On the Tense-Aspect system of Bolivian
... speakers, I shall avoid it here.2 My first choice for a substitute was Bolivian Guaraní, but Wolf Dietrich (p.c.) pointed out that this label could also apply to other varieties, most notably Guarayo. I am thus using, with his authoritative approval, the label ‘Bolivian-Chaco Guaraní’ (henceforth, B ...
... speakers, I shall avoid it here.2 My first choice for a substitute was Bolivian Guaraní, but Wolf Dietrich (p.c.) pointed out that this label could also apply to other varieties, most notably Guarayo. I am thus using, with his authoritative approval, the label ‘Bolivian-Chaco Guaraní’ (henceforth, B ...
Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining
... Text Corpus (called ‘Reuters’ in this paper) -nearly three years of wire service news reports containing 105.5 million words. Examples of verbs in the Reuters corpus which show up as promiscuous include “get”, “like”, “give”, “intend”, “add”, “want”, “be”, “do”, “hope”, “think”, “make”, “dream”, “ha ...
... Text Corpus (called ‘Reuters’ in this paper) -nearly three years of wire service news reports containing 105.5 million words. Examples of verbs in the Reuters corpus which show up as promiscuous include “get”, “like”, “give”, “intend”, “add”, “want”, “be”, “do”, “hope”, “think”, “make”, “dream”, “ha ...
Hai ti! - wingolog
... Oshikwanyama. (You won't hear too many that aren't listed in the above chart.) They are often referred to as non-action verbs because they do not involve as much action on the part of the subject as, say, running or cooking. As you can see, they have their own set of concords, which must be memorize ...
... Oshikwanyama. (You won't hear too many that aren't listed in the above chart.) They are often referred to as non-action verbs because they do not involve as much action on the part of the subject as, say, running or cooking. As you can see, they have their own set of concords, which must be memorize ...
A Grammar and Glossary of the Manange Language Kristine A. Hildebrandt
... geographically into three primary regions: in the north, the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain range; in the center, many ranges of very steep hills; in the south, the Tarai, which is part of the Gangetic plain, and has a very low elevation approaching sealevel. The distance between the northe ...
... geographically into three primary regions: in the north, the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain range; in the center, many ranges of very steep hills; in the south, the Tarai, which is part of the Gangetic plain, and has a very low elevation approaching sealevel. The distance between the northe ...
TALC-Sef a Manually-revised POS
... new training corpus, tagged with a new, more balanced tagset than what was present in the cesAna corpus. This tagset was meant to be comparable in size and design to those used for the English and French sub-corpora8: in order to keep the three sub-corpora at the same level of granularity, it was ne ...
... new training corpus, tagged with a new, more balanced tagset than what was present in the cesAna corpus. This tagset was meant to be comparable in size and design to those used for the English and French sub-corpora8: in order to keep the three sub-corpora at the same level of granularity, it was ne ...
Pedin Edhellen
... question what grammatical ideas are presented in a lesson and therefore deviate frequently from the original characters. As for my part of the work: This course has been written to provide rather easy access to Sindarin for interested readers. It may be downloaded, printed and used for non-commercia ...
... question what grammatical ideas are presented in a lesson and therefore deviate frequently from the original characters. As for my part of the work: This course has been written to provide rather easy access to Sindarin for interested readers. It may be downloaded, printed and used for non-commercia ...
View these maps.
... Write simple stories using the target language. Use articles in proper form (masculine/feminine, singular/plural Makes cultural connections and comparisons. ...
... Write simple stories using the target language. Use articles in proper form (masculine/feminine, singular/plural Makes cultural connections and comparisons. ...
two types of impersonal sentences in spanish
... irrelevant.7 What one would expect, if our proposal is correct, is to be able to form idioms with locatives in ditransitive structures, but not with those which appear with impersonal verbs, because they should behave as any other external argument. As shown in (6), idiomatic expressions in imperson ...
... irrelevant.7 What one would expect, if our proposal is correct, is to be able to form idioms with locatives in ditransitive structures, but not with those which appear with impersonal verbs, because they should behave as any other external argument. As shown in (6), idiomatic expressions in imperson ...
Semantic structure and word-formation. Verb
... word-formative and semantic structures. In our study of E n g lish V P C s we shall often refer to parallels and differences i n German. H o w e v e r , a systematic comparison w o u l d far exceed the scope of the present monograph. For the definition of intransitive verb-particle constructions, as ...
