LECTURE 4
... C: My husband and my co-author are satisfied with the last chapter. (2 different people) A: My husband and my co-author is satisfied with the last chapter. (one person) Two or more noun phrases are in apposition when they have identity of reference. ...
... C: My husband and my co-author are satisfied with the last chapter. (2 different people) A: My husband and my co-author is satisfied with the last chapter. (one person) Two or more noun phrases are in apposition when they have identity of reference. ...
The position of prepositional phrases in Russian
... In running text, the ratio of strongly governed Ps to all occurrences of Ps is rather low; in our physics text, the ratio is estimated at 1 to 5 for approximately 34,000 occurrences of Ps. Quantitatively, the major task is the attachment of weakly governed or "adjoined" prepositional phrases to the ...
... In running text, the ratio of strongly governed Ps to all occurrences of Ps is rather low; in our physics text, the ratio is estimated at 1 to 5 for approximately 34,000 occurrences of Ps. Quantitatively, the major task is the attachment of weakly governed or "adjoined" prepositional phrases to the ...
error correction symbol list
... Run-On Sentence- When two complete sentences are joined without punctuation or a conjunction (for, and, not, but, or, yet), such as “It is nearly five we cannot reach town before dark.” This sentence should correctly read: “It is nearly five o’clock. We cannot reach time before dark” or “It is nearl ...
... Run-On Sentence- When two complete sentences are joined without punctuation or a conjunction (for, and, not, but, or, yet), such as “It is nearly five we cannot reach town before dark.” This sentence should correctly read: “It is nearly five o’clock. We cannot reach time before dark” or “It is nearl ...
SABER/CONOCER and PEDIR/PREGUNTAR Pattern: Saber and
... Pedir is generally used to make a request. Preguntar is generally used to ask a factual question. Examples Notice the differences between the English translations of the verbs saber and conocer, as well as the differences between pedir and preguntar. Tú sabes español. Tú conoces a Hillary. ...
... Pedir is generally used to make a request. Preguntar is generally used to ask a factual question. Examples Notice the differences between the English translations of the verbs saber and conocer, as well as the differences between pedir and preguntar. Tú sabes español. Tú conoces a Hillary. ...
3. Moroccan Arabic - Hal-SHS
... subject of the utterance, or on the will, the pressure or the demand that the enunciator is exerting over the subject of the utterance. This includes the so-called deontic or ‘root’ modalities. In general, this corresponds to the ‘agent-oriented’ modality defined by Bybee and Fleischman (1995: 6) as ...
... subject of the utterance, or on the will, the pressure or the demand that the enunciator is exerting over the subject of the utterance. This includes the so-called deontic or ‘root’ modalities. In general, this corresponds to the ‘agent-oriented’ modality defined by Bybee and Fleischman (1995: 6) as ...
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... here my original English text, for those who (like myself) do not read French with facility. It should be noted that I made this glossary some years ago, before the publication of certain other texts by Tolkien that cite or bear on some of these same forms; particularly: mene ‘proceed’ and *mēnie ‘d ...
... here my original English text, for those who (like myself) do not read French with facility. It should be noted that I made this glossary some years ago, before the publication of certain other texts by Tolkien that cite or bear on some of these same forms; particularly: mene ‘proceed’ and *mēnie ‘d ...
Snippets Issue 24 Submission Siddiqi Carnie The English Modal had
... irrealis modals of English when receiving counterfactual interpretation (could, would, should, might) and, similarly, the counterfactual meaning is prohibited from the present tense form of those irrealis modals ...
... irrealis modals of English when receiving counterfactual interpretation (could, would, should, might) and, similarly, the counterfactual meaning is prohibited from the present tense form of those irrealis modals ...
Common errors in writing technical English papers
... the construction of sentences be relatively simple since the audience will consist of people from many nonEnglish speaking countries. Don’t try to use fancy words that you don’t have a good understanding of how to use. ...
