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... which word is the Tonic. e.g. I think 'Moscow is a nice city to live in. OR I believe 'Moscow is a difficult city to live in. 1. Moscow is a nice/difficult city to live in. 2. People in the county/small towns/large cities are much friendlier than …. 3. English people are cold and reserved/polite and ...
... which word is the Tonic. e.g. I think 'Moscow is a nice city to live in. OR I believe 'Moscow is a difficult city to live in. 1. Moscow is a nice/difficult city to live in. 2. People in the county/small towns/large cities are much friendlier than …. 3. English people are cold and reserved/polite and ...
`Have` and the Link Between Perfects and Existentials in Old Catalan
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
og-001, sec05-01 Choice D is best. The phrasing a divorce that
... behavior to food allergies. Choice C is also wordy, and attributing... as is unidiomatic in E. In the correct form of the expression, one attributes x, an effect, to y, a cause; or, if a passive construction is used, x is attributed to y. D avoids the initial modification error by using a passive c ...
... behavior to food allergies. Choice C is also wordy, and attributing... as is unidiomatic in E. In the correct form of the expression, one attributes x, an effect, to y, a cause; or, if a passive construction is used, x is attributed to y. D avoids the initial modification error by using a passive c ...
1 - World Arabic Translators Association
... So collocations are generally considered to be problematic to learners of foreign languages. Or, to be more exact, restricted collocations cause problems when it comes to production in the foreign language. Obviously open collocations do not deserve special attention from the teacher's or translato ...
... So collocations are generally considered to be problematic to learners of foreign languages. Or, to be more exact, restricted collocations cause problems when it comes to production in the foreign language. Obviously open collocations do not deserve special attention from the teacher's or translato ...
Page 1 Compounding in Aphasia: A Cross
... Some languages allow inflection at the level of a compound’s constituents, so that a compound like people mover is singular even though people is plural. Orthographic representation of compound words is also variable. While languages with logographic writing systems, where symbols typically map onto ...
... Some languages allow inflection at the level of a compound’s constituents, so that a compound like people mover is singular even though people is plural. Orthographic representation of compound words is also variable. While languages with logographic writing systems, where symbols typically map onto ...
Grammar in Context Proficiency Level
... If you are the kind of learner for whom this book has been written, you will have learnt English intensively for months or less intensively for years. You will now be in contact with the language as it is used by British, American and other native speakers in conversation, on radio and television, i ...
... If you are the kind of learner for whom this book has been written, you will have learnt English intensively for months or less intensively for years. You will now be in contact with the language as it is used by British, American and other native speakers in conversation, on radio and television, i ...
Reflexive and Reciprocal Constructions in Modern Irish
... Irish does not lend itself to a binary tree structural account of grammatical relations without substantial re-arrangement of the constituents to enable the c-command machinery to work. Such transformations operate with a base word order of SVO upon which the transformations are applied in a procedu ...
... Irish does not lend itself to a binary tree structural account of grammatical relations without substantial re-arrangement of the constituents to enable the c-command machinery to work. Such transformations operate with a base word order of SVO upon which the transformations are applied in a procedu ...
Adjectival participles, event kind modification and
... deleted when the participle is adjectivised. She proposes that in the case of eventrelated modification we are dealing with phrasal adjectivisation (following Kratzer 1994), which only allows as its input modifiers that provide information that is characteristic for the result state. However, she do ...
... deleted when the participle is adjectivised. She proposes that in the case of eventrelated modification we are dealing with phrasal adjectivisation (following Kratzer 1994), which only allows as its input modifiers that provide information that is characteristic for the result state. However, she do ...
Lexical Splits in Finnish Possession
... ment markers. This hypothesis explains why phrases with both a non-pronominal possessor and a sux are ungrammatical (see (3b) and (11b)), repeated below as (17a-b)), although suxes alone can refer to non-pronominals. (17) (a) *Pekka nakee Jukan ystava-nsa. P. sees J-GEN friend-3Px (b) Pekka n ...
... ment markers. This hypothesis explains why phrases with both a non-pronominal possessor and a sux are ungrammatical (see (3b) and (11b)), repeated below as (17a-b)), although suxes alone can refer to non-pronominals. (17) (a) *Pekka nakee Jukan ystava-nsa. P. sees J-GEN friend-3Px (b) Pekka n ...
6:201-236 - Linguistics at Cambridge
... eastern Bantu languages display a morphological alternation in the verb, depending on the relation between the verb and the following element. The conjoint (cj) verb form can only be used when followed by some element, whereas the disjoint (dj) verb form may also appear sentence-finally.9 This is tak ...
... eastern Bantu languages display a morphological alternation in the verb, depending on the relation between the verb and the following element. The conjoint (cj) verb form can only be used when followed by some element, whereas the disjoint (dj) verb form may also appear sentence-finally.9 This is tak ...
powerpoint
... his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long story about an aunt who had once laid a seagull's egg by mistake, and the story went on and on, rather like this sentence, until Piglet who was listening out of his window without much hope, went to sleep quietly and naturally, slipping slowly out of ...
... his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long story about an aunt who had once laid a seagull's egg by mistake, and the story went on and on, rather like this sentence, until Piglet who was listening out of his window without much hope, went to sleep quietly and naturally, slipping slowly out of ...
Page 1 Compounding in Aphasia: A Cross-Linguistic Review Rebecca Goldman Swarthmore College
... of the whole word, and internal inflection, though possible, is rare. English has an alphabetic script, but it also contains logo graphic elements; although break has a different pronunciation when it is a constituent in the compound word brealifast, the original spelling is preserved. In English, s ...
... of the whole word, and internal inflection, though possible, is rare. English has an alphabetic script, but it also contains logo graphic elements; although break has a different pronunciation when it is a constituent in the compound word brealifast, the original spelling is preserved. In English, s ...
