The Romblomanon Grammar Essentials Sketch
... Indi’ ta kamo pag’abrïhan. ‘I will not open the door for you (pl.).’ ...
... Indi’ ta kamo pag’abrïhan. ‘I will not open the door for you (pl.).’ ...
Verbal breakups - Utrecht University Repository
... across languages. This variation will be shown to be fairly systematic, as it is the direct result of interactions of different components of human cognition; namely syntactic structure and processing. It will be argued that different types of elements that are allowed within verb clusters in differ ...
... across languages. This variation will be shown to be fairly systematic, as it is the direct result of interactions of different components of human cognition; namely syntactic structure and processing. It will be argued that different types of elements that are allowed within verb clusters in differ ...
a complete grammar of esperanto the international language
... This volume has been prepared to meet a twofold need. An adequate presentation of the International Language has become an imperative necessity. Such presentation, including full and accurate grammatical explanations, suitably graded reading lessons, and similarly graded material for translation fro ...
... This volume has been prepared to meet a twofold need. An adequate presentation of the International Language has become an imperative necessity. Such presentation, including full and accurate grammatical explanations, suitably graded reading lessons, and similarly graded material for translation fro ...
The national curriculum in England
... unfamiliar printed words (decoding) and the speedy recognition of familiar printed words. Underpinning both is the understanding that the letters on the page represent the sounds in spoken words. This is why phonics should be emphasised in the early teaching of reading to beginners (i.e. unskilled r ...
... unfamiliar printed words (decoding) and the speedy recognition of familiar printed words. Underpinning both is the understanding that the letters on the page represent the sounds in spoken words. This is why phonics should be emphasised in the early teaching of reading to beginners (i.e. unskilled r ...
Adverbs in Kenyang
... sees adverbs as least homogeneous and the hardest to define. According to Payne (1997:69) any word with semantic content (i.e. other than grammatical particles) that is not clearly a noun, a verb, or an adjective is often put into this class of adverbs. In the same light McCawley (1996:664) observes ...
... sees adverbs as least homogeneous and the hardest to define. According to Payne (1997:69) any word with semantic content (i.e. other than grammatical particles) that is not clearly a noun, a verb, or an adjective is often put into this class of adverbs. In the same light McCawley (1996:664) observes ...
Robust French syntax analysis : reconciling statistical methods and
... Acknowledgements This thesis was not written in isolation, but rather within a strongly supportive context, both inside the CLLE-ERSS linguistics research laboratory, and in my wider personal and professional life. Before embarking on the subject matter itself, I would like to thank all of those wi ...
... Acknowledgements This thesis was not written in isolation, but rather within a strongly supportive context, both inside the CLLE-ERSS linguistics research laboratory, and in my wider personal and professional life. Before embarking on the subject matter itself, I would like to thank all of those wi ...
IndependentSchool District of BoiseCity Spanish 3
... 03 Describe the events surrounding an accident or incident using the appropriate past tenses. Appendix, EOC, TMA 04 Memorize and use the verb doler and indirect object pronouns to describe one’s pain. Appendix, EOC, TMA 05 Memorize and use specific verbs that are similar to doler and gustar ...
... 03 Describe the events surrounding an accident or incident using the appropriate past tenses. Appendix, EOC, TMA 04 Memorize and use the verb doler and indirect object pronouns to describe one’s pain. Appendix, EOC, TMA 05 Memorize and use specific verbs that are similar to doler and gustar ...
Serial Verb Constructions
... Not all of these parameters are new—but the way in which they are systematically discussed and applied provides an original perspective and presents a comprehensive view of serial verb constructions worldwide. The week of the workshop was an intellectually stimulating and exciting time, full of disc ...
... Not all of these parameters are new—but the way in which they are systematically discussed and applied provides an original perspective and presents a comprehensive view of serial verb constructions worldwide. The week of the workshop was an intellectually stimulating and exciting time, full of disc ...
valency - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... actants (first / non-first) and circumstants ...
... actants (first / non-first) and circumstants ...
Voice and Case in Tagalog:
... Approaches tied to a binary structural distinction with respect to case systems (accusative vs. ergative) often take on one of these voice forms as the basic form. On morphological grounds, however, no verbal voice form in (1) can be considered as basic, as all verbs consist of a verb stem plus a di ...
... Approaches tied to a binary structural distinction with respect to case systems (accusative vs. ergative) often take on one of these voice forms as the basic form. On morphological grounds, however, no verbal voice form in (1) can be considered as basic, as all verbs consist of a verb stem plus a di ...
deverbal nominals in xhosa
... throughout my secondary and university education to be what I am today. Lume, the seed has germinated. To my children, Luthando, Zintle and Loyiso Junior, who was born during the critical time of my writing of this dissertation and saw very little me as I was focusing on my writings. I am truly sorr ...
... throughout my secondary and university education to be what I am today. Lume, the seed has germinated. To my children, Luthando, Zintle and Loyiso Junior, who was born during the critical time of my writing of this dissertation and saw very little me as I was focusing on my writings. I am truly sorr ...
spotting errors
... rule. Some is used in interrogative sentences, which are commands or requests. For example Will you please lend me some money? Few is used for countable objects and little is used for noncountable objects. Little means not much. So use of the word little has a negative meaning. For example a) There ...
... rule. Some is used in interrogative sentences, which are commands or requests. For example Will you please lend me some money? Few is used for countable objects and little is used for noncountable objects. Little means not much. So use of the word little has a negative meaning. For example a) There ...
A first book of Old English : grammar, reader, notes, and vocabulary
... any adequate conception of comits postulates. ...
