Widespread but Not Universal: Improving the Typological Coverage
... Scott Drellishak Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Assistant Professor Emily M. Bender Department of Linguistics The LinGO Grammar Matrix provides a foundation for building grammars of natural languages in hpsg. It includes a web-based questionnaire that allows a linguist to describe a natural lan ...
... Scott Drellishak Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Assistant Professor Emily M. Bender Department of Linguistics The LinGO Grammar Matrix provides a foundation for building grammars of natural languages in hpsg. It includes a web-based questionnaire that allows a linguist to describe a natural lan ...
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... 2. “-ing” Fragments Example: Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the ...
... 2. “-ing” Fragments Example: Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the ...
Topics in English Syntax
... Topics in English Syntax – a complex sentence contains at least one full dependent clause which functions as a constituent and is introduced by a subordinating conjunction – subordinating conjunctions: after, although, as, as if, as/even though, because, before, how, however much, if, in order that ...
... Topics in English Syntax – a complex sentence contains at least one full dependent clause which functions as a constituent and is introduced by a subordinating conjunction – subordinating conjunctions: after, although, as, as if, as/even though, because, before, how, however much, if, in order that ...
Avoiding Run-On Sentences, Comma Splices, and Fragments
... 2. “-ing” Fragments Example: Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the ...
... 2. “-ing” Fragments Example: Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the ...
answer key - Scholastic
... through each conjunction that is wrong, and write the correct conjunction above it. I was getting ready for our class camping trip, or I couldn’t find my hat. I placed a sweatshirt, two pairs of shorts, but four shirts in my suitcase. I couldn’t decide whether to take my blue sneakers but my yellow ...
... through each conjunction that is wrong, and write the correct conjunction above it. I was getting ready for our class camping trip, or I couldn’t find my hat. I placed a sweatshirt, two pairs of shorts, but four shirts in my suitcase. I couldn’t decide whether to take my blue sneakers but my yellow ...
A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and
... function of the shape of its inner constituent. In this case, and many others, the morphosyntactic and semantic base of the complex expression are the same as the phonological base. If one considers the extended lexical paradigm of identify (identity, identification) one observes that the phonology ...
... function of the shape of its inner constituent. In this case, and many others, the morphosyntactic and semantic base of the complex expression are the same as the phonological base. If one considers the extended lexical paradigm of identify (identity, identification) one observes that the phonology ...
chapter i - Cmadras.com
... mastery of just twenty hundred words, the knowing where to place them, will make us not masters of the English language, but masters of correct speaking and writing. Small number, you will say, compared with what is in the dictionary! But nobody ever uses all the words in the dictionary or could use ...
... mastery of just twenty hundred words, the knowing where to place them, will make us not masters of the English language, but masters of correct speaking and writing. Small number, you will say, compared with what is in the dictionary! But nobody ever uses all the words in the dictionary or could use ...
“Comparative typology of loose objects in Modern English
... Loose adverbial modifiers are perhaps more frequent even than loose attributes. This is especially true of those adverbial modifiers which do not modify any particular part of the sentence but refer to the sentence as a whole. They are often found at the beginning of the sentence and they point out ...
... Loose adverbial modifiers are perhaps more frequent even than loose attributes. This is especially true of those adverbial modifiers which do not modify any particular part of the sentence but refer to the sentence as a whole. They are often found at the beginning of the sentence and they point out ...
The Writing Center
... Activities (approximately 1 hour): Read the information, then follow the steps below and be prepared to discuss your answers when you meet with a tutor. Check off each box once you have completed the activity. ...
... Activities (approximately 1 hour): Read the information, then follow the steps below and be prepared to discuss your answers when you meet with a tutor. Check off each box once you have completed the activity. ...
ÚSTAV ANGLICKÉHO JAZYKA A DIDAKTIKY BAKALÁŘSKÁ
... participle and gerund are concerned, there are significant differences between the approach represented by Dušková et al. in Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny on the one hand, and the English grammars on the other. While Dušková et al. consider the gerund and the participle separate for ...
... participle and gerund are concerned, there are significant differences between the approach represented by Dušková et al. in Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny on the one hand, and the English grammars on the other. While Dušková et al. consider the gerund and the participle separate for ...
Verbal categories in Salaca Livonian grammar1 Darbības vārda
... variety, including its verbal categories. Salaca Livonian is in several ways different from Courland Livonian, but it is certainly a variety of the same Livonian language. Unlike Courland Livonian people, speakers of Salaca Livonian identified their ethnicity and language as Livonian – me uomõ Līb r ...
... variety, including its verbal categories. Salaca Livonian is in several ways different from Courland Livonian, but it is certainly a variety of the same Livonian language. Unlike Courland Livonian people, speakers of Salaca Livonian identified their ethnicity and language as Livonian – me uomõ Līb r ...
HOW TO SPEAK AND WRITE CORRECTLY CONTENTS CHAPTER I REQUIREMENTS OF SPEECH
... different words at his command, and he never has occasion to use half the number. In the works of Shakespeare, the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today. Every person of inte ...
... different words at his command, and he never has occasion to use half the number. In the works of Shakespeare, the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today. Every person of inte ...
Object Asymmetries in Comparative Bantu Syntax
... (Baker (1988a,b), Alsina and Mchombo (1988; 1989)).1 In the symmetrical object type languagemore than one NP can display "primaryobject" syntactic properties. Examples of this type include Kinyarwanda(Kimenyi (1976; 1980), Gary and Keenan (1977)),Kihaya(Durantiand Byarushengo(1977)),Kimeru(Hodges (1 ...
