PART I: Toba Batak Phrase Structure
... Toba Batak has relatively poor inflectional morphology. Since there are no morphological Case distinctions, let alone other inflectional morphemes on nouns (except perhaps for lexicalized vocatives; cf. Nababan (1981, p. 73)), almost all inflection is verbal. Table 1 taken from Nababan (1981) presen ...
... Toba Batak has relatively poor inflectional morphology. Since there are no morphological Case distinctions, let alone other inflectional morphemes on nouns (except perhaps for lexicalized vocatives; cf. Nababan (1981, p. 73)), almost all inflection is verbal. Table 1 taken from Nababan (1981) presen ...
F-LOB/Frown manual
... a list of personal name expressions (e.g. Dr. (X) Y, where X and Y are words beginning with a capital) a list of foreign or classical language expressions used in English (e.g. de jure, hoi polloi) ...
... a list of personal name expressions (e.g. Dr. (X) Y, where X and Y are words beginning with a capital) a list of foreign or classical language expressions used in English (e.g. de jure, hoi polloi) ...
2) The Complex Sentence
... that serves as a complete sentence element other than adverbial, whether it be as S, O, or C, is a nominal clause. Nominal clauses include “that” clauses, nominal relative clauses, and infinitive and participial (non-finite) clauses. There are others as well. There are Appositive clauses, which we h ...
... that serves as a complete sentence element other than adverbial, whether it be as S, O, or C, is a nominal clause. Nominal clauses include “that” clauses, nominal relative clauses, and infinitive and participial (non-finite) clauses. There are others as well. There are Appositive clauses, which we h ...
PERT Review Guide - Valencia College
... Huge credit card balances stress people out. (more than one thing) Two common situations make subject-verb agreement tricky. The first involves prepositions. ...
... Huge credit card balances stress people out. (more than one thing) Two common situations make subject-verb agreement tricky. The first involves prepositions. ...
ùit6 - Bilkent Repository
... tences in a language. Semantics describe the ways in which words are related to concepts. It helps us in selecting correct word senses and in eliminating syntac tically correct but semantically incorrect parses. Finally, pragmatic knowledge deals with the way we see the world. Morphology, semantics ...
... tences in a language. Semantics describe the ways in which words are related to concepts. It helps us in selecting correct word senses and in eliminating syntac tically correct but semantically incorrect parses. Finally, pragmatic knowledge deals with the way we see the world. Morphology, semantics ...
Comparative-Historical Analysis of the Infinitive Form in –Oov in the
... Baku, 1986” the history of the study of masdars and their paradigmatic and syntagmatic features has been carefully studied in detail (22). In the research work titled as “Comparative-historical grammar of Turkic languages.Morphology” the infinitive is interpreted as follows: “The Infinitive, as the ...
... Baku, 1986” the history of the study of masdars and their paradigmatic and syntagmatic features has been carefully studied in detail (22). In the research work titled as “Comparative-historical grammar of Turkic languages.Morphology” the infinitive is interpreted as follows: “The Infinitive, as the ...
Document
... To reiterate, quantifiers are used to say something about individuals in a set. Most students like syntax. The set (sometimes, restriction) is the set of students. This says that, if you check all of the students individually to see if each likes syntax, you’ll find that most (more than half) of the ...
... To reiterate, quantifiers are used to say something about individuals in a set. Most students like syntax. The set (sometimes, restriction) is the set of students. This says that, if you check all of the students individually to see if each likes syntax, you’ll find that most (more than half) of the ...
A semantic analysis of the verbal prefix o(b)- in Croatian
... encompassing of an object by an action; 2a) bringing into a state by fulfillment of an action; b) supply, burden, exposure to a process; c) finishing an action; 3) doing on a surface; and 4) being encompassed by an action or brought into a state.8 The link between these meanings is not indicated, al ...
... encompassing of an object by an action; 2a) bringing into a state by fulfillment of an action; b) supply, burden, exposure to a process; c) finishing an action; 3) doing on a surface; and 4) being encompassed by an action or brought into a state.8 The link between these meanings is not indicated, al ...
Grammars, Words, and Embodied Meanings: On the Uses and
... like (go like). It is not clear yet how like, in the expression be like (as in, and I’m like) should be analyzed, syntactically speaking: Is like in this context just the discourse marker that also appears in many other places (and be itself is the quotative verb), or should the phrase be like be se ...
... like (go like). It is not clear yet how like, in the expression be like (as in, and I’m like) should be analyzed, syntactically speaking: Is like in this context just the discourse marker that also appears in many other places (and be itself is the quotative verb), or should the phrase be like be se ...
Draft Parallel Structures
... phrase acting as the subject of an independent clause, is not a structure grammatically parallel to what follows or, the noun educators acting as the subject of an independent clause.] Parallel: Either English educators should require their students to read Charles Dickens or they should make them r ...
... phrase acting as the subject of an independent clause, is not a structure grammatically parallel to what follows or, the noun educators acting as the subject of an independent clause.] Parallel: Either English educators should require their students to read Charles Dickens or they should make them r ...
Computer-aided armchair linguistics
... lexicographical adviser at the Oxford University Press, began with a comparison of the risk entries - for both the noun and the verb - in ten monolingual English dictionaries, both British and American, and noticing certain discrepancies among them. We decided to find out what a large corpus could s ...
... lexicographical adviser at the Oxford University Press, began with a comparison of the risk entries - for both the noun and the verb - in ten monolingual English dictionaries, both British and American, and noticing certain discrepancies among them. We decided to find out what a large corpus could s ...