... word-formative and semantic structures. In our study of E n g lish V P C s we shall often refer to parallels and differences i n German. H o w e v e r , a systematic comparison w o u l d far exceed the scope of the present monograph. For the definition of intransitive verb-particle constructions, as ...
Exploring Learners‟ Developing L2 Collocational Competence
... strong/ power voice, or strong/powerful argument, etc., they cannot be substituted for each other in some others, e.g. strong views (but not *powerful views), or powerful computer (but not *strong computer) (McCarthy, O‟Keeffe, and Walsh, 2010). It should be clear that word choice is heavily constra ...
... strong/ power voice, or strong/powerful argument, etc., they cannot be substituted for each other in some others, e.g. strong views (but not *powerful views), or powerful computer (but not *strong computer) (McCarthy, O‟Keeffe, and Walsh, 2010). It should be clear that word choice is heavily constra ...
Linguistic Modeling for Multilingual Machine Translation
... are to have any impact. As Tsujii puts it: The most crucial of all is that linguistics in LBMT have placed excessive importance on monolingual theories and largely ignored bilingual counterparts. As a result, their theories of MT become mere parasites of monolingual theories, while ideal theories of ...
... are to have any impact. As Tsujii puts it: The most crucial of all is that linguistics in LBMT have placed excessive importance on monolingual theories and largely ignored bilingual counterparts. As a result, their theories of MT become mere parasites of monolingual theories, while ideal theories of ...
(Warm Up Grammar 12 (1))
... The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities—one for each day of the school year—practice language arts skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, ...
... The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities—one for each day of the school year—practice language arts skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, ...
“Comparative typology of loose objects in Modern English
... adverbial modifiers, and so forth. We will use the term "loose". By loose parts of the sentence we mean such parts as are less intimately connected with the rest of the sentence and have some sort of independence, which finds its expression in the intonation and, in writing, in the punctuation. The ...
... adverbial modifiers, and so forth. We will use the term "loose". By loose parts of the sentence we mean such parts as are less intimately connected with the rest of the sentence and have some sort of independence, which finds its expression in the intonation and, in writing, in the punctuation. The ...
Lec 1
... must have in order to be properly formed. It should state (or entail) all the grammatically relevant properties of all expressions. However, the traditional grammars of English published between 1600 and 2000 are, to a massive extent, incomplete (they don’t cover every kind of expression), inaccurat ...
... must have in order to be properly formed. It should state (or entail) all the grammatically relevant properties of all expressions. However, the traditional grammars of English published between 1600 and 2000 are, to a massive extent, incomplete (they don’t cover every kind of expression), inaccurat ...
INTEX as an educational subject in the Master`s program in
... FST-s for the analytic forms of the grammatical paradigms of verbs, nouns and adjectives. FST-s for recognition of analytic verb forms in the indicative mood, active voice. These are the present perfect, pluperfect, future, future perfect, future in the past, future perfect in the past. At the ...
... FST-s for the analytic forms of the grammatical paradigms of verbs, nouns and adjectives. FST-s for recognition of analytic verb forms in the indicative mood, active voice. These are the present perfect, pluperfect, future, future perfect, future in the past, future perfect in the past. At the ...
(Schaum`s Outlines).
... Russian in the description of predicate nominatives and predicate instrumentals after forms of быть (Chapter 2) and in the description of the two types of это sentences (Chapter 4); Derek Offord’s Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage in the presentation of prepositions (Chapter 3); Genevra G ...
... Russian in the description of predicate nominatives and predicate instrumentals after forms of быть (Chapter 2) and in the description of the two types of это sentences (Chapter 4); Derek Offord’s Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage in the presentation of prepositions (Chapter 3); Genevra G ...
CAN COMPUTERS HANDLE ADVERBS?
... perhaps also the most interesting part of speech. Past research in natural language processing, however, has not dealt seriously with adverbs, though linguists have done significant work on this word class. The current paper draws on this linguistic research to organize an adverbial lexicon which wi ...
... perhaps also the most interesting part of speech. Past research in natural language processing, however, has not dealt seriously with adverbs, though linguists have done significant work on this word class. The current paper draws on this linguistic research to organize an adverbial lexicon which wi ...
