A note on non-canonical passives: the case of the get
... resultative participle but its licensing happens in a different fashion. Fox and Grodzinsky (1998) suggested that the licensing of the by-phrases in the get-passive follows the pattern of the licensing of by-phrases in nominalisations and is only restricted to the affector role. Arce-Arenales and al ...
... resultative participle but its licensing happens in a different fashion. Fox and Grodzinsky (1998) suggested that the licensing of the by-phrases in the get-passive follows the pattern of the licensing of by-phrases in nominalisations and is only restricted to the affector role. Arce-Arenales and al ...
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION This chapter explains the background
... This noun phrase was preceded by word “the” a word traditionally referred to as definite article. Had been blown open by the storm is a verb phrase but inside verb phrase in turn breaks up into preposition phrase “by the storm” and a further noun phrase as a subject because the sentence is passive v ...
... This noun phrase was preceded by word “the” a word traditionally referred to as definite article. Had been blown open by the storm is a verb phrase but inside verb phrase in turn breaks up into preposition phrase “by the storm” and a further noun phrase as a subject because the sentence is passive v ...
Chapter 3 Pronouns
... Interrogatives and Demonstratives • Using Who and Whom • Whom is always used as an _______ . – Ex. Direct Object: Whom did you tell? – Ex. Indirect Object: You gave whom the answer? – Ex. Object of the Preposition: To whom did you give my name? – I.E. Don’t confuse whose with who’s. Whose is a pron ...
... Interrogatives and Demonstratives • Using Who and Whom • Whom is always used as an _______ . – Ex. Direct Object: Whom did you tell? – Ex. Indirect Object: You gave whom the answer? – Ex. Object of the Preposition: To whom did you give my name? – I.E. Don’t confuse whose with who’s. Whose is a pron ...
Instructions
... or the) before each noun. If only one thing or person is meant, do not repeat the article. Examples: I need a secretary and a bookkeeper. ( two persons) I need a secretary and bookkeeper. (one person) She lost the black and white kitten. (one kitten) She lost the black and the white kitten. (two kit ...
... or the) before each noun. If only one thing or person is meant, do not repeat the article. Examples: I need a secretary and a bookkeeper. ( two persons) I need a secretary and bookkeeper. (one person) She lost the black and white kitten. (one kitten) She lost the black and the white kitten. (two kit ...
Use of Verb Information in Syntactic Parsing
... phrase. In contrast, the verb guessed permits either a direct object or sentence complement; this class will be referred to as the minimal attachment verbs. This term is used because these verbs are more strongly biased for a minimal attachment analysis of the ambiguous noun phrase than is the other ...
... phrase. In contrast, the verb guessed permits either a direct object or sentence complement; this class will be referred to as the minimal attachment verbs. This term is used because these verbs are more strongly biased for a minimal attachment analysis of the ambiguous noun phrase than is the other ...
GR#5 - Verbals - Gerunds
... GERUND PHRASE = A GERUND THAT IS ACCOMPANIED BY MODIFIERS AND/OR AN OBJECT The complete gerund phrase may be thought of as taking the place of a noun. ...
... GERUND PHRASE = A GERUND THAT IS ACCOMPANIED BY MODIFIERS AND/OR AN OBJECT The complete gerund phrase may be thought of as taking the place of a noun. ...
The dative alternation - Ghent University Library
... Herriman and Seppänen (1996: 486) add to this distinction between direct and indirect object their different default positions with respect to the verb. In unmarked sentences, the indirect object is found in immediately postverbal position, wedged in between the verb and the direct object. The direc ...
... Herriman and Seppänen (1996: 486) add to this distinction between direct and indirect object their different default positions with respect to the verb. In unmarked sentences, the indirect object is found in immediately postverbal position, wedged in between the verb and the direct object. The direc ...
C05_Giruba_Beulah_onemotion_detection
... independence in speech seem to be promising but for the low precision of 50 even when the learning is supervised using a simple backpropogation network. However, this project is similar to the above in one aspect; in assuming model empathy to support context independence, thereby avoiding the bias o ...
