Thursday, August 19 (PowerPoint Format)
... The man whom you see is my brother. (“whom” is not a subordinating conjunction [it’s a relative pronoun]; the dependent clause here [a relative clause] is part of its main clause’s subject) ...
... The man whom you see is my brother. (“whom” is not a subordinating conjunction [it’s a relative pronoun]; the dependent clause here [a relative clause] is part of its main clause’s subject) ...
commas - Bucks County Community College
... 1. As soon as I save enough money I intend to buy a car. 2. New Jersey which borders Pennsylvania on the east is famous for swamps and tomatoes. 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!” ...
... 1. As soon as I save enough money I intend to buy a car. 2. New Jersey which borders Pennsylvania on the east is famous for swamps and tomatoes. 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!” ...
The Spanish DELPH-IN Grammar - Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat
... cluding Spanish clitic pronouns. The result is a comprehensive classification of Spanish words consisting of 516 lexical types. Table 1 shows the distribution of the lexical types along the syntactic categories. Due to space limitations, we will not go into detail about the 516 lexical types. Instea ...
... cluding Spanish clitic pronouns. The result is a comprehensive classification of Spanish words consisting of 516 lexical types. Table 1 shows the distribution of the lexical types along the syntactic categories. Due to space limitations, we will not go into detail about the 516 lexical types. Instea ...
Particle verbs and a theory of late lexical insertion
... dominating the particle must be transparent. It therefore does not block movement of its verbal part. Notice that in Stiebels's and Wunderlich's analyses, the claim that particles are the only elements inside X°-categories that receive the feature [+max] does not follow from any independently motiva ...
... dominating the particle must be transparent. It therefore does not block movement of its verbal part. Notice that in Stiebels's and Wunderlich's analyses, the claim that particles are the only elements inside X°-categories that receive the feature [+max] does not follow from any independently motiva ...
Malayalam Clause Boundary Identifier: Annotation and Evaluation
... We describe in detail about the clauses and the clausal structures in Malayalam, one of the South Dravidian language. It is a verb final language and also a free word order language. It has postpositions, the genitive precedes the head noun in the genitive phrase and the Complementizer follows the e ...
... We describe in detail about the clauses and the clausal structures in Malayalam, one of the South Dravidian language. It is a verb final language and also a free word order language. It has postpositions, the genitive precedes the head noun in the genitive phrase and the Complementizer follows the e ...
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 ...
A Distributed Morphology-based analysis of Japanese
... pick any object (or internal argument) That is +human, like Subject Honorification. In fact, pragmatically Humbling is almost a mirror image of Honorification. Humbling is strongly associated with 1st person; Honorification can never be 1st person. The one syntactic mandate that applies to both is t ...
... pick any object (or internal argument) That is +human, like Subject Honorification. In fact, pragmatically Humbling is almost a mirror image of Honorification. Humbling is strongly associated with 1st person; Honorification can never be 1st person. The one syntactic mandate that applies to both is t ...
On the Semantics of the Perfective Aspect
... There are two interesting properties of predicates: cumulativity and quantization. Cumulative predicates may be formed out of mass nouns or count nouns. The semantics of cumulative and quantized reference is given in terms of the semantic operation t for joining two individuals to form a new individ ...
... There are two interesting properties of predicates: cumulativity and quantization. Cumulative predicates may be formed out of mass nouns or count nouns. The semantics of cumulative and quantized reference is given in terms of the semantic operation t for joining two individuals to form a new individ ...
The Clause - Haiku Learning
... the subject of the subordinate clause.] The jeweler to whom I took the broken bracelet repaired it quickly. [Whom relates the subordinate clause to the word jeweler and functions as the object of the preposition to.] ...
... the subject of the subordinate clause.] The jeweler to whom I took the broken bracelet repaired it quickly. [Whom relates the subordinate clause to the word jeweler and functions as the object of the preposition to.] ...
Object Markers in Amharic
... The diagnostic begins by setting up a scenario where the agreement or clitic doubling relation is broken. • This occurs if the morpheme and its corresponding full noun are not in a local enough relationship (e.g., another DP intervenes between them; aka defective intervention: Chomsky 2000, 2001) ...
... The diagnostic begins by setting up a scenario where the agreement or clitic doubling relation is broken. • This occurs if the morpheme and its corresponding full noun are not in a local enough relationship (e.g., another DP intervenes between them; aka defective intervention: Chomsky 2000, 2001) ...
Sub-English 2 nd Paper
... * Participle-Whenever a word acts as a verb and adjective that is called Participle. Likewise ,I have seen a written document.Here the word ‘written’ is a participle and It has been acting as a preposition sitting before a noun .So, It is a participle preposition. ...
... * Participle-Whenever a word acts as a verb and adjective that is called Participle. Likewise ,I have seen a written document.Here the word ‘written’ is a participle and It has been acting as a preposition sitting before a noun .So, It is a participle preposition. ...
Inside and Outside the Middle - The University of British Columbia
... intransitive ones. A problem for the middle analysis is the OCCU1TCDce of -m within the domain of monadic verbs, that is, verbs that are semantically intransitive and also have one NP in their argument structure. We make a more detailed analysis of these cases in section 2. We explore the question o ...
