Lemma - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... • those wordforms that • have identical orthographic lettering, i.e. the identical strings of letters (regardless of their phonetic forms) • meanings of which are (substantially) different and cannot be connected e.g.: pen ~ writing instrument ...
... • those wordforms that • have identical orthographic lettering, i.e. the identical strings of letters (regardless of their phonetic forms) • meanings of which are (substantially) different and cannot be connected e.g.: pen ~ writing instrument ...
теоретической - List English
... add -s, some -es, while others mark the plural by vowel-change, and so on. In the syntax, on the other hand, the grammar ignores such formal distinctions as are not accompanied by corresponding distinctions of meaning, or rather takes them for granted, and considers only the different meanings and g ...
... add -s, some -es, while others mark the plural by vowel-change, and so on. In the syntax, on the other hand, the grammar ignores such formal distinctions as are not accompanied by corresponding distinctions of meaning, or rather takes them for granted, and considers only the different meanings and g ...
as a PDF
... One of the questions that have challenged scholars of BH for many years is whether the language should be regarded as a tense, aspectual or modal language. In this thesis, I argue that the lack and application of a metacategory for describing any language in general, and BH in particular, has been t ...
... One of the questions that have challenged scholars of BH for many years is whether the language should be regarded as a tense, aspectual or modal language. In this thesis, I argue that the lack and application of a metacategory for describing any language in general, and BH in particular, has been t ...
Lesson 7
... contains two prepositional phrases in various combinations—two adjective phrases, two adverb phrases, or one of each. Before classifying each phrase, ask yourself, “Does this phrase describe a noun or pronoun, or does it answer a question about the verb. Write the answers on your own sheet of paper. ...
... contains two prepositional phrases in various combinations—two adjective phrases, two adverb phrases, or one of each. Before classifying each phrase, ask yourself, “Does this phrase describe a noun or pronoun, or does it answer a question about the verb. Write the answers on your own sheet of paper. ...
The Latin Alphabet
... The Latin alphabet of 23 letters was derived in the 600's BC from the Etruscan alphabet of 26 letters, which was in turn derived from the archaic Greek alphabet, which came from the Phoenician. The letters J, U, and W of the modern alphabet were added in medieval times, and did not appear in the cla ...
... The Latin alphabet of 23 letters was derived in the 600's BC from the Etruscan alphabet of 26 letters, which was in turn derived from the archaic Greek alphabet, which came from the Phoenician. The letters J, U, and W of the modern alphabet were added in medieval times, and did not appear in the cla ...
Detransitivisation in Irish Sign Language ESF Intersign Workshop on
... oriented and /or moving towards each other. Each hand denotes, as it were, one side of the reciprocal relationship. Agreement markers which refer to both subject/agent and direct object/patient are indicated on each hand’ (McDonnell ...
... oriented and /or moving towards each other. Each hand denotes, as it were, one side of the reciprocal relationship. Agreement markers which refer to both subject/agent and direct object/patient are indicated on each hand’ (McDonnell ...
The GRAMMAR Teacher`s Activity-a-Day
... author Jack Umstatter, this handy book will help classroom teachers and homeschoolers familiarize their students with the type of grammar-related content found on standardized local, state, national, and college admissions tests. The book is filled with ready-to-use comprehensive and authoritative ac ...
... author Jack Umstatter, this handy book will help classroom teachers and homeschoolers familiarize their students with the type of grammar-related content found on standardized local, state, national, and college admissions tests. The book is filled with ready-to-use comprehensive and authoritative ac ...
Activity - alpvols
... author Jack Umstatter, this handy book will help classroom teachers and homeschoolers familiarize their students with the type of grammar-related content found on standardized local, state, national, and college admissions tests. The book is filled with ready-to-use comprehensive and authoritative ac ...
... author Jack Umstatter, this handy book will help classroom teachers and homeschoolers familiarize their students with the type of grammar-related content found on standardized local, state, national, and college admissions tests. The book is filled with ready-to-use comprehensive and authoritative ac ...
Grammar Enrichment
... 1. The population of California ________________ (action, past tense) from 23.7 million in 1980 to 29.8 million in 1990. 2. Eighty-five percent of the people born in the state or who ________________ (action, past tense) ...
... 1. The population of California ________________ (action, past tense) from 23.7 million in 1980 to 29.8 million in 1990. 2. Eighty-five percent of the people born in the state or who ________________ (action, past tense) ...
the passive - englishdepartmentbaio
... 3. A journalist reports that they are leaving Las Vegas tomorrow night. They _____________________________________________________________ 4. Their parents thought that the teenagers were dancing at the disco. ...
