Grammar Book - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... • All sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period or question mark. Write sentence, question, or fragmentt for each group of words. Write each group of words as a sentence with the correct punctuation. 1. the cat feeds her kittens 2. is very hungry today 3. his lunch bag is missing 4 ...
... • All sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period or question mark. Write sentence, question, or fragmentt for each group of words. Write each group of words as a sentence with the correct punctuation. 1. the cat feeds her kittens 2. is very hungry today 3. his lunch bag is missing 4 ...
On two hypotheses concerning psycholinguistics
... that way.^ To take a simple example, in the LG and in the CG, Pronominalization must follow Passivization, in order that an abstract structure of the form "John killed John" may be converted into the grammatical "John was killed by himself" rather than into the ungrammatical "^Himself was killed by ...
... that way.^ To take a simple example, in the LG and in the CG, Pronominalization must follow Passivization, in order that an abstract structure of the form "John killed John" may be converted into the grammatical "John was killed by himself" rather than into the ungrammatical "^Himself was killed by ...
Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs - Munin
... plausible for our data. The first one is that given the hierarchical ordering (Cinque 1999), the gerund would precede the main predicate; however, the order between main verb and gerund is rigidly Verb-Gerund. The second is that, from what we know from bona fide restructuring cases, this would force ...
... plausible for our data. The first one is that given the hierarchical ordering (Cinque 1999), the gerund would precede the main predicate; however, the order between main verb and gerund is rigidly Verb-Gerund. The second is that, from what we know from bona fide restructuring cases, this would force ...
The Notion of Surface-Syntactic Relation Revisited
... The SSyntRel r in (4) possesses the quasi-Kunze property, since r has a prototypical D: a prepositionless noun/(non-substitute) pronoun—because in French any finite verb admits a nominal Subject.4 As a result, the SSyntRel r in (4) is allowed: this is the subjectival SSyntRel. Let it be emphasized t ...
... The SSyntRel r in (4) possesses the quasi-Kunze property, since r has a prototypical D: a prepositionless noun/(non-substitute) pronoun—because in French any finite verb admits a nominal Subject.4 As a result, the SSyntRel r in (4) is allowed: this is the subjectival SSyntRel. Let it be emphasized t ...
struggling to retain the functions of passive when translating english
... not avoid passivity when translating from English into Arabic but express it differently by employing other translation replacements. For instance, Farghal and Al-Shorafat identified the following five main strategies translators fall back on when translating English passive utterances into Arabic. ...
... not avoid passivity when translating from English into Arabic but express it differently by employing other translation replacements. For instance, Farghal and Al-Shorafat identified the following five main strategies translators fall back on when translating English passive utterances into Arabic. ...
A Diachronic Study on the Complementation of the Verb Try
... and the person who is imitated (Haegeman 1991, 35). Hence the verb imitate logically requires two arguments. These arguments are “the participants minimally involved in the activity or state expressed by the predicate” (ibid., 36). Verbs can be divided into categories according to how many arguments ...
... and the person who is imitated (Haegeman 1991, 35). Hence the verb imitate logically requires two arguments. These arguments are “the participants minimally involved in the activity or state expressed by the predicate” (ibid., 36). Verbs can be divided into categories according to how many arguments ...
33 HOW COMPLEMENTS DIFFER FROM ADJUNCTS IN PERSIAN
... mainly because she does not recognize AdvPs, NPs, and AdjPs as formally distinct syntactic classes. Bateni (1969) recognizes four types of complement: direct object, predicative complement of object, predicative complement of subject (henceforth PCo and PCs respectively), and the non-verbal element ...
... mainly because she does not recognize AdvPs, NPs, and AdjPs as formally distinct syntactic classes. Bateni (1969) recognizes four types of complement: direct object, predicative complement of object, predicative complement of subject (henceforth PCo and PCs respectively), and the non-verbal element ...
Polysemy of verbal prefixes in Russian: conceptual structure versus
... only with the lexical prefixes and are incompatible with superlexical prefixes. Verbs that are incompatible with a change of state reading, on the other hand, only appear with the superlexical prefixes. There is also a large class in the middle compatible with both, where the event may or may not in ...
