The 3 Independent Uses of the Subjunctive
... Is the action instantaneous, gradual, repetitive, just beginning, or none of these? Aspect answers that question! Most languages have no clear way of indicating aspect but hint at it through their uses of tenses, adverbs, and various other grammatical ...
... Is the action instantaneous, gradual, repetitive, just beginning, or none of these? Aspect answers that question! Most languages have no clear way of indicating aspect but hint at it through their uses of tenses, adverbs, and various other grammatical ...
Structure Section
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fulltext - LOT Publications
... 7.2.2.2 Caused change of location verbs ............................................... 130 7.2.2.3 Agricultural verbs of planting ................................................... 131 7.2.2.4 Peel verbs................................................................................... 131 7.2.2.5 ...
... 7.2.2.2 Caused change of location verbs ............................................... 130 7.2.2.3 Agricultural verbs of planting ................................................... 131 7.2.2.4 Peel verbs................................................................................... 131 7.2.2.5 ...
Morphological phrasemes and Totonacan verbal morphology*
... (1c). In other words, these markers can be assigned specific individual mean ings, but when they come together, the meaning of the combination is different from the regular sum of these individual meanings. On the level of phrases (that is, multi-word expressions) this kind of treatment is routine ...
... (1c). In other words, these markers can be assigned specific individual mean ings, but when they come together, the meaning of the combination is different from the regular sum of these individual meanings. On the level of phrases (that is, multi-word expressions) this kind of treatment is routine ...
French Verbs Made Simple(r)
... generally passes unnoticed, since subjunctive and indicative verb forms in Modern English are almost always the same. But a sentence like I insist that he be punished ...
... generally passes unnoticed, since subjunctive and indicative verb forms in Modern English are almost always the same. But a sentence like I insist that he be punished ...
Verb Resource Book
... the words “have finished” would be translated using a perfect tense verb, “finivimus,” indicating something that has been completed recently, in the present tense. The perfect tense can also be used to translate the following sentence ...
... the words “have finished” would be translated using a perfect tense verb, “finivimus,” indicating something that has been completed recently, in the present tense. The perfect tense can also be used to translate the following sentence ...
A Copula Analysis of shì in the Chinese Cleft Construction
... Recent researches on the cleft construction have various insights revealing the nature of the construction from different perspectives. Cheng (2008) proposes incisive descriptive generalizations and argues that there is actually no shì…de construction, although she does use the term shì…de sentences ...
... Recent researches on the cleft construction have various insights revealing the nature of the construction from different perspectives. Cheng (2008) proposes incisive descriptive generalizations and argues that there is actually no shì…de construction, although she does use the term shì…de sentences ...
9. - Universität Erfurt
... towards’ into the Spanish direct object marker a. It must be made clear at the outset that this treatment is preliminary, incomplete and imperfect. It presents little more than what has been found out in the two centuries in which the subject has been studied, and probably it contains even less than ...
... towards’ into the Spanish direct object marker a. It must be made clear at the outset that this treatment is preliminary, incomplete and imperfect. It presents little more than what has been found out in the two centuries in which the subject has been studied, and probably it contains even less than ...
Two sources of scalarity within the verb phrase
... often silent in English, but in certain cases has an overt realization as partitive of. Second, there is a quality, or prototypicality, scale associated with the lexical entry of the verb itself. This type of scale is related to the different dimensions upon which events are classified by the verbs ...
... often silent in English, but in certain cases has an overt realization as partitive of. Second, there is a quality, or prototypicality, scale associated with the lexical entry of the verb itself. This type of scale is related to the different dimensions upon which events are classified by the verbs ...
vilnius pedagogical university
... The purpose of this chapter is to present an analysis of the three types of small clauses, namely infinitival, gerundial, and participial, which are widely used in the English language of the present day. Baxter Hathaway (1967: 7) considers the grammar of a language to be a description of its device ...
