Wh Constructions * 1. Introduction
... of parsing mechanisms that seek to maximize the satisfaction of lexical and grammatical constraints; gap creation is not an end in itself. Studies based on English-type languages do not easily allow these two approaches to be distinguished. Since a verb in English-type languages is followed by its c ...
... of parsing mechanisms that seek to maximize the satisfaction of lexical and grammatical constraints; gap creation is not an end in itself. Studies based on English-type languages do not easily allow these two approaches to be distinguished. Since a verb in English-type languages is followed by its c ...
Imperfect Aspect in English and Indonesian Verbs
... In general the imperfect aspect serves as the background of another activity in the past, present, or future time. Besides, this aspect contains the idea of progressiveness as long stated by Hairston and Ruskiewicz (1996) that a progressive form is a verb form that shows continuing activity; it take ...
... In general the imperfect aspect serves as the background of another activity in the past, present, or future time. Besides, this aspect contains the idea of progressiveness as long stated by Hairston and Ruskiewicz (1996) that a progressive form is a verb form that shows continuing activity; it take ...
“The Use of the Gerund in the English Language and ways of its
... There is no gerund in the Ukrainian language and the English gerund is rendered into Ukrainian in different ways: by a noun, by an infinitive, by a verbal adverb and by a subordinate clause. a) by a noun. Dancing had not begun yet. - Танці ще не почалися. b) by an infinitive. She had tea with Cipria ...
... There is no gerund in the Ukrainian language and the English gerund is rendered into Ukrainian in different ways: by a noun, by an infinitive, by a verbal adverb and by a subordinate clause. a) by a noun. Dancing had not begun yet. - Танці ще не почалися. b) by an infinitive. She had tea with Cipria ...
Aphasia and the Theta System
... problems. I am specially grateful to my supervisor Anita van Loon-Vervoorn for all that she has done for me. She offered me the chance to do an internship supervised by her at the rehabilitation center De Hoogstraat in Utrecht despite the fact that my Dutch at that moment was not good enough (and I ...
... problems. I am specially grateful to my supervisor Anita van Loon-Vervoorn for all that she has done for me. She offered me the chance to do an internship supervised by her at the rehabilitation center De Hoogstraat in Utrecht despite the fact that my Dutch at that moment was not good enough (and I ...
A Grammar and Glossary of the Manange Language Kristine A. Hildebrandt
... can be seen from their names, their caste system, and many other customs. They thus consider their language to be Newar, and it is referred to as a dialect. In contrast to this situation, are the Tamangic ‘languages’. Speakers of these languages are in distinct ethnic groups, and when they come toge ...
... can be seen from their names, their caste system, and many other customs. They thus consider their language to be Newar, and it is referred to as a dialect. In contrast to this situation, are the Tamangic ‘languages’. Speakers of these languages are in distinct ethnic groups, and when they come toge ...
VILNIUS PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
... English, like other languages, provides a variety of ways of realizing causal relations. The problem of expressing causation in English has been discussed in the writings of many scholars. We can distinguish such linguists as Comrie (1981), Lyons (1969), Halliday (1976), Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and ...
... English, like other languages, provides a variety of ways of realizing causal relations. The problem of expressing causation in English has been discussed in the writings of many scholars. We can distinguish such linguists as Comrie (1981), Lyons (1969), Halliday (1976), Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and ...
verhandelingen - Brill Online Books and Journals
... frontally rather than backwardly. In open accentuated syllables of words of more than one syllable lil is often lengthened to such an extent that it even tends to diphthongize to [ij], which in an extreme type of articulation sometimes even becomes [ig] in conforrnity with the fact that Ijl after Ij ...
... frontally rather than backwardly. In open accentuated syllables of words of more than one syllable lil is often lengthened to such an extent that it even tends to diphthongize to [ij], which in an extreme type of articulation sometimes even becomes [ig] in conforrnity with the fact that Ijl after Ij ...
preparation guide for the
... : Today’s discussion is about a common animal reaction – the yawn. The dictionary defines a yawn as “an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom.” That’s certainly true for human yawns. The same action can have quite different meanings in different species. For example, some animals yawn to intimi ...