... only with the lexical prefixes and are incompatible with superlexical prefixes. Verbs that are incompatible with a change of state reading, on the other hand, only appear with the superlexical prefixes. There is also a large class in the middle compatible with both, where the event may or may not in ...
Making Use of Infinitives - Spearfish School District
... Change the italicized sentence to an infinitive phrase. After changing the italicized sentence to an infinitive phrase, insert it in the sentence next to the noun it modifies. 2. Johnny’s ambition was typical of a child. It was to become a firefighter. ...
... Change the italicized sentence to an infinitive phrase. After changing the italicized sentence to an infinitive phrase, insert it in the sentence next to the noun it modifies. 2. Johnny’s ambition was typical of a child. It was to become a firefighter. ...
Spanish Essentials For Dummies
... • What lies ahead — discover the different ways to express the future, whether you need to form the future tense of a regular verb or just want to predict what may happen ...
... • What lies ahead — discover the different ways to express the future, whether you need to form the future tense of a regular verb or just want to predict what may happen ...
Fundamentals of Classical Arabic VOLUME ONE
... []ﹶﺍﹾﻟ ِﻔﻌْﻞ ﹶﺍﹾﻟﻤُﻀَﺎﺭﹺﻉ The present tense verb (ﹶﺍﹾﻟﻤُﻀَﺎﺭﹺﻉ ...
... []ﹶﺍﹾﻟ ِﻔﻌْﻞ ﹶﺍﹾﻟﻤُﻀَﺎﺭﹺﻉ The present tense verb (ﹶﺍﹾﻟﻤُﻀَﺎﺭﹺﻉ ...
he - MPG.PuRe
... or difliculty on the ground of an imperfect apprehension between the parties concerned. The red Indian, uncivilized as he is, can give expression to his thoughts with precision and fluency. With his Dictionary and Grammar in his mind, and always ready for his purpose, he describes, defines, compares ...
... or difliculty on the ground of an imperfect apprehension between the parties concerned. The red Indian, uncivilized as he is, can give expression to his thoughts with precision and fluency. With his Dictionary and Grammar in his mind, and always ready for his purpose, he describes, defines, compares ...
A grammar of Mualang: An Ibanic language of Western Kalimantan
... culture, followed by a section on the genetic affiliation of Mualang (1.3). Dialectal variation and language use are discussed in (1.4). Then section (1.5) will describe previous linguistic studies on Mualang. While section (1.6) touches upon the aim of this study and its general theoretical framewo ...
... culture, followed by a section on the genetic affiliation of Mualang (1.3). Dialectal variation and language use are discussed in (1.4). Then section (1.5) will describe previous linguistic studies on Mualang. While section (1.6) touches upon the aim of this study and its general theoretical framewo ...
Coercion on the edge - Repositorio Académico
... cantado). As it can be seen from the examples, this grammatical aspect is usually expressed by the grammatical rules applied to a verb on a given linguistic construction (conjugation). Nevertheless, there is another distinction to be made when discussing aspect. Many authors began to realise that ve ...
... cantado). As it can be seen from the examples, this grammatical aspect is usually expressed by the grammatical rules applied to a verb on a given linguistic construction (conjugation). Nevertheless, there is another distinction to be made when discussing aspect. Many authors began to realise that ve ...
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... category in object position has no legitimate status: it cannot be a variable, as there is no quantifier to bind it, nor can it fulfill the conditions of any other type of ec (PRO, pro or DPtrace)”. This approach not only explains why topicalization in JC may bring about the filling of its base posi ...
... category in object position has no legitimate status: it cannot be a variable, as there is no quantifier to bind it, nor can it fulfill the conditions of any other type of ec (PRO, pro or DPtrace)”. This approach not only explains why topicalization in JC may bring about the filling of its base posi ...
Adverbs What is an Adverb? Adverb Form
... Adverbs of Manner List Alphabetical list of common single-word manner adverbs Adverbs of manner form the largest group of adverbs. We make most of them simply by adding -ly to their corresponding adjective. This is an alphabetical list of 130 common ...
... Adverbs of Manner List Alphabetical list of common single-word manner adverbs Adverbs of manner form the largest group of adverbs. We make most of them simply by adding -ly to their corresponding adjective. This is an alphabetical list of 130 common ...
the syntax of lexical reciprocal constructions
... monadic reciprocal construction as an argument. My analysis builds upon recent work within LFG and is not only sensitive to these constructions' diachronic development from a basic transitive verb, but also provides insight into a variety of features these constructions share cross-linguistically. F ...
