Object Asymmetries in Comparative Bantu Syntax
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Lesson 91 - Parts of the Sentence - Subject/Verb A
... 3. An interrogative sentence asks a question. Example: Do you know the man? 4. An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling. Declarative, imperative, or interrogative sentences can be made into exclamatory sentences by punctuating them with an exclamation point. Examples: The assignment is due tomor ...
... 3. An interrogative sentence asks a question. Example: Do you know the man? 4. An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling. Declarative, imperative, or interrogative sentences can be made into exclamatory sentences by punctuating them with an exclamation point. Examples: The assignment is due tomor ...
Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Independent Verbal Morphology Independent
... Also in this chapter 6, we will look at different forms of the copula and copular sentences (§6.4). Clauses in Menggwa Dla are most usually verb final, but it is not uncommon to find a single noun phrase occupying the post-verbal position. Copulas form a special class of verbs in Menggwa Dla. Essent ...
... Also in this chapter 6, we will look at different forms of the copula and copular sentences (§6.4). Clauses in Menggwa Dla are most usually verb final, but it is not uncommon to find a single noun phrase occupying the post-verbal position. Copulas form a special class of verbs in Menggwa Dla. Essent ...
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... even if the answer is in the affirmative, no one has ever demonstrated an actual instance of such a change, which is all the more understandable in view of the fact that the basic word order VSO is hardly ever found in ergative languages. The majority of the nominative ergative explanations derive ...
... even if the answer is in the affirmative, no one has ever demonstrated an actual instance of such a change, which is all the more understandable in view of the fact that the basic word order VSO is hardly ever found in ergative languages. The majority of the nominative ergative explanations derive ...
On past participles and their external arguments
... care of by Voice (see e.g. Kratzer, 1996, and many others) and that Voice can take a verbal participial complement. If the external argument of the participle appears as a DP in the specifier of Voice, as in active constructions, the result is an active past participle. If it instead takes the form ...
... care of by Voice (see e.g. Kratzer, 1996, and many others) and that Voice can take a verbal participial complement. If the external argument of the participle appears as a DP in the specifier of Voice, as in active constructions, the result is an active past participle. If it instead takes the form ...
Particle verbs and a theory of late lexical insertion
... analysis suggested in Booij (1990). Due to their word-formation properties, Booij considers particle verbs to be derived in the word formation component, whereas their syntactic separability forces him at the same time to assume that particle verbs are phrasal constructs. However, this observation d ...
... analysis suggested in Booij (1990). Due to their word-formation properties, Booij considers particle verbs to be derived in the word formation component, whereas their syntactic separability forces him at the same time to assume that particle verbs are phrasal constructs. However, this observation d ...
Present participles: Categorial classification and derivation Aya
... two homophonous forms of discrete categories – verbs and adjectives. It will be shown that verbal present participles are not listed in the lexicon, whereas adjectival ones are, a fact which undermines an analysis in which the participle corresponds to only one, "mixed" lexical entry, whose categori ...
... two homophonous forms of discrete categories – verbs and adjectives. It will be shown that verbal present participles are not listed in the lexicon, whereas adjectival ones are, a fact which undermines an analysis in which the participle corresponds to only one, "mixed" lexical entry, whose categori ...
1 Present participles
... two homophonous forms of discrete categories – verbs and adjectives. It will be shown that verbal present participles are not listed in the lexicon, whereas adjectival ones are, a fact which undermines an analysis in which the participle corresponds to only one, "mixed" lexical entry, whose categori ...
... two homophonous forms of discrete categories – verbs and adjectives. It will be shown that verbal present participles are not listed in the lexicon, whereas adjectival ones are, a fact which undermines an analysis in which the participle corresponds to only one, "mixed" lexical entry, whose categori ...
ŠIAULIAI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT
... Moreover, in Buck (1997) publication the conversion is considered as a morphological process when one grammatical category is converted into another ‘with no change in form to the word’. For instance, the noun perfume can be changed to the verb to perfume without undergoing visible change to the for ...
... Moreover, in Buck (1997) publication the conversion is considered as a morphological process when one grammatical category is converted into another ‘with no change in form to the word’. For instance, the noun perfume can be changed to the verb to perfume without undergoing visible change to the for ...