... the construction of sentences be relatively simple since the audience will consist of people from many nonEnglish speaking countries. Don’t try to use fancy words that you don’t have a good understanding of how to use. ...
Words and morphemes
... Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar says, "In connected discourse the word most prominent in the speaker's mind comes first, and so on in order of prominence." Thus the simple two-word sentence facis amice "you act kindly" also occurs as amice facis with essentially the same meaning, but some di ...
... Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar says, "In connected discourse the word most prominent in the speaker's mind comes first, and so on in order of prominence." Thus the simple two-word sentence facis amice "you act kindly" also occurs as amice facis with essentially the same meaning, but some di ...
An Introduction to Second Language Vocabulary
... these phrasal verbs. In think of, the word of is greatly reduced as is with in come up with. In the example took off, the two words get run together so that they sound much more like “to cough” than took and off. If—and this is a huge assumption that should never be underestimated— the student has a ...
... these phrasal verbs. In think of, the word of is greatly reduced as is with in come up with. In the example took off, the two words get run together so that they sound much more like “to cough” than took and off. If—and this is a huge assumption that should never be underestimated— the student has a ...
The translation of -ing nominal constructions into Spanish: a
... and Spanish. In particular, it deals with the translation of -ing nominal constructions into Spanish on the assumption that the gerund might not be equivalent to such -ing constructions, since it is a central resource to realize adverbial meanings through adverbial-like constructions.1 My study take ...
... and Spanish. In particular, it deals with the translation of -ing nominal constructions into Spanish on the assumption that the gerund might not be equivalent to such -ing constructions, since it is a central resource to realize adverbial meanings through adverbial-like constructions.1 My study take ...
scheme of work gr 7-11
... Talk about animals, especially pets Describe animals and other things (including their colour and size) Talk about your likes, dislikes and preferences ...
... Talk about animals, especially pets Describe animals and other things (including their colour and size) Talk about your likes, dislikes and preferences ...
Editorial Graphics and Publishing Services Is It Lie or Lay? Many of
... She had lain down when the doorbell rang. Lay (verb—lay, laid, laid): always followed by a noun or pronoun, to place or put something somewhere. ...
... She had lain down when the doorbell rang. Lay (verb—lay, laid, laid): always followed by a noun or pronoun, to place or put something somewhere. ...
00-IJAL 70.3.book
... (1a) illustrates the verbal stem po4d- ‘know’. In this stem, the morph po4+ is the morphological root, while +d is a stem formative suffixed to this root. The stem in (1b) shares the same stem formative but has a different root. In contrast, the stem in (1c) has the same root as in (1b) but has the s ...
... (1a) illustrates the verbal stem po4d- ‘know’. In this stem, the morph po4+ is the morphological root, while +d is a stem formative suffixed to this root. The stem in (1b) shares the same stem formative but has a different root. In contrast, the stem in (1c) has the same root as in (1b) but has the s ...
Developing a tagset for automated part-of
... verbs, nouns and adjectives takes the form of fusional affixes, many of which are homophonous with one another. Nouns are inflected for case and number (singular/plural); the suffixes also indicate their gender (masculine/feminine). Gender agreement is marked by suffixes on verbs and adjectives; ver ...
... verbs, nouns and adjectives takes the form of fusional affixes, many of which are homophonous with one another. Nouns are inflected for case and number (singular/plural); the suffixes also indicate their gender (masculine/feminine). Gender agreement is marked by suffixes on verbs and adjectives; ver ...
John ate the cake
... person/number with case checking: % subject must agree with verb s --> np(Per, Num, sub), vp(Per, Num). % person and number of object doesn’t matter vp(Per, Num) --> v(Per, Num), np(_, _, obj). vp(Per, Num) --> v(Per, Num). % look up V, retrieve its person and number v(Per, Num) --> [V], {v(V, Per, ...
... person/number with case checking: % subject must agree with verb s --> np(Per, Num, sub), vp(Per, Num). % person and number of object doesn’t matter vp(Per, Num) --> v(Per, Num), np(_, _, obj). vp(Per, Num) --> v(Per, Num). % look up V, retrieve its person and number v(Per, Num) --> [V], {v(V, Per, ...