... (Baker (1988a,b), Alsina and Mchombo (1988; 1989)).1 In the symmetrical object type languagemore than one NP can display "primaryobject" syntactic properties. Examples of this type include Kinyarwanda(Kimenyi (1976; 1980), Gary and Keenan (1977)),Kihaya(Durantiand Byarushengo(1977)),Kimeru(Hodges (1 ...
AvoidingRun OnsCommaSplicesFragmentsJuly08
... 2. “-ing” Fragments Example: Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the ...
... 2. “-ing” Fragments Example: Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the ...
Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices and Fragments
... 2. “-ing” Fragments Example: Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the ...
... 2. “-ing” Fragments Example: Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the ...
Non-finite complements and modality in de-na `allow` in Hindi-Urdu
... spontaneously substituting (15a,b). The restriction *PRO-lexical case has not found a satisfactory explanation. But it can be noted what the restriction is not (Davison 2008). In particular, it is not a clash between the case of PRO and the case of the controller, nor is it a clash of volitionality ...
... spontaneously substituting (15a,b). The restriction *PRO-lexical case has not found a satisfactory explanation. But it can be noted what the restriction is not (Davison 2008). In particular, it is not a clash between the case of PRO and the case of the controller, nor is it a clash of volitionality ...
SUBJECT INVERSION IN SPANISH RELATIVE
... In all cases considered here, the relative clauses are sentence-final. This means that the iP that corresponds to these relative clauses is the last iP of the larger prosodic unit that corresponds to the whole sentence in each example (the Utterance Phrase; see Nespor & Vogel 1986). Accordingly, the ...
... In all cases considered here, the relative clauses are sentence-final. This means that the iP that corresponds to these relative clauses is the last iP of the larger prosodic unit that corresponds to the whole sentence in each example (the Utterance Phrase; see Nespor & Vogel 1986). Accordingly, the ...
5602 - Radboud Repository
... this a u th o r suggests that sentences are coded in terms of their deep structures instead of their surface forms, it might again be due to the verbatim recall task that subjects are forced into creating such codes. T h ey may have little relation to what a subject normally abstracts from a sentenc ...
... this a u th o r suggests that sentences are coded in terms of their deep structures instead of their surface forms, it might again be due to the verbatim recall task that subjects are forced into creating such codes. T h ey may have little relation to what a subject normally abstracts from a sentenc ...
a Sample - The Well
... As the student’s general skills in writing and spelling improve, so will his ability to take dictation. At first, the student may struggle for a number of reasons. He may be transitioning from printing to cursive writing. He may have to stop and think about how to form a letter and lose his train of ...
... As the student’s general skills in writing and spelling improve, so will his ability to take dictation. At first, the student may struggle for a number of reasons. He may be transitioning from printing to cursive writing. He may have to stop and think about how to form a letter and lose his train of ...
Notes on the formation and usage of subjunctive
... We believe that the subjunctive is something that is learned mechanically. You learn a number of expressions or verbs which always take the subjunctive, learn and practice them, and eventually you will remember to use the subjunctive form after them. Therefore, in this spirit, we are going to offer ...
... We believe that the subjunctive is something that is learned mechanically. You learn a number of expressions or verbs which always take the subjunctive, learn and practice them, and eventually you will remember to use the subjunctive form after them. Therefore, in this spirit, we are going to offer ...
The Use of the Infinitive in Latvian and Norwegian
... subject is new to the hearer, the grammatical subject cannot stand in the first place. A cataphoric pronoun in the subject position is used when the content of the whole sentence is new and there is no given information at all. The infinitive with a generalized meaning of agent can also be used in t ...
... subject is new to the hearer, the grammatical subject cannot stand in the first place. A cataphoric pronoun in the subject position is used when the content of the whole sentence is new and there is no given information at all. The infinitive with a generalized meaning of agent can also be used in t ...
NLP - Words
... Saxon genitive It is obtained with the suffix –’s for singular nouns and plurals not ending in s (f.i. children’s) and with the suffix –’ for regular plurals and some nouns ending in s or z) ...
... Saxon genitive It is obtained with the suffix –’s for singular nouns and plurals not ending in s (f.i. children’s) and with the suffix –’ for regular plurals and some nouns ending in s or z) ...
focus 11 position of adverbs
... Ex. 3 State whether the italicized words are adjectives or adverbs. 1. He came close to Godfrey and breathed into his waistcoat. 2. He was also his closest companion and his closest friend. 3. Our sympathy had always been close, and was growing closer as we grew older. 4. He had worked very hard, it ...
... Ex. 3 State whether the italicized words are adjectives or adverbs. 1. He came close to Godfrey and breathed into his waistcoat. 2. He was also his closest companion and his closest friend. 3. Our sympathy had always been close, and was growing closer as we grew older. 4. He had worked very hard, it ...
focus 11 position of adverbs
... Ex. 3 State whether the italicized words are adjectives or adverbs. 1. He came close to Godfrey and breathed into his waistcoat. 2. He was also his closest companion and his closest friend. 3. Our sympathy had always been close, and was growing closer as we grew older. 4. He had worked very hard, it ...
... Ex. 3 State whether the italicized words are adjectives or adverbs. 1. He came close to Godfrey and breathed into his waistcoat. 2. He was also his closest companion and his closest friend. 3. Our sympathy had always been close, and was growing closer as we grew older. 4. He had worked very hard, it ...
English Sentence Analysis : an Introductory Course
... Out of all the details in an event or situation, a speaker can name the following aspects: one or more participants, attributes of these participants, and information about the setting of the event or situation. First of all, the speaker names at least one person or thing and says something about hi ...
... Out of all the details in an event or situation, a speaker can name the following aspects: one or more participants, attributes of these participants, and information about the setting of the event or situation. First of all, the speaker names at least one person or thing and says something about hi ...