... monadic reciprocal construction as an argument. My analysis builds upon recent work within LFG and is not only sensitive to these constructions' diachronic development from a basic transitive verb, but also provides insight into a variety of features these constructions share cross-linguistically. F ...
The Lord`s Prayer and Hail Mary
... narratives or the invented world. And as can now be seen, Tolkien did produce at least one such translation: a Quenya version not only of the Pater Noster or Lord's Prayer, but also of the Ave Maria or Hail Mary. The two are written consecutively and may well be considered one work. This is presentl ...
... narratives or the invented world. And as can now be seen, Tolkien did produce at least one such translation: a Quenya version not only of the Pater Noster or Lord's Prayer, but also of the Ave Maria or Hail Mary. The two are written consecutively and may well be considered one work. This is presentl ...
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... the Fulbright Foundation for full financial support from 1985 to 1987, the P.E.O. Foundation for partial financial support during the years 1987-1990, the Department of Linguistics, U. of Arizona for teaching assistantships from 1987 to 1990, and Chiang Mai University, Thailand, for permission of my ...
... the Fulbright Foundation for full financial support from 1985 to 1987, the P.E.O. Foundation for partial financial support during the years 1987-1990, the Department of Linguistics, U. of Arizona for teaching assistantships from 1987 to 1990, and Chiang Mai University, Thailand, for permission of my ...
The state of present-day Domari in Jerusalem
... adult Dom use Domari as the language of daily interaction in their homes; the great majority of them are over fifty years of age. Among the remainder there ...
... adult Dom use Domari as the language of daily interaction in their homes; the great majority of them are over fifty years of age. Among the remainder there ...
simple steps to sentence sense
... tests are provided with each step in the process. In addition, the “Sentence Analysis Map” or “SAM” sheet, provided at the beginning of the book, encapsulates all the steps for successful sentence analysis and can be used by students as a reference and study guide throughout the program. If you have ...
... tests are provided with each step in the process. In addition, the “Sentence Analysis Map” or “SAM” sheet, provided at the beginning of the book, encapsulates all the steps for successful sentence analysis and can be used by students as a reference and study guide throughout the program. If you have ...
full text
... this study conducted a corpus-based analysis. The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), was adopted as its database. COCA was compiled by Mark Davies at Brigham Young University and contains approximately 4.5 billion words of American English of modern times. COCA includes 567 instances o ...
... this study conducted a corpus-based analysis. The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), was adopted as its database. COCA was compiled by Mark Davies at Brigham Young University and contains approximately 4.5 billion words of American English of modern times. COCA includes 567 instances o ...
The liaison in French IP and VP: a syntactic analysis - clic
... Dell (1980: 25) claims that two conditions must be simultaneously fulfilled for liaison to take place: a) Phonological condition: word2 must begin with a vowel; b) Syntactic condition: the syntactic relation between the two words must be sufficiently close. It has already been observed that liaison ...
... Dell (1980: 25) claims that two conditions must be simultaneously fulfilled for liaison to take place: a) Phonological condition: word2 must begin with a vowel; b) Syntactic condition: the syntactic relation between the two words must be sufficiently close. It has already been observed that liaison ...
a descriptive analysis of argument alternations
... to adapt the analysis in distinctive features and phonemes used in phonetics to semantics, introducing the semantic features (Hjelmslev 1961). This theoretical framework was subsequently enriched by ...
... to adapt the analysis in distinctive features and phonemes used in phonetics to semantics, introducing the semantic features (Hjelmslev 1961). This theoretical framework was subsequently enriched by ...
Old Nubian Relative Clauses
... “the singing man,” in the sentence “the singing man walks on the street,” which may alternatively be rendered as “the man that sings walks on the street.” The subject of the participle “singing” corresponds with the subject of the main verb “walks,” i.e., “man.” In Old Nubian, these constructions ca ...
... “the singing man,” in the sentence “the singing man walks on the street,” which may alternatively be rendered as “the man that sings walks on the street.” The subject of the participle “singing” corresponds with the subject of the main verb “walks,” i.e., “man.” In Old Nubian, these constructions ca ...