On the syntax of locative and directional adpositional phrases
... Koopman resorts to movement to SpecAgrP in an attempt to account for Q–float facts: met ons allemaal ‘with us all’ is assumed to result from movement of ons ‘us’ to a higher A–position, stranding the quantifier allemaal ‘all’ along the way (as in Sportiche’ s 1988 analysis of Q–float). The Q–float a ...
... Koopman resorts to movement to SpecAgrP in an attempt to account for Q–float facts: met ons allemaal ‘with us all’ is assumed to result from movement of ons ‘us’ to a higher A–position, stranding the quantifier allemaal ‘all’ along the way (as in Sportiche’ s 1988 analysis of Q–float). The Q–float a ...
Word-formation in English
... The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. T ...
... The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. T ...
Word-formation in English
... The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. T ...
... The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. T ...
Verbal Behavior: What is the Function of Structure? David C. Palmer
... tools of the linguist and behavior analyst differ substantially. It is unclear how the findings of the former can be used by the latter to extend Skinner’s analysis. The effects of order reflect the conventions of verbal communities; order is not constrained by basic processes, apart from the obviou ...
... tools of the linguist and behavior analyst differ substantially. It is unclear how the findings of the former can be used by the latter to extend Skinner’s analysis. The effects of order reflect the conventions of verbal communities; order is not constrained by basic processes, apart from the obviou ...
Transformation of Idioms and Transparency
... Why do some idioms allow certain lexical variations and others — not? Why do some idioms allow certain grammatical changes in particular linguistic environment and others — not? Many aspects of metaphor use need to be clarified. Our approach to the study of idioms combines contextual analysis as idi ...
... Why do some idioms allow certain lexical variations and others — not? Why do some idioms allow certain grammatical changes in particular linguistic environment and others — not? Many aspects of metaphor use need to be clarified. Our approach to the study of idioms combines contextual analysis as idi ...
Multilingual Lexical Representation
... The path equation induced by the human-tllnk will ensure that translation equivalent words denote individuals of the same (natural) gender. 2 The use of a commontype system makes it easier to express such relationships, although it is not essential, provided that comparable information is encoded in ...
... The path equation induced by the human-tllnk will ensure that translation equivalent words denote individuals of the same (natural) gender. 2 The use of a commontype system makes it easier to express such relationships, although it is not essential, provided that comparable information is encoded in ...
UNIVERSITY OF TARTU FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
... The topic of this work is the partitive case and its functions, i.e. its assignment in certain semantic and syntactic environments involving verbs. Which functions were formerly taken by the partitive but are now represented by other case forms? What are the conditions for these case forms and how c ...
... The topic of this work is the partitive case and its functions, i.e. its assignment in certain semantic and syntactic environments involving verbs. Which functions were formerly taken by the partitive but are now represented by other case forms? What are the conditions for these case forms and how c ...
2_7 Luraghi_Clitics
... This characteristic is puzzling only inasmuch as one’s theoretical orientation forces one to work with discrete, rather than fuzzy categories, and if one fails to consider the type of information conveyed by clitics of different sorts, together with their role in discourse. Clitics are mostly items ...
... This characteristic is puzzling only inasmuch as one’s theoretical orientation forces one to work with discrete, rather than fuzzy categories, and if one fails to consider the type of information conveyed by clitics of different sorts, together with their role in discourse. Clitics are mostly items ...
The Latvian dative and genitive: A Cognitive Grammar - DUO
... 5. Summary and conclusions............................................................................................204 References .......................................................................................................................213 Appendix.................................... ...
... 5. Summary and conclusions............................................................................................204 References .......................................................................................................................213 Appendix.................................... ...
active voice - Cloudfront.net
... The simplest definition of an oxymoron is the use of words, phrases, or statements that have meanings which are contradictory to each other. Therefore, an oxymoron is a figure of speech that employs ideas or statements that are opposite in meaning. ...
... The simplest definition of an oxymoron is the use of words, phrases, or statements that have meanings which are contradictory to each other. Therefore, an oxymoron is a figure of speech that employs ideas or statements that are opposite in meaning. ...
Nathaniel Dorgbetor
... tone – every syllable corresponds to a tone-bearing unit (Duthie,1996). Like most African languages, Ewe is a tonal language with a distinction between ‘marked’ high and ‘unmarked’ nonhigh tone, the non-high tone can be realized as mid or low (Ameka 1991, Aboh & Essegbey 2010). For the most part of ...
... tone – every syllable corresponds to a tone-bearing unit (Duthie,1996). Like most African languages, Ewe is a tonal language with a distinction between ‘marked’ high and ‘unmarked’ nonhigh tone, the non-high tone can be realized as mid or low (Ameka 1991, Aboh & Essegbey 2010). For the most part of ...
LATIN WORD ORDER A Glimpse into the Vaults.
... Knowing in what order to put the words when expressing one's thoughts is an important part of prose composition skill. In Latin, word order is far more flexible than in languages with no (or few) inflections, thus expressing emphasis by merely changing the position of a word becomes possible. This p ...
... Knowing in what order to put the words when expressing one's thoughts is an important part of prose composition skill. In Latin, word order is far more flexible than in languages with no (or few) inflections, thus expressing emphasis by merely changing the position of a word becomes possible. This p ...
verb complementation
... complementation after Germanic verba sentiendi renders such descriptions incomplete and in the case of generative descrip tions, too powerful, since they generate ungrammatical embeddings. The present work is intended as a contribution to a more adequate description of embedding processes in German ...
... complementation after Germanic verba sentiendi renders such descriptions incomplete and in the case of generative descrip tions, too powerful, since they generate ungrammatical embeddings. The present work is intended as a contribution to a more adequate description of embedding processes in German ...