The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West
... thematic role of the adjectival participle by means of zero derivation (but detectable by agreement properties in the early stages of the development). We will see that applying this rule results in the loss of the state-denoting adjectival meaning in favor of the process-denoting verbal meaning, an ...
... thematic role of the adjectival participle by means of zero derivation (but detectable by agreement properties in the early stages of the development). We will see that applying this rule results in the loss of the state-denoting adjectival meaning in favor of the process-denoting verbal meaning, an ...
Chapter 5 NPs and their Functions Review of NPs
... this clause is opens -- which indicates that the subject of the clause is singular (and third person, but since all the NPs in this clause are third person, that is not relevant to any argument about what is the subject of this clause). Since the subject is singular, that eliminates other houses, wh ...
... this clause is opens -- which indicates that the subject of the clause is singular (and third person, but since all the NPs in this clause are third person, that is not relevant to any argument about what is the subject of this clause). Since the subject is singular, that eliminates other houses, wh ...
Parallelism Practice
... 7. To the incoming college student, fraternity initiation may seem like a fun activity, but a dangerous and sometimes fatal act is how the ...
... 7. To the incoming college student, fraternity initiation may seem like a fun activity, but a dangerous and sometimes fatal act is how the ...
THE INTERPRETATION OF TENSE AND ASPECT IN ENGLISH
... Finally, the representation of a sentence with both progressive and perfect aspect, like "John will have been frosting a cake", is the following: ...
... Finally, the representation of a sentence with both progressive and perfect aspect, like "John will have been frosting a cake", is the following: ...
written ambonese malay, 1895–1992
... Demonstratives often precede the noun. (This has also been noted in other Low Malays.) ...
... Demonstratives often precede the noun. (This has also been noted in other Low Malays.) ...
Chapter 9
... The ‘clause’ is defined here as the minimal unit of syntactic organization that includes a verbal element, finite or non-finite. Thus it encompasses the ‘verb phrase’ (predicate and any modifiers) and any ‘noun phrases’ (nouns and any modifiers) needed to fill the predicate’s argument slots. The not ...
... The ‘clause’ is defined here as the minimal unit of syntactic organization that includes a verbal element, finite or non-finite. Thus it encompasses the ‘verb phrase’ (predicate and any modifiers) and any ‘noun phrases’ (nouns and any modifiers) needed to fill the predicate’s argument slots. The not ...
Document
... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IMPERATIVES ( e.g. Be heard! or Don't be taken! ) -----------------DEPONENT IMPERATIVES ------------------------------------Genera ...
... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IMPERATIVES ( e.g. Be heard! or Don't be taken! ) -----------------DEPONENT IMPERATIVES ------------------------------------Genera ...
Present continuous tense A visit to zoo
... • The kids are giving money to the elephant. • Cheetah keya kar raha hai? • What the tiger is doing? • Cheetah so raha hai? • Tiger is sleeping? ...
... • The kids are giving money to the elephant. • Cheetah keya kar raha hai? • What the tiger is doing? • Cheetah so raha hai? • Tiger is sleeping? ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Grammar and
... In speaking of pairs of people _ro_ is used: _ro mwai sasina_ two brothers. The _na_ of _sasina_, _telana_, etc., is a noun termination and is not the suffixed pronoun. The articles _ni_ for the singular and _ote_ for the plural are used of women: _ni aia_ a female relation, _ote geni_ women. The wo ...
... In speaking of pairs of people _ro_ is used: _ro mwai sasina_ two brothers. The _na_ of _sasina_, _telana_, etc., is a noun termination and is not the suffixed pronoun. The articles _ni_ for the singular and _ote_ for the plural are used of women: _ni aia_ a female relation, _ote geni_ women. The wo ...
Peace Corps Standard Biko Course
... the dial position when a prefix, like ka-, or Eu-, is used in the word. Examples are: Acaklase/, meaning "classmate"; and /1/1879Yano/, meaning "to play the piano.g.. Consonant clusters never occur in final position. Only in the speech of those whose knowledge of English pronunciation is quite good ...