... : Today’s discussion is about a common animal reaction – the yawn. The dictionary defines a yawn as “an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom.” That’s certainly true for human yawns. The same action can have quite different meanings in different species. For example, some animals yawn to intimi ...
1 In Press, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Discourse
... Dowty 1979, Smith 1991/7); I will assume them here. Some of these distributional correlates are essentially semantic and hold across languages. Dynamism, for instance, is closely associated with the notion of agency, so that adverbs of intention and control are natural with event clauses, odd with ...
... Dowty 1979, Smith 1991/7); I will assume them here. Some of these distributional correlates are essentially semantic and hold across languages. Dynamism, for instance, is closely associated with the notion of agency, so that adverbs of intention and control are natural with event clauses, odd with ...
A multivariate analysis of the Old English ACC+DAT double object
... As can be seen from table 1, many morphological distinctions had already been lost in OE; for instance, the distinction between Nom and Acc had largely disappeared. With respect to the ditransitive construction, OE had different case patterns to mark the two objects that the verb could take. These ...
... As can be seen from table 1, many morphological distinctions had already been lost in OE; for instance, the distinction between Nom and Acc had largely disappeared. With respect to the ditransitive construction, OE had different case patterns to mark the two objects that the verb could take. These ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Higher Lessons
... sentence. To study thought through its outward form, the sentence, and to discover the fitness of the different parts of the expression to the parts of the thought, is to learn to think. It has been noticed that pupils thoroughly trained in the analysis and the construction of sentences come to thei ...
... sentence. To study thought through its outward form, the sentence, and to discover the fitness of the different parts of the expression to the parts of the thought, is to learn to think. It has been noticed that pupils thoroughly trained in the analysis and the construction of sentences come to thei ...
Reviewing Basic Sentence Patterns
... The missing word in this sentence would be a (subject complement, direct object). ...
... The missing word in this sentence would be a (subject complement, direct object). ...
Notes on the formation and usage of subjunctive
... All the verbs we have used so far, with the exception of the imperative, have been in the Indicative Mood, that is, they indicate states of affairs that are presented as factual. Now consider the following two sentences in English: I insist that he is here, and I insist that he be here. In the first ...
... All the verbs we have used so far, with the exception of the imperative, have been in the Indicative Mood, that is, they indicate states of affairs that are presented as factual. Now consider the following two sentences in English: I insist that he is here, and I insist that he be here. In the first ...
Chapter 4: THE PRESENT PERFECT AND THE PAST PERFECT
... • Ever is frequently used as an intensifier in front of since. The use of ever has little, if any, effect on the meaning of since. I’ve lived here ever since May. • In example (a), since is used as a preposition, and in examples (f ) and (g) as a subordinating conjunction. Subordinating conjunctions ...
... • Ever is frequently used as an intensifier in front of since. The use of ever has little, if any, effect on the meaning of since. I’ve lived here ever since May. • In example (a), since is used as a preposition, and in examples (f ) and (g) as a subordinating conjunction. Subordinating conjunctions ...
The Verb-Particle Alternation in the Scandinavian Languages
... verbs and prepositions, facts which can be characterized as constraints on possible lexical entries, or as limitations of the language of conceptual structure on which lexical entries are based. The verb-particle construction shows characteristic syntactic properties, with interesting variation acro ...
... verbs and prepositions, facts which can be characterized as constraints on possible lexical entries, or as limitations of the language of conceptual structure on which lexical entries are based. The verb-particle construction shows characteristic syntactic properties, with interesting variation acro ...
Lexicalising a robust parser grammar using the WWW
... information extraction, question answering systems, word sense disambiguation, etc. Most of them are reported to have good accuracy, sometimes above 90% precision in the recognition of some syntactic structure elements (noun and prepositional phrases, subject-verb and object-verb relations, etc.). H ...
... information extraction, question answering systems, word sense disambiguation, etc. Most of them are reported to have good accuracy, sometimes above 90% precision in the recognition of some syntactic structure elements (noun and prepositional phrases, subject-verb and object-verb relations, etc.). H ...
full text
... Tab. 2 below lists the nouns which were frequently observed with unreadable, here again in decreasing order. In contrast to the case of readable, its negative adjective is closely associated with nouns denoting the facial expressions of human beings or other animals, such as expression, eye and face ...
