Chapter 12
... The symbols that are used in a CFG are divided into two classes. The symbols that correspond to words in the language (“the”, “nightclub”) are called terminal symbols; the lexicon is the set of rules that introduce these terminal symbols. The symbols that express clusters or generalizations of these ...
... The symbols that are used in a CFG are divided into two classes. The symbols that correspond to words in the language (“the”, “nightclub”) are called terminal symbols; the lexicon is the set of rules that introduce these terminal symbols. The symbols that express clusters or generalizations of these ...
Svan and its speakers. Kevin Tuite Université de Montréal [NB: This
... 2.4.3. Metathesis. Another feature that spreads is labialization, as when a 1st-person subject marker appears directly before the root. In some instances the metathesized labial feature attaches to the root-initial consonant, in other cases the vowel is rounded: e.g. UB {xw-re:ka} > rwe:ka, rö:ka; c ...
... 2.4.3. Metathesis. Another feature that spreads is labialization, as when a 1st-person subject marker appears directly before the root. In some instances the metathesized labial feature attaches to the root-initial consonant, in other cases the vowel is rounded: e.g. UB {xw-re:ka} > rwe:ka, rö:ka; c ...
The internal structure of complex words
... to the stem than what is LESS RELEVANT. For example, tense, in particular preterite, could be considered more relevant for verb meaning in German than information about person and number of the subject: whether an event is taking place now or has taken place before would accordingly be a more import ...
... to the stem than what is LESS RELEVANT. For example, tense, in particular preterite, could be considered more relevant for verb meaning in German than information about person and number of the subject: whether an event is taking place now or has taken place before would accordingly be a more import ...
Recognizing Sentence Boundaries and Boilerplate
... (2) She has an appointment at 5 p.m. Saturday to get her car fixed There are some NLP systems designed to achieve accurate labeling of sentence boundaries. For example, at Mead Data Central, Mark Wasson and colleagues developed a system over a period of 9 staff months that could recognize special to ...
... (2) She has an appointment at 5 p.m. Saturday to get her car fixed There are some NLP systems designed to achieve accurate labeling of sentence boundaries. For example, at Mead Data Central, Mark Wasson and colleagues developed a system over a period of 9 staff months that could recognize special to ...
This chapter makes theoretical contributions to construction grammar
... organized by their knowledge of relations between (the meanings of) constructions (van den Eynde 1995: 116ff; Goldberg 1995: 67; Croft 2001: 25–29). Human beings have the capacity to construe a situation in alternate ways; hence, knowledge of one construction involves simultaneous knowledge of a com ...
... organized by their knowledge of relations between (the meanings of) constructions (van den Eynde 1995: 116ff; Goldberg 1995: 67; Croft 2001: 25–29). Human beings have the capacity to construe a situation in alternate ways; hence, knowledge of one construction involves simultaneous knowledge of a com ...
A Grammatical Description of Dameli Emil Perder
... features of the language as they appear in texts and other material, rather than on conforming them to any theory, but the analysis is informed by functional analysis and linguistic typology, hypotheses on diachronical developments and comparisons with neighbouring and related languages. The descrip ...
... features of the language as they appear in texts and other material, rather than on conforming them to any theory, but the analysis is informed by functional analysis and linguistic typology, hypotheses on diachronical developments and comparisons with neighbouring and related languages. The descrip ...
Structure of Complementation
... My interest in your proposal The professor's study of refugees The lecturer's insistence on punctuality His assertion that linguistics is fun Their claim that linguistics is hard ...
... My interest in your proposal The professor's study of refugees The lecturer's insistence on punctuality His assertion that linguistics is fun Their claim that linguistics is hard ...
Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary
... Prepositions are very commonly used words in the English language that explain where something is (beside, under, adjacent, inside), the direction something is moving (along, into, toward) or when something is happening (during, at 7 a.m., on Monday). By Year 6, children are expected to recognise a ...
... Prepositions are very commonly used words in the English language that explain where something is (beside, under, adjacent, inside), the direction something is moving (along, into, toward) or when something is happening (during, at 7 a.m., on Monday). By Year 6, children are expected to recognise a ...
