Petun Language - Wyandot Nation of Kansas
... It has been suggested, further, that Iroquoian may be related even more distantly to the Caddoan language family, which includes such western languages as Pawnee and Wichita. Interestingly enough, there was no linguistic connection between Petun and its relatives to the language of the Algonkian-spe ...
... It has been suggested, further, that Iroquoian may be related even more distantly to the Caddoan language family, which includes such western languages as Pawnee and Wichita. Interestingly enough, there was no linguistic connection between Petun and its relatives to the language of the Algonkian-spe ...
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... object and the other, multiple copies of the same object. Children heard sentences such as Look, there are some blickets! Beginning at 24 months, children were able to use the number marking on the copula and the indefinite article to launch anticipatory eye movements to the correct picture. Similar ...
... object and the other, multiple copies of the same object. Children heard sentences such as Look, there are some blickets! Beginning at 24 months, children were able to use the number marking on the copula and the indefinite article to launch anticipatory eye movements to the correct picture. Similar ...
Full manual - Writing Center
... Is the subject (City Council) doing the action? Yes, it is passing a law. Therefore, the sentence is active. In passive voice, the acting subject is not named or is named at the end of the sentence with a prepositional phrase. Passive voice includes a be verb. Be Verbs be, am, is, are, was, were, be ...
... Is the subject (City Council) doing the action? Yes, it is passing a law. Therefore, the sentence is active. In passive voice, the acting subject is not named or is named at the end of the sentence with a prepositional phrase. Passive voice includes a be verb. Be Verbs be, am, is, are, was, were, be ...
Rule-Based Detection of Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis
... have to base the detection of gapping solely on morphology. This sets restrictions on how expressive the CG rules can be and forces us to simplify the linguistic phenomena. Hence, the elliptical structures that we detect with the CG rules fit the following template: the first word is a subject of th ...
... have to base the detection of gapping solely on morphology. This sets restrictions on how expressive the CG rules can be and forces us to simplify the linguistic phenomena. Hence, the elliptical structures that we detect with the CG rules fit the following template: the first word is a subject of th ...
General Number and the Semantics and Pragmatics of Indefinite
... means of a circumlocution such as ‘Yesterday I bought one or more books.’ In the case of Mandarin, evidence for this claim comes from traditional ambiguity tests (Zwicky and Sadock 1975, Cruse 1986). To see how such tests work, consider the English word pen which is ambiguous between the senses ‘wri ...
... means of a circumlocution such as ‘Yesterday I bought one or more books.’ In the case of Mandarin, evidence for this claim comes from traditional ambiguity tests (Zwicky and Sadock 1975, Cruse 1986). To see how such tests work, consider the English word pen which is ambiguous between the senses ‘wri ...
20 UNIT Sentence
... The boy wore the jacket for three long years. He was unhappy for most of that time. He wished for a jacket of a different color. His family could not afford a black leather jacket. This was America. Children in America did not wear jackets like this. He wanted another jacket badly. He wore the ugly ...
... The boy wore the jacket for three long years. He was unhappy for most of that time. He wished for a jacket of a different color. His family could not afford a black leather jacket. This was America. Children in America did not wear jackets like this. He wanted another jacket badly. He wore the ugly ...
Building Statives
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect. Language
... This fact has been stated in various forms by many authors, for example by Timberlake (1982: 302): Verbs in Russian belong to one of two aspect categories, the perfective or the imperfective. Although there is some variation in their morphological expression, these categories can be described as mor ...
... This fact has been stated in various forms by many authors, for example by Timberlake (1982: 302): Verbs in Russian belong to one of two aspect categories, the perfective or the imperfective. Although there is some variation in their morphological expression, these categories can be described as mor ...
3015 FRENCH MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2010 question paper
... Accept - ait for - aient and vice versa. Reject et for est and ons/ont for on. Where compound tenses are used, please accept, provided it is phonetically correct, the use of auxiliary avoir in place of être plus phonetically reasonable past participles (inc the infinitive of an –er verb, but not the ...