... Tab. 2 below lists the nouns which were frequently observed with unreadable, here again in decreasing order. In contrast to the case of readable, its negative adjective is closely associated with nouns denoting the facial expressions of human beings or other animals, such as expression, eye and face ...
OBJECTIVE CONJUGATION AND MEDIALISATION
... 3.3.2. Intensive incompleteness means that object-dependent verbal conjugation is confined to certain numbers, persons, tenses, moods etc. in a given language. In a set of Iranian languages, for instance, objective conjugation exists only in the past tense. 3.3.3. While not a separate type in its ow ...
... 3.3.2. Intensive incompleteness means that object-dependent verbal conjugation is confined to certain numbers, persons, tenses, moods etc. in a given language. In a set of Iranian languages, for instance, objective conjugation exists only in the past tense. 3.3.3. While not a separate type in its ow ...
Contents
... colloquial speech to use the objective case, even if the function of the pronoun it that of a predicate; “Who’s there?”- “It’s me”, she said (Greene). In careless speech it is him (her, us) is also frequent. Number. Pronouns also express number; singular and plural. But with a few exceptions (one- o ...
... colloquial speech to use the objective case, even if the function of the pronoun it that of a predicate; “Who’s there?”- “It’s me”, she said (Greene). In careless speech it is him (her, us) is also frequent. Number. Pronouns also express number; singular and plural. But with a few exceptions (one- o ...
Section 8 – Compound Main Clauses
... [Note that the Introduction to this book is at the beginning of Part Two.] ...
... [Note that the Introduction to this book is at the beginning of Part Two.] ...
On Indefinite Subject NPs in Chinese
... semantic reading of these QP subjects is a specific reference, not an indefinite reference. That means the speaker knows which referent s/he is talking about while the listener does not know the referent. Hence there are two major categories of indefinite subjects NP in Chinese: the bare noun and th ...
... semantic reading of these QP subjects is a specific reference, not an indefinite reference. That means the speaker knows which referent s/he is talking about while the listener does not know the referent. Hence there are two major categories of indefinite subjects NP in Chinese: the bare noun and th ...
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... Example: Which shows did they see? They did see which shows. Now you try, rearrange this question into a statement. Underline the direct object. Did you take cupcakes to Mrs. Reddy this weekend? ______________________________________________________________________________________ Some sentences hav ...
... Example: Which shows did they see? They did see which shows. Now you try, rearrange this question into a statement. Underline the direct object. Did you take cupcakes to Mrs. Reddy this weekend? ______________________________________________________________________________________ Some sentences hav ...
Adjectives and adverbs
... Peripheral adjectives share some but not all of the defining characteristics of adjectives, as Table 7.1 illustrates. As the table also shows, the concept of 'central v. peripheral' is not a clear dichotomy. Big is a central adjective and exhibits all the characteristics listed above. Some adjective ...
... Peripheral adjectives share some but not all of the defining characteristics of adjectives, as Table 7.1 illustrates. As the table also shows, the concept of 'central v. peripheral' is not a clear dichotomy. Big is a central adjective and exhibits all the characteristics listed above. Some adjective ...
The Top 250 Most Difficult SAT Words
... The Top 250 Most Difficult SAT Words◦ Week 10 Starting Monday, ___/___/______ Instructions: By the last day of the week, study the list of vocabulary words for that week and prepare for a quiz. In order to prepare, be sure to look up and study denotations, connotations, and uses of the terms. You m ...
... The Top 250 Most Difficult SAT Words◦ Week 10 Starting Monday, ___/___/______ Instructions: By the last day of the week, study the list of vocabulary words for that week and prepare for a quiz. In order to prepare, be sure to look up and study denotations, connotations, and uses of the terms. You m ...
Basic Croatian (ver 0.24) - ALVSMITH
... Have you noted that some words look somewhat similar (sin "son", and tri "three")? You can read something about reasons for such similarities here. Now, if we take a closer look, we see that kuća "house" (we don't worry about pronunciation for now) has a different form when it's in the sentence wher ...
... Have you noted that some words look somewhat similar (sin "son", and tri "three")? You can read something about reasons for such similarities here. Now, if we take a closer look, we see that kuća "house" (we don't worry about pronunciation for now) has a different form when it's in the sentence wher ...