Chapter 2: Linguistic Background
... Consider again the case where adjectives can be used as nouns, as in the green. Not all adjectives can be used in such a way. For example, the noun phrase the hot can be used, given a context where there are hot and cold plates, in a sentence such as The hot are on the table. But this refers to the ...
... Consider again the case where adjectives can be used as nouns, as in the green. Not all adjectives can be used in such a way. For example, the noun phrase the hot can be used, given a context where there are hot and cold plates, in a sentence such as The hot are on the table. But this refers to the ...
Syntactic Translation Strategies - TamPub
... with it. For example, the verb tykätä (to like) requires an object in the Elative case form. ...
... with it. For example, the verb tykätä (to like) requires an object in the Elative case form. ...
Particle verbs and benefactive double objects in English: high and
... benefactive possessive element merges with an already categorized verb. The benefactive differs from the better researched dative in that the dative does involve a caused possession small clause structure. Particle verbs can occur in double object constructions, but they involve a benefactive-like s ...
... benefactive possessive element merges with an already categorized verb. The benefactive differs from the better researched dative in that the dative does involve a caused possession small clause structure. Particle verbs can occur in double object constructions, but they involve a benefactive-like s ...
Adverbial Participial Clauses in Koiné Greek
... about this referent, i.e. as expressing information which is relevant to and which increases the addressee’s knowledge of this referent” (Lambrecht 1994:131). ...
... about this referent, i.e. as expressing information which is relevant to and which increases the addressee’s knowledge of this referent” (Lambrecht 1994:131). ...
Grammar Basics: Sentences, Part 1
... questions correctly, but they are expected to do their best. You can remind them that the questions point to key concepts they should focus on while watching the program. After you evaluate your students’ answers, as well as review the materials presented in this guide, you may find it necessary to ...
... questions correctly, but they are expected to do their best. You can remind them that the questions point to key concepts they should focus on while watching the program. After you evaluate your students’ answers, as well as review the materials presented in this guide, you may find it necessary to ...
1 Mood Alternation in Modal Existential Constructions in Spanish
... disallow “when” and “why” (e.g., Portuguese), (v) languages that disallow “when”, “how”, and “why” (French) (Šimík 2011)2. Spanish belongs to group (i), the most ...
... disallow “when” and “why” (e.g., Portuguese), (v) languages that disallow “when”, “how”, and “why” (French) (Šimík 2011)2. Spanish belongs to group (i), the most ...
Reciprocal markers in Adyghe, their relations and interactions
... The first two prefixes, viz. ze- and zere-, occupy the slot of one of the agreement affixes in the verb form, while other slots are occupied by agreement markers. The prefix ze- is used on subject-oriented “canonical”i reciprocals of two-place intransitive bases (cf. (24b)) and subject-oriented “ind ...
... The first two prefixes, viz. ze- and zere-, occupy the slot of one of the agreement affixes in the verb form, while other slots are occupied by agreement markers. The prefix ze- is used on subject-oriented “canonical”i reciprocals of two-place intransitive bases (cf. (24b)) and subject-oriented “ind ...
Context-Free Grammars for English
... single NP arg within the VP as an argument, and a single NP arg as the subject. ...
... single NP arg within the VP as an argument, and a single NP arg as the subject. ...
commas - Bucks County Community College
... say „and‟ between them. For example: „a ripe, juicy pear‟ makes sense as „a ripe and juicy pear,‟ but „the five shy kittens‟ doesn‟t make sense as „the five and shy kittens.‟ Another way to test whether or not you need a comma in between two adjectives is if they can be interchanged and still retain ...
... say „and‟ between them. For example: „a ripe, juicy pear‟ makes sense as „a ripe and juicy pear,‟ but „the five shy kittens‟ doesn‟t make sense as „the five and shy kittens.‟ Another way to test whether or not you need a comma in between two adjectives is if they can be interchanged and still retain ...
Theme markedness in English and Spanish: A
... Topic is our next element of concern. Here we will have to face yet another definition for all the concepts under consideration. Givón (1983) agrees that the tradition has always divided the sentence, or clause, into two components. One of them is the focus (also called ‘rheme’, ‘comment’, ‘new inf ...
... Topic is our next element of concern. Here we will have to face yet another definition for all the concepts under consideration. Givón (1983) agrees that the tradition has always divided the sentence, or clause, into two components. One of them is the focus (also called ‘rheme’, ‘comment’, ‘new inf ...
1998 - Henk van Riemsdijk
... connection between the categorial status of a head and that of the phrasal node characterizing the phrase that it is the head of. The first of these is problematic in certain ways, but that is not the topic of the present article.2 The second one is in dire need of reexamination in view of the intro ...
... connection between the categorial status of a head and that of the phrasal node characterizing the phrase that it is the head of. The first of these is problematic in certain ways, but that is not the topic of the present article.2 The second one is in dire need of reexamination in view of the intro ...
Glossary
... using a little ending on the noun to determine its function in the sentence. This clever device makes Latin so concise that it can express gracefully in a few words what languages like English need longer sentences to say. On the other hand, the Latin case system also seemed both arbitrary and unnec ...
... using a little ending on the noun to determine its function in the sentence. This clever device makes Latin so concise that it can express gracefully in a few words what languages like English need longer sentences to say. On the other hand, the Latin case system also seemed both arbitrary and unnec ...