... Accept - ait for - aient and vice versa. Reject et for est and ons/ont for on. Where compound tenses are used, please accept, provided it is phonetically correct, the use of auxiliary avoir in place of être plus phonetically reasonable past participles (inc the infinitive of an –er verb, but not the ...
Morphological and Syntactic Analysis
... Enumerating Closed-Class Words • Pronouns / determiners / articles in all cases – Personal: I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, we, us, they, them – Impersonal: one (as in “One has to be careful here.”) – Reflexive: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves, onese ...
... Enumerating Closed-Class Words • Pronouns / determiners / articles in all cases – Personal: I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, we, us, they, them – Impersonal: one (as in “One has to be careful here.”) – Reflexive: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves, onese ...
Building Statives - Semantics Archive
... possible denotation for the syntactic category label ‘A’ itself, and we would then have adjectival participles of the form [ge-....-en]A. On either proposal, the overt participle morphology would be meaningless, and its only function would be to license the absence of verbal inflection. If the exter ...
... possible denotation for the syntactic category label ‘A’ itself, and we would then have adjectival participles of the form [ge-....-en]A. On either proposal, the overt participle morphology would be meaningless, and its only function would be to license the absence of verbal inflection. If the exter ...
The Welsh Vocabulary Builder 3
... What does the report say about the most important things? Day One Hunded and Nine: 1 January (Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!) Today’s words: lawr = down; dilyn = follow; bŷch = (that) you be (s.) The adverb lawr “down” is a permanently mutated form of the noun llawr, “floor,” which is pretty much always down ...
... What does the report say about the most important things? Day One Hunded and Nine: 1 January (Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!) Today’s words: lawr = down; dilyn = follow; bŷch = (that) you be (s.) The adverb lawr “down” is a permanently mutated form of the noun llawr, “floor,” which is pretty much always down ...
Run-on Sentences and Fragments PPT
... blackboards. They need second parts: • I gave you the ice cream because you wanted it. • Since you bought the plane tickets, I will pay for the hotel room. ...
... blackboards. They need second parts: • I gave you the ice cream because you wanted it. • Since you bought the plane tickets, I will pay for the hotel room. ...
In this section I show first that nouns are subject to morphological
... describe first the morphology of nouns and verbs. So, the reader will find first a description of nominal and verbal classes and, after that, an explanation about how the number morphology of coordinated nouns interacts with number verbal requirements. In the final part, I analyze in the OT framewor ...
... describe first the morphology of nouns and verbs. So, the reader will find first a description of nominal and verbal classes and, after that, an explanation about how the number morphology of coordinated nouns interacts with number verbal requirements. In the final part, I analyze in the OT framewor ...
5th inaugral lecture - Copy - National Open University of Nigeria
... It is not in this century that man first started talking about the importance, the classification and the description of Grammar. Many years even before the birth of Christ, man has been making incursion into the study of language and the linguistic product of each language. The work of linguistic a ...
... It is not in this century that man first started talking about the importance, the classification and the description of Grammar. Many years even before the birth of Christ, man has been making incursion into the study of language and the linguistic product of each language. The work of linguistic a ...
the feeling of great pleasure
... 2.1.1. Grammatical Features and Semantics of ‘Delighted’ ‘Delighted’ is an adjective having an identical form with, but different features from, the past participle of the verb ‘delight’, having the syntactic functions as head of adjectival phrases, pre-modifier of noun phrases and complement. Morph ...
... 2.1.1. Grammatical Features and Semantics of ‘Delighted’ ‘Delighted’ is an adjective having an identical form with, but different features from, the past participle of the verb ‘delight’, having the syntactic functions as head of adjectival phrases, pre-modifier of noun phrases and complement. Morph ...
Lección 11: Gramática
... • For verbs ending in -ir, the three singular forms and the third-person plural form undergo the same stem changes in the present subjunctive as in the present indicative. • However, in addition, observe that unstressed e changes to i and unstressed o changes to u in the first- and second-person plu ...
... • For verbs ending in -ir, the three singular forms and the third-person plural form undergo the same stem changes in the present subjunctive as in the present indicative. • However, in addition, observe that unstressed e changes to i and unstressed o changes to u in the first- and second-person plu ...