Words and Sentences
... Verbs ending in o typically add -es: veto → vetoes. The third person singular present indicative in English is notable cross-linguistically for being a morphologically marked form for a semantically unmarked one. That is to say the the third person singular is usually taken to be the most basic form ...
... Verbs ending in o typically add -es: veto → vetoes. The third person singular present indicative in English is notable cross-linguistically for being a morphologically marked form for a semantically unmarked one. That is to say the the third person singular is usually taken to be the most basic form ...
Yao`an Lolo Grammar Sketch
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... Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics has been read and approved by the undersigned members of the faculty of the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics ...
1 On the Identity of Roots Heidi Harley, University of - LingBuzz
... Late insertion involves making a specific claim about the connection between LF and semantic interpretation. LF can’t by itself be the input to semantic interpretation. If “cat” is inserted in the phonology at a node at which “dog” could just as well have been inserted — and if, as we assume, the di ...
... Late insertion involves making a specific claim about the connection between LF and semantic interpretation. LF can’t by itself be the input to semantic interpretation. If “cat” is inserted in the phonology at a node at which “dog” could just as well have been inserted — and if, as we assume, the di ...
1 Introduction
... 3.4.1 Trans-syllabic consonantal processes ............................................ 17 3.4.1.1 Nasalization-Spreading ........................................................... 17 3.4.1.2 Consonantal metathesis in suffixal derivatives of verbs ......... 17 3.4.2 Vocalism of suffixally derived v ...
... 3.4.1 Trans-syllabic consonantal processes ............................................ 17 3.4.1.1 Nasalization-Spreading ........................................................... 17 3.4.1.2 Consonantal metathesis in suffixal derivatives of verbs ......... 17 3.4.2 Vocalism of suffixally derived v ...
hierarchical lexical structure and interpretive mapping in machine
... that map syntactic structures onto semantic structures (or viceversa for generation). The goal of our work has been to develop a methodology for the hierarchical organization of lexical knowledge (lexical entries and mapping rules) for knowledge-based MT (Goodman and Nirenburg, 1991; Mitamura, 1989) ...
... that map syntactic structures onto semantic structures (or viceversa for generation). The goal of our work has been to develop a methodology for the hierarchical organization of lexical knowledge (lexical entries and mapping rules) for knowledge-based MT (Goodman and Nirenburg, 1991; Mitamura, 1989) ...
Passive without passive morphology
... with Object is later given in examples (7). We will show later that an enclitic alone or an NP alone can function as Subject (or Object). When both the enclitic and the free NP are present, we argue that the enclitic is the ‘real’ Subject or Object.7 Unlike Subject and Object (which are core argumen ...
... with Object is later given in examples (7). We will show later that an enclitic alone or an NP alone can function as Subject (or Object). When both the enclitic and the free NP are present, we argue that the enclitic is the ‘real’ Subject or Object.7 Unlike Subject and Object (which are core argumen ...
5. Valency Aspects of SVCs
... their behaviour, which seem to be more structured, allowing for much less freedom than concrete nouns. The patterns the abstract nouns enter are determined by their function and meaning”.2 While Helbig and Buscha were struggling to identify a distinct class of “Funktionsverben”, and Baron and Hersl ...
... their behaviour, which seem to be more structured, allowing for much less freedom than concrete nouns. The patterns the abstract nouns enter are determined by their function and meaning”.2 While Helbig and Buscha were struggling to identify a distinct class of “Funktionsverben”, and Baron and Hersl ...
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
... of combination. By this, I do not intend to deny that there are items within the language that need to be listed/memorised, or that they are associated with grammatical information. Rather, I will seek to claim that to the extent that lexical behaviour is systematic and generalisable, this is due to ...
... of combination. By this, I do not intend to deny that there are items within the language that need to be listed/memorised, or that they are associated with grammatical information. Rather, I will seek to claim that to the extent that lexical behaviour is systematic and generalisable, this is due to ...
ianguage - University of California, Berkeley
... phonetic changes are unconscious and without exception and that analogy plays a tremendous r6le in all languages, are either entirely neglected or only incidentally treated. This freedom from the restraint of the classical school of philologists is of the greatest importance and significance. It ena ...