GR5 GUM BLM - scholastic.com
... State-of-Being Verbs Underline the state-of-being verb in each sentence. 1. The Abenaki Indians are native people of the United States and Canada. 2. They have been dwellers in these countries for many centuries. 3. The Abenaki were an agricultural, or farming, society. 4. Long ago, their population ...
... State-of-Being Verbs Underline the state-of-being verb in each sentence. 1. The Abenaki Indians are native people of the United States and Canada. 2. They have been dwellers in these countries for many centuries. 3. The Abenaki were an agricultural, or farming, society. 4. Long ago, their population ...
painless english – lesson 002 – pronouns
... Here, use the possessive pronoun its to show possession of the noun name. Do not confuse the possessive pronoun its with it’s, which is the contraction of it is. ...
... Here, use the possessive pronoun its to show possession of the noun name. Do not confuse the possessive pronoun its with it’s, which is the contraction of it is. ...
Introduction
... languages, it creates compounds by concatenating words without case markers. As in other Germanic languages, the compounds may be arbitrarily long. However, ...
... languages, it creates compounds by concatenating words without case markers. As in other Germanic languages, the compounds may be arbitrarily long. However, ...
1 Lexical-Constructional Subsumption in Resultative Constructions
... ble of contributing arguments (observe that sneeze is actually an intransitive verb, and therefore the Y and Z arguments are supplied by the causedmotion construction in this example), but also of creating semantic constraints on the predicates that may fuse (Goldberg 1995: 50) with each particular ...
... ble of contributing arguments (observe that sneeze is actually an intransitive verb, and therefore the Y and Z arguments are supplied by the causedmotion construction in this example), but also of creating semantic constraints on the predicates that may fuse (Goldberg 1995: 50) with each particular ...
Prosody, priming and particular constructions: The patterning of
... by and and occurring either adjacent to each other, as in (10), or with a single subordinate clause intervening, as in (11). We include tokens of and with a filler (e.g. and uh, and um) and one token of and repeated (and, and), but not and with more substantial material (e.g. and then, and like, and ...
... by and and occurring either adjacent to each other, as in (10), or with a single subordinate clause intervening, as in (11). We include tokens of and with a filler (e.g. and uh, and um) and one token of and repeated (and, and), but not and with more substantial material (e.g. and then, and like, and ...
1 Deriving the Complementarity Effect: Relativized Minimality in
... to co-occur clause-internally with a DP bearing the same theta-role in a language that lacks clitic doubling.4 However, the Incorporation Analysis has no obvious way of handling the Have exception. Furthermore, we will show below that while a post-syntactic version of it seems correct for prepositio ...
... to co-occur clause-internally with a DP bearing the same theta-role in a language that lacks clitic doubling.4 However, the Incorporation Analysis has no obvious way of handling the Have exception. Furthermore, we will show below that while a post-syntactic version of it seems correct for prepositio ...
The Quantization Puzzle
... sentence (3), and both (2) and (3) can freely be used for iterative, habitual and generic statements in a suitable context. However, the aspectual system of Russian verbs is more complex than the above presentation suggests, when we look at the whole range of the relevant data. Here, I will focus o ...
... sentence (3), and both (2) and (3) can freely be used for iterative, habitual and generic statements in a suitable context. However, the aspectual system of Russian verbs is more complex than the above presentation suggests, when we look at the whole range of the relevant data. Here, I will focus o ...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 47, 2
... jective). The OE word Indisc is revived only in 1398 by Trevisa. In a slightly earlier text, i.e., Gower’s Confessio Amantis (1393), we find the word Indien, which later appears three more times in Kyng Alisaunder (1400) and once in Mandeville’s Travels (1425); however, this is with a nominal functi ...
... jective). The OE word Indisc is revived only in 1398 by Trevisa. In a slightly earlier text, i.e., Gower’s Confessio Amantis (1393), we find the word Indien, which later appears three more times in Kyng Alisaunder (1400) and once in Mandeville’s Travels (1425); however, this is with a nominal functi ...
Generating A Parsing Lexicon from an LCS-Based Lexicon
... The work of (Brent, 1993) produces a lexicon from a grammar—the reverse of what we aim to do. All of these approaches are specific to English. By contrast, our goal is to have a unified repository that is transferable to other languages—and from which our parsing (and ultimately generation) grammars ...
... The work of (Brent, 1993) produces a lexicon from a grammar—the reverse of what we aim to do. All of these approaches are specific to English. By contrast, our goal is to have a unified repository that is transferable to other languages—and from which our parsing (and ultimately generation) grammars ...
Translating Infinitival Structures
... other and to be able to analyse the similarities and differences of the languages compared, we may employ a study, called contrastive linguistics. Hoeye and Houghton (2001:45) claim that ‘the study of two languages in contrast has been referred to by a variety of names’. One can find the following t ...
... other and to be able to analyse the similarities and differences of the languages compared, we may employ a study, called contrastive linguistics. Hoeye and Houghton (2001:45) claim that ‘the study of two languages in contrast has been referred to by a variety of names’. One can find the following t ...
Compound-Complex Sentence
... I planned to go to the hockey game, but I couldn’t get tickets. Dorothy likes white water rafting, but she also enjoys kayaking. There are many problems to solve before this program can be used, but engineers believe that they will be able to solve them soon. ...
... I planned to go to the hockey game, but I couldn’t get tickets. Dorothy likes white water rafting, but she also enjoys kayaking. There are many problems to solve before this program can be used, but engineers believe that they will be able to solve them soon. ...