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... A Dialect refers to a version of a language that is specific to the geographic region or social background of the user. Vernacular is used as an adjective to describe a language as the everyday language of a region and also as a noun to mean the everyday language itself. (―Her use of slang demonstra ...
... A Dialect refers to a version of a language that is specific to the geographic region or social background of the user. Vernacular is used as an adjective to describe a language as the everyday language of a region and also as a noun to mean the everyday language itself. (―Her use of slang demonstra ...
Canonical Inflectional Classes - Cascadilla Proceedings Project
... situation is overdifferentiation (Bloomfield 1933: 223-224). Lexemes which are overdifferentiated stand out from the rest of the group in that they have an additional cell in their paradigm, say a dual, in a language where most nouns have only singular and plural. And finally, in the canonical situa ...
... situation is overdifferentiation (Bloomfield 1933: 223-224). Lexemes which are overdifferentiated stand out from the rest of the group in that they have an additional cell in their paradigm, say a dual, in a language where most nouns have only singular and plural. And finally, in the canonical situa ...
A Short Descriptive Grammar of the Svan Language
... £wan-ær (singular mu£wan) and to their language as lu£nu nin. Although their language is mutually unintelligible with Georgian — in fact, it is no closer to Georgian than Icelandic is to Modern English — the Svans consider themselves to be part of the Georgian ethnic group, and were registered as Ge ...
... £wan-ær (singular mu£wan) and to their language as lu£nu nin. Although their language is mutually unintelligible with Georgian — in fact, it is no closer to Georgian than Icelandic is to Modern English — the Svans consider themselves to be part of the Georgian ethnic group, and were registered as Ge ...
LEXICAL NEGATION IN ENGLISH: THE CASE OF UN- AND IN-
... Abstract: In- and un- are two negative prefixes that may appear to be quite similar both semantically and morphologically. In some cases, particularly when the adjectives are used predicatively, in- and un- can easily be glossed by not: ‘This is impossible’ is more or less interchangeable with ‘This ...
... Abstract: In- and un- are two negative prefixes that may appear to be quite similar both semantically and morphologically. In some cases, particularly when the adjectives are used predicatively, in- and un- can easily be glossed by not: ‘This is impossible’ is more or less interchangeable with ‘This ...
Robust Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in
... CINTIL DeepBank and Redwoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 SVMTool accuracy on ERG and LX-Gram . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Classifier accuracy, top-n verb types, ERG and LX-Gram . . . . 103 ...
... CINTIL DeepBank and Redwoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 SVMTool accuracy on ERG and LX-Gram . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Classifier accuracy, top-n verb types, ERG and LX-Gram . . . . 103 ...
This article is an overview of the current state of
... ‘Of course, (his string of sledges) will be long, he is rich.’ 2. Verbal noun / participle + mantə: ‘as if it were true’ The second type of “inversive negative” constructions is typical for Nganasan. It uses either one of the verbal nouns or the Present or Past Participle plus the postposition mantə ...
... ‘Of course, (his string of sledges) will be long, he is rich.’ 2. Verbal noun / participle + mantə: ‘as if it were true’ The second type of “inversive negative” constructions is typical for Nganasan. It uses either one of the verbal nouns or the Present or Past Participle plus the postposition mantə ...
Lambrecht 2000
... thematic role restrictions on the possible subject of a PF sentence. As we will see, this fact crucially distinguishes the PF from the SF category. It is important to acknowledge that (3) defines a construction, i.e. a grammatical object mapping a given form with a given function. As mentioned earlie ...
... thematic role restrictions on the possible subject of a PF sentence. As we will see, this fact crucially distinguishes the PF from the SF category. It is important to acknowledge that (3) defines a construction, i.e. a grammatical object mapping a given form with a given function. As mentioned earlie ...
- SOAS Research Online
... In this analysis I describe three aspects and their markers in siSwati, two of which have a common feature as they both link two separate time periods and are called dual-time period aspects. One is the PERSISTIVE, morphologically encoded by -sa-, which is welldocumented and studied cross-linguistic ...
