Life after PCFGs? 1 Problems with CFGs 2 CFGs and features
... In languages like German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, etc. agreement can be much more systematic. For example, while English has only a residue of agreement, in German, there are three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two numbers (singular, plural) but they combine only into four classes (mas ...
... In languages like German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, etc. agreement can be much more systematic. For example, while English has only a residue of agreement, in German, there are three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two numbers (singular, plural) but they combine only into four classes (mas ...
PowerPoint - Skyline College
... how something is done, when it is done, and where it is done. Examples of some common adverbs are: really, quickly, especially, early, well, immediately, yesterday. While many adverbs do end with “–ly”, don’t take this for granted: some adverbs, like “almost” and “very” do not end this way, and some ...
... how something is done, when it is done, and where it is done. Examples of some common adverbs are: really, quickly, especially, early, well, immediately, yesterday. While many adverbs do end with “–ly”, don’t take this for granted: some adverbs, like “almost” and “very” do not end this way, and some ...
Practice - TeacherLINK
... • A run-on sentence joins sentences that should be written separately or as a compound sentence. • One way to correct a run-on sentence is to separate each complete idea into a sentence. • Another way to correct a run-on sentence is to rewrite it as a compound sentence. Use a comma and the words and ...
... • A run-on sentence joins sentences that should be written separately or as a compound sentence. • One way to correct a run-on sentence is to separate each complete idea into a sentence. • Another way to correct a run-on sentence is to rewrite it as a compound sentence. Use a comma and the words and ...
Wittgensteinian Semantics
... Is it a contradictionif I say: "This is beautiful and this is not beautiful" (pointing at different objects)? And ought one to say that it isn't a contradiction,because the two words "This"mean differentthings? No; the two "This's"have the same meaning. "Today"has the same meaningtoday as it had yes ...
... Is it a contradictionif I say: "This is beautiful and this is not beautiful" (pointing at different objects)? And ought one to say that it isn't a contradiction,because the two words "This"mean differentthings? No; the two "This's"have the same meaning. "Today"has the same meaningtoday as it had yes ...
Nouns and Pronouns
... Verb Forms Directions: Underline the correct verb form in each of the following sentences. Note: (1) Check for the other tenses or clues to determine the time within the sentence. (2) Notice that the verbs "used" and "supposed" should be followed by an infinitive. For example: (I was supposed to go. ...
... Verb Forms Directions: Underline the correct verb form in each of the following sentences. Note: (1) Check for the other tenses or clues to determine the time within the sentence. (2) Notice that the verbs "used" and "supposed" should be followed by an infinitive. For example: (I was supposed to go. ...
Encoding focus in Kanuri verbal morphology
... described to play a role in the Kanuri system, apart from a short remark by Hutchison (2000: 583) who also states the constitutive absence of focus with this particular category. Ellison (1937) had already observed that “emphasis”, i.e. focus, cannot be on other constituents outside the verbal predi ...
... described to play a role in the Kanuri system, apart from a short remark by Hutchison (2000: 583) who also states the constitutive absence of focus with this particular category. Ellison (1937) had already observed that “emphasis”, i.e. focus, cannot be on other constituents outside the verbal predi ...
THE POSITION OF THE VERB IN OLD ENGLISH RELATIVE
... Table 1.1: Forms of the relative pronoun se....................25 Table 2.1: Placement of the independent verb in the relative clause..................................................33 Table 2.2: Function of relative pronouns and sentence types in RelX S V constructions ............................ ...
... Table 1.1: Forms of the relative pronoun se....................25 Table 2.1: Placement of the independent verb in the relative clause..................................................33 Table 2.2: Function of relative pronouns and sentence types in RelX S V constructions ............................ ...
Chapter The Many Facets of the Cause-Effect Relation
... kind B to occur if, when A occurs, B always follows, but when A does not occur, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not. On the other hand, if when A does not occur, B never occurs, but when A occurs, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not, then A is a necessary though not a sufficient condition for B to ...