Level III Phrases
... • A verbal is NOT a verb! It is a former verb now doing something else. • A verbal can be a single word, or it can join other words to make a phrase. • There are three types of verbals: 1. Gerunds 2. Participles 3. Infinitives ...
... • A verbal is NOT a verb! It is a former verb now doing something else. • A verbal can be a single word, or it can join other words to make a phrase. • There are three types of verbals: 1. Gerunds 2. Participles 3. Infinitives ...
The Indirect Object
... The Indirect Object Recognize an indirect object when you see one. Indirect objects are rare. You can read for pages before you encounter one. For an indirect object to appear, a sentence must first have a direct object. Direct objects follow transitive verbs [a type of action verb]. If you can iden ...
... The Indirect Object Recognize an indirect object when you see one. Indirect objects are rare. You can read for pages before you encounter one. For an indirect object to appear, a sentence must first have a direct object. Direct objects follow transitive verbs [a type of action verb]. If you can iden ...
Sentence Patterns - Mrs. Rubach`s Room
... -Subject: tells who or what the sentence is about (underlined once); usually at the beginning of the sentence -Object of a Preposition: tells who or what after the preposition (OP); follows a preposition -Direct Object: tells who or what after an action verb (DO); follows an action verb -Appositive: ...
... -Subject: tells who or what the sentence is about (underlined once); usually at the beginning of the sentence -Object of a Preposition: tells who or what after the preposition (OP); follows a preposition -Direct Object: tells who or what after an action verb (DO); follows an action verb -Appositive: ...
about the difficulty of determining the lexical classes of the moksha
... Concrete linguistic materials were first published by Witsen (1692 & 1705). This document is both the oldest and largest source on Mordvin, and more precisely on the Eastern Zubu dialect of Moksha. Witsen was in Russia in 1666-7 and collected more than 300 words and phrases. A thorough analysis and ...
... Concrete linguistic materials were first published by Witsen (1692 & 1705). This document is both the oldest and largest source on Mordvin, and more precisely on the Eastern Zubu dialect of Moksha. Witsen was in Russia in 1666-7 and collected more than 300 words and phrases. A thorough analysis and ...
Introduction to Morphology 1
... For morphology and syntax, it is vital to be familiar with these lexical categories. (In syntax, we also discuss prepositions, determiners, qualifiers, quantifiers, auxiliaries, and complementizers for that discussion, see Lexical Categories in the Syntax section.) Nouns Typically defined as per ...
... For morphology and syntax, it is vital to be familiar with these lexical categories. (In syntax, we also discuss prepositions, determiners, qualifiers, quantifiers, auxiliaries, and complementizers for that discussion, see Lexical Categories in the Syntax section.) Nouns Typically defined as per ...
The Curious Case of Metonymic Verbs
... This semantic heterogeneity calls into question a homogeneous notion of metonymic verbs. Indeed, recent work by Katsika et al. (2012) notes that “the hypothesis that eventive inferences must be attributed to the same mechanism of building meaning (coercion + type-shifting) [for all metonymic verbs] ...
... This semantic heterogeneity calls into question a homogeneous notion of metonymic verbs. Indeed, recent work by Katsika et al. (2012) notes that “the hypothesis that eventive inferences must be attributed to the same mechanism of building meaning (coercion + type-shifting) [for all metonymic verbs] ...
Fundamentals of English Syntax - Department of English and
... different rules of the type in (4). Once we start adding further material to the sentence (say, I believe that at the beginning of the sentence, obviously before likes, and/or and plus any appropriate string of words you can think of at the end of the sentence), we would need an infinite number of r ...
... different rules of the type in (4). Once we start adding further material to the sentence (say, I believe that at the beginning of the sentence, obviously before likes, and/or and plus any appropriate string of words you can think of at the end of the sentence), we would need an infinite number of r ...