An introduction to ecclesiastical latin
... Vernacular Latin also continued to grow and, like all growing organisms, to absorb many elements from its surroundings. Those who spoke it were not deterred b y any fear of t h e school master or t h e audiences i n t h e recitation rooms from adding new words when they were required t o express ne ...
... Vernacular Latin also continued to grow and, like all growing organisms, to absorb many elements from its surroundings. Those who spoke it were not deterred b y any fear of t h e school master or t h e audiences i n t h e recitation rooms from adding new words when they were required t o express ne ...
SPECIFICITY AND DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKING IN SPANISH
... briefly in order to make my point clearer. It would certainly be desirable to find a precise definition of specificity that will be relevant for DOM in Spanish. Unfortunately, none of the mentioned types of specificity seems to be systematically connected to DOM. With respect to partitive specificit ...
... briefly in order to make my point clearer. It would certainly be desirable to find a precise definition of specificity that will be relevant for DOM in Spanish. Unfortunately, none of the mentioned types of specificity seems to be systematically connected to DOM. With respect to partitive specificit ...
Bare nouns in Persian: Interpretation, Grammar and
... I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to a number of people who, in many different ways, contributed to the writing and completion of this thesis and my well-being in general while I was writing it. First and foremost I am very grateful to my supervisors, Manfred Krifka in Be ...
... I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to a number of people who, in many different ways, contributed to the writing and completion of this thesis and my well-being in general while I was writing it. First and foremost I am very grateful to my supervisors, Manfred Krifka in Be ...
Minimalist Syntax Revisited
... singular form (like horse in one horse) used to denote a single entity, and a plural form (like horses in two horses) used to denote two or more entities. Common nouns have the syntactic property that only (an appropriate kind of) noun can be used to end a four-word sentence such as They have no... ...
... singular form (like horse in one horse) used to denote a single entity, and a plural form (like horses in two horses) used to denote two or more entities. Common nouns have the syntactic property that only (an appropriate kind of) noun can be used to end a four-word sentence such as They have no... ...
Hmong Elaborate Expressions are Coordinate Compounds
... Coordinate compounds are defined in this paper as headless compounds having a parallel structure. Similar compounds occur in many languages, and have been given almost as many labels (though, admittedly, some of these do not describe exactly the same phenomena): dvandva compounds, copulative compoun ...
... Coordinate compounds are defined in this paper as headless compounds having a parallel structure. Similar compounds occur in many languages, and have been given almost as many labels (though, admittedly, some of these do not describe exactly the same phenomena): dvandva compounds, copulative compoun ...
On the syntax ofconstructions with arb SE in Spanish
... We have adopted the analysis in Koopman & Sportiche (1988) by which the subject of a verb associated with an external a-role is generated in its vp* internal position (DP*) (see 4b above). This is the case for U nergative structures, such as (12a). Koopman & Sportiche (1988: Sec. 1.4) further claim ...
... We have adopted the analysis in Koopman & Sportiche (1988) by which the subject of a verb associated with an external a-role is generated in its vp* internal position (DP*) (see 4b above). This is the case for U nergative structures, such as (12a). Koopman & Sportiche (1988: Sec. 1.4) further claim ...
NOUN-NOUN COMBINATIONS IN TECHNICAL ENGLISH Nguyen
... 75% in terms of types. Fourteen tasks which could be used as teaching activities and exercises are introduced. These tasks are classified into different levels from the least to the most difficult and presented in different formats from matching, multiple choices to short answers. School of English ...
... 75% in terms of types. Fourteen tasks which could be used as teaching activities and exercises are introduced. These tasks are classified into different levels from the least to the most difficult and presented in different formats from matching, multiple choices to short answers. School of English ...
Overt Nominative Subjects in Infinitival Complements
... the manner of long-distance Agree). The cross-linguistic variation in the availability of overt infinitival subjects has to do with variation in feature transmission. The fundamental deficiency in the “no” languages must be that the relevant finite inflectional features are not transmitted to the in ...
... the manner of long-distance Agree). The cross-linguistic variation in the availability of overt infinitival subjects has to do with variation in feature transmission. The fundamental deficiency in the “no” languages must be that the relevant finite inflectional features are not transmitted to the in ...
The development of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech*
... functions to establish a referent in focus position making it available for the predication expressed in the relative clause. The whole sentence expresses thus a single proposition and can be paraphrased by a single clause (cf. Lambrecht 1988: 326): (26) Here's a tiger that's gonna scare him. (Nina ...
... functions to establish a referent in focus position making it available for the predication expressed in the relative clause. The whole sentence expresses thus a single proposition and can be paraphrased by a single clause (cf. Lambrecht 1988: 326): (26) Here's a tiger that's gonna scare him. (Nina ...