... kind B to occur if, when A occurs, B always follows, but when A does not occur, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not. On the other hand, if when A does not occur, B never occurs, but when A occurs, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not, then A is a necessary though not a sufficient condition for B to ...
A Manchu Grammar by PG von Möllendorff
... by commentaries of good writers. Manchu being infinitely easier to learn than Chinese, the translations are a great help towards obtaining a clear insight into Chinese syntax, and scholars like Stanislas Julien, who owed the remarkable precision in his renderings to his knowledge of Manchu, have rep ...
... by commentaries of good writers. Manchu being infinitely easier to learn than Chinese, the translations are a great help towards obtaining a clear insight into Chinese syntax, and scholars like Stanislas Julien, who owed the remarkable precision in his renderings to his knowledge of Manchu, have rep ...
BASIC KOREAN: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK
... Korean-as-a-foreign-language (KFL) teaching and learning in the Englishspeaking world has hardly been popular among non-Koreans until quite recently. However, the number of KFL learners has started to grow rapidly since the latter half of the 1970s for various reasons, such as the increasing visibil ...
... Korean-as-a-foreign-language (KFL) teaching and learning in the Englishspeaking world has hardly been popular among non-Koreans until quite recently. However, the number of KFL learners has started to grow rapidly since the latter half of the 1970s for various reasons, such as the increasing visibil ...
a corpus-based analysis of negative concord in english
... might be due to the dialogue passages although further study needs to be done in order to reach a fully reliable reason. From the beginning of this paper, non-assertive items have been very frequently mentioned, and this is so because they have a great relevance for negation. As Quirk et al. (1985:7 ...
... might be due to the dialogue passages although further study needs to be done in order to reach a fully reliable reason. From the beginning of this paper, non-assertive items have been very frequently mentioned, and this is so because they have a great relevance for negation. As Quirk et al. (1985:7 ...
A Text-based Grammar for Expository Writing
... chapters—the first semester—of the ERWC. Unlike many grammar texts, this supplement begins with the clauses, the subjects, and the verbs with which they are constructed. As the title, “Sentence Fundamentals for Expressing Ideas,” suggests, teaching students to identify clauses, subjects, and verbs i ...
... chapters—the first semester—of the ERWC. Unlike many grammar texts, this supplement begins with the clauses, the subjects, and the verbs with which they are constructed. As the title, “Sentence Fundamentals for Expressing Ideas,” suggests, teaching students to identify clauses, subjects, and verbs i ...
pontifícia universidade católica do rio grande do sul
... look into the syntactic structure relations of Infinitival Small Clauses concerning the Inflected Infinitive in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and the Bare & To-Infinitives in English, so as to demonstrate and explain the existing parametrization on Case Assignment. To achieve that, the (embedded) NPsubj ...
... look into the syntactic structure relations of Infinitival Small Clauses concerning the Inflected Infinitive in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and the Bare & To-Infinitives in English, so as to demonstrate and explain the existing parametrization on Case Assignment. To achieve that, the (embedded) NPsubj ...
Reflexive and Reciprocal Constructions in Modern Irish
... Transitivity is defined semantically in RRG in terms of the number of macroroles of a predicate. A major of claim of RRG is that no syntactic subcategorisation information is required in the lexical entries for verbs. For regular verbs, all that is required is the logical structure. For irregular ve ...
... Transitivity is defined semantically in RRG in terms of the number of macroroles of a predicate. A major of claim of RRG is that no syntactic subcategorisation information is required in the lexical entries for verbs. For regular verbs, all that is required is the logical structure. For irregular ve ...
The South Caucasian languages - Friedrich-Schiller
... found in Mingrelian, Laz, Svan and some western and southern Georgian dialects. Similarly, specific analytic future tense formations (derived from ‘to want’) are found in some dialects both of Laz and of Southern Georgian, etc. In general, these languages have been in contact with each other for a v ...
... found in Mingrelian, Laz, Svan and some western and southern Georgian dialects. Similarly, specific analytic future tense formations (derived from ‘to want’) are found in some dialects both of Laz and of Southern Georgian, etc. In general, these languages have been in contact with each other for a v ...
