Locative Invenion, Definiteness, and Free Word Order in Russian
... passivized transitive verb but do not contain the by-phrase (NP in Instrumental case, the Russian counterpart of the English by-phrase) are better with respect to locative inversion than those in which the by-phrase is expressed. 5 (19) a. ...
... passivized transitive verb but do not contain the by-phrase (NP in Instrumental case, the Russian counterpart of the English by-phrase) are better with respect to locative inversion than those in which the by-phrase is expressed. 5 (19) a. ...
Chapter 2
... 2Radford (1997) assumes that words carry three sets of grammatical features: head-features (which describe their intrinsic grammatical properties), complement-features (which describe the kind of complements that they take) and specifier-features (which describe the kind of specifier/subject they ca ...
... 2Radford (1997) assumes that words carry three sets of grammatical features: head-features (which describe their intrinsic grammatical properties), complement-features (which describe the kind of complements that they take) and specifier-features (which describe the kind of specifier/subject they ca ...
Basic English Grammar , Book 1
... Grammar is a very old field of study. Did you know that the sentence was first divided into subject and verb by Plato, the famed philosopher from ancient Greece? That was about 2,400 years ago! Ever since then, students all over the world have found it worthwhile to study the structure of words and ...
... Grammar is a very old field of study. Did you know that the sentence was first divided into subject and verb by Plato, the famed philosopher from ancient Greece? That was about 2,400 years ago! Ever since then, students all over the world have found it worthwhile to study the structure of words and ...
A Practical grammar of the pali language
... but because of that they are also very difficult to use as a reference when you need to look up a noun's declension, or a verb's conjugation. This book because of its practical and comprehensive coverage of the elements of the PŒli language in complete chapters is a very useful reference. This book ...
... but because of that they are also very difficult to use as a reference when you need to look up a noun's declension, or a verb's conjugation. This book because of its practical and comprehensive coverage of the elements of the PŒli language in complete chapters is a very useful reference. This book ...
questions to the differentiational test in theoretical grammar
... practical grammar, which prescribes some definite rules of usage, theoretical grammar analyses language facts without giving any prescriptions. It often does not offer ready-made solutions, and there are grammatical phenomena that are interpreted in different ways by different scholars. The reason f ...
... practical grammar, which prescribes some definite rules of usage, theoretical grammar analyses language facts without giving any prescriptions. It often does not offer ready-made solutions, and there are grammatical phenomena that are interpreted in different ways by different scholars. The reason f ...
A Brief Syntactic Typology of Philippine Languages
... marked by either a Genitive or a Locative case form, although some languages such as Ivatan have a distinct Oblique case form that is used to express this extra complement. It carries the Correspondent case relation, and is typically interpreted as indefinite or as partitive. Constructions of this s ...
... marked by either a Genitive or a Locative case form, although some languages such as Ivatan have a distinct Oblique case form that is used to express this extra complement. It carries the Correspondent case relation, and is typically interpreted as indefinite or as partitive. Constructions of this s ...
Variation In Korean Negation - S
... about the verb. Case A is where the verb is both monosyllabic and nonstative; Case B is where the verb is monosyllabic but stative; Case C is where the verb is nonstative but polysyllabic; and Case D is where the verb is neither monosyllabic nor nonstative. These cases represent a hierarchy which is ...
... about the verb. Case A is where the verb is both monosyllabic and nonstative; Case B is where the verb is monosyllabic but stative; Case C is where the verb is nonstative but polysyllabic; and Case D is where the verb is neither monosyllabic nor nonstative. These cases represent a hierarchy which is ...
The Spanish DELPH-IN Grammar - Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat
... are described by a set of lexical types that distinguish fine-grained classes of Spanish verbs that occur in intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, and predicative constructions. These lexical types are defined by a set of subtypes that specify argument relationships (arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3) and a ...
... are described by a set of lexical types that distinguish fine-grained classes of Spanish verbs that occur in intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, and predicative constructions. These lexical types are defined by a set of subtypes that specify argument relationships (arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3) and a ...
VERBS AND OBJECTS IN SEMANTIC AGREEMENT: MINOR
... It would indeed seem difficult to predict to what extent and in which lexical areas languages may vary in this respect, although it would also seem natural to expect, for example, that if certain animals play a considerable role in a culture, the language might have predicates for the exclusive purp ...
... It would indeed seem difficult to predict to what extent and in which lexical areas languages may vary in this respect, although it would also seem natural to expect, for example, that if certain animals play a considerable role in a culture, the language might have predicates for the exclusive purp ...
Present Simple
... Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind. We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past. These ac ...
... Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind. We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past. These ac ...
A Grammatical Description of Dameli Emil Perder
... recorded texts and word lists, but questionnaires and paradigms of word forms have also been used. The main emphasis is on describing the features of the language as they appear in texts and other material, rather than on conforming them to any theory, but the analysis is informed by functional anal ...
... recorded texts and word lists, but questionnaires and paradigms of word forms have also been used. The main emphasis is on describing the features of the language as they appear in texts and other material, rather than on conforming them to any theory, but the analysis is informed by functional anal ...
Morphologically conditioned V–Ø alternation in Hebrew - Outi Bat-El
... Plural is an inflectional category in Hebrew, as it is relevant for agreement (Anderson 1992), and thus its assignment could be suspected to be a syntactic operation on a surface form. However, there are plenty of inanimate nouns, which are exceptional with regard to the gender subcategorization of ...
... Plural is an inflectional category in Hebrew, as it is relevant for agreement (Anderson 1992), and thus its assignment could be suspected to be a syntactic operation on a surface form. However, there are plenty of inanimate nouns, which are exceptional with regard to the gender subcategorization of ...
