Kara Passmore Linguistics Senior Thesis POSSESSIVE-ING and ACCUSATIVE-ING Constructions in English
... Since indefinite and demonstrative pronouns have no possessive fonus, obviously POSSING is not available as construction for those subjects (example from Nunnally 1991: ...
... Since indefinite and demonstrative pronouns have no possessive fonus, obviously POSSING is not available as construction for those subjects (example from Nunnally 1991: ...
Diagramming Sentences: An Intro
... DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES Soon, you will be diagramming sentences in your sleep and be the envy of the entire neighborhood! As a writer, you will be surprised at the additional confidence you gain by mastering these visual renderings of sentence patterns. ...
... DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES Soon, you will be diagramming sentences in your sleep and be the envy of the entire neighborhood! As a writer, you will be surprised at the additional confidence you gain by mastering these visual renderings of sentence patterns. ...
“The Use of the Gerund in the English Language and ways of its
... The gerund is a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses an action or a state of being. ...
... The gerund is a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses an action or a state of being. ...
ŠIAULIAI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT
... formation of denominal verb in Lithuanian grammar. In addition denominal verbs have been examined from the speech production to mental lexicon by Aitchison (1994). However, there has been little attention paid to the phenomenon of denominal verb in translation from English into Lithuanian, thus the ...
... formation of denominal verb in Lithuanian grammar. In addition denominal verbs have been examined from the speech production to mental lexicon by Aitchison (1994). However, there has been little attention paid to the phenomenon of denominal verb in translation from English into Lithuanian, thus the ...
- Scholar@UC
... THE object of Grammar is to furni sh rul es for th e prope r use of language. The authors of this treati se, keepi ng th is obj ec t in mind, have rej ected every thing wh ic h, in their view, is not ~tr i e t ly subservient to it. The formid able array of definitions and "fine print," which encnmb ...
... THE object of Grammar is to furni sh rul es for th e prope r use of language. The authors of this treati se, keepi ng th is obj ec t in mind, have rej ected every thing wh ic h, in their view, is not ~tr i e t ly subservient to it. The formid able array of definitions and "fine print," which encnmb ...
monday, august 29
... tends to weigh down the sentence because nothing happens in such sentences. There are however, valid reasons for using the passive. The passive is very useful if the writer wants to put the emphasis on the action instead of the subject or when the subject or doer of an action is unknown. This discus ...
... tends to weigh down the sentence because nothing happens in such sentences. There are however, valid reasons for using the passive. The passive is very useful if the writer wants to put the emphasis on the action instead of the subject or when the subject or doer of an action is unknown. This discus ...
The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
... What makes a language ancient? The term conjures up images, often romantic, of archeologists feverishly copying hieroglyphs by torchlight in a freshly discovered burial chamber; of philologists dangling over a precipice in some remote corner of the earth, taking impressions of an inscription carved ...
... What makes a language ancient? The term conjures up images, often romantic, of archeologists feverishly copying hieroglyphs by torchlight in a freshly discovered burial chamber; of philologists dangling over a precipice in some remote corner of the earth, taking impressions of an inscription carved ...
Words that are easy to misuse
... maybe/may be Maybe (one word) is an adverb meaning "perhaps." May be (two words) is a verb phrase. ...
... maybe/may be Maybe (one word) is an adverb meaning "perhaps." May be (two words) is a verb phrase. ...
Understanding English Grammar - Assets
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... University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. ...
Design Principles for a Spanish Treebank
... 2. Inter-categorial ambiguity. It mainly concerns differences between determiners and pronouns, and between nouns and adjectives, because these are the most frequent ambiguity classes. 3. Intra-categorial ambiguity. Since the tagger only works with the first two digits (category and subcategory) of ...
... 2. Inter-categorial ambiguity. It mainly concerns differences between determiners and pronouns, and between nouns and adjectives, because these are the most frequent ambiguity classes. 3. Intra-categorial ambiguity. Since the tagger only works with the first two digits (category and subcategory) of ...
Grade 8 - Carson
... A collective noun refers to a single group, so it acts as a singular noun. When a collective noun is plural (refers to more than one group), it acts as a plural noun. ...
... A collective noun refers to a single group, so it acts as a singular noun. When a collective noun is plural (refers to more than one group), it acts as a plural noun. ...
Independent and Dependent Clauses
... The words that make the above clauses incomplete are since, after, and because. (Without these words, the above examples would be independent clauses—We love Thai food. We go bowling. She wants organic produce.) The words that make these clauses dependent are called dependent-making words. They are ...
... The words that make the above clauses incomplete are since, after, and because. (Without these words, the above examples would be independent clauses—We love Thai food. We go bowling. She wants organic produce.) The words that make these clauses dependent are called dependent-making words. They are ...
1 10. Hortative (Excerpt from Eggleston, 2013) The hortative is the
... potential modes. Note that this only occurs with Ø conjugation verbs, and never with na, ga, or ga conjugation verbs. These are notated in the verb theme in parentheses, following the verb’s conjugation prefix and verb type as: CVV Imp/Hort/Pot. For example, the theme for the first example given bel ...
... potential modes. Note that this only occurs with Ø conjugation verbs, and never with na, ga, or ga conjugation verbs. These are notated in the verb theme in parentheses, following the verb’s conjugation prefix and verb type as: CVV Imp/Hort/Pot. For example, the theme for the first example given bel ...
english back-formation: recent trends in usage
... In English morphology a distinction is sometimes made between major and minor wordformation processes. The criteria for assigning word-formation processes to the first or the second group are rarely specified, if at all. It is fairly safe to assume that productivity will be seen as one of the primar ...