... In this analysis I describe three aspects and their markers in siSwati, two of which have a common feature as they both link two separate time periods and are called dual-time period aspects. One is the PERSISTIVE, morphologically encoded by -sa-, which is welldocumented and studied cross-linguistic ...
The evolution of differential object marking in Spanish Klaus von
... Bossong (1985) coins the concept of “Differential Object Marking” or DOM for the observation that the direct object in languages without obligatory case marking may be marked by morphosyntactic means under certain conditions. Spanish does not have a case system to mark the different grammatical rela ...
... Bossong (1985) coins the concept of “Differential Object Marking” or DOM for the observation that the direct object in languages without obligatory case marking may be marked by morphosyntactic means under certain conditions. Spanish does not have a case system to mark the different grammatical rela ...
Hmong Elaborate Expressions are Coordinate Compounds
... Southeast Asian languages—the speaker of English can hardly help but be impressed by the pervasiveness of parallelism in this discourse tradition. Almost everything seems to be repeated, often in balanced pairs. Of course, parallelism in language is by no means confined to Southeast Asia—as a stylis ...
... Southeast Asian languages—the speaker of English can hardly help but be impressed by the pervasiveness of parallelism in this discourse tradition. Almost everything seems to be repeated, often in balanced pairs. Of course, parallelism in language is by no means confined to Southeast Asia—as a stylis ...
essential grammar for senior students
... his employer had not given him proper training = before the accident had been an unlawful killing = before the trial had died = before the trial Paul Bennett was killed after he had climbed into a giant industrial tumble dryer to free a piece of cloth trapped inside. The machine started incidentally ...
... his employer had not given him proper training = before the accident had been an unlawful killing = before the trial had died = before the trial Paul Bennett was killed after he had climbed into a giant industrial tumble dryer to free a piece of cloth trapped inside. The machine started incidentally ...
The ellipsis alternation: remnants with and without prepositions
... a. What did Ben come across? (cf. *Across what did Ben come?) b. Ben came across a bunch of old documents, but I don’t know whose. (cf. ?Ben came across a bunch of old documents, but I don’t know across whose.) ...
... a. What did Ben come across? (cf. *Across what did Ben come?) b. Ben came across a bunch of old documents, but I don’t know whose. (cf. ?Ben came across a bunch of old documents, but I don’t know across whose.) ...
Passive - University of Hawaii
... mention that some other definitions of passive will lead to a different conclusion. Let us consider two other definitions of passive below before proceeding with our discussion. First, consider the following definition: the syntactic affixation of the passive morpheme absorbs the external argument o ...
... mention that some other definitions of passive will lead to a different conclusion. Let us consider two other definitions of passive below before proceeding with our discussion. First, consider the following definition: the syntactic affixation of the passive morpheme absorbs the external argument o ...
Contextually-Dependent Lexical Semantics
... valid conclusions; it might depend on a particular person’s model of the world, the context in which that inference takes place, or on his knowledge. The interpretation of the intransitive John drinks, for example, can depend on the discourse or situational context in which it is uttered, or might b ...
... valid conclusions; it might depend on a particular person’s model of the world, the context in which that inference takes place, or on his knowledge. The interpretation of the intransitive John drinks, for example, can depend on the discourse or situational context in which it is uttered, or might b ...
The Domari Language of Aleppo - Dartmouth College Library
... Syria, Turkey and probably also Iraq and Iran, although there is no direct evidence that Domari is still spoken in these last two countries (see below). The so-called Gypsies of Egypt ( ar in Modern Standard Arabic) and the of Sudan both speak Arabic but kept a secret lexicon, partly based on Domari ...
... Syria, Turkey and probably also Iraq and Iran, although there is no direct evidence that Domari is still spoken in these last two countries (see below). The so-called Gypsies of Egypt ( ar in Modern Standard Arabic) and the of Sudan both speak Arabic but kept a secret lexicon, partly based on Domari ...
