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... they are) in place of their, the personal pronoun. They’re installing our new e-mail software tomorrow. Do not use the contraction there’s (shortened form for there is or there has) in place of theirs, the possessive ...
... they are) in place of their, the personal pronoun. They’re installing our new e-mail software tomorrow. Do not use the contraction there’s (shortened form for there is or there has) in place of theirs, the possessive ...
The ergative features of Papuan and Austronesian languages
... as a kind of 'extended ergative'. The ergative marker hne- is not exteed to all S arguments3, but only in certain circumstances, to specify or insist on the agentive force of the S argument. 1.3. Polynesian languages Western Polynesian languages are well-known – probably as much as Australian langua ...
... as a kind of 'extended ergative'. The ergative marker hne- is not exteed to all S arguments3, but only in certain circumstances, to specify or insist on the agentive force of the S argument. 1.3. Polynesian languages Western Polynesian languages are well-known – probably as much as Australian langua ...
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... On the other hand one hand the same person may be refered to as I, you, or he depending upon who speakers, this and that may indicate the same object, depending one the relative position of the speaker and the object. Thus pronoun can be defined as words whose meaning are very general and stable but ...
... On the other hand one hand the same person may be refered to as I, you, or he depending upon who speakers, this and that may indicate the same object, depending one the relative position of the speaker and the object. Thus pronoun can be defined as words whose meaning are very general and stable but ...
IELP Course Information
... 1). Use the following verb tenses correctly in speaking and writing a. simple present b. present continuous c. present prefect d. simple past e. past perfect 2). Use infinitives and gerunds 3). Use participial adjectives 4). Use the verb wish correctly in present and future tenses 5). Apply copyedit ...
... 1). Use the following verb tenses correctly in speaking and writing a. simple present b. present continuous c. present prefect d. simple past e. past perfect 2). Use infinitives and gerunds 3). Use participial adjectives 4). Use the verb wish correctly in present and future tenses 5). Apply copyedit ...
Petronius, Satyricon - , the Matron of Ephesus
... story, and she appears to be both dignified and of an established social position; her age is perhaps more ambiguous, as is the question of her motherhood. Petronius, however, is not writing about a single matron (although the story will focus on only one. Rather, Petronius, who is known for his sat ...
... story, and she appears to be both dignified and of an established social position; her age is perhaps more ambiguous, as is the question of her motherhood. Petronius, however, is not writing about a single matron (although the story will focus on only one. Rather, Petronius, who is known for his sat ...
Notes on the formation and usage of subjunctive
... All the verbs we have used so far, with the exception of the imperative, have been in the Indicative Mood, that is, they indicate states of affairs that are presented as factual. Now consider the following two sentences in English: I insist that he is here, and I insist that he be here. In the first ...
... All the verbs we have used so far, with the exception of the imperative, have been in the Indicative Mood, that is, they indicate states of affairs that are presented as factual. Now consider the following two sentences in English: I insist that he is here, and I insist that he be here. In the first ...
Journal of Linguistics Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in
... We will show that this non-argumental behavior is intimately connected to the semantics of Spanish and Catalan object BNs, which share semantic properties that have been associated with some types of incorporated nominals (see e.g. Van Geenhoven 1996, Dayal 2003, Farkas & de Swart 2003, Dobrovie-Sor ...
... We will show that this non-argumental behavior is intimately connected to the semantics of Spanish and Catalan object BNs, which share semantic properties that have been associated with some types of incorporated nominals (see e.g. Van Geenhoven 1996, Dayal 2003, Farkas & de Swart 2003, Dobrovie-Sor ...
Sentence Sense
... When Ricardo was making flan, he used a couple of the eggs that we had brought from the farm. There is only one left, and we have finished all the other food in the house, so we will have a very small supper. The verbs in the sentences above can be spread out on a time line like this: ...
... When Ricardo was making flan, he used a couple of the eggs that we had brought from the farm. There is only one left, and we have finished all the other food in the house, so we will have a very small supper. The verbs in the sentences above can be spread out on a time line like this: ...