VERBS AND OBJECTS IN SEMANTIC AGREEMENT: MINOR
... discourse. To mention only a few of such apparent classificational preferences, arguments tend to classify what can be regarded as more or less individuated, whereas predicates tend to classify such 'things' as events, processes, activities, experiences, states, (clusters of) properties, and the lik ...
... discourse. To mention only a few of such apparent classificational preferences, arguments tend to classify what can be regarded as more or less individuated, whereas predicates tend to classify such 'things' as events, processes, activities, experiences, states, (clusters of) properties, and the lik ...
Explaining the (A)telicity Property of English Verb Phrases
... c. The doctor examined an enormous number of patients in 3 hours this morning It seems that any expression of quantity, rather than a precise expression of quantity, is sufficient for a predicate to qualify as telic. This makes it implausible that a VP is telic if and only if there is a homomorphism ...
... c. The doctor examined an enormous number of patients in 3 hours this morning It seems that any expression of quantity, rather than a precise expression of quantity, is sufficient for a predicate to qualify as telic. This makes it implausible that a VP is telic if and only if there is a homomorphism ...
syntax - Gordon College Faculty
... aids to the interpretation of the New Testament. It is designed to assist English-speaking students in the task of translating the Greek New Testament into English forms of hought and expression. The work has not been undertaken under the impression that grammar is an end in itself, or that a knowle ...
... aids to the interpretation of the New Testament. It is designed to assist English-speaking students in the task of translating the Greek New Testament into English forms of hought and expression. The work has not been undertaken under the impression that grammar is an end in itself, or that a knowle ...
The English relative clause - Machine Translation Archive
... might also generate such sentences as: They called the girl up. He calls the girl up. etc. ...
... might also generate such sentences as: They called the girl up. He calls the girl up. etc. ...
On the Tense-Aspect system of Bolivian
... context, present-time-reference. This is, for instance, the case for puere, which is actually a ‘nominal predicate’ (see sect. 9), roughly meaning ‘power (N) / can (V)’. The opposite case, however, is also to be observed, as with aikuaa ‘I know’ or aecha ‘I see’, which out of context tend to elicit ...
... context, present-time-reference. This is, for instance, the case for puere, which is actually a ‘nominal predicate’ (see sect. 9), roughly meaning ‘power (N) / can (V)’. The opposite case, however, is also to be observed, as with aikuaa ‘I know’ or aecha ‘I see’, which out of context tend to elicit ...
11 Other Punctuation Marks - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... Name _________________________________________________________ Section ______________________ Date _____________ Score: (Number right) ________ ⫻ 12.5 = _______ % ...
... Name _________________________________________________________ Section ______________________ Date _____________ Score: (Number right) ________ ⫻ 12.5 = _______ % ...
File - BAB-UL-ILM RESEARCH FOUNDATION (BIRF)
... A “syllable” is a single sound contained in a word which includes at least one vowel and one or more consonants. English borrowed this word from Anglo-French sillable and Geoffrey Chaucer used it without change in his House of Fame. The word in question crept into French from Greek syllabe, meaning ...
... A “syllable” is a single sound contained in a word which includes at least one vowel and one or more consonants. English borrowed this word from Anglo-French sillable and Geoffrey Chaucer used it without change in his House of Fame. The word in question crept into French from Greek syllabe, meaning ...
The finite independency A study of the relevance of the notion of
... mentions Abkhaz (northwest Caucasian) that has a separate set of non-finite verb forms distinct from the finite ones and Kistane (South Semitic, Gurage, north-eastern Gurage), also called Soddo, that has a separate set of verb forms for subordinate clauses. In Kistane the main and subordinate clause ...
... mentions Abkhaz (northwest Caucasian) that has a separate set of non-finite verb forms distinct from the finite ones and Kistane (South Semitic, Gurage, north-eastern Gurage), also called Soddo, that has a separate set of verb forms for subordinate clauses. In Kistane the main and subordinate clause ...