Working for Two: a Bidirectional Grammar for a Controlled Natural
... These syntactic annotations can be used to support the generation process of sentences. For example, the annotation [on] indicates that the property has time has been derived from a prepositional phrase with the preposition on, and the annotation [fin,third,sg,pres,no,no] signals that the event supe ...
... These syntactic annotations can be used to support the generation process of sentences. For example, the annotation [on] indicates that the property has time has been derived from a prepositional phrase with the preposition on, and the annotation [fin,third,sg,pres,no,no] signals that the event supe ...
EXP Grammar Tutor 1 - 2
... In English Words that describe people or things are called adjectives. They can be used with the verb to be to say what someone or something is like. Robert is tall. (Robert is a noun; tall is an adjective.) That pretty girl is also tall. (girl is a noun; pretty and tall are adjectives.) The teacher ...
... In English Words that describe people or things are called adjectives. They can be used with the verb to be to say what someone or something is like. Robert is tall. (Robert is a noun; tall is an adjective.) That pretty girl is also tall. (girl is a noun; pretty and tall are adjectives.) The teacher ...
Lesson 6 - InTheBeginning.org
... Scriptures without the inherent interference of a translation. Greek plural subjects and plural direct objects are also inflected. Whereas their function in the sentence remains the same, a spelling change occurs to indicate the plural. Let us look at an example where both the subject and the direct ...
... Scriptures without the inherent interference of a translation. Greek plural subjects and plural direct objects are also inflected. Whereas their function in the sentence remains the same, a spelling change occurs to indicate the plural. Let us look at an example where both the subject and the direct ...
Cognitive Set and Lexicalization Strategy in Dogon Action Verbs
... for relatively tangible and recurrent lexicalization patterns, and “set” for the cognitive orientations that presumably underlie them. In this article, we describe a broad lexicalization strategy for Dogon action verbs that, we argue, reflects a cognitive set profiling manner and/or process (M/P) ra ...
... for relatively tangible and recurrent lexicalization patterns, and “set” for the cognitive orientations that presumably underlie them. In this article, we describe a broad lexicalization strategy for Dogon action verbs that, we argue, reflects a cognitive set profiling manner and/or process (M/P) ra ...
The alliterative, rhythmic and stanzaic constraints on verbs in
... of the line. The line begins with a di-positional rhythmic peak (þreklund-). Dróttkvætt lines have either two or three rhythmic dips. The last dip is line-final and can only contain an ending of a word. Kuhn’s definition of the term Satzpartikel ‘sentence particle’ is translated by Gade (1995, xix) ...
... of the line. The line begins with a di-positional rhythmic peak (þreklund-). Dróttkvætt lines have either two or three rhythmic dips. The last dip is line-final and can only contain an ending of a word. Kuhn’s definition of the term Satzpartikel ‘sentence particle’ is translated by Gade (1995, xix) ...
Gerunds in Phrases • Practice 7
... Identifying Gerunds. Each of the following sentences contains one gerund. in each sentence. Then write whether It is used as a subject, direct object, Underline the ...
... Identifying Gerunds. Each of the following sentences contains one gerund. in each sentence. Then write whether It is used as a subject, direct object, Underline the ...
Some Types of Russian and Polish Interrogative Sentences
... finite verb is the first lexical item occuring in the sentence. The functional representation of sentences lacking lexically expressed personal pronouns must contain this grammatical information about the subject that is necessary for establishing translation; without inserting certain grammatical p ...
... finite verb is the first lexical item occuring in the sentence. The functional representation of sentences lacking lexically expressed personal pronouns must contain this grammatical information about the subject that is necessary for establishing translation; without inserting certain grammatical p ...
0525 GERMAN (FOREIGN LANGUAGE) MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2015 series
... 3.2 – award a mark out of 8 for Accurate use of verbs Generic mark scheme for Accurate use of verbs (Question 3): (i) Place a tick above the first occurrence of each correct verb, up to a maximum of 18 ticks (details of how to award ticks are provided below). (ii) Convert the total number of ticks t ...
