infinitives and -ing forms
... * Afraid of + -ing and afraid + infinitive can often both be used with little difference of meaning. I'm afraid to fly / of flying. I'm afraid to tell / of telling her. However, when we are talking about things which happen to us unexpectedly, without our wanting or choosing them, only the -ing form ...
... * Afraid of + -ing and afraid + infinitive can often both be used with little difference of meaning. I'm afraid to fly / of flying. I'm afraid to tell / of telling her. However, when we are talking about things which happen to us unexpectedly, without our wanting or choosing them, only the -ing form ...
The syntax of Swedish present participles - the
... Later research has taken a derivational approach to lexical categories and word formation, claiming that words are built in very much the same way as sentences, i.e. that word formation is syntactic (Halle and Marantz 1993, Marantz 1997, Josefsson 1997, 1998, Baker 2003 etc). Strongly opposing the p ...
... Later research has taken a derivational approach to lexical categories and word formation, claiming that words are built in very much the same way as sentences, i.e. that word formation is syntactic (Halle and Marantz 1993, Marantz 1997, Josefsson 1997, 1998, Baker 2003 etc). Strongly opposing the p ...
THEORETICAL GRAMMAR 4 U SYNTAX
... does not depend on him. E.g.: He'll pay you. So, for menacives there are no limitations in making up the role structures. Performatives (E.g.: I congratulate you. I welcome you. I thank my honourable friend. I apologise. I guarantee that the cost of these books will be paid) do not report about smth ...
... does not depend on him. E.g.: He'll pay you. So, for menacives there are no limitations in making up the role structures. Performatives (E.g.: I congratulate you. I welcome you. I thank my honourable friend. I apologise. I guarantee that the cost of these books will be paid) do not report about smth ...
Gerunds as Subjects
... 3. Yes! It is a gerund; it ends in –ing, and it is acting as a noun. What is a baby’s way of communicating. Crying is! ...
... 3. Yes! It is a gerund; it ends in –ing, and it is acting as a noun. What is a baby’s way of communicating. Crying is! ...
pdf - Université de Genève
... show affix-like properties (Kuchenbrandt et al., 2005: 6). This analysis has been adopted by many researchers and more recently by Miller & Monachesi (2003) who applied classical tests to the clitics in various Romance languages suggesting a parallel treatment of Romance object clitics and inflexion ...
... show affix-like properties (Kuchenbrandt et al., 2005: 6). This analysis has been adopted by many researchers and more recently by Miller & Monachesi (2003) who applied classical tests to the clitics in various Romance languages suggesting a parallel treatment of Romance object clitics and inflexion ...
ENG 206 - University of Maiduguri
... This study unit has been prepared for learners so that they can do most of the study on their own. The structure of the study unit is different from that of conventional textbook. The course writers have made efforts to make the study material rich enough but learners need to do some extra reading f ...
... This study unit has been prepared for learners so that they can do most of the study on their own. The structure of the study unit is different from that of conventional textbook. The course writers have made efforts to make the study material rich enough but learners need to do some extra reading f ...
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... -TE wou ld be in the scope of negation. Notice in ( 4c) which is the long form negation of (4b) that the negative suffix -an precedes ·TE, which provides a syntactic support for the higher level of -TE on top of negation. In general, the higher an abstract structure is presumed to be, the later it c ...
... -TE wou ld be in the scope of negation. Notice in ( 4c) which is the long form negation of (4b) that the negative suffix -an precedes ·TE, which provides a syntactic support for the higher level of -TE on top of negation. In general, the higher an abstract structure is presumed to be, the later it c ...
Arabic Treebank Guidelines include Penn Arabic Treebank Guidelines
... 1.2.1 Diacritization: Vocalized and Unvocalized text /Case and Mood endings............... 10 ...
... 1.2.1 Diacritization: Vocalized and Unvocalized text /Case and Mood endings............... 10 ...
Spring Term 2011- Ileana Baciu
... 1.0. Following Comrie (1976), we could state the difference between Tense and Aspect as one between situation-internal time (Aspect) and situation-external time (Tense). The term ‘aspect ’ was imported into the Western grammatical tradition from the study of Slavic grammar in the early nineteenth c ...
... 1.0. Following Comrie (1976), we could state the difference between Tense and Aspect as one between situation-internal time (Aspect) and situation-external time (Tense). The term ‘aspect ’ was imported into the Western grammatical tradition from the study of Slavic grammar in the early nineteenth c ...
Part Two: Sentence Structure
... write a book because he had so much to say about the subject." The following subordinators (subordinate conjunctions) are often used to begin adverb clauses: after ...
... write a book because he had so much to say about the subject." The following subordinators (subordinate conjunctions) are often used to begin adverb clauses: after ...
Syntax of Dutch. Verbs and Verb Phrases, Volume 1-3
... classification not only the number but also the type of arguments should be taken into account: we have to distinguish between what have become known as UNERGATIVE and UNACCUSATIVE verbs, which exhibit systematic differences in syntactic behavior. Because the distinction is relatively new (it was fi ...
... classification not only the number but also the type of arguments should be taken into account: we have to distinguish between what have become known as UNERGATIVE and UNACCUSATIVE verbs, which exhibit systematic differences in syntactic behavior. Because the distinction is relatively new (it was fi ...
Building Statives
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
pdf format - Skyline College
... the president, you wonder how he got elected.”). Using “you” can also be imprecise (“You can drive around for hours looking for parking.” This is not true for all. This is more precise: “San Franciscans can drive around for hours looking for parking.”). Using “you” is also more informal and conversa ...