Transitivity from a Cognitive Perspective
... experience. Langacker’s (2000: 13-14) famous “billiard-ball model” demonstrates the way in which folk models of the world motivate the conceptualization of nouns as representing discrete objects and verbs as representing energy, thus providing the basic elements that participate in transitivity. The ...
... experience. Langacker’s (2000: 13-14) famous “billiard-ball model” demonstrates the way in which folk models of the world motivate the conceptualization of nouns as representing discrete objects and verbs as representing energy, thus providing the basic elements that participate in transitivity. The ...
Extended Abstract
... only two verbs: the auxiliar verb (the passive auxiliary ser (be)); and the main verb, in the past participle form; there is only one VLINK dependency. It is the main verb that will be transformed to the active form, taking into account the tense of the verb ser (be). The transformation is done with ...
... only two verbs: the auxiliar verb (the passive auxiliary ser (be)); and the main verb, in the past participle form; there is only one VLINK dependency. It is the main verb that will be transformed to the active form, taking into account the tense of the verb ser (be). The transformation is done with ...
"Por" and "Para"
... Juan te compra un regalo. John buys you a gift. John buys a gift for you. Juan le compra un regalo. John buys her a gift. John buys a gift for her. Juan nos compra un regalo. John buys us a gift. John buys a gift for us. Juan os compra un regalo. John buys you-all (familiar) a gift. John buys a gif ...
... Juan te compra un regalo. John buys you a gift. John buys a gift for you. Juan le compra un regalo. John buys her a gift. John buys a gift for her. Juan nos compra un regalo. John buys us a gift. John buys a gift for us. Juan os compra un regalo. John buys you-all (familiar) a gift. John buys a gif ...
A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun
... An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person or thing. An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some. The most common indefinite pronouns are "all," "another," "any," "anybody," "anyone," "anything," "each," "everybody," "everyone," "ev ...
... An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person or thing. An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some. The most common indefinite pronouns are "all," "another," "any," "anybody," "anyone," "anything," "each," "everybody," "everyone," "ev ...
parallelism - Johnson County Community College
... Complete the following sentences by filling in the blanks. Be careful to maintain parallel structure. Underline the original part of the sentence to which your addition is parallel. Example: 1. It is my ambition to be successful and to be content. 2. Rod can speak both English and _________. ...
... Complete the following sentences by filling in the blanks. Be careful to maintain parallel structure. Underline the original part of the sentence to which your addition is parallel. Example: 1. It is my ambition to be successful and to be content. 2. Rod can speak both English and _________. ...
Brain Potentials Elicited by Garden-Path Sentences
... distributed over time. Early ERP components are primarily determined by aspects of the physical stimulus and remain relatively insensitive to changes in the psychological state of the subject. However, later occurring components appear to be sensitive to cognitive variables, such as changes in the m ...
... distributed over time. Early ERP components are primarily determined by aspects of the physical stimulus and remain relatively insensitive to changes in the psychological state of the subject. However, later occurring components appear to be sensitive to cognitive variables, such as changes in the m ...
This page is about word formation patterns and prefixes
... adverb) of all time is James Dyson, because his vacuum cleaners do not lose suction. 58. Companies in the UK would not support James Dyson’s ____________ (verb / noun / adjective / adverb) at first because they thought nobody would buy it. 59. Yesim is not very ____________ (verb / noun / adjective ...
... adverb) of all time is James Dyson, because his vacuum cleaners do not lose suction. 58. Companies in the UK would not support James Dyson’s ____________ (verb / noun / adjective / adverb) at first because they thought nobody would buy it. 59. Yesim is not very ____________ (verb / noun / adjective ...
Template form in prosodic morphology
... Unlike the l infix of Choctaw, the µ infix of Balangao remains unrealized when prohibited by syllabic well-formedness conditions. This occurs whenever the initial syllable of the base is already heavy, as in so-soblak. For the same reason, gemination is impossible in stressed syllables; hence the c ...
... Unlike the l infix of Choctaw, the µ infix of Balangao remains unrealized when prohibited by syllabic well-formedness conditions. This occurs whenever the initial syllable of the base is already heavy, as in so-soblak. For the same reason, gemination is impossible in stressed syllables; hence the c ...
