Class Notes # 10a: Review of English Language
... Words (2) There are two criteria for word classification. • Semantics: situations - roles - properties. • Distribution: words in the same class can often be interchanged. Distribution can be tested by diagnostic contexts, positive and negative. Example: adjectives. ...
... Words (2) There are two criteria for word classification. • Semantics: situations - roles - properties. • Distribution: words in the same class can often be interchanged. Distribution can be tested by diagnostic contexts, positive and negative. Example: adjectives. ...
Dative Worksheet
... 2. What is the main function of the dative case? 3. How do we often translate a noun in the dative case? (2) 4. For the following, write either “genitive” or “dative” on the blank: a. This case identifies the declension number of a noun, which is useful ‘cause then you know what pattern it follows = ...
... 2. What is the main function of the dative case? 3. How do we often translate a noun in the dative case? (2) 4. For the following, write either “genitive” or “dative” on the blank: a. This case identifies the declension number of a noun, which is useful ‘cause then you know what pattern it follows = ...
Grammar Lecture Notes: Pronouns and Clauses
... Some, any, no and their compounds Some is used in affirmative clauses and any is used in negative and interrogative clauses. (A negative clause does not have to include the word not.) Another way of putting it is to say that some is used to refer to something that can be expected to exist, whereas a ...
... Some, any, no and their compounds Some is used in affirmative clauses and any is used in negative and interrogative clauses. (A negative clause does not have to include the word not.) Another way of putting it is to say that some is used to refer to something that can be expected to exist, whereas a ...
Structural Prosody - University of Michigan
... I will not try to even sketch the incredible arabesquerie of the network of structures that he uncovered in those three hours. It is enough to say that he showed that there was a reason for the number of nouns in each stanza, and in each couplet, likewise for the number of verbs (I had never known t ...
... I will not try to even sketch the incredible arabesquerie of the network of structures that he uncovered in those three hours. It is enough to say that he showed that there was a reason for the number of nouns in each stanza, and in each couplet, likewise for the number of verbs (I had never known t ...
Chapter 11: Pronouns īdem
... those daughter languages which developed out of the mother tongue that Latin and English share: Proto-Indo-European. Originally, the Latin word ego and the English word “I” were the same word. Both evolved from a form that looked like ego ─ so Latin actually changed the form of this pronoun very lit ...
... those daughter languages which developed out of the mother tongue that Latin and English share: Proto-Indo-European. Originally, the Latin word ego and the English word “I” were the same word. Both evolved from a form that looked like ego ─ so Latin actually changed the form of this pronoun very lit ...
Chapter six - UNT Department of English
... the woman and her knee, but that we exclude this structure from discussion. With the exclusion of NP structure, we can turn to the clausal structure of The woman hit her knee. And to do so, we turn to the intuitions of native speakers. In fact, suppose that we ask a large group of speakers to decide ...
... the woman and her knee, but that we exclude this structure from discussion. With the exclusion of NP structure, we can turn to the clausal structure of The woman hit her knee. And to do so, we turn to the intuitions of native speakers. In fact, suppose that we ask a large group of speakers to decide ...
Unit 10: Parts of Speech
... In 1838 sixteen thousand Cherokee were forced from their 1homes in the 2Old South. Under armed guard, the 3mass of Native Americans was pushed west across the 4Mississippi River to Oklahoma’s 5Indian Territory. Other 6cultures, including the Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw nations, were included in th ...
... In 1838 sixteen thousand Cherokee were forced from their 1homes in the 2Old South. Under armed guard, the 3mass of Native Americans was pushed west across the 4Mississippi River to Oklahoma’s 5Indian Territory. Other 6cultures, including the Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw nations, were included in th ...
Reflexive Verbs and Pronouns
... Reflexive pronouns work with a reflexive verb to indicate that a person is performing the action toward or for him- or herself. These types of verbs are not very common in English, but are used frequently in Spanish. Many actions related to personal care or daily routines are reflexive, but other ve ...
... Reflexive pronouns work with a reflexive verb to indicate that a person is performing the action toward or for him- or herself. These types of verbs are not very common in English, but are used frequently in Spanish. Many actions related to personal care or daily routines are reflexive, but other ve ...
