Teaching Phrasal Verbs to Lower Learners
... the stress-timed nature of the English language, which may be a very difficult skill for learners with a syllable-timed L1 (Spanish, for example). It also encourages learners to notice the recurring stress patterns of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs. An example is as follows: ...
... the stress-timed nature of the English language, which may be a very difficult skill for learners with a syllable-timed L1 (Spanish, for example). It also encourages learners to notice the recurring stress patterns of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs. An example is as follows: ...
Chapter 1 Been There, Done That: Passé Proche and Passé Composé
... passé proche (near past). This tense uses the verb venir (to come) followed by the preposition de and an infinitive verb. However, when you want to tell someone what you’ve accomplished, where you’ve been, and whom you met yesterday, last week, last month, or even years ago, then you need the passé ...
... passé proche (near past). This tense uses the verb venir (to come) followed by the preposition de and an infinitive verb. However, when you want to tell someone what you’ve accomplished, where you’ve been, and whom you met yesterday, last week, last month, or even years ago, then you need the passé ...
Verb
... Or A verb that dose not need any other word to complete the sense is called an intransitive verb.(wren and martin) Or A verb is intransitive when the action stops with the agent and does not pass from the agent to something else .(J. C. Nesfield) Or, verb that do not require any object to make the s ...
... Or A verb that dose not need any other word to complete the sense is called an intransitive verb.(wren and martin) Or A verb is intransitive when the action stops with the agent and does not pass from the agent to something else .(J. C. Nesfield) Or, verb that do not require any object to make the s ...
Locative and locatum verbs revisited
... explanatory power than those previously reviewed semantic approaches. Undoubtedly, one of the most attractive qualities of Hale and Keyser’s approach is their principled answer to the limits of argument structure, which (more generally) can also be argued to constrain the configurational part of lex ...
... explanatory power than those previously reviewed semantic approaches. Undoubtedly, one of the most attractive qualities of Hale and Keyser’s approach is their principled answer to the limits of argument structure, which (more generally) can also be argued to constrain the configurational part of lex ...
Specialized converbs and adverbial subordination in Axaxdərə
... Magomedbekova 1967 and Magomedova & Abdulaeva 2007.3 The Southern Akhvakh dialects are spoken in one village each (Cegob, Tljanub and Ratlub), all situated in the Šamil’skij Rajon of Daghestan. The analysis of the specialized converbs of Akhvakh proposed in this paper is based on texts collected in ...
... Magomedbekova 1967 and Magomedova & Abdulaeva 2007.3 The Southern Akhvakh dialects are spoken in one village each (Cegob, Tljanub and Ratlub), all situated in the Šamil’skij Rajon of Daghestan. The analysis of the specialized converbs of Akhvakh proposed in this paper is based on texts collected in ...
The Preposing of Direct Object
... 2. Four types of ditransitive verbs in Chinese Before examining the transposition condition of the IO and the DO in Chinese, we will first discuss the relation between the ditransitive verbs and the two objects suggested by Tang (1979). Tang classifies the Chinese ditransitive verbs into four types. ...
... 2. Four types of ditransitive verbs in Chinese Before examining the transposition condition of the IO and the DO in Chinese, we will first discuss the relation between the ditransitive verbs and the two objects suggested by Tang (1979). Tang classifies the Chinese ditransitive verbs into four types. ...
Participle Levelling in American English: impoverishment and
... syntactic context of the auxiliary. The contexts in which the levelling is permitted by our speakers is exactly those in which the auxiliary have can be realized as of (Kayne 1997; Munn and Tortora 2014). Adopting for concreteness the analysis of the English verbals system given in Halle and Marantz ...
... syntactic context of the auxiliary. The contexts in which the levelling is permitted by our speakers is exactly those in which the auxiliary have can be realized as of (Kayne 1997; Munn and Tortora 2014). Adopting for concreteness the analysis of the English verbals system given in Halle and Marantz ...
present perfect
... 12 tenses in English Sometimes, for convenience, it is helpful to say that there are 12 tenses in English 1: Simple Present 2: Present Perfect 3: Present Continuous 4: Present Perfect Continuous 5: Simple Past 6: Past Perfect 7: Past Continuous 8: Past Perfect Continuous ...