A Grammar Research Guide for Ngwi Languages
... Pelkey’s analysis shows that intergenerational transmission is the most significant factor in assessing language vitality. This implies that a speech group’s population size is less useful information in such an assessment. Where detailed information about intergenerational language use is not avail ...
... Pelkey’s analysis shows that intergenerational transmission is the most significant factor in assessing language vitality. This implies that a speech group’s population size is less useful information in such an assessment. Where detailed information about intergenerational language use is not avail ...
Manual for Morphological Annotation
... We are pleased to publish the first version of the manual for morphological annotation of Czech sentences. We believe that such guidelines can be of use to the users of Prague Dependency Treebank 1.0 (PDT 1.0), as well as for preparation of new data. Let us recall the most important steps we passed ...
... We are pleased to publish the first version of the manual for morphological annotation of Czech sentences. We believe that such guidelines can be of use to the users of Prague Dependency Treebank 1.0 (PDT 1.0), as well as for preparation of new data. Let us recall the most important steps we passed ...
Morphological Aspects of English Adjectival
... events, as well as the language for considering social theory contribute their share of specific adjectival compounds almost as much as the language of creative writing or fiction. The largest portion of the corpus material is composed of two novels by a prolific American writer with a praised and w ...
... events, as well as the language for considering social theory contribute their share of specific adjectival compounds almost as much as the language of creative writing or fiction. The largest portion of the corpus material is composed of two novels by a prolific American writer with a praised and w ...
English Grammar 2
... 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 determiners except a, an and the are classed among adjectives ...
... 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 determiners except a, an and the are classed among adjectives ...
NLPA-Syntax
... WHOLE NP the angry men with their black banners, whereas if I say They banged the van with their black banners and you reply Yes, they banged it really hard, the pronoun it refers only to the van. The final kind of phrase I want to consider is less obvious (to me anyway). Consider the sentence Caref ...
... WHOLE NP the angry men with their black banners, whereas if I say They banged the van with their black banners and you reply Yes, they banged it really hard, the pronoun it refers only to the van. The final kind of phrase I want to consider is less obvious (to me anyway). Consider the sentence Caref ...
Hai ti! - wingolog
... Congratulations! You have, in your hands, the product of two years of love, sweat, tears, and copious amounts of coffee. We wrote this language guide while serving in Owambo as volunteer teachers. Our reasons were partly self-serving – writing about the language helped us to understand it better our ...
... Congratulations! You have, in your hands, the product of two years of love, sweat, tears, and copious amounts of coffee. We wrote this language guide while serving in Owambo as volunteer teachers. Our reasons were partly self-serving – writing about the language helped us to understand it better our ...
The Category of Participles
... lexicon while others are derived in the syntax. One of Wasow's main motivations for a syntaxlexicon split was that some participles behave just like adjectives, so called adjectival participles, while other had at least some verbal properties, so called verbal participles. Wasow assumed that categor ...
... lexicon while others are derived in the syntax. One of Wasow's main motivations for a syntaxlexicon split was that some participles behave just like adjectives, so called adjectival participles, while other had at least some verbal properties, so called verbal participles. Wasow assumed that categor ...
Towards a structural typology of verb classes
... verbs, except animacy in some languages. For instance, the Algonquian languages from North America make a formal distinction between stems with animate and those with inanimate objects (e.g. waapam ‘see sth. animate’ vs. waapaht ‘see sth. inanimate’ in Plains Cree). The most robust subclassification ...
... verbs, except animacy in some languages. For instance, the Algonquian languages from North America make a formal distinction between stems with animate and those with inanimate objects (e.g. waapam ‘see sth. animate’ vs. waapaht ‘see sth. inanimate’ in Plains Cree). The most robust subclassification ...