... the dial position when a prefix, like ka-, or Eu-, is used in the word. Examples are: Acaklase/, meaning "classmate"; and /1/1879Yano/, meaning "to play the piano.g.. Consonant clusters never occur in final position. Only in the speech of those whose knowledge of English pronunciation is quite good ...
Recent Developments in the Theory of Valency in the Light of the
... A word entry in VALLEX corresponds to the whole lexeme; it consists of a (non-empty) sequence of frame entries corresponding to a single sense. We have formulated the following principles and functional criteria for distinguishing particular senses adopted that are connected with their valency. The ...
... A word entry in VALLEX corresponds to the whole lexeme; it consists of a (non-empty) sequence of frame entries corresponding to a single sense. We have formulated the following principles and functional criteria for distinguishing particular senses adopted that are connected with their valency. The ...
Rule-Based Detection of Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis
... Before we can write the Constraint Grammar for capturing gapping, we need to define the linguistic environment in which gapping occurs. In gapping, the elliptical clause contains at least two sentence elements that have counterparts in the main clause. We can thus detect the elliptical clauses based ...
... Before we can write the Constraint Grammar for capturing gapping, we need to define the linguistic environment in which gapping occurs. In gapping, the elliptical clause contains at least two sentence elements that have counterparts in the main clause. We can thus detect the elliptical clauses based ...
A group of subject-verb agreements: finding quantity in group and
... Quirk et al. (1985) addresses this form in addition to other nouns like deal, amount, and quantity as determiners rather than head nouns of a noun phrase (p.264). This form has been apparent as an anomaly for some time. The form in Example 13 functions as an adverbial, modifying like. This all is to ...
... Quirk et al. (1985) addresses this form in addition to other nouns like deal, amount, and quantity as determiners rather than head nouns of a noun phrase (p.264). This form has been apparent as an anomaly for some time. The form in Example 13 functions as an adverbial, modifying like. This all is to ...
The Syntax of Valuation in Auxiliary–participle
... head are also present on the projection of that head, AuxP can value an unvalued feature of a verb it ccommands.2 This is, I argue, exactly what happens in (6a). The relevant part of the derivation is given in (8). (8a) represents the underlying (semantic) structure of the verbal elements present in ...
... head are also present on the projection of that head, AuxP can value an unvalued feature of a verb it ccommands.2 This is, I argue, exactly what happens in (6a). The relevant part of the derivation is given in (8). (8a) represents the underlying (semantic) structure of the verbal elements present in ...
Studies in African Linguistics Volume 21, Number 2, August 1990
... relative. Basic-form adjectives invariably occur in post-nominal position like other nominal modifiers with the exception of qualifactive nouns. Polar adjectives can be emphasized, in which case they occur in a suppletive form. When suppleted, emphatic adjectives occur preferentially in the pre-nomi ...
... relative. Basic-form adjectives invariably occur in post-nominal position like other nominal modifiers with the exception of qualifactive nouns. Polar adjectives can be emphasized, in which case they occur in a suppletive form. When suppleted, emphatic adjectives occur preferentially in the pre-nomi ...
The Germanic Weak Preterite
... independent grounds that word-final vowels were deleted before they could trigger umlaut — that is why long -i stems like gast ‘guest’ and anst ‘favor’ have no umlaut (contrast meri ‘sea’ from *mari). Note also that the proposed solution reduces the burden on the morphology to the irreducible minimu ...
... independent grounds that word-final vowels were deleted before they could trigger umlaut — that is why long -i stems like gast ‘guest’ and anst ‘favor’ have no umlaut (contrast meri ‘sea’ from *mari). Note also that the proposed solution reduces the burden on the morphology to the irreducible minimu ...
English Grammar
... We learnt about tense and time in the previous class. Now, we realize that time is a continuous flow measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, or years. On the other hand, tense is a grammatical concept specific to a particular language. The tense system in English is not similar to that of any oth ...
... We learnt about tense and time in the previous class. Now, we realize that time is a continuous flow measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, or years. On the other hand, tense is a grammatical concept specific to a particular language. The tense system in English is not similar to that of any oth ...