... independence in speech seem to be promising but for the low precision of 50 even when the learning is supervised using a simple backpropogation network. However, this project is similar to the above in one aspect; in assuming model empathy to support context independence, thereby avoiding the bias o ...
Basic Writing Skills for Business Presented by Sue
... • A sentence is a complete thought that contains both a subject and a predicate (verb). – The subject is the part of the sentence that tells “who” or “what” the sentence is about. – The predicate or verb is the part of the sentence that describes what the subject did or what happened to the subject. ...
... • A sentence is a complete thought that contains both a subject and a predicate (verb). – The subject is the part of the sentence that tells “who” or “what” the sentence is about. – The predicate or verb is the part of the sentence that describes what the subject did or what happened to the subject. ...
NP Movement into Theta-positions and Unexpected Behavior of
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
Prepositional Phrases as Subject Complements
... The second nominal function that prepositional phrases perform is the subject complement. A subject complement is a word, phrase, or clause that follows a copular, or linking, verb and describes the subject of a clause. For example, the following italicized prepositional phrases function as subject ...
... The second nominal function that prepositional phrases perform is the subject complement. A subject complement is a word, phrase, or clause that follows a copular, or linking, verb and describes the subject of a clause. For example, the following italicized prepositional phrases function as subject ...
Encoding information on adjectives in a lexical
... educativo - educational), etc. In IWN we have decided, therefore, to encode hyponymy also for these sets of adjectives. The taxonomies which can be built on the basis of this relation are different from those built for nouns or verbs, since they are generally very flat, consisting almost always of t ...
... educativo - educational), etc. In IWN we have decided, therefore, to encode hyponymy also for these sets of adjectives. The taxonomies which can be built on the basis of this relation are different from those built for nouns or verbs, since they are generally very flat, consisting almost always of t ...
contents - Ziyonet.uz
... though it must have differed from the regular falling intonation to some extent: if it had not been at all different, the sentence could not have been termed a "question", and the author does call it a question. Reacting to this semiinterrogative intonation, Bone (the man to whom the question was a ...
... though it must have differed from the regular falling intonation to some extent: if it had not been at all different, the sentence could not have been termed a "question", and the author does call it a question. Reacting to this semiinterrogative intonation, Bone (the man to whom the question was a ...
Grammar Manual - Richard Têtu`s room
... 4. Split infinitives a) Many people believe that you should not insert an adverb between to and a verb. This is a false, antiquated rule; you can usually ignore it. To boldly go where no man has gone before. 5. Verbs ending with –ing. a) These verbs sometimes act as nouns, and follow the rules for n ...
... 4. Split infinitives a) Many people believe that you should not insert an adverb between to and a verb. This is a false, antiquated rule; you can usually ignore it. To boldly go where no man has gone before. 5. Verbs ending with –ing. a) These verbs sometimes act as nouns, and follow the rules for n ...
usage-based theory and grammaticalization
... auxiliaries are not always separable from verbs, and items within categories can have different features—one verb might become an auxiliary earlier than another. Change in category membership is referred to by Hopper (1991) as ‘decategorialization’ because it is typically the case in grammaticalizat ...
... auxiliaries are not always separable from verbs, and items within categories can have different features—one verb might become an auxiliary earlier than another. Change in category membership is referred to by Hopper (1991) as ‘decategorialization’ because it is typically the case in grammaticalizat ...
Introducing English Semantics
... we comprehend new sentences which others have produced (as you understand this sentence, though it is not likely you have read it before). The importance of stimulus-freedom and creativity is often overlooked. Throughout history various thinkers have tried to describe and explain language as if lang ...
... we comprehend new sentences which others have produced (as you understand this sentence, though it is not likely you have read it before). The importance of stimulus-freedom and creativity is often overlooked. Throughout history various thinkers have tried to describe and explain language as if lang ...
Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Nouns, Pronouns , Pronouns , Pronouns and
... resumptive pronouns (§4.6.3) only distinguish between first person and non-first person, i.e. second person and third person are expressed by the same form, e.g. the first person dual subject resumptive pronoun ehya (1DU:RSUMP) ‘we two’ versus the non-first person feminine dual subject resumptive pr ...