Armenian. Modern Eastern Armenian
... Armenian has a three-term plosive system which opposes voiced, voiceless aspirated and plain voiceless stops although a number of dialects have substituted ejectives (glottalised stops) for the latter. The noun has five cases, the dative incorporating the functions of a genitive and, in the case of ...
... Armenian has a three-term plosive system which opposes voiced, voiceless aspirated and plain voiceless stops although a number of dialects have substituted ejectives (glottalised stops) for the latter. The noun has five cases, the dative incorporating the functions of a genitive and, in the case of ...
Unacceptable Ambiguity (1973)
... assign an interpretation and the sentence is rejected. This seems initially plausible; but note that it is precisely this sort of semantic anomaly that selectional restrictions are supposed to account for. Thus the anomaly of (29) is accounted for by a selectional restriction operating at the level ...
... assign an interpretation and the sentence is rejected. This seems initially plausible; but note that it is precisely this sort of semantic anomaly that selectional restrictions are supposed to account for. Thus the anomaly of (29) is accounted for by a selectional restriction operating at the level ...
The -ing dynasty: Rebuilding the semantics of nominalizations
... Again, this contrasts with most of the literature on nominalizations, which has focused on -ing nominals in argument positions. For instance, all of the examples of nominalization in Kratzer 1996 are in argument position. Finally, while verbal gerund forms, such as in (1a–1c), and nominal gerund for ...
... Again, this contrasts with most of the literature on nominalizations, which has focused on -ing nominals in argument positions. For instance, all of the examples of nominalization in Kratzer 1996 are in argument position. Finally, while verbal gerund forms, such as in (1a–1c), and nominal gerund for ...
Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses, Second
... FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. McGraw-Hill and its licensors do not warrant or guarantee that the functions contained in the work will meet your requirements or that its operation will be uninterrupted or error free. Neither McGraw-Hill nor its licensors shall be liable to you or anyone else for any inac ...
... FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. McGraw-Hill and its licensors do not warrant or guarantee that the functions contained in the work will meet your requirements or that its operation will be uninterrupted or error free. Neither McGraw-Hill nor its licensors shall be liable to you or anyone else for any inac ...
On Word Definition in Children and Adults
... the hyperonym, and semantic content of the definiens). Findings for Study 1 indicated a generalized effect of the morphological category of the definiendum on the syntactic and semantic dimensions of the definition. Level of abstraction only explained significantly the differences in the components ...
... the hyperonym, and semantic content of the definiens). Findings for Study 1 indicated a generalized effect of the morphological category of the definiendum on the syntactic and semantic dimensions of the definition. Level of abstraction only explained significantly the differences in the components ...
1 The cycle without containment: Latin perfect stems Donca Steriade
... proposed by Chomsky, Halle and Lukoff (1956). This architecture can be maintained in the OT context (Kenstowicz 1996, Kiparsky 2002): bases are subconstituents of their derivatives, and the phonology evaluates constituents, working from the innermost one outwards, forcing later evaluations to inheri ...
... proposed by Chomsky, Halle and Lukoff (1956). This architecture can be maintained in the OT context (Kenstowicz 1996, Kiparsky 2002): bases are subconstituents of their derivatives, and the phonology evaluates constituents, working from the innermost one outwards, forcing later evaluations to inheri ...
COMMON NOUNS, CLASSIFIERS, AND QUANTIFICATION IN
... are determined by its logical representations at LF, and that there is a close connection between syntactic structures and semantic representations, along the lines of the Compositionality Principle (Frege 1960). According to the principle, the meaning of an expression is to be derived systematicall ...
... are determined by its logical representations at LF, and that there is a close connection between syntactic structures and semantic representations, along the lines of the Compositionality Principle (Frege 1960). According to the principle, the meaning of an expression is to be derived systematicall ...