... 3. A journalist reports that they are leaving Las Vegas tomorrow night. They _____________________________________________________________ 4. Their parents thought that the teenagers were dancing at the disco. ...
Cognition, Grammaticalization and Syntactic Change. The
... Portuguese the simple Preterite and the Compound Preterite have very different temporal and aspectual values. Thus, in «Tenho trabalhado muito ultimamente» (‘I have been working hard recently’) or «Tenho escrito muitos livros» (‘I have written many books’), we have actions («trabalhar», «escrever») ...
... Portuguese the simple Preterite and the Compound Preterite have very different temporal and aspectual values. Thus, in «Tenho trabalhado muito ultimamente» (‘I have been working hard recently’) or «Tenho escrito muitos livros» (‘I have written many books’), we have actions («trabalhar», «escrever») ...
Arguments for Pseudo-Resultative Predicates
... semantically restricted to root creation verbs, a class of verbs which entail the creation of an entity denoted by the root of the verb, as delineated in more detail in section 4.1. I propose a semantic and syntactic decomposition of this class of verbs in order to provide an account for the pseudo- ...
... semantically restricted to root creation verbs, a class of verbs which entail the creation of an entity denoted by the root of the verb, as delineated in more detail in section 4.1. I propose a semantic and syntactic decomposition of this class of verbs in order to provide an account for the pseudo- ...
Towards a structural typology of verb classes
... However, if all possible combinations of subject values and object values are expressed by portmanteaux, the number of these affixes increases, and it is not possible for the learner to make any separate generalizations about subjects and objects. That portmanteau affixes in general are uneconomic c ...
... However, if all possible combinations of subject values and object values are expressed by portmanteaux, the number of these affixes increases, and it is not possible for the learner to make any separate generalizations about subjects and objects. That portmanteau affixes in general are uneconomic c ...
An Analysis of the Suffixes –Er and –Zi in Mandarin
... suffixes is that in some varieties of Mandarin, such as that of Beijing, they often are interchangeable in the words in which they appear. See, for example, the following words: hái-zi 孩子 / hái-er 孩儿1 ‘child’, and, zhuō-zi 桌子/ zhuō-er 桌儿 ‘table’; both variants for each have the same meaning. At the ...
... suffixes is that in some varieties of Mandarin, such as that of Beijing, they often are interchangeable in the words in which they appear. See, for example, the following words: hái-zi 孩子 / hái-er 孩儿1 ‘child’, and, zhuō-zi 桌子/ zhuō-er 桌儿 ‘table’; both variants for each have the same meaning. At the ...
GLOBALEX 2016 Lexicographic Resources for Human
... The field of lexicography has been shifting to digital media, with effect on all stages of research, development, design, evaluation, publication, marketing and usage. Modern lexicographic content is created with help of dictionary writing tools, corpus query systems and QA applications, and becomes ...
... The field of lexicography has been shifting to digital media, with effect on all stages of research, development, design, evaluation, publication, marketing and usage. Modern lexicographic content is created with help of dictionary writing tools, corpus query systems and QA applications, and becomes ...
Le: from pronoun to intensifier*
... leı́smo means that le is used less as an NP argument and more as an oblique: concomitant with the decline of le in two-participant situations is an increase in its co-occurrence with an NP argument in threeparticipant situations (e.g. LE llevava su comida ‘he was bringing his food TO HIM’ (DLNE 95, ...
... leı́smo means that le is used less as an NP argument and more as an oblique: concomitant with the decline of le in two-participant situations is an increase in its co-occurrence with an NP argument in threeparticipant situations (e.g. LE llevava su comida ‘he was bringing his food TO HIM’ (DLNE 95, ...
Cumulativity and Countability in Karitiana Verbs* Luciana Sanchez
... quantification perspective. It has some singular properties that made it a very good object of investigation in this topic and in related ones. Karitiana doesn't have determiner quantification neither number marking in the nominal domain. Bare nouns occur freely as arguments and they have cumulative ...
... quantification perspective. It has some singular properties that made it a very good object of investigation in this topic and in related ones. Karitiana doesn't have determiner quantification neither number marking in the nominal domain. Bare nouns occur freely as arguments and they have cumulative ...
Jennifer Arnold Thesis, spring 1992 Swarthmore College Dr.
... "people of the Pine tree", and the Lafkenche, the "people of the sea". All three groups can be considered part of the same people in that they traditionally practice a similar culture and speak the same language, Mapudungun (although with slight regional variations). "Mapudungun" also contains the w ...
