English Grammar Learn to
... English teacher to a set of ultra-strict nuns armed with thick grammar books. She lives in New York City, where with great difficulty she refrains from correcting signs containing messages such as “Bagel’s for sale.” She is the author of more than 40 books, including English Grammar Workbook For Dum ...
... English teacher to a set of ultra-strict nuns armed with thick grammar books. She lives in New York City, where with great difficulty she refrains from correcting signs containing messages such as “Bagel’s for sale.” She is the author of more than 40 books, including English Grammar Workbook For Dum ...
Morphosyntactic Convergence and Integration in Finland
... analysis and theories on codeswitching. Fascinating papers by Peter Auer inspired me to research in this direction. For me, that part of the process was interesting and full of discoveries. My acquaintance with the data greatly advanced through profound detailed analyses of interactional episodes. H ...
... analysis and theories on codeswitching. Fascinating papers by Peter Auer inspired me to research in this direction. For me, that part of the process was interesting and full of discoveries. My acquaintance with the data greatly advanced through profound detailed analyses of interactional episodes. H ...
Discontinuous reciprocals Abstract 1 Introduction
... when it is used in a discontinuous reciprocal construction.2 It is easy to show that the construction is not general-purpose adjunction, but is specific to certain reciprocal strategies. In all the languages I have considered, it occurs with reciprocal strategies that create reciprocal verbs, not wi ...
... when it is used in a discontinuous reciprocal construction.2 It is easy to show that the construction is not general-purpose adjunction, but is specific to certain reciprocal strategies. In all the languages I have considered, it occurs with reciprocal strategies that create reciprocal verbs, not wi ...
Natural Language Generation
... structure (LCS) that is leveraged from the syntactic nodes and lexicon-based semantic properties Assigner/receiver (A/R) sets: keep track of which constituents can combine with which other ones I/O buffers ...
... structure (LCS) that is leveraged from the syntactic nodes and lexicon-based semantic properties Assigner/receiver (A/R) sets: keep track of which constituents can combine with which other ones I/O buffers ...
LEXICAL NEGATION IN ENGLISH: THE CASE OF UN- AND IN-
... Abstract: In- and un- are two negative prefixes that may appear to be quite similar both semantically and morphologically. In some cases, particularly when the adjectives are used predicatively, in- and un- can easily be glossed by not: ‘This is impossible’ is more or less interchangeable with ‘This ...
... Abstract: In- and un- are two negative prefixes that may appear to be quite similar both semantically and morphologically. In some cases, particularly when the adjectives are used predicatively, in- and un- can easily be glossed by not: ‘This is impossible’ is more or less interchangeable with ‘This ...
PAYA KUNA - SIL International
... 9 BASIC HEALTH/MEDICAL DISCUSSION ............................................................................ 102 ...
... 9 BASIC HEALTH/MEDICAL DISCUSSION ............................................................................ 102 ...
chapter 3 - UM Students` Repository
... Myanmar sentences used by native speakers in real situations are hardly the same basic and standard ones that are used in academic and formal environments such as language classes. In Myanmar, a real clause initiates with a massive combinations of closely packed information embedded in bundles and c ...
... Myanmar sentences used by native speakers in real situations are hardly the same basic and standard ones that are used in academic and formal environments such as language classes. In Myanmar, a real clause initiates with a massive combinations of closely packed information embedded in bundles and c ...
Being Colloquial in Esperanto
... grammar that a student might learn in an elementary course, but I have made frequent reference to points of style, taste, and usage that are normally left unexplained; and I have expanded points that in my experience give native English speakers particular trouble or that we find especially interest ...
... grammar that a student might learn in an elementary course, but I have made frequent reference to points of style, taste, and usage that are normally left unexplained; and I have expanded points that in my experience give native English speakers particular trouble or that we find especially interest ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging and Partial Parsing for Irish using Finite-State Transducers and Constraint Grammar
... In this thesis, we present the development and evaluation of a suite of annotation tools for unrestricted Irish text, which go from tokenization, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, right through to partial parsing. In order to develop such tools, a large body of texts is required for te ...