The Argument Structure of Elementary Sentences
... 1992). The point of view is strictly formal, according to the now classical methodology developed by Z.S. Harris and N. Chomsky. No semantic notion is involved in the descriptive apparatus; in other terms, the metalanguage of the description is built from combinatorial notions applied to sets of wor ...
... 1992). The point of view is strictly formal, according to the now classical methodology developed by Z.S. Harris and N. Chomsky. No semantic notion is involved in the descriptive apparatus; in other terms, the metalanguage of the description is built from combinatorial notions applied to sets of wor ...
Correcting Fragments 1) Attach the fragment to a nearby sentence. 2
... 4) Rewrite the sentence, making one clause dependent or subordinate to the other by adding a dependent word (since, when, as, after, or because). Because music is soothing, I listen to it in the evenings' Eric Clapton is one of my favorites since I love the sound of guitar. ...
... 4) Rewrite the sentence, making one clause dependent or subordinate to the other by adding a dependent word (since, when, as, after, or because). Because music is soothing, I listen to it in the evenings' Eric Clapton is one of my favorites since I love the sound of guitar. ...
Kindergarten & First Grade Writing Folder
... Auxiliary verb (helping verb) employed by the main verb to show tense, mood or voice. These are: Modals which include can/could, may/might, shall/should, will/would and others. Other auxiliary verbs include do/does/did/done, be/am//is/are/been, was/were, have/has/had when combined with other verbs. ...
... Auxiliary verb (helping verb) employed by the main verb to show tense, mood or voice. These are: Modals which include can/could, may/might, shall/should, will/would and others. Other auxiliary verbs include do/does/did/done, be/am//is/are/been, was/were, have/has/had when combined with other verbs. ...
MODES OF LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION
... Functional or grammatical morphemes are free morphemes which have little or no meaning on their own, but which have a grammatical function. For example, the articles the and an indicate whether a noun is definite or indefinite -the boy or a boy. In a language, these morphemes are represented by pron ...
... Functional or grammatical morphemes are free morphemes which have little or no meaning on their own, but which have a grammatical function. For example, the articles the and an indicate whether a noun is definite or indefinite -the boy or a boy. In a language, these morphemes are represented by pron ...
Paper Title (use style: paper title)
... (Here any, act, game, instrument, phone, institution, and childgame are classes found in the Concept hierarchy.) For example, the declarations say that the verb to play, translated as soittaa, has one subject of class any and one object of class instrument or phone. In the following subsections, we ...
... (Here any, act, game, instrument, phone, institution, and childgame are classes found in the Concept hierarchy.) For example, the declarations say that the verb to play, translated as soittaa, has one subject of class any and one object of class instrument or phone. In the following subsections, we ...
CHINESE PASSIVES: TRANSFORMATIONAL OR LEXICAL?*
... However there is no transformational derivation which relates (17a) to (17b). These two sentences are semantically identical and syntactically different. We can see that (17a) triggers elimination of the agent S-role; (17b) absorbs it. And (17a) externalizes the internal 0-role; (17b) does not. Due ...
... However there is no transformational derivation which relates (17a) to (17b). These two sentences are semantically identical and syntactically different. We can see that (17a) triggers elimination of the agent S-role; (17b) absorbs it. And (17a) externalizes the internal 0-role; (17b) does not. Due ...
Annotation guidelines for the PARSEME shared task on automatic
... second and fourth example above, the prepositions by and in are lexicalized since they introduce lexicalized complements (the horns, surprise and pocket). Conversely, in the third case the preposition in introduces an open slot whose meaning compositionally ...
... second and fourth example above, the prepositions by and in are lexicalized since they introduce lexicalized complements (the horns, surprise and pocket). Conversely, in the third case the preposition in introduces an open slot whose meaning compositionally ...
Verbs and nouns from a cross-linguistic perspective (Rijkhoff 2002)
... Hengeveld (1992b: 58) already pointed out that word class distinctions should be stated in terms of tendencies rather than in absolute terms. One of the reasons why Mithun and Sasse have come up with different proposals as regards the verb-noun distinction in the Iroquoian languages is, apparently, ...
... Hengeveld (1992b: 58) already pointed out that word class distinctions should be stated in terms of tendencies rather than in absolute terms. One of the reasons why Mithun and Sasse have come up with different proposals as regards the verb-noun distinction in the Iroquoian languages is, apparently, ...