The Noun and Verb Phrase in Chrambo (Bambalang)
... The fifth is a noun from gender 1/2: ŋ̀gàŋ ‘person who usually does something’ plural: ghǎŋ e.g. 8. ŋ̀gàŋ pɨ ́ŋ ‘hunter’ ghǎŋ pɨ ́ŋ ‘hunters’ This may be considered an associative noun phrase, in which case the high tone in the plural example may be the c2 associative marker (see secti ...
... The fifth is a noun from gender 1/2: ŋ̀gàŋ ‘person who usually does something’ plural: ghǎŋ e.g. 8. ŋ̀gàŋ pɨ ́ŋ ‘hunter’ ghǎŋ pɨ ́ŋ ‘hunters’ This may be considered an associative noun phrase, in which case the high tone in the plural example may be the c2 associative marker (see secti ...
Grammaticization of reflexive pronoun into a marker of passive
... creation, so to speak. Similarly in (3b), where the use of a relative clause makes it explicit that the focus of interest is the bench and the state it was in as a result of some event. (This “aboutness”, however, is not to be understood in the topic-comment sense necessarily; I will return to this ...
... creation, so to speak. Similarly in (3b), where the use of a relative clause makes it explicit that the focus of interest is the bench and the state it was in as a result of some event. (This “aboutness”, however, is not to be understood in the topic-comment sense necessarily; I will return to this ...
Improving Verb Phrase Extraction from Historical Text by use of Verb
... lency frame suggests a reflexive pronoun, then the probability that this reflexive belongs to the verb is rather high. The same argument holds for prepositional phrases containing the expected preposition to form a prepositional complement, and for prepositions or adverbials identical to a particle ...
... lency frame suggests a reflexive pronoun, then the probability that this reflexive belongs to the verb is rather high. The same argument holds for prepositional phrases containing the expected preposition to form a prepositional complement, and for prepositions or adverbials identical to a particle ...
The semantic constraints on the VERB + zhĕ nouns in
... In this paper, my focus will be on the combination of verbs and –zhe, as in (1c). Noun/adjective-zhe will not be included in my discussion. In terms of verbs, the suffix –zhe can attach to (i) a verb on the lexical level, (ii) a verb with an aspect marker, and (iii) a verb plus a resultative verb co ...
... In this paper, my focus will be on the combination of verbs and –zhe, as in (1c). Noun/adjective-zhe will not be included in my discussion. In terms of verbs, the suffix –zhe can attach to (i) a verb on the lexical level, (ii) a verb with an aspect marker, and (iii) a verb plus a resultative verb co ...
Punctuation Patterns
... • In The Travels, Polo included detailed descriptions of several important religious buildings; however, he focused on descriptions of buildings of political importance such as palaces and forts. Remember that readers appreciate variety. Just as with a string of simple sentences, a string of compoun ...
... • In The Travels, Polo included detailed descriptions of several important religious buildings; however, he focused on descriptions of buildings of political importance such as palaces and forts. Remember that readers appreciate variety. Just as with a string of simple sentences, a string of compoun ...
Practice sheets, for the sentences in this booklet, are available in a
... To find an adverb: Go, Ask, Get. Where do I go? To a verb, adjective, or another adverb. What do I ask? How? When? Where? Why? Under What Condition? and To What Degree? What do I get? An ADVERB! (Clap) That's what! ...
... To find an adverb: Go, Ask, Get. Where do I go? To a verb, adjective, or another adverb. What do I ask? How? When? Where? Why? Under What Condition? and To What Degree? What do I get? An ADVERB! (Clap) That's what! ...
Grammar Guide
... The semicolon is another powerful piece of punctuation. When used correctly, it can eliminate fragment or run-on errors and help you create longer, flowing sentences. However, like the comma, many students use the semicolon incorrectly. Remember that you can only use a semicolon if your sentence mee ...
... The semicolon is another powerful piece of punctuation. When used correctly, it can eliminate fragment or run-on errors and help you create longer, flowing sentences. However, like the comma, many students use the semicolon incorrectly. Remember that you can only use a semicolon if your sentence mee ...