... In this thesis, we present the development and evaluation of a suite of annotation tools for unrestricted Irish text, which go from tokenization, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, right through to partial parsing. In order to develop such tools, a large body of texts is required for te ...
The distribution of pronoun case forms in English
... pronoun case variation that cannot be given a purely case-based account occur in strong pronoun contexts. The consistent nominative/objective case distinction found with weak pronouns is due to their syntactic deficiency and the increasing importance of Positional Case in English. Unlike strong pron ...
... pronoun case variation that cannot be given a purely case-based account occur in strong pronoun contexts. The consistent nominative/objective case distinction found with weak pronouns is due to their syntactic deficiency and the increasing importance of Positional Case in English. Unlike strong pron ...
Dances with words: issues in the translation of
... side by side, and systematically highlighted differences. The most obvious was that Seidensticker had restored almost all the text missing in his first version; but it was also apparent that he had updated the language for a new readership. The idea that the original Japanese text remained static, w ...
... side by side, and systematically highlighted differences. The most obvious was that Seidensticker had restored almost all the text missing in his first version; but it was also apparent that he had updated the language for a new readership. The idea that the original Japanese text remained static, w ...
... In chapter 1 I put forward the hypothesis that there is a strong homomorphism between the relational syntax and semantics of argument structure. This hypothesis is shown to gain theoretical support iff a fundamental distinction is drawn: meaning is a function of both non-syntactically transparent co ...
A Lexical Theory of Phrasal Idioms
... explains the properties of such phrases, e.g. keep tabs on, spill the beans, in terms of general combinatoric restrictions on the individual idiomatic words (more precisely, the lexemes) that they contain, e.g. keep, tabs, on. Our lexical approach, taken together with a construction-based grammar, p ...
... explains the properties of such phrases, e.g. keep tabs on, spill the beans, in terms of general combinatoric restrictions on the individual idiomatic words (more precisely, the lexemes) that they contain, e.g. keep, tabs, on. Our lexical approach, taken together with a construction-based grammar, p ...
00. The realization of negation in the Syrian Arabic clause, phrase
... The Trinity College Dublin portal opened unexpectedly after I was fully enrolled in another Irish university. It felt as though I slipped into TCD through the back door at the last moment, and I will ever be grateful for the opportunity and welcome afforded me by the CLCS staff. The competence and t ...
... The Trinity College Dublin portal opened unexpectedly after I was fully enrolled in another Irish university. It felt as though I slipped into TCD through the back door at the last moment, and I will ever be grateful for the opportunity and welcome afforded me by the CLCS staff. The competence and t ...
Semi-Compositional Noun + Verb Constructions
... C.3 Semi-compositional constructions with the verb hoz ‘bring’ . . . . . . . . . ...
... C.3 Semi-compositional constructions with the verb hoz ‘bring’ . . . . . . . . . ...
1 Chinese Passives in Comparative Perspective C.
... Zhangsan BEI Lisi come-PERF ‘*Zhangsan was arrived by Lisi.’ These sentences cannot be ruled out by any version of the binding principles (Chomsky 1981, 1986, inter alia), for example, since they are ungrammatical whether a postverbal object (if any) enters into a binding relation with the subject Z ...
... Zhangsan BEI Lisi come-PERF ‘*Zhangsan was arrived by Lisi.’ These sentences cannot be ruled out by any version of the binding principles (Chomsky 1981, 1986, inter alia), for example, since they are ungrammatical whether a postverbal object (if any) enters into a binding relation with the subject Z ...
The Empty Object Construction and Related Phenomena
... would like to explicitly thank David Parkinson and Takashi Toyoshima for their support. Cornell friends have provided good company and a place to stay during frequent visits to Ithaca. In particular, Tammo and Aafke Steenhuis housed me when I returned for my B Exam. They and their family have offere ...
... would like to explicitly thank David Parkinson and Takashi Toyoshima for their support. Cornell friends have provided good company and a place to stay during frequent visits to Ithaca. In particular, Tammo and Aafke Steenhuis housed me when I returned for my B Exam. They and their family have offere ...
