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... interest in VPCs in the Germanic languages, which was mainly due to their ambiguous structural status between words and phrases (cf. the introductory chapter in Dehé et alii 2002). Indeed, the big question was: do they belong to morphology or syntax? This demarcation problem of course refers to a mo ...
... interest in VPCs in the Germanic languages, which was mainly due to their ambiguous structural status between words and phrases (cf. the introductory chapter in Dehé et alii 2002). Indeed, the big question was: do they belong to morphology or syntax? This demarcation problem of course refers to a mo ...
Lexical Functional Grammar
... Phenomena that had been explained by the interaction of transformations are accounted for in LFG by the regular interaction of lexical processes. Bresnan shows that some of the classic arguments for syntactic transformations do not, in fact, distinguish between a transformational and a lexical acco ...
... Phenomena that had been explained by the interaction of transformations are accounted for in LFG by the regular interaction of lexical processes. Bresnan shows that some of the classic arguments for syntactic transformations do not, in fact, distinguish between a transformational and a lexical acco ...
Aphasia and the Theta System
... she has done for me. She offered me the chance to do an internship supervised by her at the rehabilitation center De Hoogstraat in Utrecht despite the fact that my Dutch at that moment was not good enough (and I fear it will remain so for the rest of my life) to work on my own with aphasics. She and ...
... she has done for me. She offered me the chance to do an internship supervised by her at the rehabilitation center De Hoogstraat in Utrecht despite the fact that my Dutch at that moment was not good enough (and I fear it will remain so for the rest of my life) to work on my own with aphasics. She and ...
Persian complex predicates and the limits of inheritance
... The preverb may be a noun, an adjective, an adverb, or a preposition. If the preverb is a noun, it cannot appear with a determiner but must appear in bare form without plural or definite marking. The literature mentions the following properties as evidence for the word status of Persian complex pred ...
... The preverb may be a noun, an adjective, an adverb, or a preposition. If the preverb is a noun, it cannot appear with a determiner but must appear in bare form without plural or definite marking. The literature mentions the following properties as evidence for the word status of Persian complex pred ...
A brief grammar of euskara - Addi - University of the Basque Country
... discussion. The text hopes to sit somewhere in the middle, and if it tells too much to those who want to know a little, and too little to those who want to know a lot, then it will have done its job. On more than one occasion, the description will probably state what seems obvious to the professiona ...
... discussion. The text hopes to sit somewhere in the middle, and if it tells too much to those who want to know a little, and too little to those who want to know a lot, then it will have done its job. On more than one occasion, the description will probably state what seems obvious to the professiona ...
Syntax - English sentence structure
... o I went to Paris in the vacation it is the most beautiful place I have ever visited. o It's never too late to learn to swim you never know when you may fall from a boat. o If you're going to the shops can you buy me some eggs and flour I want to make a cake. o I like our new math teacher, she alway ...
... o I went to Paris in the vacation it is the most beautiful place I have ever visited. o It's never too late to learn to swim you never know when you may fall from a boat. o If you're going to the shops can you buy me some eggs and flour I want to make a cake. o I like our new math teacher, she alway ...
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... from the same deep structu re, must any diffe rence in meaning ( if ever any, between them) come from the transformations involved? Needless to say, tra nsfor mation, in principle, does not change the meaning of sentence. There are many different views current on the nature of deep structure or 'the ...
... from the same deep structu re, must any diffe rence in meaning ( if ever any, between them) come from the transformations involved? Needless to say, tra nsfor mation, in principle, does not change the meaning of sentence. There are many different views current on the nature of deep structure or 'the ...
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational
... in Brazilian Portuguese Amanda Rassi, Cristina Santos-Turati, Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede and Oto Vale . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Collaboratively Constructed Linguistic Resources for Language Variants and their Exploitation in NLP Application – the case of Tunisian Arabic and the Social Media Fatiha S ...
... in Brazilian Portuguese Amanda Rassi, Cristina Santos-Turati, Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede and Oto Vale . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Collaboratively Constructed Linguistic Resources for Language Variants and their Exploitation in NLP Application – the case of Tunisian Arabic and the Social Media Fatiha S ...
Appendix A - Center for Sprogteknologi
... THE SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION OF WORD CLASSES ............................................................................ 51 2.1 VERBS ................................................................................................................................................................. 51 ...