Anaphora Resolution for Question Answering
... looking for. This comes in the form of a short information segment (e.g., an English sentence, a graph, a picture), rather than an entire document. START has been very successful in its interaction with users, but its domain of knowledge is fairly limited and expanding its knowledge base requires hu ...
... looking for. This comes in the form of a short information segment (e.g., an English sentence, a graph, a picture), rather than an entire document. START has been very successful in its interaction with users, but its domain of knowledge is fairly limited and expanding its knowledge base requires hu ...
1 Possessive voice in Wolof: A rara type of valency operator 1
... I helped him build his house. Note that the causative derivation –le is different from the possessive le-derivation presented in this study. In possessive le-construction, the possessive relationships are induced, whereas in causative –le, if there is a possessive relationship between two entities, ...
... I helped him build his house. Note that the causative derivation –le is different from the possessive le-derivation presented in this study. In possessive le-construction, the possessive relationships are induced, whereas in causative –le, if there is a possessive relationship between two entities, ...
The expression of Motion and Path components by orientation
... Comitative, and Vocative; specific particles include Topic and other particles which express the beginning or the end of a process (‘from… until’), a restriction (‘only’), an addition (‘also’), a random selection (‘any’) etc. A case particle cannot be combined with another case particle, but it can ...
... Comitative, and Vocative; specific particles include Topic and other particles which express the beginning or the end of a process (‘from… until’), a restriction (‘only’), an addition (‘also’), a random selection (‘any’) etc. A case particle cannot be combined with another case particle, but it can ...
Bible Daily Grammar Practice Level V
... Daily Grammar Practice (DGP) is a different way to learn grammar. Students get one sentence to work with each week, and each day they spend just a few minutes doing something different with that same sentence. This process is difficult at first, but it gets easier with practice. More importantly, it ...
... Daily Grammar Practice (DGP) is a different way to learn grammar. Students get one sentence to work with each week, and each day they spend just a few minutes doing something different with that same sentence. This process is difficult at first, but it gets easier with practice. More importantly, it ...
paper - Ohlone - University of California, Santa Cruz
... has no syntactic realization. As Stenson observes (, ), reflexive pronouns may not have the autonomous argument as their antecedent: ...
... has no syntactic realization. As Stenson observes (, ), reflexive pronouns may not have the autonomous argument as their antecedent: ...
02Story - Faculty Web Sites at the University of Virginia
... to successful manifestation of creativity, problem solving and decision making, whether their nature be of the physical environment, the social setting or the individual attribute. Scientific attempts to measure some of these variables, especially the social 'climate' and the individual's potential ...
... to successful manifestation of creativity, problem solving and decision making, whether their nature be of the physical environment, the social setting or the individual attribute. Scientific attempts to measure some of these variables, especially the social 'climate' and the individual's potential ...
She loves you, -ja -ja -ja: objective conjugation and pragmatic
... The verb agreement asymmetry consists of the contrast of so-called subjective and objective conjugation, where the paradigm of the latter also comprises the suffix -ja (with its front vowel variant -i). The distribution of the two conjugations is sensitive for those referential dimensions such as de ...
... The verb agreement asymmetry consists of the contrast of so-called subjective and objective conjugation, where the paradigm of the latter also comprises the suffix -ja (with its front vowel variant -i). The distribution of the two conjugations is sensitive for those referential dimensions such as de ...
... This book starts from the beginning of sentence diagraming and shows the student how to diagram simple sentences with just a subject and a verb. It then progresses through adjectives and adverbs, all the way to compound sentences. There are explanations of how to draw the diagram for each part of sp ...
448 prepositions (1): introduction
... It is not always easy to know which preposition to use after a particular noun, verb or adjective. Here are some of the most common combinations which cause difficulty to students of English. Alternatives are sometimes possible, and American and British usage sometimes differ. There is only room for ...
... It is not always easy to know which preposition to use after a particular noun, verb or adjective. Here are some of the most common combinations which cause difficulty to students of English. Alternatives are sometimes possible, and American and British usage sometimes differ. There is only room for ...