Case of Personal Pronouns
... as the goddess of agriculture? 2Hades, (who/whom) ruled the underworld, admired Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, and he kidnapped her. 3Persephone, (who/whom) Hades made queen of the underworld, could not escape. 4Demeter, (who/whom) had grown angry at the loss of her daughter, refused to allow ...
... as the goddess of agriculture? 2Hades, (who/whom) ruled the underworld, admired Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, and he kidnapped her. 3Persephone, (who/whom) Hades made queen of the underworld, could not escape. 4Demeter, (who/whom) had grown angry at the loss of her daughter, refused to allow ...
ASPECTS OF THE SEMANTICS OF THE AKAN
... It is these considerations and others which constitute the object of this paper. It focuses primarily on the semanticity of the Akan phrasal verb and especially how it responds to the questions of idiomaticity and transparency or relativity. It examines the issue of sense relations as far as the ph ...
... It is these considerations and others which constitute the object of this paper. It focuses primarily on the semanticity of the Akan phrasal verb and especially how it responds to the questions of idiomaticity and transparency or relativity. It examines the issue of sense relations as far as the ph ...
Zipf`s law and the grammar of languages: A quantitative
... 2.2 Zipf’s law and the degree of inflection The idea that such grammatical differences can be reflected in quantitative analyses goes back to the earliest writings of Zipf (1932, 1965 [1935]). He considered the number and distributions of unique word forms in different languages to be linguistically ...
... 2.2 Zipf’s law and the degree of inflection The idea that such grammatical differences can be reflected in quantitative analyses goes back to the earliest writings of Zipf (1932, 1965 [1935]). He considered the number and distributions of unique word forms in different languages to be linguistically ...
PPT - Department of information engineering and computer science
... Optional items are enclosed in square brackets: [ ] Items repeating 0 or more times are enclosed in curly brackets and/or suffixed with an asterisk: { }* ...
... Optional items are enclosed in square brackets: [ ] Items repeating 0 or more times are enclosed in curly brackets and/or suffixed with an asterisk: { }* ...
Experiments for Dependency Parsing of Greek
... sentences have been manually validated for POS, morphosyntactic features and lemmas. The tagset used contains 584 combinations of basic POS tags (Table 2) and features that capture the rich morphology of the Greek language. As an example, the full tag AjBaMaSgNm for a word like ταραχώδης/turbulent d ...
... sentences have been manually validated for POS, morphosyntactic features and lemmas. The tagset used contains 584 combinations of basic POS tags (Table 2) and features that capture the rich morphology of the Greek language. As an example, the full tag AjBaMaSgNm for a word like ταραχώδης/turbulent d ...
RELC Journal
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
Parallelism Practice
... 7. To the incoming college student, fraternity initiation may seem like a fun activity, but a dangerous and sometimes fatal act is how the ...
... 7. To the incoming college student, fraternity initiation may seem like a fun activity, but a dangerous and sometimes fatal act is how the ...
English-Verb-Tenses-DOCX
... Es muy fácil, ¿no es cierto? This tense is very easy to learn because it is normally the first tense that people learn when learning any language, plus the Present Tense in English is nearly identical to el tiempo Presente in Spanish. In this course we are not focusing on verb conjugations because y ...
... Es muy fácil, ¿no es cierto? This tense is very easy to learn because it is normally the first tense that people learn when learning any language, plus the Present Tense in English is nearly identical to el tiempo Presente in Spanish. In this course we are not focusing on verb conjugations because y ...
english verb tenses for spanish speakers
... Es muy fácil, ¿no es cierto? This tense is very easy to learn because it is normally the first tense that people learn when learning any language, plus the Present Tense in English is nearly identical to el tiempo Presente in Spanish. In this course we are not focusing on verb conjugations because y ...
... Es muy fácil, ¿no es cierto? This tense is very easy to learn because it is normally the first tense that people learn when learning any language, plus the Present Tense in English is nearly identical to el tiempo Presente in Spanish. In this course we are not focusing on verb conjugations because y ...
