Grammar and Language Workbook, Part 1: Grammar
... An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request. Its subject is not stated directly, but is understood to be you. Imperative sentences also begin with a capital letter and usually end with a period. A strong command may end with an exclamation point. (You) Put your essay on my desk when yo ...
... An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request. Its subject is not stated directly, but is understood to be you. Imperative sentences also begin with a capital letter and usually end with a period. A strong command may end with an exclamation point. (You) Put your essay on my desk when yo ...
Grammar - Mrs. Celello
... An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request. Its subject is not stated directly, but is understood to be you. Imperative sentences also begin with a capital letter and usually end with a period. A strong command may end with an exclamation point. (You) Put your essay on my desk when yo ...
... An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request. Its subject is not stated directly, but is understood to be you. Imperative sentences also begin with a capital letter and usually end with a period. A strong command may end with an exclamation point. (You) Put your essay on my desk when yo ...
Topics in Corpus-Based Dutch Syntax Beek, Leonoor Johanneke
... double object constructions, but clashes with canonical word order in dative PP constructions. The Inherence Principle is related to the “natural constituent structure” (Vennemann, 1973). This principle, attributed to Renate Bartsch, states among other things that the closeness of constituents in th ...
... double object constructions, but clashes with canonical word order in dative PP constructions. The Inherence Principle is related to the “natural constituent structure” (Vennemann, 1973). This principle, attributed to Renate Bartsch, states among other things that the closeness of constituents in th ...
Making Syntax of Sense: Number Agreement in
... Grammatical number refers to the linguistic agreement properties of a lexical item. The word suds is grammatically plural for most English speakers, because words that agree with it are normally plural: In standard English, it is suds are and not suds is, and some suds rather than a suds. Conversely ...
... Grammatical number refers to the linguistic agreement properties of a lexical item. The word suds is grammatically plural for most English speakers, because words that agree with it are normally plural: In standard English, it is suds are and not suds is, and some suds rather than a suds. Conversely ...
StudMon 9_title.indd
... to both signal the end of the word, and to indicate “the general idea of the word.”4 It was thought that “determinatives” were introduced to compensate for the lack of vowels and word divisions in the Egyptian writing system. This opinion is still held by most Egyptologists and linguists today.5 Whi ...
... to both signal the end of the word, and to indicate “the general idea of the word.”4 It was thought that “determinatives” were introduced to compensate for the lack of vowels and word divisions in the Egyptian writing system. This opinion is still held by most Egyptologists and linguists today.5 Whi ...
as a PDF
... (1998), the best POS tag is selected by simple majority voting extended by taking into account not only the number of taggers voting for each POS, but also the weights that some taggers assign to their choices. The POS tagging step results in a ranked sequence of POS tags, which is recorded in the l ...
... (1998), the best POS tag is selected by simple majority voting extended by taking into account not only the number of taggers voting for each POS, but also the weights that some taggers assign to their choices. The POS tagging step results in a ranked sequence of POS tags, which is recorded in the l ...
Adverbial Participial Clauses in Koiné Greek
... may follow it. However, their grounding status vis-à-vis the nuclear clause is usually different in the two positions.7 The information conveyed in a pre-nuclear participial clause is typically backgrounded visà-vis the information in the nuclear clause (Healey & Healey 1990). In (1) (above), ‘they ...
... may follow it. However, their grounding status vis-à-vis the nuclear clause is usually different in the two positions.7 The information conveyed in a pre-nuclear participial clause is typically backgrounded visà-vis the information in the nuclear clause (Healey & Healey 1990). In (1) (above), ‘they ...
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. ...
Innovative 1PL Subject Constructions in Finnish
... As most of the Uralic languages, Finnish makes use of suffixal person marking in conjugation and declination. The phenomenom is not an example of canonical agreement, but as Haspelmath (2013) suggests, best described in terms of two kinds of person marking, morphological and syntactic, not necessari ...
... As most of the Uralic languages, Finnish makes use of suffixal person marking in conjugation and declination. The phenomenom is not an example of canonical agreement, but as Haspelmath (2013) suggests, best described in terms of two kinds of person marking, morphological and syntactic, not necessari ...
3.2 Clitics in Dutch
... between simple clitics and special clitics. Therefore they do not serve to determine the exact status of the weak pronouns in Dutch. The tests mentioned here are also generally taken to suggest that weak pronouns are heads, rather than phrases. This distinction is of great significance for the natur ...
... between simple clitics and special clitics. Therefore they do not serve to determine the exact status of the weak pronouns in Dutch. The tests mentioned here are also generally taken to suggest that weak pronouns are heads, rather than phrases. This distinction is of great significance for the natur ...
F-LOB/Frown manual
... Johansson et al. 1986) used a tagset that was historically related to the present one. It was therefore feasible to derive a reliable C8 version without retagging it from scratch. The conversion was done at Lancaster in two stages: (i) a perl script was written to map the original tags in the corpus ...
... Johansson et al. 1986) used a tagset that was historically related to the present one. It was therefore feasible to derive a reliable C8 version without retagging it from scratch. The conversion was done at Lancaster in two stages: (i) a perl script was written to map the original tags in the corpus ...
van Gelderen 2009
... In this section, I argue that two cyclical phenomena are responsible for changes in how questions are marked. In section 3.1, I show one cycle where the interrogative pronoun is reanalysed as a question marker in specifier position and that subsequently some specifiers become heads over time. The lang ...
... In this section, I argue that two cyclical phenomena are responsible for changes in how questions are marked. In section 3.1, I show one cycle where the interrogative pronoun is reanalysed as a question marker in specifier position and that subsequently some specifiers become heads over time. The lang ...