Developing Sentence Imitation, Grade 3
... Each lesson works in conjunction with daily grammar lessons in the reading series. For example, Day 1 of Unit 1 may teach subjects and predicates. Therefore this book’s first lesson would also point out subjects and predicates. If a lesson was about semicolons, then the mentor sentence used in this ...
... Each lesson works in conjunction with daily grammar lessons in the reading series. For example, Day 1 of Unit 1 may teach subjects and predicates. Therefore this book’s first lesson would also point out subjects and predicates. If a lesson was about semicolons, then the mentor sentence used in this ...
Dwnst_eff._pred_FG_CW_
... (5b) and (5c), where in the latter case, the A2 is non specific in reference and the predication as a whole is construed as an Activity. However, this difference is coded in Dyirbal in example (6c) via the reflexive suffix attached to the verb (see also (6b)), the absolutive rather than ergative cas ...
... (5b) and (5c), where in the latter case, the A2 is non specific in reference and the predication as a whole is construed as an Activity. However, this difference is coded in Dyirbal in example (6c) via the reflexive suffix attached to the verb (see also (6b)), the absolutive rather than ergative cas ...
Introduction
... least two stems which occur in the language as free forms. In a compound word the immediate constituents obtain integrity and structural cohesion that make them function in a sentence as a separate lexical unit. The structural cohesion and integrity of a compound may depend upon unity of stress, sol ...
... least two stems which occur in the language as free forms. In a compound word the immediate constituents obtain integrity and structural cohesion that make them function in a sentence as a separate lexical unit. The structural cohesion and integrity of a compound may depend upon unity of stress, sol ...
Accusative subjects in Avestan
... relation to the notion of transitivity and on the basis of the verb class the accusative combines with. Following Hopper & Thompson (1980), I assume that transitivity is a compositional property of the sentence, determined by the interaction of a number of parameters related to the characteristics o ...
... relation to the notion of transitivity and on the basis of the verb class the accusative combines with. Following Hopper & Thompson (1980), I assume that transitivity is a compositional property of the sentence, determined by the interaction of a number of parameters related to the characteristics o ...
Music 231 Small Structures: Cadences, Phrases and Periods
... The plagal cadence is rarely used in a structural way. It almost always is found after the end of a period (usually after the last period of the piece), and acts as an extension (a tag) to that period or the part which it ends. More about phrases and sub-phrases The word "phrase" here applies to the ...
... The plagal cadence is rarely used in a structural way. It almost always is found after the end of a period (usually after the last period of the piece), and acts as an extension (a tag) to that period or the part which it ends. More about phrases and sub-phrases The word "phrase" here applies to the ...
doc - KISS Grammar
... 3. "Miles" is a noun used as an adverb. To save class time, if we discuss something like this at all, I normally leave it at that. Occasionally a student wants to know what it modifies. Perhaps the easiest way to answer that question is to assume an ellipsed clause that modifies "land." Thus: "land ...
... 3. "Miles" is a noun used as an adverb. To save class time, if we discuss something like this at all, I normally leave it at that. Occasionally a student wants to know what it modifies. Perhaps the easiest way to answer that question is to assume an ellipsed clause that modifies "land." Thus: "land ...
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filozofická fakulta Ústav anglického
... Chomsky develops his (transformational) generative grammar, establishing a set of formal rules capable of generating the potentially infinite set of sentences that constitute the language as such. He postulated a syntactic base of language, called deep structure, which consists of a series of rules ...
... Chomsky develops his (transformational) generative grammar, establishing a set of formal rules capable of generating the potentially infinite set of sentences that constitute the language as such. He postulated a syntactic base of language, called deep structure, which consists of a series of rules ...
`Have` and the Link Between Perfects and Existentials in Old Catalan
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
Referentiality in Spanish CPs Abstract: In this paper, we discuss the
... Note that semifactives can lose their factivity in questions, if embedded in the antecedent of a conditional, and under certain modals. Semifactives correspond to the Hooper & Thompson 1973 (H&T) class E predicates, and allow main clause phenomena (MCP), unlike true factives (H&T’s class D). Thus, w ...
... Note that semifactives can lose their factivity in questions, if embedded in the antecedent of a conditional, and under certain modals. Semifactives correspond to the Hooper & Thompson 1973 (H&T) class E predicates, and allow main clause phenomena (MCP), unlike true factives (H&T’s class D). Thus, w ...
Constructional idioms as products of linguistic change: the aan het +
... These observations show that the occurrence of aan in present-day standard Dutch is bound to PPs with specific types of NPs, such as NPs of the type het + infinitive. This use of aan is a reflex of an earlier stage of Dutch in which the preposition aan had a more elaborated use as locative prepositi ...