... The purpose of this chapter is to present an analysis of the three types of small clauses, namely infinitival, gerundial, and participial, which are widely used in the English language of the present day. Baxter Hathaway (1967: 7) considers the grammar of a language to be a description of its device ...
INFINITIVAL SMALL CLAUSES IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY`S NOVEL
... The purpose of this chapter is to present an analysis of the three types of small clauses, namely infinitival, gerundial, and participial, which are widely used in the English language of the present day. Baxter Hathaway (1967: 7) considers the grammar of a language to be a description of its device ...
... The purpose of this chapter is to present an analysis of the three types of small clauses, namely infinitival, gerundial, and participial, which are widely used in the English language of the present day. Baxter Hathaway (1967: 7) considers the grammar of a language to be a description of its device ...
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... towards’ into the Spanish direct object marker a. It must be made clear at the outset that this treatment is preliminary, incomplete and imperfect. It presents little more than what has been found out in the two centuries in which the subject has been studied, and probably it contains even less than ...
... towards’ into the Spanish direct object marker a. It must be made clear at the outset that this treatment is preliminary, incomplete and imperfect. It presents little more than what has been found out in the two centuries in which the subject has been studied, and probably it contains even less than ...
`Have` and the Link Between Perfects and Existentials in Old Catalan
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
Reconsidering the Dative Shift Szabóné Papp Judit
... originates in facts about the history of the English language. In Old English the order ’V-NPdat NP-acc’ was more common than the order ’V-NP-acc NP-dat’. In Middle English the case markers eroded, which resulted in a ’V NPgoal NPtheme ’ verb phrase structure similar to the double object constructio ...
... originates in facts about the history of the English language. In Old English the order ’V-NPdat NP-acc’ was more common than the order ’V-NP-acc NP-dat’. In Middle English the case markers eroded, which resulted in a ’V NPgoal NPtheme ’ verb phrase structure similar to the double object constructio ...
Document
... (e.g. place and locative-existential adverbs are closed subclasses while it is possible to derive some time and modal adverbs from verbs). Demonstratives, possessives, indefinite forms, personal pronouns, interrogatives are closed classes. Members of open classes can function as predicates; however, ...
... (e.g. place and locative-existential adverbs are closed subclasses while it is possible to derive some time and modal adverbs from verbs). Demonstratives, possessives, indefinite forms, personal pronouns, interrogatives are closed classes. Members of open classes can function as predicates; however, ...
Automatic grouping of morphologically related collocations
... the third row of the parsing output (cf. Figure 6, e.g. Patente - patents). The morphological analysis will later allow us to identify which of these nouns are in fact compounds and which of them are not. The extraction of collocations is slightly more complicated. We implemented a series of PERL sc ...
... the third row of the parsing output (cf. Figure 6, e.g. Patente - patents). The morphological analysis will later allow us to identify which of these nouns are in fact compounds and which of them are not. The extraction of collocations is slightly more complicated. We implemented a series of PERL sc ...
Progressive Aspect - Západočeská univerzita
... Stative verbs are usually related with some unchangeable state, condition or situation. Thus they are rarely used in the progressive forms. The meaning of stative verbs is not compatible with the fact that they can exist in progress. These verbs therefore express an action which is in progress by us ...
... Stative verbs are usually related with some unchangeable state, condition or situation. Thus they are rarely used in the progressive forms. The meaning of stative verbs is not compatible with the fact that they can exist in progress. These verbs therefore express an action which is in progress by us ...
B-05-Hyman_page 95-117.indd
... that verb tense, aspect, mood and polarity may also encode focus, in two senses: First, some verb forms, e.g. main clause affirmative past tenses, are expressed with different morphology, depending on what is in focus. Second, some parts of the verbal paradigm appear to be inherently focused, indepe ...
... that verb tense, aspect, mood and polarity may also encode focus, in two senses: First, some verb forms, e.g. main clause affirmative past tenses, are expressed with different morphology, depending on what is in focus. Second, some parts of the verbal paradigm appear to be inherently focused, indepe ...
