Grammar Emphasis
... Red: heavy focus These statements are fundamental to improving writing and will support children to improve written outcomes across most genres of writing. Opportunities should be found in every unit to teach these statements (with the possible exception of poetry units). Purple: medium focus These ...
... Red: heavy focus These statements are fundamental to improving writing and will support children to improve written outcomes across most genres of writing. Opportunities should be found in every unit to teach these statements (with the possible exception of poetry units). Purple: medium focus These ...
1. Circle all the adjectives in the sentence below. The rude man had
... I watched DVDs all night so now I am tired. (2 marks) 25. The word wave has more than one meaning. Write two sentences to show two different meanings. 1) _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 2) ___________________ ...
... I watched DVDs all night so now I am tired. (2 marks) 25. The word wave has more than one meaning. Write two sentences to show two different meanings. 1) _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 2) ___________________ ...
this PDF file
... functions as part of the reality which it sets out to represent or encode. Looking more closely at the linguistic representation in The color purple and The caged bird, we examine texts using the terms Process and Participant to describe events, things and the characters in the texts. Process in sys ...
... functions as part of the reality which it sets out to represent or encode. Looking more closely at the linguistic representation in The color purple and The caged bird, we examine texts using the terms Process and Participant to describe events, things and the characters in the texts. Process in sys ...
this PDF file
... intransitive sentences as well as the object of transitive sentences will be unmarked, but the subject of transitive sentences remains marked. Thus an ergative system has arisen. While this explanation is admittedly elegant, it is not grounded in reality. First of all, it is questionable whether the ...
... intransitive sentences as well as the object of transitive sentences will be unmarked, but the subject of transitive sentences remains marked. Thus an ergative system has arisen. While this explanation is admittedly elegant, it is not grounded in reality. First of all, it is questionable whether the ...
slides - stony brook cs
... Preposition (IN): on, in, by, to, with To (TO): as in “to eat” Determiner (Article): Basic (DT) a, an, the WH-determiner (WDT): which, that Coordinating Conjunction (CC): and, but, or ...
... Preposition (IN): on, in, by, to, with To (TO): as in “to eat” Determiner (Article): Basic (DT) a, an, the WH-determiner (WDT): which, that Coordinating Conjunction (CC): and, but, or ...
Sentence Types: Lesson 1 There are four different sentence types: 1
... A compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses. What is an independent clause? Look at the following sentences and analyze how they are different. Identify subjects, verbs, and direct objects. Remember: direct objects receive an action performed by the subject. 1. Kim and Paul peel and ...
... A compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses. What is an independent clause? Look at the following sentences and analyze how they are different. Identify subjects, verbs, and direct objects. Remember: direct objects receive an action performed by the subject. 1. Kim and Paul peel and ...
Time and Tense in Language
... build a few of these time distinctions into its grammar, and a language which does so has the category of tense…Some languages lack tense entirely; an example is Chinese, which has nothing corresponding to the I go/I went contrast of English.” (Trask, 2008, p. 294) As a rule tense is marked on verbs ...
... build a few of these time distinctions into its grammar, and a language which does so has the category of tense…Some languages lack tense entirely; an example is Chinese, which has nothing corresponding to the I go/I went contrast of English.” (Trask, 2008, p. 294) As a rule tense is marked on verbs ...
this PDF file - Minda Masagi Journals
... visible, in English the subject of an imperative is considered to be the pronoun “you”) ...
... visible, in English the subject of an imperative is considered to be the pronoun “you”) ...
Cumulativity and Countability in Karitiana Verbs* Luciana Sanchez
... the language is cumulative and countable. This article is divided basically in two parts. The first part concerns in showing some features of Karitiana verbs in order to demonstrate that they suggest an analysis that take into account both cumulativity and countability. At this part, the characteri ...
... the language is cumulative and countable. This article is divided basically in two parts. The first part concerns in showing some features of Karitiana verbs in order to demonstrate that they suggest an analysis that take into account both cumulativity and countability. At this part, the characteri ...
A Phase-Based Approach to ECM across CP in Korean
... ECM is mediated by NP-movement to Spec-CP to satisfy the locality requirement. Once NP-movement to Spec-CP occurs, it cannot feed further A-movement or A-agreement. For concreteness, let us formulate the locality of A-chains using Chomsky's (2000, 2001a) phase-based theory. According to this theory, ...
... ECM is mediated by NP-movement to Spec-CP to satisfy the locality requirement. Once NP-movement to Spec-CP occurs, it cannot feed further A-movement or A-agreement. For concreteness, let us formulate the locality of A-chains using Chomsky's (2000, 2001a) phase-based theory. According to this theory, ...
Glossary (.PDF format) - University of Arizona
... Predicate Phrase: A group of words that attributes a property to the subject. (In most sentences this is the VP, although not necessarily so.) Prescriptive Grammar: The grammar rules as taught by so called “language experts.” These rules, often inaccurate descriptively, prescribe how people should t ...