Indirect Objects and Possessives
... pot' and 'he stole the chiefs, the ring'. The exceptional first person plural form mana 'to us' would have means Ours', exactly äs it now does in Sura. The original motivation for using possessives may have been to give prominence to the i.o. affectee, something that was inherently difficult with th ...
... pot' and 'he stole the chiefs, the ring'. The exceptional first person plural form mana 'to us' would have means Ours', exactly äs it now does in Sura. The original motivation for using possessives may have been to give prominence to the i.o. affectee, something that was inherently difficult with th ...
The Noun Phrase in Hawrami Anders Holmberg and David Odden
... or NP. Unlike AP-Izafe, however, it is not subject to agreement, but instead triggers agreement on AP-Izafe, in the manner of the definite article, the demonstrative, and the plural suffix. That Poss-Izafe triggers agreement on AP-Izafe is shown in (31a) where the lower Izafe -u attached to sæk is t ...
... or NP. Unlike AP-Izafe, however, it is not subject to agreement, but instead triggers agreement on AP-Izafe, in the manner of the definite article, the demonstrative, and the plural suffix. That Poss-Izafe triggers agreement on AP-Izafe is shown in (31a) where the lower Izafe -u attached to sæk is t ...
a Brazilian treebank annotated with semantic role labels
... verbs that play an auxiliary role, including temporal, modal and aspectual verbs. These verbs are modifiers of the proposition, but do not belong to the argument structure and thus do not integrate the core of the proposition. In Portuguese, these verbs occur at left of the main verb in a verbal cha ...
... verbs that play an auxiliary role, including temporal, modal and aspectual verbs. These verbs are modifiers of the proposition, but do not belong to the argument structure and thus do not integrate the core of the proposition. In Portuguese, these verbs occur at left of the main verb in a verbal cha ...
The structure of the do/make construction in
... English verbs. This structure, in which an English verb or adjectival predicate complements a Chichewa light verb meaning ‘do’ or ‘make’, appears to be employed during code-switching. Code-Switching (CS) is found quite frequently among populations which use more than one language. CS occurs when lex ...
... English verbs. This structure, in which an English verb or adjectival predicate complements a Chichewa light verb meaning ‘do’ or ‘make’, appears to be employed during code-switching. Code-Switching (CS) is found quite frequently among populations which use more than one language. CS occurs when lex ...
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech
... 5-Minute Grammar Practice © Judith Bauer Stamper, Scholastic Teaching Resources ...
... 5-Minute Grammar Practice © Judith Bauer Stamper, Scholastic Teaching Resources ...
Rethinking Subject Agreement in Swahili
... Carstens (1993) proposes that class prefixes are in fact number prefixes, and that class affiliation is determined by a lexical gender feature on the root. In her proposal, vijana is of class 1/2 on the basis of the lexical gender feature of the root jana, explaining the occurrence of the correspond ...
... Carstens (1993) proposes that class prefixes are in fact number prefixes, and that class affiliation is determined by a lexical gender feature on the root. In her proposal, vijana is of class 1/2 on the basis of the lexical gender feature of the root jana, explaining the occurrence of the correspond ...
Pronouns - Alexis Kitchens
... • 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," ...
... • 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," ...
Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real
... sentence is in the past tense. If your sentence does not change when you add right now to it, then it is in the present tense.) Your VERB may be an action verb or a linking verb. Action verbs may take direct objects and are modified by adverbs. Linking verbs take predicate nouns and predicate adject ...
... sentence is in the past tense. If your sentence does not change when you add right now to it, then it is in the present tense.) Your VERB may be an action verb or a linking verb. Action verbs may take direct objects and are modified by adverbs. Linking verbs take predicate nouns and predicate adject ...
Dual Nominalisation in Yukaghir: structural ambiguity as semantic
... modifiers (in particular, in the construction with a transitive DN-modifier). Apart from the better agreement with the overall semantics of the possessive suffix, this analysis would account for the semantic constraints on the head noun: indeed, if the possessive suffix must refer to the subject of ...
... modifiers (in particular, in the construction with a transitive DN-modifier). Apart from the better agreement with the overall semantics of the possessive suffix, this analysis would account for the semantic constraints on the head noun: indeed, if the possessive suffix must refer to the subject of ...