Particle Patterns in English A Comprehensive
... then getting rid of the category of particles seems a righteous decision to make. The present study, however, adduces some fresh grounds to treat particles as a category in their own right, quite distinct from prepositions. Not only will I argue that particles have a right to exist, but also, import ...
... then getting rid of the category of particles seems a righteous decision to make. The present study, however, adduces some fresh grounds to treat particles as a category in their own right, quite distinct from prepositions. Not only will I argue that particles have a right to exist, but also, import ...
320 pages - Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori
... of finite state automata that represent grammars with varying degrees of detail, creating a machine that classifies phrases in a text containing certain kinds of errors. The current version of the system handles errors concerning agreement in noun phrases, and verb selection of finite and non-finite ...
... of finite state automata that represent grammars with varying degrees of detail, creating a machine that classifies phrases in a text containing certain kinds of errors. The current version of the system handles errors concerning agreement in noun phrases, and verb selection of finite and non-finite ...
Oriented Adverbs - Universität Tübingen
... best way of clarifyong the notion of event modification might be to investigate the contrasts between the adverbial uses and the other, individual-predicating uses of one and the same underlying adjective. With this, the whole work took a lexical turn that it did not necessarily have at the outset. ...
... best way of clarifyong the notion of event modification might be to investigate the contrasts between the adverbial uses and the other, individual-predicating uses of one and the same underlying adjective. With this, the whole work took a lexical turn that it did not necessarily have at the outset. ...
Gerundive Nominals and The Role of Aspect
... above are predicted by these previous analyses. I will briefly discuss the problems with a representative few of these previous analyses. Abney (1987) posits that PRO-ing gerunds could be collapsed to either Possing or Acc-ing gerunds. Milsark (1988), building on Baker (1985), is interested in unify ...
... above are predicted by these previous analyses. I will briefly discuss the problems with a representative few of these previous analyses. Abney (1987) posits that PRO-ing gerunds could be collapsed to either Possing or Acc-ing gerunds. Milsark (1988), building on Baker (1985), is interested in unify ...
Absolute Clauses in the Literature
... clauses is nominative; it is participle because the logical predicate is always participial. Jespersen (1937: 126) considers that the two names are both inappropriate and consequently uses the term “nexus tertiary.” This is because the case in absolute clauses may also be accusative (Curme 1931: 154 ...
... clauses is nominative; it is participle because the logical predicate is always participial. Jespersen (1937: 126) considers that the two names are both inappropriate and consequently uses the term “nexus tertiary.” This is because the case in absolute clauses may also be accusative (Curme 1931: 154 ...
STRUCTURAL PRIMING IN TURKISH GENITIVE
... There is a very special person without whom this thesis would not have been possible. Ayşe Betül Toplu, you have done so much more for me and for this thesis than you think you did. You were there with me at every step, since the very beginning until the end. Your ideas, suggestions and feedback ha ...
... There is a very special person without whom this thesis would not have been possible. Ayşe Betül Toplu, you have done so much more for me and for this thesis than you think you did. You were there with me at every step, since the very beginning until the end. Your ideas, suggestions and feedback ha ...
English grammar workbook for dummies
... Geraldine Woods began her education when teachers still supplied ink wells to their students. She credits her 35-year career as an English teacher to a set of ultra-strict nuns armed with thick grammar books. She lives in New York City, where with great difficulty she refrains from correcting signs ...
... Geraldine Woods began her education when teachers still supplied ink wells to their students. She credits her 35-year career as an English teacher to a set of ultra-strict nuns armed with thick grammar books. She lives in New York City, where with great difficulty she refrains from correcting signs ...
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction
... So, if modern grammarians don’t worry about split infinitives and the like, then what do they study? It turns out that human languages are amazingly complex systems, whose inner workings can be investigated in large part simply by consulting the intuitions of native speakers. We employ this techniqu ...
... So, if modern grammarians don’t worry about split infinitives and the like, then what do they study? It turns out that human languages are amazingly complex systems, whose inner workings can be investigated in large part simply by consulting the intuitions of native speakers. We employ this techniqu ...