... Predicate Phrase: A group of words that attributes a property to the subject. (In most sentences this is the VP, although not necessarily so.) Prescriptive Grammar: The grammar rules as taught by so called “language experts.” These rules, often inaccurate descriptively, prescribe how people should t ...
Inversion (Linguistics)
... broadly similar ways to English, such as in question formation. The restriction of inversion to auxiliary verbs does not generally apply in these languages; subjects can be inverted with any type of verb, although particular languages have their own rules and restrictions. For example, in French, tu ...
... broadly similar ways to English, such as in question formation. The restriction of inversion to auxiliary verbs does not generally apply in these languages; subjects can be inverted with any type of verb, although particular languages have their own rules and restrictions. For example, in French, tu ...
draft - University of Delaware
... There are good arguments that the raised NP in this construction is not really an argument of the verb ‘know’ at all; see Frantz 1978, 1980; Bruening 2001; Branigan and MacKenzie 2002. This example shows quite clearly, then, that derived subjects, even non-thematic ones, can trigger ergative agreeme ...
... There are good arguments that the raised NP in this construction is not really an argument of the verb ‘know’ at all; see Frantz 1978, 1980; Bruening 2001; Branigan and MacKenzie 2002. This example shows quite clearly, then, that derived subjects, even non-thematic ones, can trigger ergative agreeme ...
Slide 1
... Sandwiches are included as they are a type of food, but not necessarily all of them and not exclusively. ...
... Sandwiches are included as they are a type of food, but not necessarily all of them and not exclusively. ...
Harvard Linguistic Circle - Arizona State University
... reasons. A simple negative cannot be emphatic; in order for a negative to be emphatic, it needs to be reinforced, e.g. by a minimizer. When emphatic negatives are overused, their semantic impact weakens and they become the regular negative and a new emphatic will appear. ...
... reasons. A simple negative cannot be emphatic; in order for a negative to be emphatic, it needs to be reinforced, e.g. by a minimizer. When emphatic negatives are overused, their semantic impact weakens and they become the regular negative and a new emphatic will appear. ...
Preface to the first edition
... animals and chemical substances, by separating out technical inforV mation from the rest of the definition: ...
... animals and chemical substances, by separating out technical inforV mation from the rest of the definition: ...
Computer-aided armchair linguistics
... choose and justify a set of empirical criteria for phonemic analysis that could be applied to each of these languages. (Those were the days when, realizing that a single language could be given more than one phonemic analysis, people worried - correctly - that phonemic descriptions of different lan ...
... choose and justify a set of empirical criteria for phonemic analysis that could be applied to each of these languages. (Those were the days when, realizing that a single language could be given more than one phonemic analysis, people worried - correctly - that phonemic descriptions of different lan ...
The Welsh Vocabulary Builder 3
... Today’s words: adroddiad = report; amlwg = obvious; bwyf = (that) I be Adroddiad, plural adroddiadau, means “report”. It comes from the verb adrodd, “relate,” “narrate,” or “report.” It is masculine. Welsh Society meetings involve many adroddiadau! The adject amlwg means “obvious”. Its comparative s ...
... Today’s words: adroddiad = report; amlwg = obvious; bwyf = (that) I be Adroddiad, plural adroddiadau, means “report”. It comes from the verb adrodd, “relate,” “narrate,” or “report.” It is masculine. Welsh Society meetings involve many adroddiadau! The adject amlwg means “obvious”. Its comparative s ...
Formal Commands - Villanova University
... Buy the candy. (familiar) Informal, or familiar, speech is used among friends, coworkers, ...
... Buy the candy. (familiar) Informal, or familiar, speech is used among friends, coworkers, ...
Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan
... This paper presents an analysis of bare nominals unmarked for number (BNs) occurring in object position in Spanish and Catalan, on which the BN is a syntactic complement to the verb, but not a semantic argument. After describing the properties that distinguish BNs from other indefinite expressions ( ...
... This paper presents an analysis of bare nominals unmarked for number (BNs) occurring in object position in Spanish and Catalan, on which the BN is a syntactic complement to the verb, but not a semantic argument. After describing the properties that distinguish BNs from other indefinite expressions ( ...
A semantic analysis of the verbal prefix o(b)- in Croatian
... single prefix, and lists four meanings of o(b)- in verbs: 1) material and non-material encompassing of an object by an action; 2a) bringing into a state by fulfillment of an action; b) supply, burden, exposure to a process; c) finishing an action; 3) doing on a surface; and 4) being encompassed by a ...
... single prefix, and lists four meanings of o(b)- in verbs: 1) material and non-material encompassing of an object by an action; 2a) bringing into a state by fulfillment of an action; b) supply, burden, exposure to a process; c) finishing an action; 3) doing on a surface; and 4) being encompassed by a ...