This excerpt from Language Form and Language Function
... answer to such a question gives (in older usage) or itself is (in more recent usage) the direct object. Now suppose that someone were to ask: “What is communicated to us by the phrase that we get in a correct answer? Is the phrase being used or mentioned?” It is clear that nothing is settled about t ...
... answer to such a question gives (in older usage) or itself is (in more recent usage) the direct object. Now suppose that someone were to ask: “What is communicated to us by the phrase that we get in a correct answer? Is the phrase being used or mentioned?” It is clear that nothing is settled about t ...
Audit Report Writing Guide
... example ‘significant’ compared to what? Ensure privacy of individuals is maintained. This includes staff of a service as well as any consumers of the service. Never use unique identifiers in audit reports. Avoid providing information in the audit report that would be better placed in auditor field n ...
... example ‘significant’ compared to what? Ensure privacy of individuals is maintained. This includes staff of a service as well as any consumers of the service. Never use unique identifiers in audit reports. Avoid providing information in the audit report that would be better placed in auditor field n ...
How many theta roles in a reflexive verb?
... theta theory as used in the context of government and binding (Chomsky 1981), and also from approaches that give a lexical semantic representation (LSR) an important place in a theory of argument structure. In the Theta System, syntax only has access to argument structure as a projection of a lexico ...
... theta theory as used in the context of government and binding (Chomsky 1981), and also from approaches that give a lexical semantic representation (LSR) an important place in a theory of argument structure. In the Theta System, syntax only has access to argument structure as a projection of a lexico ...
Non-concord in Existential-There Constructions: A Corpus - S
... Language 12, 111-137. Non-concord between the notional subject and the verb is an oft-cited characteristic of existential there-constructions. Recognizing some limitations of the previous studies (Meechan & Foley, 1994; Insua & Martinez, 2003), this paper seeks to resolve them by leading a more focu ...
... Language 12, 111-137. Non-concord between the notional subject and the verb is an oft-cited characteristic of existential there-constructions. Recognizing some limitations of the previous studies (Meechan & Foley, 1994; Insua & Martinez, 2003), this paper seeks to resolve them by leading a more focu ...
commas - Bucks County Community College
... 3. It was only eleven o’clock and the temperature had already reached ninety degrees. 4. “Drop the gun” the police shouted “and put your hands in the air!” 5. They invited Sylvia to the picnic but she had another obligation. 6. Although Mike Schmidt hit two home runs the Phillies lost. 7. She hopes ...
... 3. It was only eleven o’clock and the temperature had already reached ninety degrees. 4. “Drop the gun” the police shouted “and put your hands in the air!” 5. They invited Sylvia to the picnic but she had another obligation. 6. Although Mike Schmidt hit two home runs the Phillies lost. 7. She hopes ...
commas - Bucks County Community College
... 3. It was only eleven o’clock and the temperature had already reached ninety degrees. 4. “Drop the gun” the police shouted “and put your hands in the air!” 5. They invited Sylvia to the picnic but she had another obligation. 6. Although Mike Schmidt hit two home runs the Phillies lost. 7. She hopes ...
... 3. It was only eleven o’clock and the temperature had already reached ninety degrees. 4. “Drop the gun” the police shouted “and put your hands in the air!” 5. They invited Sylvia to the picnic but she had another obligation. 6. Although Mike Schmidt hit two home runs the Phillies lost. 7. She hopes ...
cmp-lg/9411016 PDF - at www.arxiv.org.
... (2a) O João escreveu um livro. John wrote a book. (AF = John, DF = a book) (2b) A Maria leu-o. Mary read it. eliminating the distinction between AF and DF would lead to João (John) being proposed as preferred antecedent of the masculine pronoun o (it). Rejecting this binding would require an appeal ...
... (2a) O João escreveu um livro. John wrote a book. (AF = John, DF = a book) (2b) A Maria leu-o. Mary read it. eliminating the distinction between AF and DF would lead to João (John) being proposed as preferred antecedent of the masculine pronoun o (it). Rejecting this binding would require an appeal ...
T Lesson 1 (2005)
... From the preceding examples, you have also learned personal pronouns. Here is a summary: من/man/ ‘I’ تو/too/ ‘you’ (if addressing one person informally) او/o/ ‘he/she/it’ (no distinction between male and female) ما/maa/ ‘we’ شما/shu-maa/ ‘you’ (if addressing one person formally or add ...
... From the preceding examples, you have also learned personal pronouns. Here is a summary: من/man/ ‘I’ تو/too/ ‘you’ (if addressing one person informally) او/o/ ‘he/she/it’ (no distinction between male and female) ما/maa/ ‘we’ شما/shu-maa/ ‘you’ (if addressing one person formally or add ...
A Grammar of the Muna Language
... in Ujung Pandang was our sponsor. Many thanks to him and his wife for their support, friendship and hospitality. Local government offices in Ujung Pandang, Kendari and Raha have always smoothly arranged the necessary paper work and in this way facilitated our stay in Indonesia. At this point I would ...
... in Ujung Pandang was our sponsor. Many thanks to him and his wife for their support, friendship and hospitality. Local government offices in Ujung Pandang, Kendari and Raha have always smoothly arranged the necessary paper work and in this way facilitated our stay in Indonesia. At this point I would ...
ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE INDICATING DEVICES (IFID) MOOD IN
... objective reality. As such the speaker expresses his attitude which is expressed by the verb, by presenting it as real, possible, desirable, etc. According to the respective modal meanings and the grammatical forms, in the Albanian language there are 6 verb modalities: indicative, admirative (this v ...
... objective reality. As such the speaker expresses his attitude which is expressed by the verb, by presenting it as real, possible, desirable, etc. According to the respective modal meanings and the grammatical forms, in the Albanian language there are 6 verb modalities: indicative, admirative (this v ...
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.