TWO CLASSES OF DOUBLE OBJECT VERBS: THE ROLE OF
... morphology. Nevertheless, the indirect object is active syntactically, i.e. it can participate in checking operations which take place in the functional domain. It is well known, for example, that in Icelandic passives dative goals undergo EPP-driven movement (quirky subjects, see Zaenen, Maling & T ...
... morphology. Nevertheless, the indirect object is active syntactically, i.e. it can participate in checking operations which take place in the functional domain. It is well known, for example, that in Icelandic passives dative goals undergo EPP-driven movement (quirky subjects, see Zaenen, Maling & T ...
The No-Nonsense Guide to Learning Chitumbuka: Volume 1
... Good news! Chitumbuka doesn’t conjugate its verbs for different subjects. Whereas in English, French, German, and Spanish (actually any language derived from Sanskrit, which includes all languages in the Indo-European language group, as far as I know), we must change the verb depending on the subjec ...
... Good news! Chitumbuka doesn’t conjugate its verbs for different subjects. Whereas in English, French, German, and Spanish (actually any language derived from Sanskrit, which includes all languages in the Indo-European language group, as far as I know), we must change the verb depending on the subjec ...
Identifying Embedded and Conjoined Complex Sentences
... and importance of complex sentences. The major portion of the article provides the definition of complex sentences, explains how to identify them, and presents cautions to take during identification. Finally, a flowchart that can be used to identify complex sentences is presented with practice sente ...
... and importance of complex sentences. The major portion of the article provides the definition of complex sentences, explains how to identify them, and presents cautions to take during identification. Finally, a flowchart that can be used to identify complex sentences is presented with practice sente ...
Inanimate nouns as subjects in Mi`gmaq
... Mi’gmaq speaker was also bilingual in English, but grew up speaking Mi’gmaq. After showing these videos, I asked follow-up questions where I varied the plurality of the subjects and objects. I also showed participants pictures, asking them to describe events with one-sentence answers. This section d ...
... Mi’gmaq speaker was also bilingual in English, but grew up speaking Mi’gmaq. After showing these videos, I asked follow-up questions where I varied the plurality of the subjects and objects. I also showed participants pictures, asking them to describe events with one-sentence answers. This section d ...
Manual for Morphological Annotation
... property - although there are some morphological implications, lots of irregularities could be expected if it was part of the verbal paradigm. The morphological analyzer covers aspect for some verbs while lacking the information for many others. If available, the aspect is indicated in the lemma. No ...
... property - although there are some morphological implications, lots of irregularities could be expected if it was part of the verbal paradigm. The morphological analyzer covers aspect for some verbs while lacking the information for many others. If available, the aspect is indicated in the lemma. No ...
1998 - Henk van Riemsdijk
... specifiers, adjuncts or whatever other dependents there are in a phrase. The second was the concept of endocentricity, the idea that there is an intrinsic connection between the categorial status of a head and that of the phrasal node characterizing the phrase that it is the head of. The first of th ...
... specifiers, adjuncts or whatever other dependents there are in a phrase. The second was the concept of endocentricity, the idea that there is an intrinsic connection between the categorial status of a head and that of the phrasal node characterizing the phrase that it is the head of. The first of th ...
LinguiSHTIK Tournament Rules
... broken down by divisions. A. COLOR WILD: A color is wild in this shake. In the word to be formed, cubes of this color may represent a single letter more than once, or it may represent different letters. For instance, one wild cube may stand for "G" and another wild cube for "E" in the same shake. ON ...
... broken down by divisions. A. COLOR WILD: A color is wild in this shake. In the word to be formed, cubes of this color may represent a single letter more than once, or it may represent different letters. For instance, one wild cube may stand for "G" and another wild cube for "E" in the same shake. ON ...
Untitled
... Number. As a general rule the plural is not dis9. tinguished from the singular, but a plural idea can be expressed whenever necessary by the addition of one of the particles ra, gata, ...
... Number. As a general rule the plural is not dis9. tinguished from the singular, but a plural idea can be expressed whenever necessary by the addition of one of the particles ra, gata, ...
1 In Press, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Discourse
... Now consider the abstract entities expressed by Fact and Proposition complements. They are situation entities introduced by verb constellations in clausal complements of certain predicates. Clausal complements referring to facts and propositions have characteristic distributional and other linguist ...
... Now consider the abstract entities expressed by Fact and Proposition complements. They are situation entities introduced by verb constellations in clausal complements of certain predicates. Clausal complements referring to facts and propositions have characteristic distributional and other linguist ...
1 - OnCourse
... guess the name of the author. Example: I am female and very tall, and my hair is red. It is also extremely long and curly. To many people, I seem quiet, but often I feel adventurous. In your Working Portfolio, find the postcard you wrote for the Write Away on page 120. Add or change predicate adject ...
... guess the name of the author. Example: I am female and very tall, and my hair is red. It is also extremely long and curly. To many people, I seem quiet, but often I feel adventurous. In your Working Portfolio, find the postcard you wrote for the Write Away on page 120. Add or change predicate adject ...
ACT English Curriculum Review Worksheets
... logical relationships (e.g., first, afterward, in response) ...
... logical relationships (e.g., first, afterward, in response) ...
Vergil Selected - Online Grammatical Appendix - 04-05
... c. The ending ābus is found (along with the regular ending) in the dative and ablative plural of dea, goddess, and fīlia, daughter. ...
... c. The ending ābus is found (along with the regular ending) in the dative and ablative plural of dea, goddess, and fīlia, daughter. ...