Infinitive Phrase
... When infinitive phrases have an “actor,” they may be roughly characterized as the “subject” of the action or state expressed in the infinitive. Perhaps the denomination “pseudo-subject” is preferable. It is somewhat misleading to use the word “subject” since an infinitive phrase is not a full clause ...
... When infinitive phrases have an “actor,” they may be roughly characterized as the “subject” of the action or state expressed in the infinitive. Perhaps the denomination “pseudo-subject” is preferable. It is somewhat misleading to use the word “subject” since an infinitive phrase is not a full clause ...
finiteverb - University of Essex
... of head-to-head movement) first to AGR and then to T, so that have/be also inflect both for tense and agreement; from T they can be raised to C, resulting in inversion structures such as 'Was he telling the truth?'. Clauses containing finite nonauxiliary verbs (e.g. 'He tells the truth') involve a n ...
... of head-to-head movement) first to AGR and then to T, so that have/be also inflect both for tense and agreement; from T they can be raised to C, resulting in inversion structures such as 'Was he telling the truth?'. Clauses containing finite nonauxiliary verbs (e.g. 'He tells the truth') involve a n ...
Configurationality and Greek clause structure
... clause structure and word order. It should, however, be stressed that what follows is not meant to be a thorough and exhaustive survey of all the questions related to configurationality for which there already exist a number of primary sources (Chomsky 1981, Hale 1982, 1983). Rather, my overview of ...
... clause structure and word order. It should, however, be stressed that what follows is not meant to be a thorough and exhaustive survey of all the questions related to configurationality for which there already exist a number of primary sources (Chomsky 1981, Hale 1982, 1983). Rather, my overview of ...
Comma Errors There are two kinds of comma errors: comma
... nouns, verbs, prepositional phrases, adjective clauses, etc. The “buzzword” for this rule is ITEMS IN A SERIES. *NOTE THAT THERE IS A COMMA SEPARATING THE LAST TWO ITEMS. THIS SPECIFIC COMMA IS CALLED AN OXFORD COMMA.* *NOTE THAT POLYSYNDETON IS A RHETORICAL TECHNIQUE THAT EMPLOYS MANY COORDINATING ...
... nouns, verbs, prepositional phrases, adjective clauses, etc. The “buzzword” for this rule is ITEMS IN A SERIES. *NOTE THAT THERE IS A COMMA SEPARATING THE LAST TWO ITEMS. THIS SPECIFIC COMMA IS CALLED AN OXFORD COMMA.* *NOTE THAT POLYSYNDETON IS A RHETORICAL TECHNIQUE THAT EMPLOYS MANY COORDINATING ...
Verb Sophistication
... So you can learn and count. To learn and So can you tell him?] Be very gentle with count when you grow, you could count cubes. There's little squares of cubes in and learn. [Researcher: Anything else?] the middle. And then also, there's a lump And so you could get to the number two up. So we can mak ...
... So you can learn and count. To learn and So can you tell him?] Be very gentle with count when you grow, you could count cubes. There's little squares of cubes in and learn. [Researcher: Anything else?] the middle. And then also, there's a lump And so you could get to the number two up. So we can mak ...
Usage questions from 2007
... Maria similarly finds that a good old school grammar rule, to use the past tense with the past participle born, is still upheld by most people except non-native speakers of English like Swedes and Armenians. One of our readers has noticed that reputedly is used sentence-initially as an adverb in the ...
... Maria similarly finds that a good old school grammar rule, to use the past tense with the past participle born, is still upheld by most people except non-native speakers of English like Swedes and Armenians. One of our readers has noticed that reputedly is used sentence-initially as an adverb in the ...
referential argument
... argument are one-place predicates , with two arguments two-place predicates, and so on If a predicate is applied to an appropriate set of arguments, it yields a truth value and it will be said to be true or false of its arguments. If we assume a context of utterance where a statement is true, al ...
... argument are one-place predicates , with two arguments two-place predicates, and so on If a predicate is applied to an appropriate set of arguments, it yields a truth value and it will be said to be true or false of its arguments. If we assume a context of utterance where a statement is true, al ...
