The Realization and Function of Focus in Spoken English by
... Theories of semantic focus — like many linguistic theories — have been developed primarily on the basis of constructed examples, based on the intuitions of linguists. Despite the fact that the main realization of focus in English is through prosodic prominence, very little research has systematicall ...
... Theories of semantic focus — like many linguistic theories — have been developed primarily on the basis of constructed examples, based on the intuitions of linguists. Despite the fact that the main realization of focus in English is through prosodic prominence, very little research has systematicall ...
Separable Phrasal Verbs
... This is a list of about 200 common phrasal verbs, with meanings and examples. Phrasal verbs are usually two-word phrases consisting of verb + adverb or verb + preposition. Think of them as you would any other English vocabulary. Study them as you come across them, rather than trying to memorize many ...
... This is a list of about 200 common phrasal verbs, with meanings and examples. Phrasal verbs are usually two-word phrases consisting of verb + adverb or verb + preposition. Think of them as you would any other English vocabulary. Study them as you come across them, rather than trying to memorize many ...
The phraseological patterns of fun and funny: A corpus
... large-scale, balanced corpora, The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and The British National Corpus (BNC). Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are used in exploring the corpora. The findings are also compared to a dictionary and a grammar. One of the main findings is tha ...
... large-scale, balanced corpora, The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and The British National Corpus (BNC). Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are used in exploring the corpora. The findings are also compared to a dictionary and a grammar. One of the main findings is tha ...
Open Access version via Utrecht University Repository
... Both verbs in (13) have meN-, but membeku is unaccusative while menangis is unergative. Actually the difference between the two is a bit difficult to test in Indonesian, since this language does not use auxiliaries to form past perfect. But they are still different in several points. Since unaccusat ...
... Both verbs in (13) have meN-, but membeku is unaccusative while menangis is unergative. Actually the difference between the two is a bit difficult to test in Indonesian, since this language does not use auxiliaries to form past perfect. But they are still different in several points. Since unaccusat ...
Language patterns - Shadows Government
... language at all, but by the end of the course, if you practise and work consistently, you will be able to communicate orally and in writing in simple, but adequate Afrikaans. You will be introduced progressively to the basics of the language and to the language behaviour (pragmatics) associated with ...
... language at all, but by the end of the course, if you practise and work consistently, you will be able to communicate orally and in writing in simple, but adequate Afrikaans. You will be introduced progressively to the basics of the language and to the language behaviour (pragmatics) associated with ...
conversations in - Lotud Dictionary
... word-finally. It is marked by the apostrophe ’ except in the case of its occurrence between two like vowels. In the latter case it is not written, as in these lessons: muli’ ...
... word-finally. It is marked by the apostrophe ’ except in the case of its occurrence between two like vowels. In the latter case it is not written, as in these lessons: muli’ ...
the cookbook as PDF
... given lexical entry/ontology reference pair, this means that “creature” and “animal”, should not refer to the same sense entity, but can be related using the equivalent property. If two lexical entries do share a sense, then it is assumed that they are lexically equivalent, which may be appropriate ...
... given lexical entry/ontology reference pair, this means that “creature” and “animal”, should not refer to the same sense entity, but can be related using the equivalent property. If two lexical entries do share a sense, then it is assumed that they are lexically equivalent, which may be appropriate ...
Inner aspect and telicity
... the exciting Chinese games, from Judo to checkers. Her oriental wisdom, packed in short sentences, told me so much about the world, and about wisdom. The honesty and warmth of Nancy Kula were always there (even when Nancy herself was away), as an asylum from the distant and cold Old World’s north-we ...
... the exciting Chinese games, from Judo to checkers. Her oriental wisdom, packed in short sentences, told me so much about the world, and about wisdom. The honesty and warmth of Nancy Kula were always there (even when Nancy herself was away), as an asylum from the distant and cold Old World’s north-we ...
turkish phonology and morphology (türkçe ses ve
... Copyright © 2011 by Anadolu University All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means mechanical, electronic, photocopy, magnetic, tape or otherwise, without permission in writing from the University. ...
