Exo-skeletal vs. endo-skeletal explanations
... hopelessly ambiguous, quite simply because the non-head constituents will be themselves embedded under functional structure, categorizing them, so to speak, presumably as DPs or PPs. Should that not turn out to be the case the structure would become uninterpretable. The two modes of projecting funct ...
... hopelessly ambiguous, quite simply because the non-head constituents will be themselves embedded under functional structure, categorizing them, so to speak, presumably as DPs or PPs. Should that not turn out to be the case the structure would become uninterpretable. The two modes of projecting funct ...
workbook
... "we". Thus two elders might say to a younger person "we are strong" (tenei'eihí'), meaning the elders only. If they want to include that person, they would say tenei'eihíno'. Linguists call the 1plural form "exclusive" since it excludes the person you are talking to, and the 12 form ...
... "we". Thus two elders might say to a younger person "we are strong" (tenei'eihí'), meaning the elders only. If they want to include that person, they would say tenei'eihíno'. Linguists call the 1plural form "exclusive" since it excludes the person you are talking to, and the 12 form ...
Progressive Aspect - Západočeská univerzita
... conjugated in proper tense, and present participle. The progressive tenses are more specific than its equivalents in simple forms. That is the reason why the progressive tenses can be used without wider context. In the English language there are also two aspects to be distinguished, progressive and ...
... conjugated in proper tense, and present participle. The progressive tenses are more specific than its equivalents in simple forms. That is the reason why the progressive tenses can be used without wider context. In the English language there are also two aspects to be distinguished, progressive and ...
PPT 03 - McCorduck
... the notion of the transformation. Taken from mathematics (as are many of the features of contemporary linguistics), a transformation performs some operation, often just simple reordering of elements, on one string (see slide 7 of the “Verbs and Verb Phrases” lecture) which results in another string, ...
... the notion of the transformation. Taken from mathematics (as are many of the features of contemporary linguistics), a transformation performs some operation, often just simple reordering of elements, on one string (see slide 7 of the “Verbs and Verb Phrases” lecture) which results in another string, ...
The Case of Old English HRĒOW
... is taken that the interplay of paradigmatic and syntagmatic resources can explain morphological processes from several perspectives, including not only semanticsyntactic factors but also some questions of language processing. Within the lexicon of Old English, the derivational paradigm of Old Englis ...
... is taken that the interplay of paradigmatic and syntagmatic resources can explain morphological processes from several perspectives, including not only semanticsyntactic factors but also some questions of language processing. Within the lexicon of Old English, the derivational paradigm of Old Englis ...
1 Sumerian in a Nutshell
... Stem present-future marker (in intransitive verbs) pronominal suffix (referring to A, S, or P depending on the tense) Subordinator ...
... Stem present-future marker (in intransitive verbs) pronominal suffix (referring to A, S, or P depending on the tense) Subordinator ...
This page is about word formation patterns and prefixes
... their fields. 93. This is a/an ____________ (verb / noun / adjective / adverb) piece of work. I did it myself. 94. Many people are ____________ (verb / noun / adjective ASSERT / adverb) when they meet new people because they are shy. They never push or shout so that people see them. 95. It’s a good ...
... their fields. 93. This is a/an ____________ (verb / noun / adjective / adverb) piece of work. I did it myself. 94. Many people are ____________ (verb / noun / adjective ASSERT / adverb) when they meet new people because they are shy. They never push or shout so that people see them. 95. It’s a good ...
Los objetos indirectos y directos
... Then we see the verb gustar. It is conjugated to the singular gusta. Gustar means “be pleasing”, but as it is conjugated to the 3rd person singular, it means “is pleasing.” With this explanation, we can see so far that “chocolate is pleasing…” But to whom is chocolate pleasing? The words that indica ...
... Then we see the verb gustar. It is conjugated to the singular gusta. Gustar means “be pleasing”, but as it is conjugated to the 3rd person singular, it means “is pleasing.” With this explanation, we can see so far that “chocolate is pleasing…” But to whom is chocolate pleasing? The words that indica ...
The compound verbal modal predicate
... users of the language conform. And with this comes the realisation that this underlying structure of the language (as system) is highly organised. Whatever are the other interests of modern linguistic science, its centre is surely an interest in the grammatical system of language. Today we have well ...