- 1 - Adpositions from nouns, one way or another Das war `ne heiße
... coincidentally, notwithstanding is another English adposition, this time deverbal, employed in this semantic field.) ...
... coincidentally, notwithstanding is another English adposition, this time deverbal, employed in this semantic field.) ...
written ambonese malay, 1895–1992
... There are, of course, Sanskrit and Arabic loans, but these were transmitted via PM, SM, or LM, just as some of the Dutch loans are actually French or Latin in origin. The diverse lexical sources of AM are seen in the pronoun system (cf. Grimes 1991:90): beta ‘1st person singular’ is originally Sansk ...
... There are, of course, Sanskrit and Arabic loans, but these were transmitted via PM, SM, or LM, just as some of the Dutch loans are actually French or Latin in origin. The diverse lexical sources of AM are seen in the pronoun system (cf. Grimes 1991:90): beta ‘1st person singular’ is originally Sansk ...
Grace Theological Journal 9.2 (1988) 233
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
Missing Objects in Persian
... are not null pronominals (pro) but rather variables, A-bar bound with a topic. According to Huang, as shown in (2a), null subjects can be co-indexed with the matrix subject or someone salient in the discourse. However, null objects cannot be co-indexed with the matrix subject but rather have to be c ...
... are not null pronominals (pro) but rather variables, A-bar bound with a topic. According to Huang, as shown in (2a), null subjects can be co-indexed with the matrix subject or someone salient in the discourse. However, null objects cannot be co-indexed with the matrix subject but rather have to be c ...
1 What is Paradigm Function Morphology?
... syncretism of KALLA, {ind pst 2sg} and KALLA, {sbjv pst 2sg}. In other instances, L, σ′ is parasitic on cell L, σ in that it takes on a realization that the rules of exponence supply for L, σ but not for L, σ′. In Sanskrit, for example, a neuter noun’s nominative forms are invariably the ...
... syncretism of KALLA, {ind pst 2sg} and KALLA, {sbjv pst 2sg}. In other instances, L, σ′ is parasitic on cell L, σ in that it takes on a realization that the rules of exponence supply for L, σ but not for L, σ′. In Sanskrit, for example, a neuter noun’s nominative forms are invariably the ...
Boyer`s Relative Clauses in the Greek New Testament: A Statistical
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE INDICATING DEVICES (IFID) MOOD IN
... fact, proclaiming an attitude, pretending, giving a verdict etc., but also to promise something, to accuse somebody, to criticise, to guarantee about a fact etc., by including speech acts which are treated within the class of the assertives, the commissives and the declarations. In the class of decl ...
... fact, proclaiming an attitude, pretending, giving a verdict etc., but also to promise something, to accuse somebody, to criticise, to guarantee about a fact etc., by including speech acts which are treated within the class of the assertives, the commissives and the declarations. In the class of decl ...
Meeting 3 Noun Phrase & Constituents
... Adjective Phrase As with nouns and noun phrases, whenever we see an adjective in a sentence, we will say that it is a constituent of an adjective phrase (AdjP). A simple adjective phrase may consist of a Degree Adverb ( so, very, rather, extremely...) followed by an Adjective: ...
... Adjective Phrase As with nouns and noun phrases, whenever we see an adjective in a sentence, we will say that it is a constituent of an adjective phrase (AdjP). A simple adjective phrase may consist of a Degree Adverb ( so, very, rather, extremely...) followed by an Adjective: ...
here
... Scenes that are not related to any other units and are therefore in the top level of organization in the text are also Hs. Linkers do not necessarily appear between the Scenes they are linking (see example #2 above). 25. A unit is marked as a Ground Relation (G) (or Ground for short), if its primary ...
... Scenes that are not related to any other units and are therefore in the top level of organization in the text are also Hs. Linkers do not necessarily appear between the Scenes they are linking (see example #2 above). 25. A unit is marked as a Ground Relation (G) (or Ground for short), if its primary ...