Gustar and similar verbs
... Now, it so happens that, by convention, the subject (in this case El español) is generally placed at the end of the sentence with this type of construction. ...
... Now, it so happens that, by convention, the subject (in this case El español) is generally placed at the end of the sentence with this type of construction. ...
Two Kinds of Prepositional Phrases:
... in the gym. In this sentence the two prepositional phrases “on Tuesdays” and “in the gym” both modify the verb “practiced.” In the first example, the prepositional phrase answers the question when, in the second, where. In other cases, you might have two prepositional phrases in succession; the firs ...
... in the gym. In this sentence the two prepositional phrases “on Tuesdays” and “in the gym” both modify the verb “practiced.” In the first example, the prepositional phrase answers the question when, in the second, where. In other cases, you might have two prepositional phrases in succession; the firs ...
Passive Sentences
... 1. The object of the active verb is the subject of the passive verb (“English” in the example sentences below). Therefore, verbs which cannot be followed by objects (intransitive verbs) cannot be used in passive voice. These are some common intransitive verbs: appear, arrive, come, cry, die, go, hap ...
... 1. The object of the active verb is the subject of the passive verb (“English” in the example sentences below). Therefore, verbs which cannot be followed by objects (intransitive verbs) cannot be used in passive voice. These are some common intransitive verbs: appear, arrive, come, cry, die, go, hap ...
C80-1009 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... the register on any earlier call are unavailable to the current call. As he points out, this is a simple and natural way of treating any construction capable of unlimited embedding. The results of this treatment (exactly the same as a HOLD list which is a push-down stack) of relative clauses is that ...
... the register on any earlier call are unavailable to the current call. As he points out, this is a simple and natural way of treating any construction capable of unlimited embedding. The results of this treatment (exactly the same as a HOLD list which is a push-down stack) of relative clauses is that ...
A note on non-canonical passives: the case of the get
... It has been noted that the get-passive is not permitted with stative verbs and verbs that do not allow for the subject of the construction to be interpreted as affected. Some researchers even classify the construction as an adversative passive. As Siewierska (1984: 161) notes, the get-passives descr ...
... It has been noted that the get-passive is not permitted with stative verbs and verbs that do not allow for the subject of the construction to be interpreted as affected. Some researchers even classify the construction as an adversative passive. As Siewierska (1984: 161) notes, the get-passives descr ...
The Icelandic Subjunctive
... The universal reading is compatible with both the hafa perfect and the vera búinn að perfect (although there are cases where only the vera búinn að perfect yields an unambiguously universal reading, including the reference time). In spite of its prominence in the perfect tense literature, the distin ...
... The universal reading is compatible with both the hafa perfect and the vera búinn að perfect (although there are cases where only the vera búinn að perfect yields an unambiguously universal reading, including the reference time). In spite of its prominence in the perfect tense literature, the distin ...
Journal of Memory and Language
... I know that time heal all wounds. Notice that in (5, 6) the errors occur in a subordinate clause. The word order subject–object–verb is not only the canonical word order (Bennis & Hoekstra, 1989; Koster, 1974) but is also the only possible word order in Dutch subordinate clauses. There are also some ...
... I know that time heal all wounds. Notice that in (5, 6) the errors occur in a subordinate clause. The word order subject–object–verb is not only the canonical word order (Bennis & Hoekstra, 1989; Koster, 1974) but is also the only possible word order in Dutch subordinate clauses. There are also some ...
Laura A. Michaelis University of Colorado at Boulder Proceedings of
... call such a maximum period of a state a ‘phase’ of a state. Explicit quantizing is done with the help of durational adverbials. [...] It is part of the semantics of durational adverbials that they map state predicates into event-type predicates. [...] In contrast, the latter, implicit, way of quanti ...