... phonetic changes are unconscious and without exception and that analogy plays a tremendous r6le in all languages, are either entirely neglected or only incidentally treated. This freedom from the restraint of the classical school of philologists is of the greatest importance and significance. It ena ...
The origin and originality of passivization in Papiamentu
... passive morphology is in fact a native, original feature of the PA grammar. With this purpose, the central part of this paper provides examples of auxiliary-less, morphologically-marked passives from a set of Early PA (EPA) texts.3 An added aim is to draw a parallel with the passive morphology found ...
... passive morphology is in fact a native, original feature of the PA grammar. With this purpose, the central part of this paper provides examples of auxiliary-less, morphologically-marked passives from a set of Early PA (EPA) texts.3 An added aim is to draw a parallel with the passive morphology found ...
The Verbal System of the Cape Verdean Creole of Tarrafal
... In order to understand the genesis of Cape Verdean Creole (CVC), one needs a clear understanding of the colonization and settlement of the Cape Verde Islands. Settlement patterns had lasting consequences on the formation of CVC. Santiago Island was initially populated with slaves from the western co ...
... In order to understand the genesis of Cape Verdean Creole (CVC), one needs a clear understanding of the colonization and settlement of the Cape Verde Islands. Settlement patterns had lasting consequences on the formation of CVC. Santiago Island was initially populated with slaves from the western co ...
Orf, Amy - Ohio State University Knowledge Bank
... verb an auxiliary of the progressive, another author will state specifically that it is not an auxiliary. A few scholars argue that auxiliaries don't even exist, that they are only main verbs. Heine finds that auxiliaries cannot be completely distinguished from main verbs, but that a continuum, or " ...
... verb an auxiliary of the progressive, another author will state specifically that it is not an auxiliary. A few scholars argue that auxiliaries don't even exist, that they are only main verbs. Heine finds that auxiliaries cannot be completely distinguished from main verbs, but that a continuum, or " ...
Noun-Verb Complex Predicates In Kurmanji Kurdish A syntactic
... our sense), (iv) with ergative alignment, they determine person and number agreement on the predicate, and (v) only direct objects achieve subjecthood under passivization. It should be noted that (iv) is not valid for the Muş dialect as the object takes ACC case and cannot influence person-number ag ...
... our sense), (iv) with ergative alignment, they determine person and number agreement on the predicate, and (v) only direct objects achieve subjecthood under passivization. It should be noted that (iv) is not valid for the Muş dialect as the object takes ACC case and cannot influence person-number ag ...
Let`s go look at usage: A constructional approach to
... (1993:318) call ‘striking’. These (can) occur here not (only) because go-VERB satisfies an underlying morphological restriction, but because subjunctives are compatible directive functions. Thus, while non-finite contexts seem to ‘save’ otherwise ungrammatical uses with 3.SG contexts (e.g. she can g ...
... (1993:318) call ‘striking’. These (can) occur here not (only) because go-VERB satisfies an underlying morphological restriction, but because subjunctives are compatible directive functions. Thus, while non-finite contexts seem to ‘save’ otherwise ungrammatical uses with 3.SG contexts (e.g. she can g ...
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Irregular Verbs Up Close
... the patterns you need in order to know your way around the whole verb system from any form in which you happen to encounter a verb. When you learn verbs according to this principal parts pattern and the handful of derivation rules associated with each microsystem, you will be able, at a glance, to i ...
... the patterns you need in order to know your way around the whole verb system from any form in which you happen to encounter a verb. When you learn verbs according to this principal parts pattern and the handful of derivation rules associated with each microsystem, you will be able, at a glance, to i ...
Serial Verbs in Ibibio - KU ScholarWorks
... ‘Ekpe cooked and ate rice.’ Notice that there are two verbs in the constructions above. The first two verbs combine to form complex verb which means ‘arrive’ in English. The second example forms a complex predicate meaning ‘cook and eat’. Both verbs share the same subject and same object. The constr ...
... ‘Ekpe cooked and ate rice.’ Notice that there are two verbs in the constructions above. The first two verbs combine to form complex verb which means ‘arrive’ in English. The second example forms a complex predicate meaning ‘cook and eat’. Both verbs share the same subject and same object. The constr ...