The Bisecting CP Hypothesis
... the matching of relative clause internal and external arguments in a more systematic way. This analysis combines aspects of van Craenenbroeck’s (2007) split CP analysis and Bianchi’s (1999) determiner incorporation analysis and extends them across the full range of wh-subordinate clauses, including ...
... the matching of relative clause internal and external arguments in a more systematic way. This analysis combines aspects of van Craenenbroeck’s (2007) split CP analysis and Bianchi’s (1999) determiner incorporation analysis and extends them across the full range of wh-subordinate clauses, including ...
Print this article - Septentrio Academic Publishing
... Once the status of tenses as operators was put into doubt, several alternative views were proposed. The first one was advanced by Partee (1973) herself: treating tenses as referential objects, similar to pronouns, which make reference to (specific) particular times. In (6), the speaker does not inte ...
... Once the status of tenses as operators was put into doubt, several alternative views were proposed. The first one was advanced by Partee (1973) herself: treating tenses as referential objects, similar to pronouns, which make reference to (specific) particular times. In (6), the speaker does not inte ...
From a children`s first dictionary to a lexical
... Lexical knowledge is knowledge expressed by words. Words can be used in many different ways. They can be nice or mean, whispered or shouted, direct or ambiguous. They can also be said or implied. Words help us discover, interpret, and remember the world around us. They can trigger many images, feeli ...
... Lexical knowledge is knowledge expressed by words. Words can be used in many different ways. They can be nice or mean, whispered or shouted, direct or ambiguous. They can also be said or implied. Words help us discover, interpret, and remember the world around us. They can trigger many images, feeli ...
Labeling Parts of Speech Using Untrained Annotators on
... Creating this data can be time consuming and expensive. Recent work has used untrained annotators on Mechanical Turk to quickly and cheaply create data for NLP tasks, such as word sense disambiguation, word similarity, machine translation, and PP attachment. In this experiment, we test whether untra ...
... Creating this data can be time consuming and expensive. Recent work has used untrained annotators on Mechanical Turk to quickly and cheaply create data for NLP tasks, such as word sense disambiguation, word similarity, machine translation, and PP attachment. In this experiment, we test whether untra ...
C. The Verb
... "Unaccusative verb | Special kind of intransitive verb. Semantically, its subject does not actively initiate or is not actively responsible for the action of the verb; rather, it has properties which it shares with the direct object of a transitive verb (or better, with the grammatical subject of it ...
... "Unaccusative verb | Special kind of intransitive verb. Semantically, its subject does not actively initiate or is not actively responsible for the action of the verb; rather, it has properties which it shares with the direct object of a transitive verb (or better, with the grammatical subject of it ...
parameters and micro-parameters in arabic sentence structure
... In particular, the essential architecture of sentences expressing the dependency relations verbs and associated elements have with the 'functional' portion of sentences (i.e., tense/modality properties) is universal in that these dependency relations will be expressed on the basis of the same featur ...
... In particular, the essential architecture of sentences expressing the dependency relations verbs and associated elements have with the 'functional' portion of sentences (i.e., tense/modality properties) is universal in that these dependency relations will be expressed on the basis of the same featur ...
Finite control in Korean - Iowa Research Online
... graduate program of the linguistics department at the University of Iowa. First, from the bottom of my heart I would like to thank William D. Davies, my academic and thesis adviser. Throughout my MA and PhD courses, he has given clear and even elegant lectures on Syntax. He is truly responsible for ...
... graduate program of the linguistics department at the University of Iowa. First, from the bottom of my heart I would like to thank William D. Davies, my academic and thesis adviser. Throughout my MA and PhD courses, he has given clear and even elegant lectures on Syntax. He is truly responsible for ...
Kristine Eide
... The aim of this thesis is to describe the change in Portuguese word order with unaccusative verbs from a predominantly Verb – Subject (henceforth VS) pattern to a predominantly Subject – Verb (henceforth SV) pattern that took place between the 16th and the 20th century. It will be shown that a chang ...
... The aim of this thesis is to describe the change in Portuguese word order with unaccusative verbs from a predominantly Verb – Subject (henceforth VS) pattern to a predominantly Subject – Verb (henceforth SV) pattern that took place between the 16th and the 20th century. It will be shown that a chang ...