... call such a maximum period of a state a ‘phase’ of a state. Explicit quantizing is done with the help of durational adverbials. [...] It is part of the semantics of durational adverbials that they map state predicates into event-type predicates. [...] In contrast, the latter, implicit, way of quanti ...
Practical Latin
... Say the Latin vowel sounds aloud. What are Latin vowel pairs called? What does the letter J sound like in Latin? What are the two sounds for the letter C? for the letter G? What is an action word called? How do you know if a word is a verb in Latin? What is a word that is a person, place, or thing? ...
... Say the Latin vowel sounds aloud. What are Latin vowel pairs called? What does the letter J sound like in Latin? What are the two sounds for the letter C? for the letter G? What is an action word called? How do you know if a word is a verb in Latin? What is a word that is a person, place, or thing? ...
WRITING DETAILS
... F. Mark every sentence in one of your essays in which you vary from usual word order. Then revise these sentences to the actor-action pattern and judge whether or not the change improves the essay. C. Select a brief incident in the current news or something you recently witnessed. Tell it as a narra ...
... F. Mark every sentence in one of your essays in which you vary from usual word order. Then revise these sentences to the actor-action pattern and judge whether or not the change improves the essay. C. Select a brief incident in the current news or something you recently witnessed. Tell it as a narra ...
A Comparative Study of Imperative Sentences in English and
... sentences. It can also occur with the subject of the sentence. In 2nd person it refers to the agent of the action: e.g. Sara, read the letter/ Sara, let’s read the letter, in 3d person the vocative is related to another outside person: e.g Sara, let him (your brother) read the letter. Sometimes they ...
... sentences. It can also occur with the subject of the sentence. In 2nd person it refers to the agent of the action: e.g. Sara, read the letter/ Sara, let’s read the letter, in 3d person the vocative is related to another outside person: e.g Sara, let him (your brother) read the letter. Sometimes they ...
volume 15 - wecol 2003
... VP will lack LPD constructions; this prediction bears out (see Agbayani and Zoerner (2000) for data and further discussion). Third, anything external to the VP coordination (such as the subject or adverbs such as often) will appear to be part of the "deleted" material because it has scope over the ...
... VP will lack LPD constructions; this prediction bears out (see Agbayani and Zoerner (2000) for data and further discussion). Third, anything external to the VP coordination (such as the subject or adverbs such as often) will appear to be part of the "deleted" material because it has scope over the ...
HSK Grammatical relations Primus
... syntactic relations. Common to all approaches to grammatical relations is that they have been considered to be relationships between two elements of a clause, so that subject is only a short term for the subject of the predicate or the subject of the clause. Traditionally, grammatical relations are ...
... syntactic relations. Common to all approaches to grammatical relations is that they have been considered to be relationships between two elements of a clause, so that subject is only a short term for the subject of the predicate or the subject of the clause. Traditionally, grammatical relations are ...
Inalienable Possession and Locative Aspect
... The difference between French and English with respect to IP would be reduced to a difference in the status of the definite article: the definite determiner in English is always [+R], whereas it is [±R] in French. In previous work, I proposed that the definite determiner is not a pronoun in English. ...
... The difference between French and English with respect to IP would be reduced to a difference in the status of the definite article: the definite determiner in English is always [+R], whereas it is [±R] in French. In previous work, I proposed that the definite determiner is not a pronoun in English. ...
English Grammar 2
... ١٧. Some modern grammars include determiners among the parts of speech. Determiners are words like a, an, the, this, that, these, those, every, each, some, any, my, his, one, two, etc., which determine or limit the meaning of the nouns that follow. In this book, as in many traditional grammars, all ...
... ١٧. Some modern grammars include determiners among the parts of speech. Determiners are words like a, an, the, this, that, these, those, every, each, some, any, my, his, one, two, etc., which determine or limit the meaning of the nouns that follow. In this book, as in many traditional grammars, all ...