... Copyright © 2011 by Anadolu University All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means mechanical, electronic, photocopy, magnetic, tape or otherwise, without permission in writing from the University. ...
A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND ARABIC ADVERBIAL
... Such words are excluded since they are used in much the same way as 'conjunctions' rather than adverbials. They indicate a relationship between the sentence or clause they introduce and the ...
... Such words are excluded since they are used in much the same way as 'conjunctions' rather than adverbials. They indicate a relationship between the sentence or clause they introduce and the ...
Ido For All
... This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, U ...
... This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, U ...
54. Adverbs and adverbials
... The term “adverb” refers to a specific word class or lexical category and therefore contrasts with other word classes, such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, or prepositions. On the one hand, both adverbs and prepositions are uninflected, with adverbs differing from prepositions in having phrasal status. ...
... The term “adverb” refers to a specific word class or lexical category and therefore contrasts with other word classes, such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, or prepositions. On the one hand, both adverbs and prepositions are uninflected, with adverbs differing from prepositions in having phrasal status. ...
Reflexive Clitics in the Slavic and Romance Languages.
... In this work, I offer a unified analysis of all the constructions that involve a reflexive clitic SE in Slavic and Romance languages. Next to canonical constructions, in which the reflexive clitic semantically identifies the two arguments of a transitive verb, cf. John SE wash means John washes hims ...
... In this work, I offer a unified analysis of all the constructions that involve a reflexive clitic SE in Slavic and Romance languages. Next to canonical constructions, in which the reflexive clitic semantically identifies the two arguments of a transitive verb, cf. John SE wash means John washes hims ...
The syntax of French adverbs without functional projections*
... ordering. Adverbs are generated higher than the verb, and verb movement (or ‘remnant VP’ movement) is used to explain the occurrence of adverbs after as well as before the verb. We propose an alternative view of adverb distribution, focusing on French adverbs. Like Ernst (1998, 2002), we observe tha ...
... ordering. Adverbs are generated higher than the verb, and verb movement (or ‘remnant VP’ movement) is used to explain the occurrence of adverbs after as well as before the verb. We propose an alternative view of adverb distribution, focusing on French adverbs. Like Ernst (1998, 2002), we observe tha ...
Lesson I
... Tenses in Latin are divided into two sequences: P RIMARY and SECONDARY/HISTORICAL. The tense of the main verb determines the tense of the subjunctive verb in certain subordinate clauses. If the main verb is present, future, present perfect (with “have” or “has”), or future perfect, the sequence is p ...
... Tenses in Latin are divided into two sequences: P RIMARY and SECONDARY/HISTORICAL. The tense of the main verb determines the tense of the subjunctive verb in certain subordinate clauses. If the main verb is present, future, present perfect (with “have” or “has”), or future perfect, the sequence is p ...
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... but did not use it productively as in the case with sord and cec above. 4.1 .I1 Free variation: ser=estar In this section of free variation we find cases of adjectives that were originally used with ser and that now appear with estar, as well as cases in which the original contrast between the choic ...
... but did not use it productively as in the case with sord and cec above. 4.1 .I1 Free variation: ser=estar In this section of free variation we find cases of adjectives that were originally used with ser and that now appear with estar, as well as cases in which the original contrast between the choic ...
Materials on Forest Enets, an Indigenous Language of Northern
... herzliches Dankeschön to the second reviewer, Gerson Klumpp, with whom I could continue to discuss pan-Samoyedic matters after his arrival to Tartu. Additional thanks go to Ago Künnap for clarifying discussions on Southern Samoyedic languages outside the weary paths of revolutions and for providing ...
... herzliches Dankeschön to the second reviewer, Gerson Klumpp, with whom I could continue to discuss pan-Samoyedic matters after his arrival to Tartu. Additional thanks go to Ago Künnap for clarifying discussions on Southern Samoyedic languages outside the weary paths of revolutions and for providing ...