... resumptive pronouns (§4.6.3) only distinguish between first person and non-first person, i.e. second person and third person are expressed by the same form, e.g. the first person dual subject resumptive pronoun ehya (1DU:RSUMP) ‘we two’ versus the non-first person feminine dual subject resumptive pr ...
Read each group of words. If the group is a sentence, write sentence
... 1. The children will plant tulips in the garden. 2. The adults are going to plant roses. 3. The garden will have many pretty flowers. 4. I think we should plant trees too. Think of new plural nouns to replace the ones in the sentences above. Write each new sentence. ...
... 1. The children will plant tulips in the garden. 2. The adults are going to plant roses. 3. The garden will have many pretty flowers. 4. I think we should plant trees too. Think of new plural nouns to replace the ones in the sentences above. Write each new sentence. ...
phrasal verbs with the particles down and up in english and their
... with the phrasal verb put down. The aspect of the situation denoted by the verb is perfective, as the situation is seen as a single unanalysable whole. According to Comrie, the situation has beginning, middle and end rolled into one; no attempt is made to divide this situation up into the various in ...
... with the phrasal verb put down. The aspect of the situation denoted by the verb is perfective, as the situation is seen as a single unanalysable whole. According to Comrie, the situation has beginning, middle and end rolled into one; no attempt is made to divide this situation up into the various in ...
corpus-based cognitive semantics a contrastive
... The key assumption underlying the Behavioral Profile (BP) approach (Divjak 2003, 2004, 2006, Gries 2003, 2006, Divjak and Gries 2006, Gries and Divjak 2008, Divjak and Gries 2008, Gries and Divjak submitted) relies on the parallelism between the distributional and functional planes. Starting from th ...
... The key assumption underlying the Behavioral Profile (BP) approach (Divjak 2003, 2004, 2006, Gries 2003, 2006, Divjak and Gries 2006, Gries and Divjak 2008, Divjak and Gries 2008, Gries and Divjak submitted) relies on the parallelism between the distributional and functional planes. Starting from th ...
Verbal stem space and verb to noun conversion in French - Hal-SHS
... When the verb belongs to the second conjugation group, none of the verbal stems is identical to the base lexeme’s stem 2. As presented in Table 3 with the verb FINIR, second conjugation verbs only have two distinct stems, illustrated by stem 1 and stem 3, with a systematic /is/!/i/ alternation. And, ...
... When the verb belongs to the second conjugation group, none of the verbal stems is identical to the base lexeme’s stem 2. As presented in Table 3 with the verb FINIR, second conjugation verbs only have two distinct stems, illustrated by stem 1 and stem 3, with a systematic /is/!/i/ alternation. And, ...
Document
... from a sentence as spoken by a lay person. It works with the assumption that language is used for communication. The meaning in a sentence is encoded, not only in words (the lexical items), but also in the relations between words. Thus, every word in a sentence has a twofold role towards composing t ...
... from a sentence as spoken by a lay person. It works with the assumption that language is used for communication. The meaning in a sentence is encoded, not only in words (the lexical items), but also in the relations between words. Thus, every word in a sentence has a twofold role towards composing t ...
as a PDF
... Use:• ize/iza (Am) rather than ise/isa (UK) in words like standardize and standardization* • yze (Am) rather than yse (UK) in words like analyze • or endings (Am) rather than our (UK) endings in words like behavior • er (Am) rather than re (UK) endings in words like center • e (Am) rather than ...
... Use:• ize/iza (Am) rather than ise/isa (UK) in words like standardize and standardization* • yze (Am) rather than yse (UK) in words like analyze • or endings (Am) rather than our (UK) endings in words like behavior • er (Am) rather than re (UK) endings in words like center • e (Am) rather than ...
Troublesome Modifier Workshop
... Purring happily, the woman spooned out the cat food. (modifier)--------purring happily (word it seems to modify)-----the woman There are two common ways to fix a dangling modifier. One way is to change the phrase to a dependent clause containing its own subject. The example a below illustrates this ...
... Purring happily, the woman spooned out the cat food. (modifier)--------purring happily (word it seems to modify)-----the woman There are two common ways to fix a dangling modifier. One way is to change the phrase to a dependent clause containing its own subject. The example a below illustrates this ...