Reflexivity and adjustment strategies at the interfaces
... two arguments. Therefore certain clitics, which are SE-anaphors, are inserted in these derivations. This is a last-resort mechanism that makes an adjustment between the valence of the lexical entry of the verb and the requirements of the syntax in order for the derivation to converge at the C-I inte ...
... two arguments. Therefore certain clitics, which are SE-anaphors, are inserted in these derivations. This is a last-resort mechanism that makes an adjustment between the valence of the lexical entry of the verb and the requirements of the syntax in order for the derivation to converge at the C-I inte ...
THE DISTRIBUTION AND CATEGORY STATUS OF ADJECTIVES
... projections including clauses, to those which can be modified only by adverbs. And the (frequently tacit) assumption is made that complementarity also holds of environments in which adjectives function as complements rather than modifiers; in particular, it is often assumed that in the complement po ...
... projections including clauses, to those which can be modified only by adverbs. And the (frequently tacit) assumption is made that complementarity also holds of environments in which adjectives function as complements rather than modifiers; in particular, it is often assumed that in the complement po ...
The english language - the WAC Clearinghouse
... Written in a clear style, it guides its readers on topics including basic assumptions about language and discourse, pronunciation, word-formation strategies, parts of speech, clause elements and patterns, how clauses may be combined into sentences, and how clauses and sentences are modified to suit ...
... Written in a clear style, it guides its readers on topics including basic assumptions about language and discourse, pronunciation, word-formation strategies, parts of speech, clause elements and patterns, how clauses may be combined into sentences, and how clauses and sentences are modified to suit ...
An Analysis of the Evidential Use of German Perception Verbs
... dumpf ‘muffled’ refers to an auditory quality of the melon, which is directly perceived by hearing. Therefore, we will refer to the use of the perception verb in (1a) as the ‘direct sensory use’. In (1b), however, reif ‘ripe’ does not specify an auditory quality of the melon. Instead, the quality of ...
... dumpf ‘muffled’ refers to an auditory quality of the melon, which is directly perceived by hearing. Therefore, we will refer to the use of the perception verb in (1a) as the ‘direct sensory use’. In (1b), however, reif ‘ripe’ does not specify an auditory quality of the melon. Instead, the quality of ...
Full proceedings volume - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... the relations between GRAMMAR and LEXICON, but specifically focused on burning issues from that domain. This idea was met enthusiastically by many colleagues who are also feeling that our conferences are excessively biased towards mathematical and engineering approaches to the detriment of discoveri ...
... the relations between GRAMMAR and LEXICON, but specifically focused on burning issues from that domain. This idea was met enthusiastically by many colleagues who are also feeling that our conferences are excessively biased towards mathematical and engineering approaches to the detriment of discoveri ...
- SOAS Research Online
... like to the right. The head verb or noun may itself be a compound with internal structure. Verb complexes, usually last in the sentence, consist of a main verb, which may similarly have attached to it a minor-syllable prefix to the left, and modal or other auxiliary verbs, as well as morphemes expre ...
... like to the right. The head verb or noun may itself be a compound with internal structure. Verb complexes, usually last in the sentence, consist of a main verb, which may similarly have attached to it a minor-syllable prefix to the left, and modal or other auxiliary verbs, as well as morphemes expre ...
The Word Order of Estonian: Implications to Universal Language
... 1982), but the distinction of deep and surface structures is used much more broadly here for a good empirical reason. I try to explicate this. It is not hard to see that there are two types of principles or rules that influence the way languages linearise linguistic material. The one is grammatical ...
... 1982), but the distinction of deep and surface structures is used much more broadly here for a good empirical reason. I try to explicate this. It is not hard to see that there are two types of principles or rules that influence the way languages linearise linguistic material. The one is grammatical ...
Expository Writing Tutorial
... “Sentences are choppy, incomplete, rambling or awkward. Phrasing does not sound natural—the way someone might speak. . . My verbs do not always capture the precise meaning, or sometimes shift tense. . .It is difficult to sense the writer behind the words. . .” ...
... “Sentences are choppy, incomplete, rambling or awkward. Phrasing does not sound natural—the way someone might speak. . . My verbs do not always capture the precise meaning, or sometimes shift tense. . .It is difficult to sense the writer behind the words. . .” ...