... In English morphology a distinction is sometimes made between major and minor wordformation processes. The criteria for assigning word-formation processes to the first or the second group are rarely specified, if at all. It is fairly safe to assume that productivity will be seen as one of the primar ...
S3 Sem 2, repaso
... que / en caso de que / antes de que / a no ser que / a menos que / sin que. With the following clauses, only use the subjunctive if the sentence refers to something that hasn’t happened yet (i.e., if the other clause is in the future, or a command): después de que / cuando / en cuanto / tan pronto ...
... que / en caso de que / antes de que / a no ser que / a menos que / sin que. With the following clauses, only use the subjunctive if the sentence refers to something that hasn’t happened yet (i.e., if the other clause is in the future, or a command): después de que / cuando / en cuanto / tan pronto ...
Practice sheets, for the sentences in this booklet, are available in a
... speech by reciting definitions in jingle form. These rhythmic definitions are chanted or sung by the class to help them initially remember the role of each part of speech. Question and Answer Flow In the Question and Answer Flow, an oral series of questions and answers determines the role each word ...
... speech by reciting definitions in jingle form. These rhythmic definitions are chanted or sung by the class to help them initially remember the role of each part of speech. Question and Answer Flow In the Question and Answer Flow, an oral series of questions and answers determines the role each word ...
Tagset Manual
... Reenen and Maaike Mulder. An extensive description of the corpus can be found in (Rem, 2003; p. 21-38). The CRM was annotated semi-automatically and corrected various times. The annotation with word class tags was done originally with numerical codes, but these were recently transformed to a nowaday ...
... Reenen and Maaike Mulder. An extensive description of the corpus can be found in (Rem, 2003; p. 21-38). The CRM was annotated semi-automatically and corrected various times. The annotation with word class tags was done originally with numerical codes, but these were recently transformed to a nowaday ...
Discrete Skills - Woosterapsi2011
... quiet, while telling the stockbroker, “I can’t tolerate any more excuses. If I don’t receive the check immediately, I am going to have to speak to your manager when I’m in New York next week.” And sure enough, the following week, there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and I was sitti ...
... quiet, while telling the stockbroker, “I can’t tolerate any more excuses. If I don’t receive the check immediately, I am going to have to speak to your manager when I’m in New York next week.” And sure enough, the following week, there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and I was sitti ...
The use of gaan+ infinitive in narratives of older bilingual children of
... Slightly more than half of the children produce gaan+infinitive in their jokes, namely 36 out of 69. Moroccan and Turkish children do not differ with respect to the use versus the non-use of gaan+infinitive. Further, the high frequency of gaan+infinitive is striking, in particular, the 36 children p ...
... Slightly more than half of the children produce gaan+infinitive in their jokes, namely 36 out of 69. Moroccan and Turkish children do not differ with respect to the use versus the non-use of gaan+infinitive. Further, the high frequency of gaan+infinitive is striking, in particular, the 36 children p ...
English passive voice
... is formed periphrastically: the usual form uses the auxiliary verb be (or get) together with the past participle of the main verb. For example, Caesar was stabbed by Brutus uses the passive voice. The subject denotes the person (Caesar) affected by the action of the verb. The agent is expressed here ...
... is formed periphrastically: the usual form uses the auxiliary verb be (or get) together with the past participle of the main verb. For example, Caesar was stabbed by Brutus uses the passive voice. The subject denotes the person (Caesar) affected by the action of the verb. The agent is expressed here ...
WRITING DETAILS
... Everyone knows that one of the worst places where the ecosystems are being disrupted is where the great whales are being systematically exter minated. Ocean-going refineries are the aspect of the fishing industry that some whalers are exterminating these wonderful mammals. Especially, whalers from J ...
... Everyone knows that one of the worst places where the ecosystems are being disrupted is where the great whales are being systematically exter minated. Ocean-going refineries are the aspect of the fishing industry that some whalers are exterminating these wonderful mammals. Especially, whalers from J ...
Clause processing in complex sentences
... until the end of the clause is found; (3) starting with the verb phrase, identifying the verb type and locating its subject and complements. Word by word processing is one of the most traditional approaches in linguistics and can be attributed to Hockett (1955) and his finite-state grammar. Accordin ...
... until the end of the clause is found; (3) starting with the verb phrase, identifying the verb type and locating its subject and complements. Word by word processing is one of the most traditional approaches in linguistics and can be attributed to Hockett (1955) and his finite-state grammar. Accordin ...
On the superficiality of Welsh agreement
... Agreement is a complex phenomenon, which has been discussed quite extensively; see e.g. Corbett (2006). Among the questions that arise about it is: What level of representation is relevant? It is widely assumed that agreement normally involves abstract levels. For Minimalism, it is one manifestation ...
... Agreement is a complex phenomenon, which has been discussed quite extensively; see e.g. Corbett (2006). Among the questions that arise about it is: What level of representation is relevant? It is widely assumed that agreement normally involves abstract levels. For Minimalism, it is one manifestation ...
Syntax2
... They are formed by putting words from different lexical categories together PSRs (Phrase Structure Rules) differ from language to language. ...
... They are formed by putting words from different lexical categories together PSRs (Phrase Structure Rules) differ from language to language. ...