... any adequate conception of comits postulates. ...
Spalding - Colorado River Schools
... objects receive the action pronouns used as objects receive the action linking verb identify subject pronouns and nouns or adjective linked by form ...
... objects receive the action pronouns used as objects receive the action linking verb identify subject pronouns and nouns or adjective linked by form ...
Nominative Personal Pronouns and Some
... In some of these passages ego is also juxtaposed with tibi or a demonstrative; ego is often alongside an oblique-case form of tu (see below, p. 108). The focus is on the future-tense verbs, and ego has no real contrastive emphasis of the type seen in (2)-(3), but collocations such as ego tibi may be ...
... In some of these passages ego is also juxtaposed with tibi or a demonstrative; ego is often alongside an oblique-case form of tu (see below, p. 108). The focus is on the future-tense verbs, and ego has no real contrastive emphasis of the type seen in (2)-(3), but collocations such as ego tibi may be ...
Adverbs of time
... clean (I've clean forgotten), and slow easy (he would say that slow and easy) coincide with adjectives (a dead body, clear waters, clean hands). Adverbs like are past, above homonymous with prepositions. There is also a special group of pronominal adverbs when, where, how, why used either as interro ...
... clean (I've clean forgotten), and slow easy (he would say that slow and easy) coincide with adjectives (a dead body, clear waters, clean hands). Adverbs like are past, above homonymous with prepositions. There is also a special group of pronominal adverbs when, where, how, why used either as interro ...
6. A Biography of the English Language, 3rd Edition
... *The fricative /h/, in modern English only a burst of aspiration preceding a vowel, is actually produced at various points in the mouth, depending on the nature of the following vowel. For the sake of convenience, it is listed here as a velar phoneme. y The velar /ŋ/ is not phonemic for many speaker ...
... *The fricative /h/, in modern English only a burst of aspiration preceding a vowel, is actually produced at various points in the mouth, depending on the nature of the following vowel. For the sake of convenience, it is listed here as a velar phoneme. y The velar /ŋ/ is not phonemic for many speaker ...
Mood in Spanish - Hal-SHS
... anaphoric “present of the past”, is justified by the behavior of the imperfect with modal verbs –a point that cannot be developed here. Aspect is explicitly expressed in Spanish by a set of periphrastic combinations exhibiting a characteristic behavior (Laca 2005). Periphrastic combinations formed w ...
... anaphoric “present of the past”, is justified by the behavior of the imperfect with modal verbs –a point that cannot be developed here. Aspect is explicitly expressed in Spanish by a set of periphrastic combinations exhibiting a characteristic behavior (Laca 2005). Periphrastic combinations formed w ...
dissertation - VU-dare - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
... door Trijntje Pasma geboren te Menaldumadeel ...
... door Trijntje Pasma geboren te Menaldumadeel ...
On Participial Imperatives
... The Portuguese examples in (20d,e) have, just like the Dutch examples in (6), agressive overtones: they are used when people talk to dogs. The fact that participial imperatives also occur in other languages is a strong indication that they do not result from some lexical idiosyncrasy. In what follow ...
... The Portuguese examples in (20d,e) have, just like the Dutch examples in (6), agressive overtones: they are used when people talk to dogs. The fact that participial imperatives also occur in other languages is a strong indication that they do not result from some lexical idiosyncrasy. In what follow ...
1 On the D-structure position of negative sentence adverbials in
... members of this second group can be said to have a `true' adverbial function. Rather than identifying (albeit negatively) some participant within the discourse (like rien (the identification of what is (not) drunk) and personne (the identification of what is (not) seen)), the members of this group s ...
... members of this second group can be said to have a `true' adverbial function. Rather than identifying (albeit negatively) some participant within the discourse (like rien (the identification of what is (not) drunk) and personne (the identification of what is (not) seen)), the members of this group s ...
Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense
... tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. Cross-linguistic v ...
... tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. Cross-linguistic v ...
Further and Farther
... A division of labor between further and farther with regard to their present-day usage has been long maintained in the prescriptive tradition. Going as far back as the 19th century, Cobbett (1883 [1818]: 49) implies that further is more flexible in that it is not only the comparative degree of far b ...
... A division of labor between further and farther with regard to their present-day usage has been long maintained in the prescriptive tradition. Going as far back as the 19th century, Cobbett (1883 [1818]: 49) implies that further is more flexible in that it is not only the comparative degree of far b ...
Speaking Iban - reuteler.org
... I were married, Burr walked down the aisle with Barbara representing her father. We used this book to study the Iban langauge, which we used for eight years. We have come to love the Iban people and their language. We read from the Iban Upper Room and from the Iban Bible. Since we left Sarawak, we h ...
... I were married, Burr walked down the aisle with Barbara representing her father. We used this book to study the Iban langauge, which we used for eight years. We have come to love the Iban people and their language. We read from the Iban Upper Room and from the Iban Bible. Since we left Sarawak, we h ...
a complete grammar of esperanto
... that such usages exist. For example, clauses of purpose and of result are really explained, instead of being dismissed with the unsatisfactory remark that ”the imperative follows ’por ke,’” or the ”use of ’tiel ... ke’ and ’tia ... ke’ must be distinguished from that of ’tiel ... kiel’ and ’tia ... ...
... that such usages exist. For example, clauses of purpose and of result are really explained, instead of being dismissed with the unsatisfactory remark that ”the imperative follows ’por ke,’” or the ”use of ’tiel ... ke’ and ’tia ... ke’ must be distinguished from that of ’tiel ... kiel’ and ’tia ... ...