TEN FOR TEN - Maine Prep
... Here, “they” could refer to “consultants,” “tactics,” “psychologists,” “political scientists,” or even “studies.” So, let’s eliminate any answer choice that includes “they.” Similarly, all relevant nouns in this sentence are plural, so we can eliminate choices (c) and (d), since “this” refers to a s ...
... Here, “they” could refer to “consultants,” “tactics,” “psychologists,” “political scientists,” or even “studies.” So, let’s eliminate any answer choice that includes “they.” Similarly, all relevant nouns in this sentence are plural, so we can eliminate choices (c) and (d), since “this” refers to a s ...
monday, august 29
... the voice is active because the subject boy is performing the action of hitting. But, if we change the voice to passive, the subject being acted upon by the verb, for example, “The ball was hit by the boy.” The verb is was hit, and the subject is ball. Ball is not performing the action of hitting. ...
... the voice is active because the subject boy is performing the action of hitting. But, if we change the voice to passive, the subject being acted upon by the verb, for example, “The ball was hit by the boy.” The verb is was hit, and the subject is ball. Ball is not performing the action of hitting. ...
Third Grade :: ELA Curriculum Guide Unit 1
... Outcomes (I can...) I can meet with a group and execute a discussion based on the assigned materials that I have read and studied. I can build on information that has been presented in a group discussion. I can follow the rules that have been agreed upon for a discussion (e.g. gaining the floo ...
... Outcomes (I can...) I can meet with a group and execute a discussion based on the assigned materials that I have read and studied. I can build on information that has been presented in a group discussion. I can follow the rules that have been agreed upon for a discussion (e.g. gaining the floo ...
Canto - Classical Academic Press
... about who is doing the action in the sentence and when that action happens. In Spanish, instead of adding extra words, you show who is doing the action and when the action happens by changing the last few letters (the ending) of a verb. Changing the ending of a verb to show who is doing the action a ...
... about who is doing the action in the sentence and when that action happens. In Spanish, instead of adding extra words, you show who is doing the action and when the action happens by changing the last few letters (the ending) of a verb. Changing the ending of a verb to show who is doing the action a ...
Case and Event Structure
... This, however, leads to a peculiar state of affairs, in that the other formal features postulated to account for grammatical processes generally have some semantic content. The system of feature checking developed by Chomsky (Chomsky 1998 inter alia) postulates, in core cases, pairs of features in w ...
... This, however, leads to a peculiar state of affairs, in that the other formal features postulated to account for grammatical processes generally have some semantic content. The system of feature checking developed by Chomsky (Chomsky 1998 inter alia) postulates, in core cases, pairs of features in w ...
бг ¢ деажбз
... The course consists of two parts: The first part deals with basic knowledge with the aim to teach what is more or less regular in the language. Additional sections on the writing of elvish in tengwar and (not too serious) conversation chapters offer additional information (not needed to go through t ...
... The course consists of two parts: The first part deals with basic knowledge with the aim to teach what is more or less regular in the language. Additional sections on the writing of elvish in tengwar and (not too serious) conversation chapters offer additional information (not needed to go through t ...
Baldwin, Timothy and Su Nam Kim (2010) Multiword Expressions, in
... precise nature and types of MWEs, and the current state of MWE research in NLP. Armed with our informal description of MWEs, let’s first motivate this chapter with a brief overview of the range of MWEs, and complexities asso1 All ...
... precise nature and types of MWEs, and the current state of MWE research in NLP. Armed with our informal description of MWEs, let’s first motivate this chapter with a brief overview of the range of MWEs, and complexities asso1 All ...
South African discourse analysis in theory and practice
... This process may, theoretically, continue ad infinitum. Nouns/noun phrases embedded in the VP, like the traditional direct and indirect object, may also contain embedded elements. It should be added that, minimally, there may be only one noun/noun phrase functioning as subject of the VP, but there c ...
... This process may, theoretically, continue ad infinitum. Nouns/noun phrases embedded in the VP, like the traditional direct and indirect object, may also contain embedded elements. It should be added that, minimally, there may be only one noun/noun phrase functioning as subject of the VP, but there c ...
Pronouns - Napa Valley College
... A TV program on dental health started making she and I rethink our habits. …started making she rethink ...
