Functions of the Czech reflexive marker
... cause is a distinctive property of the construction in question, this construction is most commonly referred to as the ‘anticausative’. 4 The subject referent in (4), too, is an inanimate entity. Nevertheless, in this case no seeming spontaneity of the event is being communicated. Rather, we are de ...
... cause is a distinctive property of the construction in question, this construction is most commonly referred to as the ‘anticausative’. 4 The subject referent in (4), too, is an inanimate entity. Nevertheless, in this case no seeming spontaneity of the event is being communicated. Rather, we are de ...
Present participles: Categorial classification and derivation Aya
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
Full text
... situations when the writer describes events he has not seen with his own eyes, what he has overheard, read about, or accumulated by research through historical records. Indeed, out of the seven time spans in the autobiography (1877–1906; 1907; 1903–1907; 1874–1903; 1907–1914; 1914–1918; 1919–1932) t ...
... situations when the writer describes events he has not seen with his own eyes, what he has overheard, read about, or accumulated by research through historical records. Indeed, out of the seven time spans in the autobiography (1877–1906; 1907; 1903–1907; 1874–1903; 1907–1914; 1914–1918; 1919–1932) t ...
Auxiliaries in spoken Sinhala
... socially, but merely very different from the written variant. To illustrate, subject–verb agreement is present in literary Sinhala but does not occur in spoken ...
... socially, but merely very different from the written variant. To illustrate, subject–verb agreement is present in literary Sinhala but does not occur in spoken ...
1 Present participles
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
SynTagRus – a deeply annotated corpus of Russian1 Abstract. The
... million words belonging to written texts of a variety of genres starting from the 18th century. Since Russian is a morphologically rich language, with large paradigms for nouns, adjectives and verbs, in most cases, the annotation is morphologically ambiguous: a word may have more than one set of mor ...
... million words belonging to written texts of a variety of genres starting from the 18th century. Since Russian is a morphologically rich language, with large paradigms for nouns, adjectives and verbs, in most cases, the annotation is morphologically ambiguous: a word may have more than one set of mor ...
Aspectual licensing and object shift - bu people
... Westermann’s view that OV order in Gbå gerunds reduces to the prenominal order of possessors. But this correlation fails in ⁄gbo and Yor∞bÄ which have OV gerunds but lack prenominal possessors (Williamson 1986). This doesn’t prove that the Gbå parallel between OV and Poss-N is accidental, since Gbå ...
... Westermann’s view that OV order in Gbå gerunds reduces to the prenominal order of possessors. But this correlation fails in ⁄gbo and Yor∞bÄ which have OV gerunds but lack prenominal possessors (Williamson 1986). This doesn’t prove that the Gbå parallel between OV and Poss-N is accidental, since Gbå ...
an aspect of representing the three basic syntactical units
... Examples PREPOSITION For With In Next to into by before after to from ...
... Examples PREPOSITION For With In Next to into by before after to from ...
Limitations on metonymic uses of –ion nominalizations
... Verbs of emotion differ from this transitive prototype in the fact that the event is not initiated by a volitionally acting Agent, and there is no Patient which undergoes a perceptible change in the course of the energy transfer which is the action itself. The participants in cognitive events (which ...
... Verbs of emotion differ from this transitive prototype in the fact that the event is not initiated by a volitionally acting Agent, and there is no Patient which undergoes a perceptible change in the course of the energy transfer which is the action itself. The participants in cognitive events (which ...
Direct Object Pronouns - Reeths
... C. We can also use an Indirect Object PRONOUN in English: 1. a. Jorge is giving the dog to her. (Her stands for Teresa). OR b. Jorge is giving her the dog. 2. a. I’m buying a pop for him. (Him stands for my friend.) OR b. I’m buying him a pop. C. Now let’s see what it looks like in Spanish! In Span ...
... C. We can also use an Indirect Object PRONOUN in English: 1. a. Jorge is giving the dog to her. (Her stands for Teresa). OR b. Jorge is giving her the dog. 2. a. I’m buying a pop for him. (Him stands for my friend.) OR b. I’m buying him a pop. C. Now let’s see what it looks like in Spanish! In Span ...
Prepositional Phrases
... Preposition definition: a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence. Prepositions are "little words" that occur in large structures called Prepositional Phrases. ...
... Preposition definition: a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence. Prepositions are "little words" that occur in large structures called Prepositional Phrases. ...
File - Peter Cohee
... Learning Expectations. These passages may significantly affect your ideas about the importance of literature in your life; we therefore want you to learn them well. Here are the standards we’ll use to evaluate your knowledge of this material. You will be expected to demonstrate your knowledge of: th ...
... Learning Expectations. These passages may significantly affect your ideas about the importance of literature in your life; we therefore want you to learn them well. Here are the standards we’ll use to evaluate your knowledge of this material. You will be expected to demonstrate your knowledge of: th ...
Abstract Aglab Khazad: The Secret Language ofTolkien`s Dwarves
... Tolkien's world of Middle-Earth has gone through several attempts at adaptation in various kinds of media, but by far the most famous and successful adaptation to date is the trilogy of movies directed by Peter Jackson, based on LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring, released in 2001; The Two Towers, rel ...
... Tolkien's world of Middle-Earth has gone through several attempts at adaptation in various kinds of media, but by far the most famous and successful adaptation to date is the trilogy of movies directed by Peter Jackson, based on LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring, released in 2001; The Two Towers, rel ...
Hai ti! - wingolog
... Congratulations! You have, in your hands, the product of two years of love, sweat, tears, and copious amounts of coffee. We wrote this language guide while serving in Owambo as volunteer teachers. Our reasons were partly self-serving – writing about the language helped us to understand it better our ...
