et ...
HEDGES USED BY SAKI IN THE PEACE OFFERING SHORT STORY
... same thing – addressing and greeting others, describing things, paying compliments”. People can laughto their express amusement, happiness, or disrespect, we can smile to express amusement, pleasure, approval, or bitter feelings, we can shriek to express anger, excitement, or fear. Language as menti ...
... same thing – addressing and greeting others, describing things, paying compliments”. People can laughto their express amusement, happiness, or disrespect, we can smile to express amusement, pleasure, approval, or bitter feelings, we can shriek to express anger, excitement, or fear. Language as menti ...