Writing Workshop June 2012 - eGRS
... exactly clear in your head what you want to say, and the best way to ensure this inner understanding is to begin writing earlier rather than later in the process. The reason for this is simply that writing is part of thinking. Drafting and redrafting deepens understanding. Clarity comes from moving ...
... exactly clear in your head what you want to say, and the best way to ensure this inner understanding is to begin writing earlier rather than later in the process. The reason for this is simply that writing is part of thinking. Drafting and redrafting deepens understanding. Clarity comes from moving ...
automatic question generation: a syntactical approach to the
... individuals, but words cannot represent the contribution, support and patience of my supervisor Dr. Yllias Chali, thanking his availability, willingness to help, directing in different levels throughout this thesis; his support make any way of saying how much gratitude I have for him, beyond what wo ...
... individuals, but words cannot represent the contribution, support and patience of my supervisor Dr. Yllias Chali, thanking his availability, willingness to help, directing in different levels throughout this thesis; his support make any way of saying how much gratitude I have for him, beyond what wo ...
Ellipsis in Farsi Complex Predicates
... Ellipsis is distinguished from other types of null anaphora by a number of well-established diagnostics that all rely on ellipsis being a type of surface anaphora in Hankamer and Sag’s (1976) terms. Surface anaphors have a fully articulated syntactic structure, constructed in the usual way, that is ...
... Ellipsis is distinguished from other types of null anaphora by a number of well-established diagnostics that all rely on ellipsis being a type of surface anaphora in Hankamer and Sag’s (1976) terms. Surface anaphors have a fully articulated syntactic structure, constructed in the usual way, that is ...
Difference between gerund and participle worksheet
... State whether the –ing forms given in the following sentences are participles or gerunds. In the case of participles, name the noun or pronoun they qualify. In.Aug 22, 2013 . It's tough to know the difference between gerunds and present participles in English just by looking because they both consis ...
... State whether the –ing forms given in the following sentences are participles or gerunds. In the case of participles, name the noun or pronoun they qualify. In.Aug 22, 2013 . It's tough to know the difference between gerunds and present participles in English just by looking because they both consis ...
Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length
... that assume fixed word order for a given grammatical relation, but choose the order such as to minimize dependency length over a large number of sentences. We represent grammatical relations simply by using the syntactic categories of the highest constituent headed by (maximal projection of) the two ...
... that assume fixed word order for a given grammatical relation, but choose the order such as to minimize dependency length over a large number of sentences. We represent grammatical relations simply by using the syntactic categories of the highest constituent headed by (maximal projection of) the two ...
Conditional sentences in Modern Standard Arabic and the Taif Dialect
... I would like to thank the university of Salman bin Abdalaziz for the scholarship. ...
... I would like to thank the university of Salman bin Abdalaziz for the scholarship. ...
English suffixes: Stress-assignment properties, productivity
... worktools many times more powerful than those they had at their dis posal not so long ago. The corpus used in the present study has been assembled from the OneLook search engine (henceforth OL) which, in English, enables users to extract word inventories further to a preselection of morphological c ...
... worktools many times more powerful than those they had at their dis posal not so long ago. The corpus used in the present study has been assembled from the OneLook search engine (henceforth OL) which, in English, enables users to extract word inventories further to a preselection of morphological c ...
Objects in Resultatives
... semantic relation they impose on the means event (when the only clear difference between them is in the interpretation of the subject). Second, that the subject in a transitive must name the agent of the means event (which is not true in in Mandarin, as we’ll see). Finally a note about what is inclu ...
... semantic relation they impose on the means event (when the only clear difference between them is in the interpretation of the subject). Second, that the subject in a transitive must name the agent of the means event (which is not true in in Mandarin, as we’ll see). Finally a note about what is inclu ...
English Object Alternations: A Unified Account
... of the locative alternation in (1) and (2) are considered to exemplify an “argument alternation” because the members of each pair are felt to be near paraphrases. Thus, descriptively, such pairs can be characterized as involving the alternate realization of the VP-internal arguments of an apparently ...