... Congratulations! You have, in your hands, the product of two years of love, sweat, tears, and copious amounts of coffee. We wrote this language guide while serving in Owambo as volunteer teachers. Our reasons were partly self-serving – writing about the language helped us to understand it better our ...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 47, 2
... jective). The OE word Indisc is revived only in 1398 by Trevisa. In a slightly earlier text, i.e., Gower’s Confessio Amantis (1393), we find the word Indien, which later appears three more times in Kyng Alisaunder (1400) and once in Mandeville’s Travels (1425); however, this is with a nominal functi ...
... jective). The OE word Indisc is revived only in 1398 by Trevisa. In a slightly earlier text, i.e., Gower’s Confessio Amantis (1393), we find the word Indien, which later appears three more times in Kyng Alisaunder (1400) and once in Mandeville’s Travels (1425); however, this is with a nominal functi ...
The Semantics of Russian Genitive of Negation: The Nature and
... In addition to this "subject Gen Neg", there is "object Gen Neg", in which Accusative alternates with Genitive under negation. The semantic effect in that case, if any, is less well understood, although some scholars such as Babyonyshev ( 1 996) believe that is equally a matter of the scope of negat ...
... In addition to this "subject Gen Neg", there is "object Gen Neg", in which Accusative alternates with Genitive under negation. The semantic effect in that case, if any, is less well understood, although some scholars such as Babyonyshev ( 1 996) believe that is equally a matter of the scope of negat ...
Greece as a Spiritual Home: Gerhart Hauptmann`s Travel Diary
... like themselves. He praises the Greeks for still being naïve, for retaining a child-like view of the world even into old age (133). They have preserved the power of fantasy that has been lost and profaned in the modern, scientific and skeptical world where myths no longer exist (139). For him, Greek ...
... like themselves. He praises the Greeks for still being naïve, for retaining a child-like view of the world even into old age (133). They have preserved the power of fantasy that has been lost and profaned in the modern, scientific and skeptical world where myths no longer exist (139). For him, Greek ...
Zipf`s law and the grammar of languages: A quantitative
... can be captured mathematically, a property we tentatively call their grammatical fingerprint. Our findings suggest implications for both the specific historical process of inflection loss and more generally for the characterization of languages ...
... can be captured mathematically, a property we tentatively call their grammatical fingerprint. Our findings suggest implications for both the specific historical process of inflection loss and more generally for the characterization of languages ...
Nouns and verbs in Tagalog: a reply to Foley
... The evidence that “any verb can be nouned” is syntactic, specifically distributional. As Foley illustrates in his examples (42), (44b), (71), and (73a), any inflected verb form can apparently function as the head of a NP. The evidence that “any noun can be verbed” is primarily morphological: Foley a ...
... The evidence that “any verb can be nouned” is syntactic, specifically distributional. As Foley illustrates in his examples (42), (44b), (71), and (73a), any inflected verb form can apparently function as the head of a NP. The evidence that “any noun can be verbed” is primarily morphological: Foley a ...
The roots of language for Oxmorph 2
... and the graph of photograph are labeled as stems and given their own (initial) cycle. Elsewhere, in particular in the analysis of Latinate verbs of the form “prefix-‐stem” such as permit, transfer, and ...
... and the graph of photograph are labeled as stems and given their own (initial) cycle. Elsewhere, in particular in the analysis of Latinate verbs of the form “prefix-‐stem” such as permit, transfer, and ...
Choices: Examining the Parts of a Sentence
... 13. Tobagonians share their island with many types of snakes, lizards, and frogs. 14. Different kinds of bats, including the fish-eating bat, inhabit the island. 15. Four types of forests can be found in Tobago. 16. The mangrove forest occupies the wetlands. 17. The coastal edge of the island and th ...
... 13. Tobagonians share their island with many types of snakes, lizards, and frogs. 14. Different kinds of bats, including the fish-eating bat, inhabit the island. 15. Four types of forests can be found in Tobago. 16. The mangrove forest occupies the wetlands. 17. The coastal edge of the island and th ...
Syntax I
... Further, similarly puzzling data can be obtained from movement. Consider the topicalization of infinitives in German/Dutch, e.g., “walk has he not” A verb that has two internal arguments can be topicalized either together with the first or together with the second, which in the above terms suggests ...
... Further, similarly puzzling data can be obtained from movement. Consider the topicalization of infinitives in German/Dutch, e.g., “walk has he not” A verb that has two internal arguments can be topicalized either together with the first or together with the second, which in the above terms suggests ...
A Study of the Verbs of Verb-copying Construction in Mandarin
... ‘She has read for three hours.’ The verb kan ‘read’ in (1) can be followed directly by its object shu ‘book’ as shown in (1a), or the post-verbal adverbial element san-ge xiaoshi ‘three hours’ as shown in (1b). However, (1c) is not acceptable for the verb is directly followed by two continents at th ...
... ‘She has read for three hours.’ The verb kan ‘read’ in (1) can be followed directly by its object shu ‘book’ as shown in (1a), or the post-verbal adverbial element san-ge xiaoshi ‘three hours’ as shown in (1b). However, (1c) is not acceptable for the verb is directly followed by two continents at th ...
A semantic analysis of the verbal prefix o(b)- in Croatian
... viii). Image schemas lack specificity and content, which makes them highly flexible preconceptual and primitive patterns used for reasoning (Johnson 1987: 30). In this analysis, we assume that the image schema of circular movement is traceable in the meaning of all the o(b)-verbs. However, the centr ...
... viii). Image schemas lack specificity and content, which makes them highly flexible preconceptual and primitive patterns used for reasoning (Johnson 1987: 30). In this analysis, we assume that the image schema of circular movement is traceable in the meaning of all the o(b)-verbs. However, the centr ...