... 3.2 – award a mark out of 8 for Accurate use of verbs Generic mark scheme for Accurate use of verbs (Question 3): (i) Place a tick above the first occurrence of each correct verb, up to a maximum of 18 ticks (details of how to award ticks are provided below). (ii) Convert the total number of ticks t ...
0525 german (foreign language)
... 3.2 – award a mark out of 8 for Accurate use of verbs Generic mark scheme for Accurate use of verbs (Question 3): (i) Place a tick above the first occurrence of each correct verb, up to a maximum of 18 ticks (details of how to award ticks are provided below). (ii) Convert the total number of ticks t ...
... 3.2 – award a mark out of 8 for Accurate use of verbs Generic mark scheme for Accurate use of verbs (Question 3): (i) Place a tick above the first occurrence of each correct verb, up to a maximum of 18 ticks (details of how to award ticks are provided below). (ii) Convert the total number of ticks t ...
The agent suffixes as a window into Vedic grammar
... second insight is that most deverbal (krt) suffixes share a subset of the inflectional tense endings’ modal and temporal features. Pān.ini’s ˚ ingeniously captures that relationship by a parallel treatment of these inflectional and derivational suffixes within an integrated morphological subsystem ...
... second insight is that most deverbal (krt) suffixes share a subset of the inflectional tense endings’ modal and temporal features. Pān.ini’s ˚ ingeniously captures that relationship by a parallel treatment of these inflectional and derivational suffixes within an integrated morphological subsystem ...
South African discourse analysis in theory and practice
... stake”. The main clause of this sentence would be “The dog was chasing a cat”. The subject “dog” in the main clause is qualified by the adjectival sentence “which I saw”, and the main verb “was chasing” is modified by the adverbial sentence “as if its entire future was at stake”. All of this would f ...
... stake”. The main clause of this sentence would be “The dog was chasing a cat”. The subject “dog” in the main clause is qualified by the adjectival sentence “which I saw”, and the main verb “was chasing” is modified by the adverbial sentence “as if its entire future was at stake”. All of this would f ...
questions to the differentiational test in theoretical grammar
... fundamental assumptions about the relationship between language and logic. It became apparent that there was not such a thing as the most natural way to express a thought, and therefore logic could no longer be relied upon as a basis for studying the structure of language. As Otto Jespersen said, “I ...
... fundamental assumptions about the relationship between language and logic. It became apparent that there was not such a thing as the most natural way to express a thought, and therefore logic could no longer be relied upon as a basis for studying the structure of language. As Otto Jespersen said, “I ...
Morphology Notes - Université d`Ottawa
... • They use strict word order in sentences • The canonical or most typical word order in English: subject - verb - direct object and indirect object The defenseman passed the puck to the forward. • This order is quite strictly adhered to in active declarative sentences, because English has so few ...
... • They use strict word order in sentences • The canonical or most typical word order in English: subject - verb - direct object and indirect object The defenseman passed the puck to the forward. • This order is quite strictly adhered to in active declarative sentences, because English has so few ...
In order to guess the meaning of an unfamiliar word or to look it up in
... 1. Instead of refreshing me, an afternoon nap only makes me more lethargic. ...
... 1. Instead of refreshing me, an afternoon nap only makes me more lethargic. ...
NP Movement into Theta-positions and Unexpected Behavior of
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more
... Definition of compound subject: two or more subjects in a single clause. Example of compound subject: Raoul and Paul play ball. Definition of compound verb: two or more verbs in a single clause. Example of compound verb: Raoul and Paul play ball and eat Skittles. ...
... Definition of compound subject: two or more subjects in a single clause. Example of compound subject: Raoul and Paul play ball. Definition of compound verb: two or more verbs in a single clause. Example of compound verb: Raoul and Paul play ball and eat Skittles. ...
Adpositions, Particles and the Arguments they Introduce
... categories or not; if this is a necessary condition for a category being universal, then P may not be universal, as some languages are claimed to lack adpositions entirely (for example, Andrews 1975 on Classical Nahuatl, Holmer 1996 on the Austronesian language Seediq, Amritavalli 2002 on Kannada). ...