Grammaticalization and - White Rose eTheses Online
... owe everything that has happened to me here at York, since it was he whom I got in touch with in Spring 2014 when I first expressed my desire to do a postgraduate degree in Linguistics at the University of York and he very kindly and generously encouraged me to apply and offered me much help for my ...
... owe everything that has happened to me here at York, since it was he whom I got in touch with in Spring 2014 when I first expressed my desire to do a postgraduate degree in Linguistics at the University of York and he very kindly and generously encouraged me to apply and offered me much help for my ...
Irish Dependency Treebanking and Parsing Teresa Lynn
... 4.10 Dependency structure for cleft construction (prepositional fronting). . 70 4.11 Dependency structure for cleft construction with copula drop. . . . . 70 4.12 Dependency structure for copula complementiser form. . . . . . . . . 71 4.13 Dependency structure for copular-subordinator. . . . . . . . ...
... 4.10 Dependency structure for cleft construction (prepositional fronting). . 70 4.11 Dependency structure for cleft construction with copula drop. . . . . 70 4.12 Dependency structure for copula complementiser form. . . . . . . . . 71 4.13 Dependency structure for copular-subordinator. . . . . . . . ...
TYPES OF SCRAMBLING IN KOREAN SYNTAX EUNSUK LEE A
... “scrambling.” It offers a unified approach to some fundamental limitations on scrambling both in clauses and in noun phrases of Korean. These would have been attributed to a headedness parameter in earlier syntactic theories but are problematic in more recent syntactic theories in the minimalist fra ...
... “scrambling.” It offers a unified approach to some fundamental limitations on scrambling both in clauses and in noun phrases of Korean. These would have been attributed to a headedness parameter in earlier syntactic theories but are problematic in more recent syntactic theories in the minimalist fra ...
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Workshop on
... To address the questions outlined in section 1, we turned to SynTagRus, a large treebank of Russian (860,720 words).3 Since our goal is ultimately to study Russian aspect diachronically, we wanted to have the data in the same format that our Old Russian data are in,4 effectively creating a treebank ...
... To address the questions outlined in section 1, we turned to SynTagRus, a large treebank of Russian (860,720 words).3 Since our goal is ultimately to study Russian aspect diachronically, we wanted to have the data in the same format that our Old Russian data are in,4 effectively creating a treebank ...
English Grammar Learn to
... English teacher to a set of ultra-strict nuns armed with thick grammar books. She lives in New York City, where with great difficulty she refrains from correcting signs containing messages such as “Bagel’s for sale.” She is the author of more than 40 books, including English Grammar Workbook For Dum ...
... English teacher to a set of ultra-strict nuns armed with thick grammar books. She lives in New York City, where with great difficulty she refrains from correcting signs containing messages such as “Bagel’s for sale.” She is the author of more than 40 books, including English Grammar Workbook For Dum ...
Spanish!Grammar!
... selected on the basis of Buchanan’s Graded Spanish Word List (1927). Some 84% of these words are found in the basic first thousand of Buchanan’s Word List, and nearly 15% in the second thousand, a very few words have been introduced arbitrarily. These 620 words are meant to be a working, active voca ...
... selected on the basis of Buchanan’s Graded Spanish Word List (1927). Some 84% of these words are found in the basic first thousand of Buchanan’s Word List, and nearly 15% in the second thousand, a very few words have been introduced arbitrarily. These 620 words are meant to be a working, active voca ...
table of contents - Università degli Studi di Verona
... to actually use language to describe the world. In some sense, everything comes from the lexicon. This view entails also that lexicon information is largely universal (except, of course, for the sound coding), has minimum idiosyncrasy, and is governed by generalizations that are relevant also for th ...
... to actually use language to describe the world. In some sense, everything comes from the lexicon. This view entails also that lexicon information is largely universal (except, of course, for the sound coding), has minimum idiosyncrasy, and is governed by generalizations that are relevant also for th ...
Existence - Semantics Archive
... reference (and in particularly descriptions formed with intentional verbs as in the woman John mentioned does not exist). However, this paper is not the place to defend such a view further.5 What is important in the present context is simply the difference displayed by existential quantification and ...
... reference (and in particularly descriptions formed with intentional verbs as in the woman John mentioned does not exist). However, this paper is not the place to defend such a view further.5 What is important in the present context is simply the difference displayed by existential quantification and ...