... A TV program on dental health started making she and I rethink our habits. …started making she rethink ...
The Position of Direct and Indirect Objects of Ditransitive Verbs
... In the empirical part, two verbs bring and teach are studied in relation to ditransitive complementation based on examples extracted from the British National Corpus. The data is empirically analyzed and sentences are assorted on the basis of their clause pattern and the formal realization of the ob ...
... In the empirical part, two verbs bring and teach are studied in relation to ditransitive complementation based on examples extracted from the British National Corpus. The data is empirically analyzed and sentences are assorted on the basis of their clause pattern and the formal realization of the ob ...
Mismatches in default inheritance
... case. (What you think is a cat that enjoys being stroked may turn out to hate it.) It is easy to think of areas of language where the same logic applies. However it will be important to distinguish between typological mismatches and withinlanguage ones. Typological mismatches are known only to typol ...
... case. (What you think is a cat that enjoys being stroked may turn out to hate it.) It is easy to think of areas of language where the same logic applies. However it will be important to distinguish between typological mismatches and withinlanguage ones. Typological mismatches are known only to typol ...
Errors in the Coalface Grammar - Linguistics and English Language
... are meant: it is those `of Pretoria', with of Pretoria functioning as Qualifier. It won't do, then, to analyse the expression simply as a syntagm: we must describe the structure, namely `Deictic + Post-Deictic + Classifier + Thing + Qualifier'. (Functional grammar distinguishes notationally between ...
... are meant: it is those `of Pretoria', with of Pretoria functioning as Qualifier. It won't do, then, to analyse the expression simply as a syntagm: we must describe the structure, namely `Deictic + Post-Deictic + Classifier + Thing + Qualifier'. (Functional grammar distinguishes notationally between ...
Transitivity of a Chinese Verb-Result Compound and Affected
... The high productivity of VRs in Chinese makes them a worthwhile topic of investigation for NLP. Nevertheless, this verbal construction poses challenges to traditional linguistic theories of the syntax-semantics interface aimed at mapping the meaning of verbal constructions to their surface structure ...
... The high productivity of VRs in Chinese makes them a worthwhile topic of investigation for NLP. Nevertheless, this verbal construction poses challenges to traditional linguistic theories of the syntax-semantics interface aimed at mapping the meaning of verbal constructions to their surface structure ...
Top 20 Writing Style Errors
... individually by other names - subject-verb agreement, who/whom confusion, and so on. The term “inflected endings” refers to something you already understand: adding a letter or syllable to the end of a word changes its grammatical function in the sentence. For example, adding “ed” to a verb shifts t ...
... individually by other names - subject-verb agreement, who/whom confusion, and so on. The term “inflected endings” refers to something you already understand: adding a letter or syllable to the end of a word changes its grammatical function in the sentence. For example, adding “ed” to a verb shifts t ...
A taxonomy of Lushootseed valency
... The author would like to acknowledge Thom Hess, Ronald Langacker, Dianne Massam, Igor Mel’čuk, Keren Rice, and Leslie Saxon for their help and advice with this research as it has evolved through various stages over the years. None of this would have been possible without Thom Hess’s exemplary docume ...
... The author would like to acknowledge Thom Hess, Ronald Langacker, Dianne Massam, Igor Mel’čuk, Keren Rice, and Leslie Saxon for their help and advice with this research as it has evolved through various stages over the years. None of this would have been possible without Thom Hess’s exemplary docume ...
STRESS IN RAUSA - Studies in African Linguistics
... Hausa has been described as having stress on High toned syllables which shifts to Low toned syllables under certain conditions, notably when the first word of a Noun + Noun or Verb + Noun construction is LH and the second word is stressed on the first syllable. This paper examines those construction ...
... Hausa has been described as having stress on High toned syllables which shifts to Low toned syllables under certain conditions, notably when the first word of a Noun + Noun or Verb + Noun construction is LH and the second word is stressed on the first syllable. This paper examines those construction ...
the simple sentence - Annie Montaut
... argumental structure of the one-place predicate, other NPs may be expressed in the sentence, in the form of “circumstantial” oblique arguments. Such NPs have been mentioned in the description of postpositions, which provide for cause, source, manner, commitative, instrument, goal, anteriority, poste ...
