PERFECTIVITY MIGHT NOT SCOPE OVER MODALITY
... modals: (i) the so-called “past tense” modals: could, should, ought and (ii) need. Depending on the analysis of may and might in (17), counterfactual readings (or external perfect readings) are also attested with (some) epistemic modals. The internal perfect reading can obtain with all the epistemic ...
... modals: (i) the so-called “past tense” modals: could, should, ought and (ii) need. Depending on the analysis of may and might in (17), counterfactual readings (or external perfect readings) are also attested with (some) epistemic modals. The internal perfect reading can obtain with all the epistemic ...
C. The Verb
... "Unaccusative verb | Special kind of intransitive verb. Semantically, its subject does not actively initiate or is not actively responsible for the action of the verb; rather, it has properties which it shares with the direct object of a transitive verb (or better, with the grammatical subject of it ...
... "Unaccusative verb | Special kind of intransitive verb. Semantically, its subject does not actively initiate or is not actively responsible for the action of the verb; rather, it has properties which it shares with the direct object of a transitive verb (or better, with the grammatical subject of it ...
Journal of Memory and Language
... If readers do not commit themselves to an assignment of the subject and object roles before reading the past participle, the thematic fit between the two nouns and the past participle could be used for this assignment. In this case there might be no processing difficulty in object relatives as in (4 ...
... If readers do not commit themselves to an assignment of the subject and object roles before reading the past participle, the thematic fit between the two nouns and the past participle could be used for this assignment. In this case there might be no processing difficulty in object relatives as in (4 ...
ON THE SYNTAX OF PARTICIPIAL MODIFIERS*
... overtly marking tense oppositions within phrasal and clausal participial modifier depends on the morphological profile of verbal paradigms. To mark tense, aspect, and mood distinctions on the participle itself, the TAM inflection must be detachable from finite verb agreement, where finiteness is def ...
... overtly marking tense oppositions within phrasal and clausal participial modifier depends on the morphological profile of verbal paradigms. To mark tense, aspect, and mood distinctions on the participle itself, the TAM inflection must be detachable from finite verb agreement, where finiteness is def ...
Particle Patterns in English A Comprehensive
... of an insight that has been around since time memorial, witness Declerck’s (1976b: 14) references to traditional grammar and to a similar grammatical view in Ancient Rome. The reason why particles are considered to be a kind of prepositions is clear enough. When particles are used in a directional s ...
... of an insight that has been around since time memorial, witness Declerck’s (1976b: 14) references to traditional grammar and to a similar grammatical view in Ancient Rome. The reason why particles are considered to be a kind of prepositions is clear enough. When particles are used in a directional s ...
Savchenko-master - DUO
... cognates from and fra originate in the distant past, some uses are created due to the regular uses in fixed expressions and patterns. This thesis will be concerned with the use of from / fra, which are primary translation equivalents of each other. The interest for this research is based on the assu ...
... cognates from and fra originate in the distant past, some uses are created due to the regular uses in fixed expressions and patterns. This thesis will be concerned with the use of from / fra, which are primary translation equivalents of each other. The interest for this research is based on the assu ...
Boyer`s Relative Clauses in the Greek New Testament: A Statistical
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
CLIPP Christiani Lehmanni inedita, publicanda
... The English past tense suffix -d derives from *-đē, a form of Germanic *đōn ‘do'. In Gothic, we find forms such as nasi-dēdum ‘we saved', apparently derived from the combination of the infinitive nasjan ‘save’ with dēdum ‘we did'. Just as in the case of markedness, the nominal definition of grammati ...
... The English past tense suffix -d derives from *-đē, a form of Germanic *đōn ‘do'. In Gothic, we find forms such as nasi-dēdum ‘we saved', apparently derived from the combination of the infinitive nasjan ‘save’ with dēdum ‘we did'. Just as in the case of markedness, the nominal definition of grammati ...
Grace Theological Journal 9.2 (1988) 233
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
fulltext - LOT Publications
... and Eric Stoel. Working with them was great. They have taught me many things about their language, even more than what is published here. Besides that, we also had a lot of fun together. One person that can only be thanked here is Joost van Driel, who has been my Camelot almost throughout this study ...
... and Eric Stoel. Working with them was great. They have taught me many things about their language, even more than what is published here. Besides that, we also had a lot of fun together. One person that can only be thanked here is Joost van Driel, who has been my Camelot almost throughout this study ...
existence - Semantics Archive
... quantified sentences. There-sentences and quantificational sentences may involve a significantly greater domain of entities than what exist could be true of. This may suggest that exist is on a par with the adjectival predicate real, but in fact the two expressions are fundamentally different lingui ...
... quantified sentences. There-sentences and quantificational sentences may involve a significantly greater domain of entities than what exist could be true of. This may suggest that exist is on a par with the adjectival predicate real, but in fact the two expressions are fundamentally different lingui ...
Different by-phrases with adjectival and verbal passives
... a syntactic account of adjectival participles similar to McIntyre’s (2013) and Bruening’s (2014) with the kind of semantics that we will assume in this paper (see section 2). In particular, unlike verbal participles, the participles in adjectival passives do not get further embedded under verbal fu ...
... a syntactic account of adjectival participles similar to McIntyre’s (2013) and Bruening’s (2014) with the kind of semantics that we will assume in this paper (see section 2). In particular, unlike verbal participles, the participles in adjectival passives do not get further embedded under verbal fu ...
A verb-centered Sentiment Analysis for French
... Sentiment Analysis is a challenging domain of NLP in many aspects. Words and phrases need to be recognised and marked not only with regard to their grammatical and syntactic role, but also with regard to their polarity, which can be positive, negative or neutral. Furthermore, they cannot be consider ...