... users of the language conform. And with this comes the realisation that this underlying structure of the language (as system) is highly organised. Whatever are the other interests of modern linguistic science, its centre is surely an interest in the grammatical system of language. Today we have well ...
Shallow-Parsing Stylebook for German
... be a KOORD-Feld (coordinator field, KOORDF). Sentences in which the verb is fronted (e.g. imperatives and yes/no-questions) are like affirmative sentences except that they lack a VF. Introduced subordinated sentences are different in that the finite verb goes together with the verb complex (as the ...
... be a KOORD-Feld (coordinator field, KOORDF). Sentences in which the verb is fronted (e.g. imperatives and yes/no-questions) are like affirmative sentences except that they lack a VF. Introduced subordinated sentences are different in that the finite verb goes together with the verb complex (as the ...
Semantic Proto-Roles - Association for Computational Linguistics
... etc. that verbs assign to arguments. However, it has been known for some time that this view is problematic (see Levin and Rappaport Hovav (2005) for an overview). Perhaps the best known arguments emerge from the work of David Dowty. Proto-roles Dowty (1991), in an exhaustive survey of research on t ...
... etc. that verbs assign to arguments. However, it has been known for some time that this view is problematic (see Levin and Rappaport Hovav (2005) for an overview). Perhaps the best known arguments emerge from the work of David Dowty. Proto-roles Dowty (1991), in an exhaustive survey of research on t ...
Typological variation of the adjectival class
... Ask a layperson what they know about grammar and you are likely to get an answer that has something to do with parts of speech; ask a linguist what they know about parts of speech and the answer is quite likely to be much less enlightening. Parts of speech systems or, as I will refer to them here, l ...
... Ask a layperson what they know about grammar and you are likely to get an answer that has something to do with parts of speech; ask a linguist what they know about parts of speech and the answer is quite likely to be much less enlightening. Parts of speech systems or, as I will refer to them here, l ...
Story PowerPoint
... description of the product you want to buy and record information (such as size or color) in the proper blanks. An application is used when a person applies for a job or wants to be accepted into a program or ...
... description of the product you want to buy and record information (such as size or color) in the proper blanks. An application is used when a person applies for a job or wants to be accepted into a program or ...
0515 dutch (foreign language)
... indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’ meeting before marking began, which would have considered the acceptability of alternative answers. Mark schemes should be read in conjunction with the question paper and the Principal Examiner Report for Teachers. ...
... indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’ meeting before marking began, which would have considered the acceptability of alternative answers. Mark schemes should be read in conjunction with the question paper and the Principal Examiner Report for Teachers. ...
Introducing probabilistic information in Constraint Grammar
... The latter provides a derived frequency percentage for each of a wordform's possible readings relative to the sum of all frequencies for this particular wordform. For wordforms with one reading only, will be 100%, for non-inflecting words (e.g. Conjunctions, adverbs,
prepositions), and
... The latter provides a derived frequency percentage for each of a wordform's possible readings relative to the sum of all frequencies for this particular wordform. For wordforms with one reading only,
Some Types of Russian and Polish Interrogative Sentences
... In the analysis of Polish 'subjectless' sentences one has to take into consideration the fact that they are functionally equivalent to those containing an appropriate personal pronoun. It would be inadequate to describe the 'subjectless' constructions as consisting of a verb and a-verb defective sen ...
... In the analysis of Polish 'subjectless' sentences one has to take into consideration the fact that they are functionally equivalent to those containing an appropriate personal pronoun. It would be inadequate to describe the 'subjectless' constructions as consisting of a verb and a-verb defective sen ...
Look at the picture below. Which of the following statements are
... B Barbara Streisand is a famous singer, ___ new video is great C Sean Penn is an actor ____ movies are very good D My parents are very nice whit me. I am ___ favorite child R 1-c 2-b 3- a,d Choose the correct personal pronoun for the word(s) in brackets in each sentence 1 ____ are beautiful ( the fl ...
... B Barbara Streisand is a famous singer, ___ new video is great C Sean Penn is an actor ____ movies are very good D My parents are very nice whit me. I am ___ favorite child R 1-c 2-b 3- a,d Choose the correct personal pronoun for the word(s) in brackets in each sentence 1 ____ are beautiful ( the fl ...