A Brief History of Icelandic Weather Verbs
... Weather verbs in Icelandic are not “no-argument” predicates, but occur with a quasi-argument (non-referential pro) and can also take full NPs, in nominative, accusative or dative case. The use of the cases can be explained by the different origins of these verbs, most of which can be traced back to ...
... Weather verbs in Icelandic are not “no-argument” predicates, but occur with a quasi-argument (non-referential pro) and can also take full NPs, in nominative, accusative or dative case. The use of the cases can be explained by the different origins of these verbs, most of which can be traced back to ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank Project
... There/RB, a melee ensued. Existential and adverbial there can both occur together in the same sentence. EXAMPLE: ...
... There/RB, a melee ensued. Existential and adverbial there can both occur together in the same sentence. EXAMPLE: ...
Towards an understanding of the meaning of nominal tense
... adjunct NP/DPs in clauses headed by verbs, (iii) is productive across the whole word class and not restricted to a small subset of forms, and (iv) if it marks “a distinction in one or more of the categories of tense, aspect, and mood, where these categories are standardly defined as they would be fo ...
... adjunct NP/DPs in clauses headed by verbs, (iii) is productive across the whole word class and not restricted to a small subset of forms, and (iv) if it marks “a distinction in one or more of the categories of tense, aspect, and mood, where these categories are standardly defined as they would be fo ...
Universal Annotation of Slavic Verb Forms
... The first work on Slavic-specific issues in UD was Zeman (2015). The present article focuses on part-of-speech tags and features of individual words, not on interword dependency relations. Some verb forms are analytical (periphrastic), made of two or more individual words. We occasionally use the peri ...
... The first work on Slavic-specific issues in UD was Zeman (2015). The present article focuses on part-of-speech tags and features of individual words, not on interword dependency relations. Some verb forms are analytical (periphrastic), made of two or more individual words. We occasionally use the peri ...
pptx
... Children must learn to interpret sentences that contain constructions that can be difficult to interpret just by using simple strategies, such as passives and sentences with implied subjects and implied objects. Pronouns can also be difficult, since there are different rules of interpretation for pl ...
... Children must learn to interpret sentences that contain constructions that can be difficult to interpret just by using simple strategies, such as passives and sentences with implied subjects and implied objects. Pronouns can also be difficult, since there are different rules of interpretation for pl ...
GMAT-Sentence-Correction-Categories-by-Narendran - Skill-Guru
... A modifier describes, clarifies, or gives more detail about a concept. They are built around descriptive words such as adjectives and adverbs ...
... A modifier describes, clarifies, or gives more detail about a concept. They are built around descriptive words such as adjectives and adverbs ...
A semantic analysis of the verbal prefix o(b)- in Croatian
... for some meanings of o(b)-verbs. We first look at the semantic profile of the prefix o(b)-in verbs expressing spatial motion, and then at the profile of verbs with a less obvious spatial profile, or abstract or metaphorical meanings: significantly, in most cases, the same verbs have a concrete and a ...
... for some meanings of o(b)-verbs. We first look at the semantic profile of the prefix o(b)-in verbs expressing spatial motion, and then at the profile of verbs with a less obvious spatial profile, or abstract or metaphorical meanings: significantly, in most cases, the same verbs have a concrete and a ...
Grammar: Course compendium
... In this section, you will practise basic grammar terms and concepts. Learning the terminology is not a goal in itself. It’s an aid to helping you understand and discuss grammar rules and difficulties. For this reason, it’s not so much a question of learning certain terminology by heart, but rather a ...
... In this section, you will practise basic grammar terms and concepts. Learning the terminology is not a goal in itself. It’s an aid to helping you understand and discuss grammar rules and difficulties. For this reason, it’s not so much a question of learning certain terminology by heart, but rather a ...
verb forms and verb aspects in ngizim
... The first person singular and second person singular and plural are the only persons with AUX pronouns. Third person has no obligatory preverbal pronoun, though independent pronouns may be used to disambiguate gender and number if there is no noun subject. There are no auxpros for first person plura ...
... The first person singular and second person singular and plural are the only persons with AUX pronouns. Third person has no obligatory preverbal pronoun, though independent pronouns may be used to disambiguate gender and number if there is no noun subject. There are no auxpros for first person plura ...
subject - HCC Learning Web
... clause, only whom or which may be used. • A preposition is never immediately followed by that or who. • Croatia is the country from which my family hails. • NOT • Croatia is the country from that my family hails. ...
... clause, only whom or which may be used. • A preposition is never immediately followed by that or who. • Croatia is the country from which my family hails. • NOT • Croatia is the country from that my family hails. ...
Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach
... happened to you? I was riding down the hill and some yuppie got out of his Porsche and doored me. It seems then that even though most of us seem to know what nouns and verbs are, it is not easy to come up with a precise definition of these two lexical categories. This apparently trivial question has ...
... happened to you? I was riding down the hill and some yuppie got out of his Porsche and doored me. It seems then that even though most of us seem to know what nouns and verbs are, it is not easy to come up with a precise definition of these two lexical categories. This apparently trivial question has ...
Chapter 8 The verb complex
... 8.4 Adverbial-like functions of verb serialisation The verb core often consists of a single verb. However, verbs may also combine in serial constructions. The causative and mutual markers discussed in 8.3 modify individual verbs, regardless of whether the verb occurs in a serial construction, or whe ...
... 8.4 Adverbial-like functions of verb serialisation The verb core often consists of a single verb. However, verbs may also combine in serial constructions. The causative and mutual markers discussed in 8.3 modify individual verbs, regardless of whether the verb occurs in a serial construction, or whe ...