on-interpretation
... white, so that of anything that has taken place it was always true to say 'it is' or 'it will be'. But if it was always true to say that a thing is or will be, it is not possible that it should not be or not be about to be, and when a thing cannot not come to be, it is impossible that it should not ...
... white, so that of anything that has taken place it was always true to say 'it is' or 'it will be'. But if it was always true to say that a thing is or will be, it is not possible that it should not be or not be about to be, and when a thing cannot not come to be, it is impossible that it should not ...
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
... not exist in natural language. For example, lexical entries where the agentive instigator of an action is realised as the direct object, while the passive undergoer comes out as the subject do not seem to be attested. This kind of pattern is clearly not arbitrary. The generalizations about thematic ...
... not exist in natural language. For example, lexical entries where the agentive instigator of an action is realised as the direct object, while the passive undergoer comes out as the subject do not seem to be attested. This kind of pattern is clearly not arbitrary. The generalizations about thematic ...
Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar
... which it was written, with the introduction of a specially adapted form of the Latin alphabet in 1928, accompanied by a total prohibition on any further use of the Arabic script for teaching or publication in Turkish. The second affected the substance of the language itself, particularly its lexicon ...
... which it was written, with the introduction of a specially adapted form of the Latin alphabet in 1928, accompanied by a total prohibition on any further use of the Arabic script for teaching or publication in Turkish. The second affected the substance of the language itself, particularly its lexicon ...
Guidelines for Writing Work Term Reports
... These guidelines are provided to help students prepare professional-quality reports. Correct formatting, style, and grammar are addressed, and examples are provided. These guidelines themselves are an example of a properly organized and formatted report. However, because they are instructional, the ...
... These guidelines are provided to help students prepare professional-quality reports. Correct formatting, style, and grammar are addressed, and examples are provided. These guidelines themselves are an example of a properly organized and formatted report. However, because they are instructional, the ...
Constructions with and without articles Henriëtte de Swart
... The three languages have a range of weakly referential constructions in common. Bare predication (6a, 7a, 8a) and reduplication (6e, 7h, 8f) are found in English, Dutch and French. The class of bare PPs is split into N-based and P-based bare PPs. In N-based bare PPs, bareness is driven by the noun, ...
... The three languages have a range of weakly referential constructions in common. Bare predication (6a, 7a, 8a) and reduplication (6e, 7h, 8f) are found in English, Dutch and French. The class of bare PPs is split into N-based and P-based bare PPs. In N-based bare PPs, bareness is driven by the noun, ...
Variant 2 - Egypt IG Student Room
... (v) LISTS = a maximum of 3 marks for communication: lists of 1–3 items = 1 mark; lists of 4 items = 2 marks; lists of 5–6 items = 3 marks. • Je joue au tennis, au basket, au volley et au foot (1 verb, therefore treat as list of 4 items: place one tick over «volley» (third item in list) and another t ...
... (v) LISTS = a maximum of 3 marks for communication: lists of 1–3 items = 1 mark; lists of 4 items = 2 marks; lists of 5–6 items = 3 marks. • Je joue au tennis, au basket, au volley et au foot (1 verb, therefore treat as list of 4 items: place one tick over «volley» (third item in list) and another t ...
Acquiring Linguistic Constructions
... lexical items involved (Goldberg, 1995). Thus, in the utterance Mary sneezed John the football, our construal of the action is influenced more by the transfer of possession meaning of the ditransitive construction than it is by the verb sneeze (since sneezing is not normally construed as transferrin ...
... lexical items involved (Goldberg, 1995). Thus, in the utterance Mary sneezed John the football, our construal of the action is influenced more by the transfer of possession meaning of the ditransitive construction than it is by the verb sneeze (since sneezing is not normally construed as transferrin ...
The Development of Root Infinitives and Null Subjects in Child
... a lexical representation (i.e. each affix having a lexical entry) or encoded in a rule-base (which generates the affixes)1 - cf. the previous references for discussion. Speas (1994) takes up this distinction as a possible explanation for the difference between languages which allow null subjects an ...
... a lexical representation (i.e. each affix having a lexical entry) or encoded in a rule-base (which generates the affixes)1 - cf. the previous references for discussion. Speas (1994) takes up this distinction as a possible explanation for the difference between languages which allow null subjects an ...