Review Of "Italian Syntax: A Government-Binding Approach
... to whether the speaker will use it in an ergative alternation. In this claim I am following Hale & Keyser 1987 (who state the claim explicitly for middles-but for whom the same claim must hold for ergatives, given their analysis). 1.2. The second argument of K&R is also attackable, but this time on ...
... to whether the speaker will use it in an ergative alternation. In this claim I am following Hale & Keyser 1987 (who state the claim explicitly for middles-but for whom the same claim must hold for ergatives, given their analysis). 1.2. The second argument of K&R is also attackable, but this time on ...
Morpho I-6 Internal Structure
... Is this all true? Or are there sometimes further combining possibilities? (Check: a reverse dictionary will come handy for suffixes. Or consult a handbook of English word formation.) By the way: What does it mean to call words nouns, verbs, adjectives? Answers in Syntax I, under the heading of WORD ...
... Is this all true? Or are there sometimes further combining possibilities? (Check: a reverse dictionary will come handy for suffixes. Or consult a handbook of English word formation.) By the way: What does it mean to call words nouns, verbs, adjectives? Answers in Syntax I, under the heading of WORD ...
MOVEMENT TRIGGERS AND THE ETIOLOGY OF
... lines of Rizzi (1997)5. I will show that these temporal structures are sorts of oblique-clefts (along the lines of what has been originally proposed by Benincà, Salvi and Frison, 1988). After a description of comparative and historical data, we will see in which way movement is responsible of the dy ...
... lines of Rizzi (1997)5. I will show that these temporal structures are sorts of oblique-clefts (along the lines of what has been originally proposed by Benincà, Salvi and Frison, 1988). After a description of comparative and historical data, we will see in which way movement is responsible of the dy ...
sciwri(2010)
... … Liver stages of the parasite containing thousands of merozoites grow inside hepatocytes for several days without triggering an inflammatory response. We show here that Plasmodium uses a PEXEL/VTS motif to introduce the circumsporozoite (CS) protein into the hepatocyte cytoplasm and a nuclear local ...
... … Liver stages of the parasite containing thousands of merozoites grow inside hepatocytes for several days without triggering an inflammatory response. We show here that Plasmodium uses a PEXEL/VTS motif to introduce the circumsporozoite (CS) protein into the hepatocyte cytoplasm and a nuclear local ...
The Parts Of Speech
... direct object, while for copular verbs this additional element is a subject complement. With transitive verbs, the "action" goes from the subject to the direct object; further, the subject and the object are usually different entities.1 Direct objects and subject complements. If you have already lea ...
... direct object, while for copular verbs this additional element is a subject complement. With transitive verbs, the "action" goes from the subject to the direct object; further, the subject and the object are usually different entities.1 Direct objects and subject complements. If you have already lea ...
Building Statives - Semantics Archive
... Two kinds of adjectival passives The adjectival passive construction that is traditionally called ‘Zustandspassiv’ (‘state passive’) in German seems to have the same syntactic and semantic properties as its English cousin, except that it is easier to identify. German state or adjectival passives sel ...
... Two kinds of adjectival passives The adjectival passive construction that is traditionally called ‘Zustandspassiv’ (‘state passive’) in German seems to have the same syntactic and semantic properties as its English cousin, except that it is easier to identify. German state or adjectival passives sel ...
Building Statives
... Two kinds of adjectival passives The adjectival passive construction that is traditionally called ‘Zustandspassiv’ (‘state passive’) in German seems to have the same syntactic and semantic properties as its English cousin, except that it is easier to identify. German state or adjectival passives sel ...
... Two kinds of adjectival passives The adjectival passive construction that is traditionally called ‘Zustandspassiv’ (‘state passive’) in German seems to have the same syntactic and semantic properties as its English cousin, except that it is easier to identify. German state or adjectival passives sel ...
5 The acquisition of Dutch
... In fact, they are predicative constructions in which t h e copula, if in present tense and not negated, is regularly o m i t t e d . In other tenses and also when negated, there are special copula forms whose position is more or less t h e position of a normal finite verb. Hence, "nominal sentences" ...
... In fact, they are predicative constructions in which t h e copula, if in present tense and not negated, is regularly o m i t t e d . In other tenses and also when negated, there are special copula forms whose position is more or less t h e position of a normal finite verb. Hence, "nominal sentences" ...