... "people of the Pine tree", and the Lafkenche, the "people of the sea". All three groups can be considered part of the same people in that they traditionally practice a similar culture and speak the same language, Mapudungun (although with slight regional variations). "Mapudungun" also contains the w ...
Case and Event Structure
... hands-ABE ‘without clean hands’; cf. Nikanne 1993). Nevertheless, common cases such as nominative and accusative generally defy any association with semantic meaning, and in generative grammar, they are ordinarily taken to be the manifestation of a purely syntactic licensing requirement on noun phra ...
... hands-ABE ‘without clean hands’; cf. Nikanne 1993). Nevertheless, common cases such as nominative and accusative generally defy any association with semantic meaning, and in generative grammar, they are ordinarily taken to be the manifestation of a purely syntactic licensing requirement on noun phra ...
Negative Prefixes in English and Macedonian
... According to the research done until now, it has to be made clear that the negative prefix un-, the most common and most productive of all negative prefixes attached to English words, has three meanings and interpretations. The first meaning of un- is strictly negative indicating ‘absence or lack of ...
... According to the research done until now, it has to be made clear that the negative prefix un-, the most common and most productive of all negative prefixes attached to English words, has three meanings and interpretations. The first meaning of un- is strictly negative indicating ‘absence or lack of ...
Accepted Version - Queen Mary University of London
... classifies observations into two classes. In the context of our task, the observations are sentences and the classification problem is deciding whether each sentence is grammatical, as introduced previously. Logistic regression uses both positive and negative examples, and learns a function that tak ...
... classifies observations into two classes. In the context of our task, the observations are sentences and the classification problem is deciding whether each sentence is grammatical, as introduced previously. Logistic regression uses both positive and negative examples, and learns a function that tak ...
The Poetics of Foregrounding: The Lexical Deviation in Ulysses
... Verb conversion, or “dynamic” transfer, is typical of Joyce‟s lexical inventiveness. By his sleight of hand, not only nouns, but also some other word classes, such as adjectives “blue”, “wet” and “happy”, adverb “almost”, and even archaic English like “thou” and “thee”, can be turned into verbs. The ...
... Verb conversion, or “dynamic” transfer, is typical of Joyce‟s lexical inventiveness. By his sleight of hand, not only nouns, but also some other word classes, such as adjectives “blue”, “wet” and “happy”, adverb “almost”, and even archaic English like “thou” and “thee”, can be turned into verbs. The ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION FOR CLASS SIX
... I need some [dash]to light the fire. (match) d) When we spoke in the hall, we could hear[dash]of our voices. (echo) e) New scientific [dash] are made every day. (discovery) f) If a houseplant is given too much water, its lower [dash]will turn yellow: (leaf) g) His cart was pulled by two [dash] (ox) ...
... I need some [dash]to light the fire. (match) d) When we spoke in the hall, we could hear[dash]of our voices. (echo) e) New scientific [dash] are made every day. (discovery) f) If a houseplant is given too much water, its lower [dash]will turn yellow: (leaf) g) His cart was pulled by two [dash] (ox) ...
On the Universality and Variation of the Adjective Category
... not with verbs, which instead primarily are used for referring to changes and dynamicity (1999: 3). Secondly, nouns can be argued to function as “the central topic of a discourse”, and either an activity or a property can be used to comment on this said topic, which shows a clear similarity between ...
... not with verbs, which instead primarily are used for referring to changes and dynamicity (1999: 3). Secondly, nouns can be argued to function as “the central topic of a discourse”, and either an activity or a property can be used to comment on this said topic, which shows a clear similarity between ...
Grammar for reading and writing
... Bound morphemes cannot exist alone but are fixed onto words to affect their grammar, leaving their basic meaning unaffected. Such morphemes can be known by the generic term affixes; or prefixes if they are fixed in front and suffixes if placed at the end. For example, the regular English plural morp ...
... Bound morphemes cannot exist alone but are fixed onto words to affect their grammar, leaving their basic meaning unaffected. Such morphemes can be known by the generic term affixes; or prefixes if they are fixed in front and suffixes if placed at the end. For example, the regular English plural morp ...
Macedonian grammar
The grammar of Macedonian is, in many respects, similar to that of some other Balkan languages (constituent languages of the Balkan sprachbund), especially Bulgarian. Macedonian exhibits a number of grammatical features that distinguish it from most other Slavic languages, such as the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article, and the lack of an infinitival verb, among others.The first printed Macedonian grammar was published by Gjorgjija Pulevski in 1880.