Transcription of Moroccan Arabic
... rigors of Peace Corps training, and you’re faced with what will be one of the most demanding—and rewarding—aspects of your Peace Corps experience: learning to communicate to Moroccans in their own language. But it can be done. And rest assured that you can do it. Here are a few reasons why: You ar ...
... rigors of Peace Corps training, and you’re faced with what will be one of the most demanding—and rewarding—aspects of your Peace Corps experience: learning to communicate to Moroccans in their own language. But it can be done. And rest assured that you can do it. Here are a few reasons why: You ar ...
On the aspectual uses of the prefix be- in lithuanian
... base, cf. atidaryti langą ‘open a window’ ~ atidar‑inė‑ti langus ‘to open windows one after another’. The crucial difference between verbs I call ‘telic’ and those I call ‘punctual with a presupposed process’ lies in the fact that only the former, but not the latter, are able to express the process ...
... base, cf. atidaryti langą ‘open a window’ ~ atidar‑inė‑ti langus ‘to open windows one after another’. The crucial difference between verbs I call ‘telic’ and those I call ‘punctual with a presupposed process’ lies in the fact that only the former, but not the latter, are able to express the process ...
Year 7 sentence level bank
... ◆ A noun phrase is a word or group of words that acts in the same way as a noun. Noun phrases are based on a noun headword. They may function as the subject, object or complement of a clause. The term can refer to a single noun (dog), a pronoun (it) or a group of words that acts in the same way as a ...
... ◆ A noun phrase is a word or group of words that acts in the same way as a noun. Noun phrases are based on a noun headword. They may function as the subject, object or complement of a clause. The term can refer to a single noun (dog), a pronoun (it) or a group of words that acts in the same way as a ...
inquiries into the lexicon-syntax relations in basque
... which are formally reflexives (Mendikoetxea 1999) are treated as absolutive intransitive verbs in Basque borrowings, and he demonstrates that in fact, the tendency to use an ergative case marking with intransitive borrowed verbs (Sarasola 1979) is restricted to non-reflexive (most of the time agenti ...
... which are formally reflexives (Mendikoetxea 1999) are treated as absolutive intransitive verbs in Basque borrowings, and he demonstrates that in fact, the tendency to use an ergative case marking with intransitive borrowed verbs (Sarasola 1979) is restricted to non-reflexive (most of the time agenti ...
Identifying English Gerunds and their Translation Equivalents in an
... when its verbal force is strong, it seems to prefer an accusative / direct object (Curme, 1980: 483). Historically, gerunds and present participles did not always share the same morphological form. The English present participle was originally used like an adjective, which until the 14th century ha ...
... when its verbal force is strong, it seems to prefer an accusative / direct object (Curme, 1980: 483). Historically, gerunds and present participles did not always share the same morphological form. The English present participle was originally used like an adjective, which until the 14th century ha ...
Basic English Grammar with Exercises
... what we are going to study. Usually, these assumptions are based on common sense, like those I have been making so far. But it is important to realise that they are untested assumptions which may prove to be wrong once our investigations get under way. These assumptions, plus anything we add to them ...
... what we are going to study. Usually, these assumptions are based on common sense, like those I have been making so far. But it is important to realise that they are untested assumptions which may prove to be wrong once our investigations get under way. These assumptions, plus anything we add to them ...
Semantic Processing of Compounds in Indian Languages
... compound while Bahuvrı̄hi is an exocentric compound. Many of the compounds are compositional and hence can be generated with the help of a rule base. However, there are some compounds which are non-compositional and they are treated separately in Pān.ini’s grammar. These compounds are called nitya ...
... compound while Bahuvrı̄hi is an exocentric compound. Many of the compounds are compositional and hence can be generated with the help of a rule base. However, there are some compounds which are non-compositional and they are treated separately in Pān.ini’s grammar. These compounds are called nitya ...
Basic English Grammar with Exercises
... what we are going to study. Usually, these assumptions are based on common sense, like those I have been making so far. But it is important to realise that they are untested assumptions which may prove to be wrong once our investigations get under way. These assumptions, plus anything we add to them ...
... what we are going to study. Usually, these assumptions are based on common sense, like those I have been making so far. But it is important to realise that they are untested assumptions which may prove to be wrong once our investigations get under way. These assumptions, plus anything we add to them ...