UNIDAD 1b NOTE TO THE STUDENT
... you’d realize that teachers have a way of recognizing students’ learning patterns, the “types of learners” that they are. It’s too bad that more teachers don’t share these observations with their students, because an adult learner has specific strategies that help the learning process along. Are you ...
... you’d realize that teachers have a way of recognizing students’ learning patterns, the “types of learners” that they are. It’s too bad that more teachers don’t share these observations with their students, because an adult learner has specific strategies that help the learning process along. Are you ...
Emai Separation Verbs and Telicity
... and how precisely it is measured continue to be debated. Nonetheless, this discussion has suggested that there may be a telicity divide in which some languages determine end state status compositionally, amalgamating verb with grammatical properties of associated arguments, while other languages do ...
... and how precisely it is measured continue to be debated. Nonetheless, this discussion has suggested that there may be a telicity divide in which some languages determine end state status compositionally, amalgamating verb with grammatical properties of associated arguments, while other languages do ...
Morphologically conditioned V–Ø alternation in Hebrew - Outi Bat-El
... dgal-ím “flags”, digl-ám “their flag”), which strongly suggest that all the stems of the paradigm are lexically listed.2 In particular, the different bases of the two vowel-initial suffixes (plural -im and possessive -am) indicate that the alternation is not phonologically conditioned. (ii) Stems wi ...
... dgal-ím “flags”, digl-ám “their flag”), which strongly suggest that all the stems of the paradigm are lexically listed.2 In particular, the different bases of the two vowel-initial suffixes (plural -im and possessive -am) indicate that the alternation is not phonologically conditioned. (ii) Stems wi ...
corpus-based cognitive semantics a contrastive
... some other situations such as fail, dissolve. Start, on the other hand, likes less abstract verbs and takes a larger variety of verbs: it is found with basic general purpose verbs (go, do, get, come, try, make, put), verbs that express communicative activities (talk, say, ask, cry), and other, more ...
... some other situations such as fail, dissolve. Start, on the other hand, likes less abstract verbs and takes a larger variety of verbs: it is found with basic general purpose verbs (go, do, get, come, try, make, put), verbs that express communicative activities (talk, say, ask, cry), and other, more ...
Journal of Linguistics Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in
... Instead, we will defend the position that, although there is little doubt that the BNs are syntactic complements, as are the DPs in (2), they do not behave like arguments. (2) Busco un piso. / Busco un pis. look.for.1SG an apartment look.for.1SG an apartment ‘ I’m looking for an apartment. ’ We will ...
... Instead, we will defend the position that, although there is little doubt that the BNs are syntactic complements, as are the DPs in (2), they do not behave like arguments. (2) Busco un piso. / Busco un pis. look.for.1SG an apartment look.for.1SG an apartment ‘ I’m looking for an apartment. ’ We will ...
pptx - UCI Social Sciences
... Issue from last time: Learning parameter values The observable data are often the result of a combination of interacting parameters. That is, the observable data are the result of some unobservable process, and the child has to reverse engineer the observable data to figure out what parameter value ...
... Issue from last time: Learning parameter values The observable data are often the result of a combination of interacting parameters. That is, the observable data are the result of some unobservable process, and the child has to reverse engineer the observable data to figure out what parameter value ...
Context Clues and Reference
... Infers the general meaning of a noun based on the real life/familiar context given in a sentence Infers the general meaning of a verb (term not used) based on the real life/familiar context given in a paragraph (3 or more sentences) Selects the correct beginning of a compound word Selects the correc ...
... Infers the general meaning of a noun based on the real life/familiar context given in a sentence Infers the general meaning of a verb (term not used) based on the real life/familiar context given in a paragraph (3 or more sentences) Selects the correct beginning of a compound word Selects the correc ...
The Syntactic Operator se in Spanish
... I here present an account of all these constructions in which I suggest that some new ideas in the recent literature can prove useful in describing the se phenomena. Focusing on both the effect that se has over the syntactic realization of the verbal arguments, on the one hand, and on the agreement ...
... I here present an account of all these constructions in which I suggest that some new ideas in the recent literature can prove useful in describing the se phenomena. Focusing on both the effect that se has over the syntactic realization of the verbal arguments, on the one hand, and on the agreement ...