... of the locative alternation in (1) and (2) are considered to exemplify an “argument alternation” because the members of each pair are felt to be near paraphrases. Thus, descriptively, such pairs can be characterized as involving the alternate realization of the VP-internal arguments of an apparently ...
syntax - Gordon College Faculty
... less frequent usages. The portions in smallest type are chiefly discussions of the rarer or more difficult usages. They are an addition to the text-book proper, and are intended to give the work, to a limited extent, the character of a book of reference. The occasional discussions of English usage w ...
... less frequent usages. The portions in smallest type are chiefly discussions of the rarer or more difficult usages. They are an addition to the text-book proper, and are intended to give the work, to a limited extent, the character of a book of reference. The occasional discussions of English usage w ...
Perception of contrastive bi-syllabic lexical stress in unaccented and
... phonology of their native language into the production of the second language, including segmental and suprasegmental stress patterns (Wenk, 1985; Peng and Ann, 2001). The implication of a syllable-timed language likely extends to the production of bi-syllabic words, in which it could be predicted t ...
... phonology of their native language into the production of the second language, including segmental and suprasegmental stress patterns (Wenk, 1985; Peng and Ann, 2001). The implication of a syllable-timed language likely extends to the production of bi-syllabic words, in which it could be predicted t ...
a descriptive analysis of argument alternations
... allowed by Italian verbs, and this is exactly what we tried to achieve with this thesis. Moreover, taking into consideration the complexity of the linguistic phenomenon we explored and t ...
... allowed by Italian verbs, and this is exactly what we tried to achieve with this thesis. Moreover, taking into consideration the complexity of the linguistic phenomenon we explored and t ...
COMMON NOUNS, CLASSIFIERS, AND QUANTIFICATION IN
... are determined by its logical representations at LF, and that there is a close connection between syntactic structures and semantic representations, along the lines of the Compositionality Principle (Frege 1960). According to the principle, the meaning of an expression is to be derived systematicall ...
... are determined by its logical representations at LF, and that there is a close connection between syntactic structures and semantic representations, along the lines of the Compositionality Principle (Frege 1960). According to the principle, the meaning of an expression is to be derived systematicall ...
Minimalist Syntax Revisited
... This is a substantially revised version of my book Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English (published by Cambridge University Press in 2004). One form of revision is the omission of chapter 2 of Minimalist Syntax (with some of the relevant material incorporated into chapter 1 of this c ...
... This is a substantially revised version of my book Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English (published by Cambridge University Press in 2004). One form of revision is the omission of chapter 2 of Minimalist Syntax (with some of the relevant material incorporated into chapter 1 of this c ...
Lambrecht 2000
... In previous work (Lambrecht 1986, 1994) I have argued that the pragmatic structuring of propositions into presupposed and non-presupposed portions is done cross-linguistically in terms of a small number of types of focus articulation or , which correspond to different types of communi ...
... In previous work (Lambrecht 1986, 1994) I have argued that the pragmatic structuring of propositions into presupposed and non-presupposed portions is done cross-linguistically in terms of a small number of types of focus articulation or , which correspond to different types of communi ...
Contents - The Okuna Language
... not shied away from using technical terms in cases where I felt this would make the description more precise (to those unfamiliar with these terms, I apologise in advance). That said, I do not present a formal analysis of the language, but have tried to keep my treatment as descriptive as possible. ...
... not shied away from using technical terms in cases where I felt this would make the description more precise (to those unfamiliar with these terms, I apologise in advance). That said, I do not present a formal analysis of the language, but have tried to keep my treatment as descriptive as possible. ...
What`s in a Word?
... Shakespeare, you had developed the number ambiguity it retains today.” Formerly thee and thou would have been the singular forms of the second person pronoun and ye and you the plurals. But as the language evolved, the forms underwent syncretism until you was used not only as both a subject and an o ...