0520 FRENCH (FOREIGN LANGUAGE) MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2015 series
... (v) LISTS = a maximum of 3 marks for communication: lists of 1–3 items = 1 mark; lists of 4 items = 2 marks; lists of 5–6 items = 3 marks. • Je joue au tennis, au basket, au volley et au foot (1 verb, therefore treat as list of 4 items: place one tick over «volley» (third item in list) and another t ...
... (v) LISTS = a maximum of 3 marks for communication: lists of 1–3 items = 1 mark; lists of 4 items = 2 marks; lists of 5–6 items = 3 marks. • Je joue au tennis, au basket, au volley et au foot (1 verb, therefore treat as list of 4 items: place one tick over «volley» (third item in list) and another t ...
Generative Approaches to Syntactic Typology George Gibbard
... universals either by surveying the diversity of human language as broadly as possible in order to be able to say in what areas human languages do not show diversity, or by examining this diversity closely in order to establish "implicational" universals, that is to establish meaningful correlations ...
... universals either by surveying the diversity of human language as broadly as possible in order to be able to say in what areas human languages do not show diversity, or by examining this diversity closely in order to establish "implicational" universals, that is to establish meaningful correlations ...
trandabat
... Rules: if predicate has just one role set > assign it as predicate sense. if the same type/number of roles (except for the adjuncts), the exact sense of the verb is not that important > assign the most ...
... Rules: if predicate has just one role set > assign it as predicate sense. if the same type/number of roles (except for the adjuncts), the exact sense of the verb is not that important > assign the most ...
Analyzing Embedded Noun Phrase Structures Derived from
... In ALT-J/E, the analysis of embedded noun phrase structures reveals the relation between the modified noun phrase and the embedded sentence by referring to valency patterns (Yokoo & Hayashi 87). Figure 3 shows an example of embeddednoun phrase structure analysis for "kare-ga watashi-ni shoukai-shita ...
... In ALT-J/E, the analysis of embedded noun phrase structures reveals the relation between the modified noun phrase and the embedded sentence by referring to valency patterns (Yokoo & Hayashi 87). Figure 3 shows an example of embeddednoun phrase structure analysis for "kare-ga watashi-ni shoukai-shita ...
Kanza Reader
... one would expect; the gender of the voice recorded for the CD does not always match the gender of the speaker whose speech was originally transcribed. This is more of a problem in Kanza than in English because Kanza has a series of "gendered speech markers" that clearly identify speakers as either m ...
... one would expect; the gender of the voice recorded for the CD does not always match the gender of the speaker whose speech was originally transcribed. This is more of a problem in Kanza than in English because Kanza has a series of "gendered speech markers" that clearly identify speakers as either m ...
DESIDERATIVE - CAUSATIVES IN PAPAGO Ofelia Zepeda
... down; bihugimdag 'hunger' has a direct connection to the desire to eat; and tonamdag 'thirst' has a direct connection to the desire to drink. However, (25) even though it contains an abstract noun having to do with some internal state, in fact, even though we know that bihugimdag is a possible subje ...
... down; bihugimdag 'hunger' has a direct connection to the desire to eat; and tonamdag 'thirst' has a direct connection to the desire to drink. However, (25) even though it contains an abstract noun having to do with some internal state, in fact, even though we know that bihugimdag is a possible subje ...
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction
... disgusting has happened in this bed appear on the surface to be grammatically completely parallel. So why is it that the first has a passive counterpart, This bed has been slept in by something disgusting, whereas the second doesn’t: *This bed has been happened in by something disgusting? These are ...
... disgusting has happened in this bed appear on the surface to be grammatically completely parallel. So why is it that the first has a passive counterpart, This bed has been slept in by something disgusting, whereas the second doesn’t: *This bed has been happened in by something disgusting? These are ...
The Inflected Infinitive in Brazilian Portuguese.
... were not consistent with the norms prescribed by the normative grammar; Maurer (1968) presents a quite different scenario for the same situation, i.e. that it were natural, logical and easy to use it, apart form being a structural element of the language since its origin.6 This controversy about th ...
... were not consistent with the norms prescribed by the normative grammar; Maurer (1968) presents a quite different scenario for the same situation, i.e. that it were natural, logical and easy to use it, apart form being a structural element of the language since its origin.6 This controversy about th ...