A GRAMMAR OF THE HITTITE LANGUAGE Part 1
... days of the field) but also of individual copies of those texts, often written many years after the text’s composition. We have sought to give full recognition to established findings in this area, but our initial intention of assigning Old, Middle, or New Hittite status to all cited forms in the para ...
... days of the field) but also of individual copies of those texts, often written many years after the text’s composition. We have sought to give full recognition to established findings in this area, but our initial intention of assigning Old, Middle, or New Hittite status to all cited forms in the para ...
View/Download PDF - Digital Learning Department
... As they engage in more advanced conversations, write paragraphs and stories, and translate to and from Spanish, students improve their vocabulary and grammar. Intense listening comprehension exercises aid in und ...
... As they engage in more advanced conversations, write paragraphs and stories, and translate to and from Spanish, students improve their vocabulary and grammar. Intense listening comprehension exercises aid in und ...
DesCartes (Combined) Subject: Language Usage Goal: Sen
... (possessive pronoun, term not used; e.g., Mary and Sam ate their lunch. To whom does the lunch belong?) Uses the objective case of a pronoun (term not used) in written compositions (her, him, them) Uses subjective pronoun (nominative, term not used) I correctly in compound subjects Recognizes correc ...
... (possessive pronoun, term not used; e.g., Mary and Sam ate their lunch. To whom does the lunch belong?) Uses the objective case of a pronoun (term not used) in written compositions (her, him, them) Uses subjective pronoun (nominative, term not used) I correctly in compound subjects Recognizes correc ...
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... construction. Section 4.1 will discuss noun phrases of the type een paar boeken ‘a couple of books’, in which two nouns may occur adjacently, without an intervening preposition. Section 4.2 will discuss binominal constructions that do require the presence of a preposition, such as the N of a N const ...
... construction. Section 4.1 will discuss noun phrases of the type een paar boeken ‘a couple of books’, in which two nouns may occur adjacently, without an intervening preposition. Section 4.2 will discuss binominal constructions that do require the presence of a preposition, such as the N of a N const ...
A Lexical Theory of Phrasal Idioms
... between the syntactic plasticity of an idiom and its semantic compositionality.3 In footnote 2 above, we mentioned that kick of kick the bucket does not passivize, whereas give of give up the ghost shows some signs of passivizing. We noted above that these expressions convey roughly the same meanin ...
... between the syntactic plasticity of an idiom and its semantic compositionality.3 In footnote 2 above, we mentioned that kick of kick the bucket does not passivize, whereas give of give up the ghost shows some signs of passivizing. We noted above that these expressions convey roughly the same meanin ...
Case Selection for the Direct Object in Russian Negative Clauses. Part
... negative clauses? How strongly do they influence the choice of case? How do they interact? Questions like these have attracted the attention of many scholars in the field of Russian language studies throughout the past century. The first serious attempts to find an explanation were made by A. I. Tho ...
... negative clauses? How strongly do they influence the choice of case? How do they interact? Questions like these have attracted the attention of many scholars in the field of Russian language studies throughout the past century. The first serious attempts to find an explanation were made by A. I. Tho ...
Particle Patterns in English A Comprehensive
... A heart-felt thank you to Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman for showing interest in my work and so making me feel part of the Construction Grammar in-crowd. I would also like to express my thanks to everyone who tried to keep my academic life and my life outside university in balance—and occasionally ...
... A heart-felt thank you to Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman for showing interest in my work and so making me feel part of the Construction Grammar in-crowd. I would also like to express my thanks to everyone who tried to keep my academic life and my life outside university in balance—and occasionally ...
PSEUDO-REDUPLICATION, REDUPLICATION AND REPETITION
... definite article and the proximal demonstrative, may act as an emphasizer adding some extra stress to adverbs and demonstratives” and that “it follows the word it modifies as in 'sei 'sei 'de ‘very’, 'ase'de 'de ‘now’, 'we'de 'de DEM PROX”. However, as mentioned by Wellens (2003: 70) herself, “'de h ...
... definite article and the proximal demonstrative, may act as an emphasizer adding some extra stress to adverbs and demonstratives” and that “it follows the word it modifies as in 'sei 'sei 'de ‘very’, 'ase'de 'de ‘now’, 'we'de 'de DEM PROX”. However, as mentioned by Wellens (2003: 70) herself, “'de h ...