... intransitive ones. A problem for the middle analysis is the OCCU1TCDce of -m within the domain of monadic verbs, that is, verbs that are semantically intransitive and also have one NP in their argument structure. We make a more detailed analysis of these cases in section 2. We explore the question o ...
predication and equation in copular sentences: russian vs. english
... specificational copular sentences resemble one another in surface morpho-syntax. Insights into the above questions concerning the ambiguity of English copular sentences can be gained by comparing them with a language which appears to use radically different morpho-syntactic means for expressing pred ...
... specificational copular sentences resemble one another in surface morpho-syntax. Insights into the above questions concerning the ambiguity of English copular sentences can be gained by comparing them with a language which appears to use radically different morpho-syntactic means for expressing pred ...
Puyuma clause constructions
... ‘ergative’ alignment. Prototypically, an accusative language like English also has a passive voice construction in which the potential undergoer becomes the subject of an intransitive clause (e.g. Mary was kissed by John) and the potential actor is deleted or encoded as a non-core argument.7 An erga ...
... ‘ergative’ alignment. Prototypically, an accusative language like English also has a passive voice construction in which the potential undergoer becomes the subject of an intransitive clause (e.g. Mary was kissed by John) and the potential actor is deleted or encoded as a non-core argument.7 An erga ...
Notes for Teachers
... Applying KISS to Students’ Own Reading and Writing The primary objective of KISS is to enable students to intelligently discuss the grammar of anything that they read and especially anything that they write. Those who understand KISS concepts could, theoretically, use the Master Books and then use o ...
... Applying KISS to Students’ Own Reading and Writing The primary objective of KISS is to enable students to intelligently discuss the grammar of anything that they read and especially anything that they write. Those who understand KISS concepts could, theoretically, use the Master Books and then use o ...
Working with VERBALS: Participles / infinitives / gerunds
... adjective while the gerund does the job of a noun. Compare the verbals in these two sentences: The children, crying and exhausted, were guided out of the collapsed mine. Crying will not get you anywhere. Whereas the participle crying modifies the subject in the first sentence, the gerund Crying is t ...
... adjective while the gerund does the job of a noun. Compare the verbals in these two sentences: The children, crying and exhausted, were guided out of the collapsed mine. Crying will not get you anywhere. Whereas the participle crying modifies the subject in the first sentence, the gerund Crying is t ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Higher Lessons
... unity, of continuity, of proportion, of order. All good writing consists of good sentences properly joined. Since the sentence is the foundation or unit of discourse, it is all-important that the pupil should know the sentence. He should be able to put the principal and the subordinate parts in the ...
... unity, of continuity, of proportion, of order. All good writing consists of good sentences properly joined. Since the sentence is the foundation or unit of discourse, it is all-important that the pupil should know the sentence. He should be able to put the principal and the subordinate parts in the ...
Aphasia and the Theta System
... encouraged me to go on. My family in Eindhoven have also supported me a lot, above all when I arrived to The Netherlands, offering me their house and warm. Mari Luz and Felipe, thanks a lot because without you I had never been able to get here. At the university, Harald Kunst has always helped me wi ...
... encouraged me to go on. My family in Eindhoven have also supported me a lot, above all when I arrived to The Netherlands, offering me their house and warm. Mari Luz and Felipe, thanks a lot because without you I had never been able to get here. At the university, Harald Kunst has always helped me wi ...
Untitled
... (plural omaye gatd) is familiar and condescending, and is the word used in addressing servants, workmen, the members of one's own family, etc. Omaye san is almost the same as anata, but more familiar, and is used chiefly by women. Kisama and temaye are used in addressing coolies and other ...
... (plural omaye gatd) is familiar and condescending, and is the word used in addressing servants, workmen, the members of one's own family, etc. Omaye san is almost the same as anata, but more familiar, and is used chiefly by women. Kisama and temaye are used in addressing coolies and other ...
first language - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
... phases in their acquisition of case morphology (Clahsen, 1984; Tracy, 1984): initially they use nouns without determiners; then they use mostly nominative forms of determiners independent of context; then there seems to be a binary case system involving both nominative and accusative (accusative for ...
... phases in their acquisition of case morphology (Clahsen, 1984; Tracy, 1984): initially they use nouns without determiners; then they use mostly nominative forms of determiners independent of context; then there seems to be a binary case system involving both nominative and accusative (accusative for ...
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 ...
TKT Glossary - New Cambridge Romano
... Words which are regularly used together. The relation between the words may be grammatical, e.g when certain verbs collocate with particular prepositions, e.g. depend on, good at or when a verb like make or do collocates with a noun, e.g. do the shopping, make a plan. Collocations may also be lexica ...
... Words which are regularly used together. The relation between the words may be grammatical, e.g when certain verbs collocate with particular prepositions, e.g. depend on, good at or when a verb like make or do collocates with a noun, e.g. do the shopping, make a plan. Collocations may also be lexica ...
slips of speech - WATA - World Association of Arab Translators
... words; and to determine, in every case, what good usage dictates, is not an easy matter. Authors, like words, must be tested by time before their forms of expression may become a law for others. Pope, in his Essay on Criticism, laid down a rule which, for point and brevity, has never been excelled: ...
... words; and to determine, in every case, what good usage dictates, is not an easy matter. Authors, like words, must be tested by time before their forms of expression may become a law for others. Pope, in his Essay on Criticism, laid down a rule which, for point and brevity, has never been excelled: ...
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.