... 12 tenses in English Sometimes, for convenience, it is helpful to say that there are 12 tenses in English 1: Simple Present 2: Present Perfect 3: Present Continuous 4: Present Perfect Continuous 5: Simple Past 6: Past Perfect 7: Past Continuous 8: Past Perfect Continuous ...
A database of semantic clusters of verb usages
... only object like rely on or indulge in will be classified as adverbial just because of its position at the end of the sentence and the practical assumption that in abstract events like take something into account it is hard to decide whether into account is an indirect object or an adverbial and mos ...
... only object like rely on or indulge in will be classified as adverbial just because of its position at the end of the sentence and the practical assumption that in abstract events like take something into account it is hard to decide whether into account is an indirect object or an adverbial and mos ...
A typology of reduplication in Cushitic
... Reduplication occurs lexically and as grammatical process. The former is presumably often the result of the latter. Grammatical reduplication includes plural formation in nouns, frequentative on verbs and habitual on verbs. The epenthetic vowel a is the most commonly used epenthetic vowel in redupli ...
... Reduplication occurs lexically and as grammatical process. The former is presumably often the result of the latter. Grammatical reduplication includes plural formation in nouns, frequentative on verbs and habitual on verbs. The epenthetic vowel a is the most commonly used epenthetic vowel in redupli ...
Chapter XI: Latin Suffixes
... They can have different aspects: completed, uncompleted, habitual, repetitive, frequent, etc. They can be observed directly, reported or inferred These and other aspects of actions are often marked on verbs in many languages. Languages usually have a method of expressing the start of an action and t ...
... They can have different aspects: completed, uncompleted, habitual, repetitive, frequent, etc. They can be observed directly, reported or inferred These and other aspects of actions are often marked on verbs in many languages. Languages usually have a method of expressing the start of an action and t ...
Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology
... when followed by a suffix with an initial vowel: cant-o, cant-i, cant-ino, whereas it is protected by the -sk- suffix: fin-i-sc-o, fin-i-sc-i, fin–i–sc-e. Although the thematic vowel, as such, is meaningless, it carries a certain amount of inflectional information. This is in conformity with the fac ...
... when followed by a suffix with an initial vowel: cant-o, cant-i, cant-ino, whereas it is protected by the -sk- suffix: fin-i-sc-o, fin-i-sc-i, fin–i–sc-e. Although the thematic vowel, as such, is meaningless, it carries a certain amount of inflectional information. This is in conformity with the fac ...
The verbal phrase of Northern Sotho: A morpho-syntactic
... Note that except for the missing tense marking, the dependent grammatical moods (consecutive, habitual and subjunctive) basically make use of the same morphemes as described here. The verb stem itself may show specific affixes fused to it, e.g. indicating some of the past constellations (allomorphs ...
... Note that except for the missing tense marking, the dependent grammatical moods (consecutive, habitual and subjunctive) basically make use of the same morphemes as described here. The verb stem itself may show specific affixes fused to it, e.g. indicating some of the past constellations (allomorphs ...
Passive and Active Voices
... Verbs are also said to be either active (The executive committee approved the new policy) or passive (The new policy was approved by the executive committee) in voice. In the active voice, the subject and verb relationship is straightforward: the subject is a be-er or a do-er and the verb moves the ...
... Verbs are also said to be either active (The executive committee approved the new policy) or passive (The new policy was approved by the executive committee) in voice. In the active voice, the subject and verb relationship is straightforward: the subject is a be-er or a do-er and the verb moves the ...
Remarks on Denominal Verbs
... To summarize the point so far: conceptual knowledge is essential to the formation of lexical meaning. This is necessary to explain how speakers unerringly assign a denominal “putting” verb to the locatum or location class. The relevant constraints on the meanings of verbs could not be derived from p ...
... To summarize the point so far: conceptual knowledge is essential to the formation of lexical meaning. This is necessary to explain how speakers unerringly assign a denominal “putting” verb to the locatum or location class. The relevant constraints on the meanings of verbs could not be derived from p ...
J93-2002 - ACL Anthology Reference Corpus
... 2.1 Finding Verbs Lerner identifies verbs in two stages, each carried out on a separate pass through the corpus. First, strings that sometimes occur as verbs are identified. Second, occurrences of those strings in context are judged as likely or unlikely to be verbal occurrences. The second stage is ...