... THE SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION OF WORD CLASSES ............................................................................ 51 2.1 VERBS ................................................................................................................................................................. 51 ...
focus 11 position of adverbs
... 7. We have monthly meetings. 8. Don’t talk so loudly. 9. If you have got a fast car, why don’t you drive fast?10. If you want me to work hard, you’ll have to pay me . 11. Milk is delivered daily. 12. The train arrived late. 13. I can’t stand loud music. 14. Don’t be silly. 15. She’s becoming hard to ...
... 7. We have monthly meetings. 8. Don’t talk so loudly. 9. If you have got a fast car, why don’t you drive fast?10. If you want me to work hard, you’ll have to pay me . 11. Milk is delivered daily. 12. The train arrived late. 13. I can’t stand loud music. 14. Don’t be silly. 15. She’s becoming hard to ...
focus 11 position of adverbs
... 7. We have monthly meetings. 8. Don’t talk so loudly. 9. If you have got a fast car, why don’t you drive fast?10. If you want me to work hard, you’ll have to pay me . 11. Milk is delivered daily. 12. The train arrived late. 13. I can’t stand loud music. 14. Don’t be silly. 15. She’s becoming hard to ...
... 7. We have monthly meetings. 8. Don’t talk so loudly. 9. If you have got a fast car, why don’t you drive fast?10. If you want me to work hard, you’ll have to pay me . 11. Milk is delivered daily. 12. The train arrived late. 13. I can’t stand loud music. 14. Don’t be silly. 15. She’s becoming hard to ...
Modelling the developmental patterning of finite
... example, English-speaking children often produce utterances such as That go there instead of That goes there or He go to school instead of He went to school. Traditionally such errors have been interpreted in terms of lack of knowledge of the appropriate inflections (Brown, 1973), or performance lim ...
... example, English-speaking children often produce utterances such as That go there instead of That goes there or He go to school instead of He went to school. Traditionally such errors have been interpreted in terms of lack of knowledge of the appropriate inflections (Brown, 1973), or performance lim ...
A Grammatical Description of Personal Pronoun Use in
... There are a few interesting correlations of syllable structure and grammatical function to note in Uda. For example, nearly all verbs are consonant initial, while all nouns are vowel initial. The minimal structure of an Uda noun, with a few exceptions, is VCV. Though nouns may contain more syllables ...
... There are a few interesting correlations of syllable structure and grammatical function to note in Uda. For example, nearly all verbs are consonant initial, while all nouns are vowel initial. The minimal structure of an Uda noun, with a few exceptions, is VCV. Though nouns may contain more syllables ...
教 案
... a) Have to, like must, is used to express obligation and necessity. Must has only one form and it is used for all persons in the present and future. Have to, however, is almost like a full verb and has present, past and future forms. In meaning, there is some difference between must and have to. Mus ...
... a) Have to, like must, is used to express obligation and necessity. Must has only one form and it is used for all persons in the present and future. Have to, however, is almost like a full verb and has present, past and future forms. In meaning, there is some difference between must and have to. Mus ...
Animating the narrow syntax
... We offer two kinds of evidence for the distinction between m-animacy and Hanimacy: Focusing first on Blackfoot, we show that H-animate nominals are a proper subset of m-animate nominals, notably because some argument positions require an H-animate nominal. As a result, H-animate nominals have a broa ...
... We offer two kinds of evidence for the distinction between m-animacy and Hanimacy: Focusing first on Blackfoot, we show that H-animate nominals are a proper subset of m-animate nominals, notably because some argument positions require an H-animate nominal. As a result, H-animate nominals have a broa ...
Subject and Predicate-Parts of a Sentence
... one or more nouns. The simple predicate is the main word or group of words in the complete predicate. The simple predicate is always a verb. A verb is a word that expresses an action or a state of being. Sometimes the simple subject is also the complete subject. Similarly the simple predicate may ...
... one or more nouns. The simple predicate is the main word or group of words in the complete predicate. The simple predicate is always a verb. A verb is a word that expresses an action or a state of being. Sometimes the simple subject is also the complete subject. Similarly the simple predicate may ...