... categories or not; if this is a necessary condition for a category being universal, then P may not be universal, as some languages are claimed to lack adpositions entirely (for example, Andrews 1975 on Classical Nahuatl, Holmer 1996 on the Austronesian language Seediq, Amritavalli 2002 on Kannada). ...
Short Responses - English Vocabulary Exercises
... Responses to negative statements using AUXILIARY verbs (can, could, should, will, etc.) I wouldn’t do that. ...
... Responses to negative statements using AUXILIARY verbs (can, could, should, will, etc.) I wouldn’t do that. ...
I find the book worth reading.
... same verb+entry to speech with the other, analytical models of various categorical expression, including the futures; on the other hand, the future of the present, is prospected from the present; on the other hand, the future of by the speaker the meaning of the present with this connotation will be ...
... same verb+entry to speech with the other, analytical models of various categorical expression, including the futures; on the other hand, the future of the present, is prospected from the present; on the other hand, the future of by the speaker the meaning of the present with this connotation will be ...
Automatic Extraction of Cause-Effect Relations in Natural Language Text
... The automatic extraction of causal relations is also a very difficult task because the English presents some hard problems for the detection of causal relation. Indeed, there are few explicit lexico-syntactic patterns that are in exact correspondence with a causal relation while there is a huge numb ...
... The automatic extraction of causal relations is also a very difficult task because the English presents some hard problems for the detection of causal relation. Indeed, there are few explicit lexico-syntactic patterns that are in exact correspondence with a causal relation while there is a huge numb ...
PPT
... material—words that will not change the meaning, with or without them—you will cause ripples on the water on both sides of your hand; those ripples are the commas. What this means is that you must use the commas IN PAIRS with regard to this rule, on both sides of the ...
... material—words that will not change the meaning, with or without them—you will cause ripples on the water on both sides of your hand; those ripples are the commas. What this means is that you must use the commas IN PAIRS with regard to this rule, on both sides of the ...
1. Adjectives
... That new film doesn't sound very interesting. Dinner smells good tonight. This milk tastes sour. It smells bad. These verbs are "stative" verbs, which express a state or change of state, not "dynamic" verbs which express an action. Note that some verbs can be stative in one sense (she looks beautifu ...
... That new film doesn't sound very interesting. Dinner smells good tonight. This milk tastes sour. It smells bad. These verbs are "stative" verbs, which express a state or change of state, not "dynamic" verbs which express an action. Note that some verbs can be stative in one sense (she looks beautifu ...
Reanalysis of Verb and Preposition In English
... of those people. Under the reanalysis hypothesis, the verb and preposition in each (b)-sentence above can be reanalyzed to form a complex verb and the prepositional object as the direct object of that complex verb is expected to be able to undergo subdeletion, just like an ordinary verbal object, as ...
... of those people. Under the reanalysis hypothesis, the verb and preposition in each (b)-sentence above can be reanalyzed to form a complex verb and the prepositional object as the direct object of that complex verb is expected to be able to undergo subdeletion, just like an ordinary verbal object, as ...
INTRANSITIVE PREDICATES
... Perlmutter (1978) was the first to distinguish between two types of one-argument verbs, unaccusatives and unergatives. He claimed that these two classes are semantically and syntactically different and that the class to which an intransitive verb belongs is predictable from the semantics of the clau ...
... Perlmutter (1978) was the first to distinguish between two types of one-argument verbs, unaccusatives and unergatives. He claimed that these two classes are semantically and syntactically different and that the class to which an intransitive verb belongs is predictable from the semantics of the clau ...
Direct Object Pronouns
... •DOPs can replace only nouns, that is a special type of noun the direct object. •Direct objects are nouns that receive directly (not spuriously) the work done by the subject. •DOPs can only be used in sentences with transitive verbs (verbs that act upon or modify an object’s property, position, na ...
... •DOPs can replace only nouns, that is a special type of noun the direct object. •Direct objects are nouns that receive directly (not spuriously) the work done by the subject. •DOPs can only be used in sentences with transitive verbs (verbs that act upon or modify an object’s property, position, na ...