The Classification of the English
... was not much published information available on the English-lexifier creole speech of that island. The English-lexifier creole of Tobago, in contrast to the Grenada-Carriacou situation, is not grouped with Trinidad in this study. There are three main reasons for this. The first is that there is a de ...
... was not much published information available on the English-lexifier creole speech of that island. The English-lexifier creole of Tobago, in contrast to the Grenada-Carriacou situation, is not grouped with Trinidad in this study. There are three main reasons for this. The first is that there is a de ...
some grammatical properties of samoan kin terms
... masculine gender noun phrase nominalizing suffix direct object past tense plural possessive marker (indicating the possessor) prepositional phrase presentative case progressive present tense/aspect proprial marker perfective aspect question marker reflexive subject singular specific reference subcla ...
... masculine gender noun phrase nominalizing suffix direct object past tense plural possessive marker (indicating the possessor) prepositional phrase presentative case progressive present tense/aspect proprial marker perfective aspect question marker reflexive subject singular specific reference subcla ...
fulltext - LOT Publications
... non-Germanic languages it often refers to constructions with two or more verbs that share some of their arguments, such as constructions of a causative verb with an embedded lexical verb or constructions of two or more serialised verbs. In Austronesian and Amerindian languages, on the other hand, we ...
... non-Germanic languages it often refers to constructions with two or more verbs that share some of their arguments, such as constructions of a causative verb with an embedded lexical verb or constructions of two or more serialised verbs. In Austronesian and Amerindian languages, on the other hand, we ...
On the notion of subject for subject-oriented adverbs
... within the broad tradition of generative grammar. It is concluded that those properties that have been assumed to define subjecthood in earlier theories are distributed across different syntactic positions, and there is no unified category of ‘subject’ or ‘subject position’ in the current theory. In ...
... within the broad tradition of generative grammar. It is concluded that those properties that have been assumed to define subjecthood in earlier theories are distributed across different syntactic positions, and there is no unified category of ‘subject’ or ‘subject position’ in the current theory. In ...
SIMPLIFIED GRAMMARS
... NOTE.—The manuscript of the present sketch Grammar was completed before Christmas, 1882, and copies of my table of identic alphabets have been in the hands of a few friends for the last four or five years. I have just had the pleasure and privilege of reading the admirable and exhaustive treatise on ...
... NOTE.—The manuscript of the present sketch Grammar was completed before Christmas, 1882, and copies of my table of identic alphabets have been in the hands of a few friends for the last four or five years. I have just had the pleasure and privilege of reading the admirable and exhaustive treatise on ...
A truth-functional account of metalinguistic negation, with evidence
... The negation is being used to object to a phonetic property in (a), to a scalar implicature in (b), to a conventional implicature in (c), to certain connotations or implications in (d), and to a presupposition in (e). (We will leave the presuppositional cases aside in this paper as there is much con ...
... The negation is being used to object to a phonetic property in (a), to a scalar implicature in (b), to a conventional implicature in (c), to certain connotations or implications in (d), and to a presupposition in (e). (We will leave the presuppositional cases aside in this paper as there is much con ...
a comparative analysis of formal shifts in english bible translations
... with a View Towards Defining and Describing Paradigms If, as might seem evident to any reader who is familiar with the literature, there truly does exist a real difference between the traditional translations of the Bible, often labeled as formal equivalence, and the modern translations of the Bible ...
... with a View Towards Defining and Describing Paradigms If, as might seem evident to any reader who is familiar with the literature, there truly does exist a real difference between the traditional translations of the Bible, often labeled as formal equivalence, and the modern translations of the Bible ...
German Adverbial Adjectives: Syntactic Position
... Chapter 3 aims for a classification of the different usages of adverbial adjectives with the help of semantic criteria. I first introduce two subclasses of manner adverbials, namely pure manner adverbials and subject-oriented manner adverbials. These usages are then differentiated from method-orient ...
... Chapter 3 aims for a classification of the different usages of adverbial adjectives with the help of semantic criteria. I first introduce two subclasses of manner adverbials, namely pure manner adverbials and subject-oriented manner adverbials. These usages are then differentiated from method-orient ...