1 Deriving the Complementarity Effect: Relativized Minimality in
... familiar fact that weak pronouns but not full DPs can be affixal. The impossibility of agreement morphology tracking an overt DP follows from the Theta Criterion, which disallows a pronoun to co-occur clause-internally with a DP bearing the same theta-role in a language that lacks clitic doubling.4 ...
... familiar fact that weak pronouns but not full DPs can be affixal. The impossibility of agreement morphology tracking an overt DP follows from the Theta Criterion, which disallows a pronoun to co-occur clause-internally with a DP bearing the same theta-role in a language that lacks clitic doubling.4 ...
Grammar and Language Workbook - ESL
... The family eats dinner together every night. (singular) The council vote as they wish on the pay increase. (plural) 6. A possessive noun shows possession, ownership, or the relationship between two nouns. Monica’s book the rabbit’s ears the hamster’s cage ...
... The family eats dinner together every night. (singular) The council vote as they wish on the pay increase. (plural) 6. A possessive noun shows possession, ownership, or the relationship between two nouns. Monica’s book the rabbit’s ears the hamster’s cage ...
prop-att - Semantics Archive
... Matthews, and Tye among others. I will argue that there is substantial linguistic evidence as well as philosophical plausibility for this view. Attitude verbs, I will argue, do not, at least not primarily, express relations between agents and propositions, but rather specify relations among agents a ...
... Matthews, and Tye among others. I will argue that there is substantial linguistic evidence as well as philosophical plausibility for this view. Attitude verbs, I will argue, do not, at least not primarily, express relations between agents and propositions, but rather specify relations among agents a ...
Perfect Your Sentences
... Here the error lies in using an adjective instead of an adverb. We use adverbs to modify verbs. Most adverbs end in –ly; there are also a few adjectives that end in – ly. Examples are: costly, friendly, lively, likely, lonely, lovely, silly and ugly. There are no adverbs costly/costlily or friendly/ ...
... Here the error lies in using an adjective instead of an adverb. We use adverbs to modify verbs. Most adverbs end in –ly; there are also a few adjectives that end in – ly. Examples are: costly, friendly, lively, likely, lonely, lovely, silly and ugly. There are no adverbs costly/costlily or friendly/ ...
Different by-phrases with adjectival and verbal passives
... arguments or between variables associated with semantic arguments of the verb qua its lexical semantics, and variables for nouns that also introduce discourse referents (as in, e.g., Farkas and de Swart, 2003). In either case, we would not assume that semantic arguments (of the verb) have to be intr ...
... arguments or between variables associated with semantic arguments of the verb qua its lexical semantics, and variables for nouns that also introduce discourse referents (as in, e.g., Farkas and de Swart, 2003). In either case, we would not assume that semantic arguments (of the verb) have to be intr ...
A Study of Optimality Theory and the Human Sentence Processing
... is too much to state in this short space. This has been, in every respect, the most challenging test of our relationship, and at the end of the road, when all the dust has settled, we are still together, hand in hand. This is, in large part, due to the patience, understanding, and unlimited reservoi ...
... is too much to state in this short space. This has been, in every respect, the most challenging test of our relationship, and at the end of the road, when all the dust has settled, we are still together, hand in hand. This is, in large part, due to the patience, understanding, and unlimited reservoi ...
Infinitive Clause Syntax in the Gospels
... discussion), and the noted grammarian A. T. Robertson took pains to argue its phrasal status. Only quite recently has the possibility been advanced that it is possible to recognize infinitive and participial clauses in their own right. Here, then, is a significant question to be dealt with in this s ...
... discussion), and the noted grammarian A. T. Robertson took pains to argue its phrasal status. Only quite recently has the possibility been advanced that it is possible to recognize infinitive and participial clauses in their own right. Here, then, is a significant question to be dealt with in this s ...