... the president, you wonder how he got elected.”). Using “you” can also be imprecise (“You can drive around for hours looking for parking.” This is not true for all. This is more precise: “San Franciscans can drive around for hours looking for parking.”). Using “you” is also more informal and conversa ...
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... “It is hot.” is a meteorological utterance. It is difficult to accept that the element expressed by “ it” is an argument, since it has no meaning independent of the predicate. “it” is so predictable that one cannot construct a question for which “it” is an appropriate answer, therefore it is a no-p ...
... “It is hot.” is a meteorological utterance. It is difficult to accept that the element expressed by “ it” is an argument, since it has no meaning independent of the predicate. “it” is so predictable that one cannot construct a question for which “it” is an appropriate answer, therefore it is a no-p ...
Linguistic Models - Geert Booij`s Page
... 'Theme'. In the more recent literature on this issue we also find the more restrictive claim that morphological rules do operate on argument structure, but do not refer to the content of 6-roles. I.e., morphological rules can only refer to notions such as 'external argument' and 'internal argument' ...
... 'Theme'. In the more recent literature on this issue we also find the more restrictive claim that morphological rules do operate on argument structure, but do not refer to the content of 6-roles. I.e., morphological rules can only refer to notions such as 'external argument' and 'internal argument' ...
Commentary on Historia Apollonii regis Tyri
... exerrauerat: "had been at fault" (intensive form of errauerat). nisi quod: "except (for the fact) that." statuerat: "it had constituted, it had made." 3.Quae: connecting relative. The relative is .the equivale�t of a demonstrative pronoun or adjective plus weak connecuve sense (which can rarely be r ...
... exerrauerat: "had been at fault" (intensive form of errauerat). nisi quod: "except (for the fact) that." statuerat: "it had constituted, it had made." 3.Quae: connecting relative. The relative is .the equivale�t of a demonstrative pronoun or adjective plus weak connecuve sense (which can rarely be r ...
doc format - Skyline College
... the president, you wonder how he got elected.”). Using “you” can also be imprecise (“You can drive around for hours looking for parking.” This is not true for all. This is more precise: “San Franciscans can drive around for hours looking for parking.”). Using “you” is also more informal and conversa ...
... the president, you wonder how he got elected.”). Using “you” can also be imprecise (“You can drive around for hours looking for parking.” This is not true for all. This is more precise: “San Franciscans can drive around for hours looking for parking.”). Using “you” is also more informal and conversa ...
maximum mark: 50
... through the mark scheme, you will eventually arrive at a set of descriptors that fits the candidate’s performance. When you reach this point, you should always then check the descriptors in the band above to confirm whether or not there is just enough evidence to award a mark in the higher band. For ...
... through the mark scheme, you will eventually arrive at a set of descriptors that fits the candidate’s performance. When you reach this point, you should always then check the descriptors in the band above to confirm whether or not there is just enough evidence to award a mark in the higher band. For ...
A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and
... There are at least three distinct interpretations of the statement in (1): (1) “indentify is the base of identifiable. “ On the first interpretation, identify is the morphosyntactic base of the derived word identifiable: this statement is justified by the fact that a morphosyntactic property of iden ...
... There are at least three distinct interpretations of the statement in (1): (1) “indentify is the base of identifiable. “ On the first interpretation, identify is the morphosyntactic base of the derived word identifiable: this statement is justified by the fact that a morphosyntactic property of iden ...
ENG 206 two - University of Maiduguri
... have been singing. The first column in the table above shows a set of entries, each comprising a different number of words. The first entry has five words and the last one has only one word. Because all the six entries perform the same function of ‘subject’ in the sentence, and because only a noun [ ...
... have been singing. The first column in the table above shows a set of entries, each comprising a different number of words. The first entry has five words and the last one has only one word. Because all the six entries perform the same function of ‘subject’ in the sentence, and because only a noun [ ...
Using Analogies across Narratives to drive Dialogue David W. Knapp
... project otherwise unmapped objects and relations of the reference into the target, and that such projection can carry semantics of the reference into the target. In other words, the projection allows us to borrow semantics from the reference in order to understand, flesh out, or predict outcomes in t ...
... project otherwise unmapped objects and relations of the reference into the target, and that such projection can carry semantics of the reference into the target. In other words, the projection allows us to borrow semantics from the reference in order to understand, flesh out, or predict outcomes in t ...
Building Statives - Semantics Archive
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
Idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms in English
... Idiomatic variants are idioms having the same contents and grammatical structures or having different components belonging to the same field of meaning. 2.2. What is meant by “synonymous idioms”? Synonymy (synonymia in ancient Egyptian) means “the same name” and displays the relationship between two ...
... Idiomatic variants are idioms having the same contents and grammatical structures or having different components belonging to the same field of meaning. 2.2. What is meant by “synonymous idioms”? Synonymy (synonymia in ancient Egyptian) means “the same name” and displays the relationship between two ...
Lexical Semantics and Irregular Inflection The Harvard community
... not in dispute. Most irregular verbs fall into clusters with similar sounds (e.g., sing-sang, ringrang, drink-drank; find-found, wind-wound, bind-bound), and when people are asked to provide past-tense forms for meaningless words such as plip or spling, they show high agreement in guessing plipped a ...
... not in dispute. Most irregular verbs fall into clusters with similar sounds (e.g., sing-sang, ringrang, drink-drank; find-found, wind-wound, bind-bound), and when people are asked to provide past-tense forms for meaningless words such as plip or spling, they show high agreement in guessing plipped a ...