... Shakespeare, you had developed the number ambiguity it retains today.” Formerly thee and thou would have been the singular forms of the second person pronoun and ye and you the plurals. But as the language evolved, the forms underwent syncretism until you was used not only as both a subject and an o ...
The sentence – A2 level
... Negation of the indefinite article – Exercise – Text transformation Put the following text into the negative form: There are some nice cars on sale at the car lot. There is a nice used sedan. I got a loan from my bank to pay for it. Do you have two cars? There are other passengers besides me. I have ...
... Negation of the indefinite article – Exercise – Text transformation Put the following text into the negative form: There are some nice cars on sale at the car lot. There is a nice used sedan. I got a loan from my bank to pay for it. Do you have two cars? There are other passengers besides me. I have ...
writeup - Courses
... With my rules, the compound noun phrase with POS, "Magma International Inc.'s", is correctly associated with the NP ending in "officer." The possessive pronoun "its" is correctly associated with the noun it modifies, "chairman." "Resigned" still isn't identified as a VP, but that's because it is mis ...
... With my rules, the compound noun phrase with POS, "Magma International Inc.'s", is correctly associated with the NP ending in "officer." The possessive pronoun "its" is correctly associated with the noun it modifies, "chairman." "Resigned" still isn't identified as a VP, but that's because it is mis ...
Introductory Linguistics
... (20) [We consulted two detectives in order [ to find out about each other]S]S (21) [They seem to us [to like each other]S]S These sentences are mysterious: it looks like there is no noun phrase at all that occurs inside the smallest clause containing each other (other than each other itself). But co ...
... (20) [We consulted two detectives in order [ to find out about each other]S]S (21) [They seem to us [to like each other]S]S These sentences are mysterious: it looks like there is no noun phrase at all that occurs inside the smallest clause containing each other (other than each other itself). But co ...
Building the PDT-VALLEX valency lexicon
... functors, topic–focus articulation and coreference. At this layer, nodes represent only nonfunction (“autosemantic”) words. They carry several attributes; one of the most important ones is the functor capturing the tectogrammatical dependency relation between a dependent and its governor. The functo ...
... functors, topic–focus articulation and coreference. At this layer, nodes represent only nonfunction (“autosemantic”) words. They carry several attributes; one of the most important ones is the functor capturing the tectogrammatical dependency relation between a dependent and its governor. The functo ...
Fulltext: english,
... display a great deal of syntactic and semantic variation not only when comparing different languages, but also when comparing this family of constructions within one language.2 The constructions share some important properties but differ in certain specifics, including the degree of productivity of d ...
... display a great deal of syntactic and semantic variation not only when comparing different languages, but also when comparing this family of constructions within one language.2 The constructions share some important properties but differ in certain specifics, including the degree of productivity of d ...
Building the PDT-Vallex valency lexicon
... functors, topic–focus articulation and coreference. At this layer, nodes represent only nonfunction (“autosemantic”) words. They carry several attributes; one of the most important ones is the functor capturing the tectogrammatical dependency relation between a dependent and its governor. The functo ...
... functors, topic–focus articulation and coreference. At this layer, nodes represent only nonfunction (“autosemantic”) words. They carry several attributes; one of the most important ones is the functor capturing the tectogrammatical dependency relation between a dependent and its governor. The functo ...
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... –santsa, -mashi). There are at least twelve class terms, mostly plant-based, e.g. –chee ‘thorn’, -paNki ‘plank’, etc. and ten classifiers. Most of the classifiers occur only with nouns while a few have been attested with verbs. Possession is morphologically expressed on two groups of nouns: obligato ...
... –santsa, -mashi). There are at least twelve class terms, mostly plant-based, e.g. –chee ‘thorn’, -paNki ‘plank’, etc. and ten classifiers. Most of the classifiers occur only with nouns while a few have been attested with verbs. Possession is morphologically expressed on two groups of nouns: obligato ...