... 2.1 Finding Verbs Lerner identifies verbs in two stages, each carried out on a separate pass through the corpus. First, strings that sometimes occur as verbs are identified. Second, occurrences of those strings in context are judged as likely or unlikely to be verbal occurrences. The second stage is ...
Types of Verbs - e-Learn Université Ouargla
... ing ending. Yet, not all verbs ending in ing are gerunds. Present participles also have the same form. It is easy therefore to confuse them with a present participle. Since gerunds are derived from verbs and have an –ing ending, they do express action. However, because gerunds function as nouns, the ...
... ing ending. Yet, not all verbs ending in ing are gerunds. Present participles also have the same form. It is easy therefore to confuse them with a present participle. Since gerunds are derived from verbs and have an –ing ending, they do express action. However, because gerunds function as nouns, the ...
ERGATIVITY AND UNACCUSATIVITY
... that Chinese lacks the morphological case alignment found in languages like Dyirbal, as shown in (1) above. He further notes that only a subclass of Chinese verbs (specifically, the unaccusatives) participate in the alternation in which a semantic object is the surface subject. Huáng Zhèngdé 黃正德 (19 ...
... that Chinese lacks the morphological case alignment found in languages like Dyirbal, as shown in (1) above. He further notes that only a subclass of Chinese verbs (specifically, the unaccusatives) participate in the alternation in which a semantic object is the surface subject. Huáng Zhèngdé 黃正德 (19 ...
lecture1424085623
... Aspect is a grammatical category that reflects the perspective from which an action/situation is seen: as complete, in progress, having duration, beginning, ending, or being repeated. English has two aspects, progressive (also called continuous) and perfective. Verbs that are not marked for aspect ( ...
... Aspect is a grammatical category that reflects the perspective from which an action/situation is seen: as complete, in progress, having duration, beginning, ending, or being repeated. English has two aspects, progressive (also called continuous) and perfective. Verbs that are not marked for aspect ( ...
chapter 35
... e.g. Bina currura mihi sunt(There are legs to two at a time= I have two legs) Quid est nomen tibi? (What is the name to you= what’s your name) Mihi est domus (I have a house) ...
... e.g. Bina currura mihi sunt(There are legs to two at a time= I have two legs) Quid est nomen tibi? (What is the name to you= what’s your name) Mihi est domus (I have a house) ...
Grammaticalization in Germanic languages Martin Hilpert 1 Genetic
... – sang), contrasts with a newer system of weak verbs that have a past tense suffix containing an alveolar or dental stop (play – played). Generally, suffixation is much more common than prefixation. All Germanic languages exhibit derivational suffixes that allow the formation of new words from nomin ...
... – sang), contrasts with a newer system of weak verbs that have a past tense suffix containing an alveolar or dental stop (play – played). Generally, suffixation is much more common than prefixation. All Germanic languages exhibit derivational suffixes that allow the formation of new words from nomin ...
lexical decomposition
... A different take is to assume that every verb has an eventive argument, so that one gets rain(e) for a weather verb, dance(e, x) for an intransitive verb, and watch(e, x, y) for a transitive verb. This eventive argument is usually bound by the mood or tense operator applying on verbs. The individual ...
... A different take is to assume that every verb has an eventive argument, so that one gets rain(e) for a weather verb, dance(e, x) for an intransitive verb, and watch(e, x, y) for a transitive verb. This eventive argument is usually bound by the mood or tense operator applying on verbs. The individual ...
Power Verbs for Career Consultants
... One of the peculiar characteristics of our culture is how we deal with communicating with one another. Communication is perhaps the most important human function in which we engage and we don’t do it very well and aren’t trained very well. Because we don’t trust our instincts driven by our amygdala ...
... One of the peculiar characteristics of our culture is how we deal with communicating with one another. Communication is perhaps the most important human function in which we engage and we don’t do it very well and aren’t trained very well. Because we don’t trust our instincts driven by our amygdala ...
Draft for M. Rappaport Hovav, E. Doron, and I. Sichel (ed). Syntax
... resultant state is often only an implication for many of utterances that would translate as involving entailed endstates in English (Singh 1991; Smith 1997; Talmy 2000; Koenig and Muansuwan 2002). ...
... resultant state is often only an implication for many of utterances that would translate as involving entailed endstates in English (Singh 1991; Smith 1997; Talmy 2000; Koenig and Muansuwan 2002). ...