A Realistic Transformational Grammar
... in such a way that different rule types of the grammar are associated with different processing functions . If distinct grammatical rules were not distinguished in a psychological model under some realization mapping, the grammatical distinctions would not be " realized" in any form psychologically ...
... in such a way that different rule types of the grammar are associated with different processing functions . If distinct grammatical rules were not distinguished in a psychological model under some realization mapping, the grammatical distinctions would not be " realized" in any form psychologically ...
THE NOUN AND THE DICTIONARY IN TSHIVENDA BY SHUMANI
... Can the noun be lemrnatised on a class prefix system? Can the noun be lemmatised on a stem system? ...
... Can the noun be lemrnatised on a class prefix system? Can the noun be lemmatised on a stem system? ...
اﻧواع اﻟﺟﻣل اﻟﺑﺳﯾطﺔ ﻓﻲ ﺑﻌض اﻟﻘﺻص اﻟﻘﺻﯾرة اﻟﻌرﺑﯾﺔ واﻻﻧ د
... With reference to the above mentioned idea, the system of the Arabic simple sentence structure is free-word-order, whereas, the system of the English simple sentence is a fixedword-order. 4-2 A Comparison between the Elements of Simple Sentences in English and Arabic The subject as the first element ...
... With reference to the above mentioned idea, the system of the Arabic simple sentence structure is free-word-order, whereas, the system of the English simple sentence is a fixedword-order. 4-2 A Comparison between the Elements of Simple Sentences in English and Arabic The subject as the first element ...
Lecture 17: Existential Sentences in Chinese: Syntax and Semantics
... In Lectures 15 and 16 we have seen some of the issues surrounding the semantics of “weak NPs” and the semantic interpretation of existential sentences. These two issues are closely connected, since the main criterion for dividing NPs into ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ is the so-called “Definiteness Effect” ex ...
... In Lectures 15 and 16 we have seen some of the issues surrounding the semantics of “weak NPs” and the semantic interpretation of existential sentences. These two issues are closely connected, since the main criterion for dividing NPs into ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ is the so-called “Definiteness Effect” ex ...
ON THE PROSODIC FEATURES OF THE MODERN ENGLISH
... meaning. In regard to the second instance uses of the finite verb, this phenomenon is of particular importance. It may bo further illustrated by some possible second instance uses of the Czech finite verb přišel in its basic meaning. Přišel (the preterite of přijíti [to come], a derivative of jíti [ ...
... meaning. In regard to the second instance uses of the finite verb, this phenomenon is of particular importance. It may bo further illustrated by some possible second instance uses of the Czech finite verb přišel in its basic meaning. Přišel (the preterite of přijíti [to come], a derivative of jíti [ ...
- MIT Press Journals
... ✷pl N, in contrast to ✷sg N for boy. Although such regulation of inflectional features successfully mediates, for example, subject-verb agreement or NP-internal case agreement (as in German), it is essentially word-based, because type assignments are to inflected forms; morphemes do not carry types. ...
... ✷pl N, in contrast to ✷sg N for boy. Although such regulation of inflectional features successfully mediates, for example, subject-verb agreement or NP-internal case agreement (as in German), it is essentially word-based, because type assignments are to inflected forms; morphemes do not carry types. ...
1 Representations for dominance/precedence structure
... a final state without interruption, we can see that such a network must relate every pair of elements (=arc labels) by either dominates or precedes. You can check informally that this seems to be so. If a phrase, like a Noun Phrase, does not dominate another phrase, like a Verb Phrase, then either th ...
... a final state without interruption, we can see that such a network must relate every pair of elements (=arc labels) by either dominates or precedes. You can check informally that this seems to be so. If a phrase, like a Noun Phrase, does not dominate another phrase, like a Verb Phrase, then either th ...
Two sources of scalarity within the verb phrase
... degree achievement verbs are derived from gradable adjectives and use insights from the properties of scale structure to derive the variable telicity effects that had previously been problematic under traditional accounts of aspectual structure and telicity. Meanwhile, Caudal and Nicolas (2005) and ...
... degree achievement verbs are derived from gradable adjectives and use insights from the properties of scale structure to derive the variable telicity effects that had previously been problematic under traditional accounts of aspectual structure and telicity. Meanwhile, Caudal and Nicolas (2005) and ...