... Sentiment Analysis is a challenging domain of NLP in many aspects. Words and phrases need to be recognised and marked not only with regard to their grammatical and syntactic role, but also with regard to their polarity, which can be positive, negative or neutral. Furthermore, they cannot be consider ...
Routledge Comprehensive Grammars Comprehensive Grammars
... statements, relating to existence, possession, cognition, experience, etc., with no verbal markers apart from one indicating experience); and evaluative (also explanatory statements, but with a more judgemental tone, featuring modal verbs, etc., but with no verbal markers). Narrative and descriptive ...
... statements, relating to existence, possession, cognition, experience, etc., with no verbal markers apart from one indicating experience); and evaluative (also explanatory statements, but with a more judgemental tone, featuring modal verbs, etc., but with no verbal markers). Narrative and descriptive ...
Discourse, grammar, discourse
... not reflect a random selection of conceptually appropriate and grammatically well-formed strings. For any kind of message we wish to convey (content-wise), more often than not, grammar will make available more than one form. We have semantic paraphrases (e.g. I must get some soda – LSAC versus ~I ha ...
... not reflect a random selection of conceptually appropriate and grammatically well-formed strings. For any kind of message we wish to convey (content-wise), more often than not, grammar will make available more than one form. We have semantic paraphrases (e.g. I must get some soda – LSAC versus ~I ha ...
interrogatives and relatives in some varieties of english
... complementiser layer, as proposed by this line of research, enables us to account for embedded inversion in terms of different syntactic projections available in different ―portions‖ of CP layer. The accessability of CP in dependent clauses has already been discussed for Romance languages, (see Beni ...
... complementiser layer, as proposed by this line of research, enables us to account for embedded inversion in terms of different syntactic projections available in different ―portions‖ of CP layer. The accessability of CP in dependent clauses has already been discussed for Romance languages, (see Beni ...
Different forms, different meanings?
... which has been defined as : “[t]he meaning of a word considered in isolation from the sentence containing it, and regardless of its grammatical context” (Oxford Dictionary http://oxforddictionaries.com), “the equivalent to the commonly used, less technical (but ambiguous), term ‘word-meaning’” (Lyon ...
... which has been defined as : “[t]he meaning of a word considered in isolation from the sentence containing it, and regardless of its grammatical context” (Oxford Dictionary http://oxforddictionaries.com), “the equivalent to the commonly used, less technical (but ambiguous), term ‘word-meaning’” (Lyon ...
Structural Classification of English Modals
... usage, there is little to deny that mood plays an integral role in the meaning and structure of utterances in the language. Mood is expressed in English via an ever changing number of marked and unmarked forms. Regardless of specific modal usage being a point of contention among linguists and gramma ...
... usage, there is little to deny that mood plays an integral role in the meaning and structure of utterances in the language. Mood is expressed in English via an ever changing number of marked and unmarked forms. Regardless of specific modal usage being a point of contention among linguists and gramma ...
The Empty Object Construction and Related Phenomena
... speech recognition research and development, eventually setting a focus on statistical language modeling and spoken document retrieval. During the summer of 2001 she did a speech technology internship at IBM's Watson Research Center, Yorktown, New York. She currently splits her time between residenc ...
... speech recognition research and development, eventually setting a focus on statistical language modeling and spoken document retrieval. During the summer of 2001 she did a speech technology internship at IBM's Watson Research Center, Yorktown, New York. She currently splits her time between residenc ...
Complex sentences in Avatime
... abà=ɛ xé á-sɛ́=ɛ on=cm con c1s .sbj-leave=cm ‘When he put it on, then he climbed on his bicycle and left.’ ...
... abà=ɛ xé á-sɛ́=ɛ on=cm con c1s .sbj-leave=cm ‘When he put it on, then he climbed on his bicycle and left.’ ...
Hausa Verbal Compounds
... TARGET is situation, etc. in which the speaker (not in VEHICLE) addresses participant (sometimes in VEHICLE), naming a situation ................................183 6.2.1.4 Metonymy in Hausa verbal compounds: a summary.........184 6.2.2 Metaphor in marked V+X and PAC+V compounds..........184 6.2.2.1 ...
... TARGET is situation, etc. in which the speaker (not in VEHICLE) addresses participant (sometimes in VEHICLE), naming a situation ................................183 6.2.1.4 Metonymy in Hausa verbal compounds: a summary.........184 6.2.2 Metaphor in marked V+X and PAC+V compounds..........184 6.2.2.1 ...
lexical and structural ambiguity in humorous headlines
... A: "I saw him the other day." B: "But 1 thought Jim wasn't in town." A: "No, I'm talking about John." ...
... A: "I saw him the other day." B: "But 1 thought Jim wasn't in town." A: "No, I'm talking about John." ...
Document
... hitherto been practised, contrastive typology also aims at establishing the most general structural types of languages on the basis of their dominant or common phonetical/phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic features. Apart from this contrastive typology may equally treat dominant or commo ...
... hitherto been practised, contrastive typology also aims at establishing the most general structural types of languages on the basis of their dominant or common phonetical/phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic features. Apart from this contrastive typology may equally treat dominant or commo ...
320 pages - Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori
... adults and the distribution of the error types is different in children’s texts. In addition, other writing errors above word-level are discussed here, including punctuation and spelling errors resulting in existing words. The method used in the implemented tool FiniteCheck involves subtraction of f ...
... adults and the distribution of the error types is different in children’s texts. In addition, other writing errors above word-level are discussed here, including punctuation and spelling errors resulting in existing words. The method used in the implemented tool FiniteCheck involves subtraction of f ...