The linguistic construction of space in Ewe
... To'aba'ita [Lichtenberk 1991a]; Longgu [Hill 1992]), there are two types of adpositional elements. One type is based on and evolved from verbs, and the other type from nouns. Depending on the typology of the language, both groups may function äs prepositions or äs postpositions. In some Oceanic lang ...
... To'aba'ita [Lichtenberk 1991a]; Longgu [Hill 1992]), there are two types of adpositional elements. One type is based on and evolved from verbs, and the other type from nouns. Depending on the typology of the language, both groups may function äs prepositions or äs postpositions. In some Oceanic lang ...
Long Head Movement is Short Head Movement
... orders are allowed in Dutch, but in either case the structure behaves like a monoclausal one and the evidence for clustering is the same (Evers 1975). In cases with more than two verbs, the cluster-internal order in Dutch obligatorily has governing verbs before governed verbs, but this is an acciden ...
... orders are allowed in Dutch, but in either case the structure behaves like a monoclausal one and the evidence for clustering is the same (Evers 1975). In cases with more than two verbs, the cluster-internal order in Dutch obligatorily has governing verbs before governed verbs, but this is an acciden ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Higher Lessons
... from the simplest to the most complex form, each element, as it is introduced, is illustrated by a large number of detached sentences, chosen with the utmost care as to thought and expression. These compel the pupil to confine his attention to one thing till he gets it well in hand. Paragraphs from ...
... from the simplest to the most complex form, each element, as it is introduced, is illustrated by a large number of detached sentences, chosen with the utmost care as to thought and expression. These compel the pupil to confine his attention to one thing till he gets it well in hand. Paragraphs from ...
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 ...
Serial Verbs in Ibibio - KU ScholarWorks
... 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 constructions looked at in this pa ...
... 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 constructions looked at in this pa ...
Non-finite complements and modality in de-na `allow` in Hindi-Urdu
... I.DAT/I.NOM go-INF.OBL not give-PF.M.S go-PF.M.S ‘I was not allowed to go.’ In (9) and in many examples below, the =ko postposition is ambiguous between dative and accusative case. The contrast of DOM accusative with the goal dative is even clearer in Kashmiri, a language related to Hindi-Urdu and s ...
... I.DAT/I.NOM go-INF.OBL not give-PF.M.S go-PF.M.S ‘I was not allowed to go.’ In (9) and in many examples below, the =ko postposition is ambiguous between dative and accusative case. The contrast of DOM accusative with the goal dative is even clearer in Kashmiri, a language related to Hindi-Urdu and s ...
Chapter 4 “Odd Prepositions”
... as in (6) reduces the stylistic discord value of (4) from 7 − 0 = 7 to 7 − 4 = 3, clearly an improvement. Under these assumptions, stylistic discord is one of the factors underlying the unacceptability of example (4). There is independent support for the claim that pied-piping is formal in register. ...
... as in (6) reduces the stylistic discord value of (4) from 7 − 0 = 7 to 7 − 4 = 3, clearly an improvement. Under these assumptions, stylistic discord is one of the factors underlying the unacceptability of example (4). There is independent support for the claim that pied-piping is formal in register. ...
e aland - MPG.PuRe
... considered, other classes (at least two) might easily be established but the learner would, we fear, be more perplexed than benefited by the addition. The speaker should remember that in some compound words the last syllable of the first word, if it end in a, is pronounced strong e.g. Patunga-poaka, ...
... considered, other classes (at least two) might easily be established but the learner would, we fear, be more perplexed than benefited by the addition. The speaker should remember that in some compound words the last syllable of the first word, if it end in a, is pronounced strong e.g. Patunga-poaka, ...
Syntax 319 Jurafsky D and Martin JH (2000) Speech and Language
... Constituency tests like those shown in (7) can be used to demonstrate that prepositional phrases (PPs) that are adjuncts (i.e. optional phrases) of VP recursively expand the VP, whereas PPs that are arguments of the verb (roughly, required phrases) do not. (8) shows that when do so substitution appl ...
... Constituency tests like those shown in (7) can be used to demonstrate that prepositional phrases (PPs) that are adjuncts (i.e. optional phrases) of VP recursively expand the VP, whereas PPs that are arguments of the verb (roughly, required phrases) do not. (8) shows that when do so substitution appl ...