... These observations show that the occurrence of aan in present-day standard Dutch is bound to PPs with specific types of NPs, such as NPs of the type het + infinitive. This use of aan is a reflex of an earlier stage of Dutch in which the preposition aan had a more elaborated use as locative prepositi ...
Reciprocals in Yukaghir languages
... situation (‘A asked B to do something’ > ‘B did something for A’) usually prevails in the meaning of the corresponding reciprocal construction, so that my informants always preferred a translation like ‘A and B did something for each other’, rather than ‘A and B did something according to each other ...
... situation (‘A asked B to do something’ > ‘B did something for A’) usually prevails in the meaning of the corresponding reciprocal construction, so that my informants always preferred a translation like ‘A and B did something for each other’, rather than ‘A and B did something according to each other ...
pseudo noun incorporation in discourse1
... The two kinds of Samoan narrow scope indefinites represent two ways of taking narrow scope: se indefinites will take wide scope so long as there is no other operator, while bare indefinites behave as if they were stubbornly trapped in narrow scope even in the absence of other kinds of scope-taking o ...
... The two kinds of Samoan narrow scope indefinites represent two ways of taking narrow scope: se indefinites will take wide scope so long as there is no other operator, while bare indefinites behave as if they were stubbornly trapped in narrow scope even in the absence of other kinds of scope-taking o ...
Document
... There is a small underived adjective class with mere thirteen members. The nominal classification system is fairly extensive. There is an array of highly productive applicative derivations. Aspectual and modal systems are very complex. Ashéninka Perené shows a straightforward correspondence between ...
... There is a small underived adjective class with mere thirteen members. The nominal classification system is fairly extensive. There is an array of highly productive applicative derivations. Aspectual and modal systems are very complex. Ashéninka Perené shows a straightforward correspondence between ...
Complex Predicates Müller, Stefan
... is relevant for the markedness of examples with reference to indirect objects. In Chapter 5 I show that resultative constructions in German behave like raising constructions. A lexical rule will be suggested that transitivizes intransitive verbs and adds a result predicate. The most complex phenomen ...
... is relevant for the markedness of examples with reference to indirect objects. In Chapter 5 I show that resultative constructions in German behave like raising constructions. A lexical rule will be suggested that transitivizes intransitive verbs and adds a result predicate. The most complex phenomen ...
Grammar and Language Workbook - ESL
... 6. A possessive noun shows possession, ownership, or the relationship between two nouns. Monica’s book the rabbit’s ears the hamster’s cage ...
... 6. A possessive noun shows possession, ownership, or the relationship between two nouns. Monica’s book the rabbit’s ears the hamster’s cage ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR, TENSES Tenses
... Present Perfect Tense I have sung The present perfect tense is a rather important tense in English, but it gives speakers of some languages a difficult time. That is because it uses concepts or ideas that do not exist in those languages. In fact, the structure of the present perfect tense is very si ...
... Present Perfect Tense I have sung The present perfect tense is a rather important tense in English, but it gives speakers of some languages a difficult time. That is because it uses concepts or ideas that do not exist in those languages. In fact, the structure of the present perfect tense is very si ...
Chinese grammar
This article concerns Standard Chinese. For the grammars of other forms of Chinese, see their respective articles via links on Chinese language and varieties of Chinese.The grammar of Standard Chinese shares many features with other varieties of Chinese. The language almost entirely lacks inflection, so that words typically have only one grammatical form. Categories such as number (singular or plural) and verb tense are frequently not expressed by any grammatical means, although there are several particles that serve to express verbal aspect, and to some extent mood.The basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO). Otherwise, Chinese is chiefly a head-last language, meaning that modifiers precede the words they modify – in a noun phrase, for example, the head noun comes last, and all modifiers, including relative clauses, come in front of it. (This phenomenon is more typically found in SOV languages like Turkish and Japanese.)Chinese frequently uses serial verb constructions, which involve two or more verbs or verb phrases in sequence. Chinese prepositions behave similarly to serialized verbs in some respects (several of the common prepositions can also be used as full verbs), and they are often referred to as coverbs. There are also location markers, placed after a noun, and hence often called postpositions; these are often used in combination with a coverb. Predicate adjectives are normally used without a copular verb (""to be""), and can thus be regarded as a type of verb.As in many east Asian languages, classifiers or measure words are required when using numerals (and sometimes other words such as demonstratives) with nouns. There are many different classifiers in the language, and each countable noun generally has a particular classifier associated with it. Informally, however, it is often acceptable to use the general classifier 个 [個] ge in place of other specific classifiers.Examples given in this article use simplified Chinese characters (with the traditional characters following in brackets if they differ) and standard pinyin Romanization.