... argumental structure of the one-place predicate, other NPs may be expressed in the sentence, in the form of “circumstantial” oblique arguments. Such NPs have been mentioned in the description of postpositions, which provide for cause, source, manner, commitative, instrument, goal, anteriority, poste ...
English Grammar
... We learnt about tense and time in the previous class. Now, we realize that time is a continuous flow measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, or years. On the other hand, tense is a grammatical concept specific to a particular language. The tense system in English is not similar to that of any oth ...
... We learnt about tense and time in the previous class. Now, we realize that time is a continuous flow measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, or years. On the other hand, tense is a grammatical concept specific to a particular language. The tense system in English is not similar to that of any oth ...
A multi-modular approach to gradual change in
... (c) _ went through and interviewed a bunch of jurors in some of the big cases, and in many cases looking at what had, at the evidence afterwards as to whether the decision was right, went back to the jurors, uh, based on the deliberations. (SC) We hypothesize that bunch underwent the following seman ...
... (c) _ went through and interviewed a bunch of jurors in some of the big cases, and in many cases looking at what had, at the evidence afterwards as to whether the decision was right, went back to the jurors, uh, based on the deliberations. (SC) We hypothesize that bunch underwent the following seman ...
English Co-reference Guidelines
... One exception to the rules of generic mentions occurs when a news anchor offers a brief overview, similar to a headline, before discussing the details of a story. This often results in two sequential generic mentions of the entities involved: once in the introduction and once in the story itself. In ...
... One exception to the rules of generic mentions occurs when a news anchor offers a brief overview, similar to a headline, before discussing the details of a story. This often results in two sequential generic mentions of the entities involved: once in the introduction and once in the story itself. In ...
Syntactic structure and ambiguity in English
... they are seen in the language, those that should not but are readily eliminated, and the rest. Obviously, the first two types cause no trouble. The elimination of the second type usually corresponds to an enlargement of the precincts of syntax at the expense of what otherwise would be regarded as se ...
... they are seen in the language, those that should not but are readily eliminated, and the rest. Obviously, the first two types cause no trouble. The elimination of the second type usually corresponds to an enlargement of the precincts of syntax at the expense of what otherwise would be regarded as se ...
Noun-Verb Complex Predicates In Kurmanji Kurdish A syntactic
... alignment, which are closely related to Kurmanji verb system. First, I will present how transitivity and case alignment works in Kurmanji syntax and then I will show how N-V CPrs behave with respect to transitivity and case alignment. I will discuss its implications for complex predicate formation a ...
... alignment, which are closely related to Kurmanji verb system. First, I will present how transitivity and case alignment works in Kurmanji syntax and then I will show how N-V CPrs behave with respect to transitivity and case alignment. I will discuss its implications for complex predicate formation a ...
Non-canonical applicatives and focalization in Tswana
... In multiple-object constructions, the hierarchy between the objects is minimal: each object can be converted into the subject of a passive construction, or represented by an object marker, and a verb such as nosetsa ‘make somebody drink something in behalf of somebody’ may simultaneously include thr ...
... In multiple-object constructions, the hierarchy between the objects is minimal: each object can be converted into the subject of a passive construction, or represented by an object marker, and a verb such as nosetsa ‘make somebody drink something in behalf of somebody’ may simultaneously include thr ...
Word Order - Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft
... We see that apart from the order of genitive and noun, SVO languages tend to be like verb-initial languages rather than like verb-final languages. Because SVO languages share with verb-initial languages the fact that the object follows the verb, we can say that it is the order of object and verb (ra ...
... We see that apart from the order of genitive and noun, SVO languages tend to be like verb-initial languages rather than like verb-final languages. Because SVO languages share with verb-initial languages the fact that the object follows the verb, we can say that it is the order of object and verb (ra ...
Instructor`s Manual to Accompany Understanding English Grammar
... concerned with a standard variety of the language, but not one that is hypercorrect. For example, in the first exercises for this chapter it may be useful to indicate that a number of people hold very strong opinions about the undesirability of all the examples given there; however, the examples the ...
... concerned with a standard variety of the language, but not one that is hypercorrect. For example, in the first exercises for this chapter it may be useful to indicate that a number of people hold very strong opinions about the undesirability of all the examples given there; however, the examples the ...