The message in the navel: (ir)realisness in Swahili
... In this paper I will use the expression “Tense-Aspect-Modality” (TAM) to refer to a set of prefixes and suffixes that are attached to verb stems in Swahili, even though some of these affixes signal information that falls outside the scope of traditional definitions of tense, aspect, and modality (se ...
... In this paper I will use the expression “Tense-Aspect-Modality” (TAM) to refer to a set of prefixes and suffixes that are attached to verb stems in Swahili, even though some of these affixes signal information that falls outside the scope of traditional definitions of tense, aspect, and modality (se ...
Using the South Tyneside Assessment of Syntactic Structures
... emergence of word endings in children’s spoken English development. The -ing verb ending occurs very early on, and features such as -er on comparative adjectives are usually still not present by five years old. These features are relatively easy to spot. Crystal is also interested in the interplay b ...
... emergence of word endings in children’s spoken English development. The -ing verb ending occurs very early on, and features such as -er on comparative adjectives are usually still not present by five years old. These features are relatively easy to spot. Crystal is also interested in the interplay b ...
Usage-based vs. rule-based learning: the acquisition of word order
... A constructivist account of the acquisition of wh-questions in English is advocated by Rowland & Pine (2000, 2003) and Rowland, Pine, Lieven & Theakston (2003). This approach argues that English-speaking children’s early wh-questions are the result of a distributional learning mechanism that reprodu ...
... A constructivist account of the acquisition of wh-questions in English is advocated by Rowland & Pine (2000, 2003) and Rowland, Pine, Lieven & Theakston (2003). This approach argues that English-speaking children’s early wh-questions are the result of a distributional learning mechanism that reprodu ...
Independent pronouns in Ktunaxa - The University of British Columbia
... In summary, the independent pronouns in Ktunaxa contain a stem, which can only appear bare when used to indicate a second person singular referent. The other pieces of morphlogy found in the paradigm are not dedicated to independent pronouns, but are also found in possessed full noun phrases. This s ...
... In summary, the independent pronouns in Ktunaxa contain a stem, which can only appear bare when used to indicate a second person singular referent. The other pieces of morphlogy found in the paradigm are not dedicated to independent pronouns, but are also found in possessed full noun phrases. This s ...
Thesis - Archive ouverte UNIGE
... Both intra-linguistic and cross-linguistic variation in morphological and syntactic realisations of semantically equivalent items are taken into account by analysing data extracted from parallel corpora. The dissertation includes three case studies: light verb constructions (0.1) in English and Germ ...
... Both intra-linguistic and cross-linguistic variation in morphological and syntactic realisations of semantically equivalent items are taken into account by analysing data extracted from parallel corpora. The dissertation includes three case studies: light verb constructions (0.1) in English and Germ ...
Parent Help Booklet - Shurley Instructional Materials
... Once a concept is introduced, it is never left behind. As each concept is learned, it is repeatedly applied in daily exercises throughout the year. ...
... Once a concept is introduced, it is never left behind. As each concept is learned, it is repeatedly applied in daily exercises throughout the year. ...
A Brief Writing and Grammar Guide
... college and get a degree. These reasons were not only the motivation I needed to go back to college, but they will also be the inspiration I need to succeed in college and in life. Notice how this essay accomplishes the four bases that Langan identified. First, the entire essay discusses why the wri ...
... college and get a degree. These reasons were not only the motivation I needed to go back to college, but they will also be the inspiration I need to succeed in college and in life. Notice how this essay accomplishes the four bases that Langan identified. First, the entire essay discusses why the wri ...
-ing English as a Lingua Franca?
... regularly. But most importantly, the academic context per se puts language and its use into serious test as one of the most challenging and demanding spoken (and written) genres in our culture: The speakers have to be able to argue a point, defend their view, be convincing, and discuss generally abs ...
... regularly. But most importantly, the academic context per se puts language and its use into serious test as one of the most challenging and demanding spoken (and written) genres in our culture: The speakers have to be able to argue a point, defend their view, be convincing, and discuss generally abs ...