Investigating Problems Pertaining to Concord as Encountered by the
... Aden University. Generally speaking, there is great uncertainty and confusion about English concord between subject and verb. This confusion is a consequence of various conflicting principles of English concord. This study intends to explore the various problems of English concord and to find out wh ...
... Aden University. Generally speaking, there is great uncertainty and confusion about English concord between subject and verb. This confusion is a consequence of various conflicting principles of English concord. This study intends to explore the various problems of English concord and to find out wh ...
anotace - Theses
... cannot become passive. These are, for example, have (=own), lack, resemble, and suit (=be right for). These are all “state verbs”; the term is used especially by Eastwood (2005). Other grammarians (Huddleston and Pullum, 2002; Biber, Conrad and Leech, 2002) use rather the term “stative verbs”. Stati ...
... cannot become passive. These are, for example, have (=own), lack, resemble, and suit (=be right for). These are all “state verbs”; the term is used especially by Eastwood (2005). Other grammarians (Huddleston and Pullum, 2002; Biber, Conrad and Leech, 2002) use rather the term “stative verbs”. Stati ...
linguistics
... Abstract: The ancient Indo-European languages, such as early Vedic or (Homeric) Greek, are usually considered to be characterized by a high degree of lability. According to the communis opinio, they had a considerable number of labile verbs or verbal forms that could be labile, cf. rudra � r̥tásya s ...
... Abstract: The ancient Indo-European languages, such as early Vedic or (Homeric) Greek, are usually considered to be characterized by a high degree of lability. According to the communis opinio, they had a considerable number of labile verbs or verbal forms that could be labile, cf. rudra � r̥tásya s ...
Building the PDT-VALLEX valency lexicon
... be known to the speaker because it follows from the meaning of the verb: if the speaker can answer hearer’s follow-up wh-question about a given complementation “I don’t know” without confusing the hearer, it means that the given modification is semantically optional. On the other hand, if the answer ...
... be known to the speaker because it follows from the meaning of the verb: if the speaker can answer hearer’s follow-up wh-question about a given complementation “I don’t know” without confusing the hearer, it means that the given modification is semantically optional. On the other hand, if the answer ...
Building the PDT-Vallex valency lexicon
... be known to the speaker because it follows from the meaning of the verb: if the speaker can answer hearer’s follow-up wh-question about a given complementation “I don’t know” without confusing the hearer, it means that the given modification is semantically optional. On the other hand, if the answer ...
... be known to the speaker because it follows from the meaning of the verb: if the speaker can answer hearer’s follow-up wh-question about a given complementation “I don’t know” without confusing the hearer, it means that the given modification is semantically optional. On the other hand, if the answer ...
Chicago
... definitions of grammatical terms such as subordinate clause or participial phrase, turn to section 48. Web references Check the bottoms of pages for references to practice exercises or complete model papers on the book’s companion Web site (hackerhandbooks.com/ pocket). See the next page for more ...
... definitions of grammatical terms such as subordinate clause or participial phrase, turn to section 48. Web references Check the bottoms of pages for references to practice exercises or complete model papers on the book’s companion Web site (hackerhandbooks.com/ pocket). See the next page for more ...
French object clitics: a multimodal analysis 1 Facts on clitics
... \In most languages, there are certain morphemes which are problematic because they have a status which is neither obviously that of an independent word, nor that of an ax. Such morphemes appear to have an intermediate status between these two well established categories. Typically, they do not have ...
... \In most languages, there are certain morphemes which are problematic because they have a status which is neither obviously that of an independent word, nor that of an ax. Such morphemes appear to have an intermediate status between these two well established categories. Typically, they do not have ...
Acquisition of Swedish Grammar
... A short overview of Swedish syntax follows below. The most important aspects of the inflectional system are presented in Section 1.2.2, sentential word order is presented in Section 1.2.3, and the word order of noun phrases (phrases headed by a noun) in Section 1.2.4. Section 1.2.5 gives a short intr ...
... A short overview of Swedish syntax follows below. The most important aspects of the inflectional system are presented in Section 1.2.2, sentential word order is presented in Section 1.2.3, and the word order of noun phrases (phrases headed by a noun) in Section 1.2.4. Section 1.2.5 gives a short intr ...
Style: toward clarity and grace
... writing results from different causes and how writers can diag nose different problems and overcome them. There is a second general objective: It is important for every one those who write professional prose and those who have to read it to understand not only its social origins but its social con ...
... writing results from different causes and how writers can diag nose different problems and overcome them. There is a second general objective: It is important for every one those who write professional prose and those who have to read it to understand not only its social origins but its social con ...
ENG421 - National Open University of Nigeria
... place that suits you best. Think of it as reading the lecture instead of listening to ...
... place that suits you best. Think of it as reading the lecture instead of listening to ...
Text Linguistics Course - KSU Faculty Member websites
... [A] language that is functional. […] Language that is doing some job in some context, as opposed to isolated words or sentences […]. So any instance of living language that is playing some part in a context of situation, we shall call it a text. It may be either spoken or written, or indeed in any ...
... [A] language that is functional. […] Language that is doing some job in some context, as opposed to isolated words or sentences […]. So any instance of living language that is playing some part in a context of situation, we shall call it a text. It may be either spoken or written, or indeed in any ...
IRREGULAR VERBS
... —, —, bereaved/bereft (adjectives) In the context of death: bereaved is used in the sense ‘having lost a close friend/relative’, bereft is possible but it means ‘sad and lonely because you have lost sb’. Typically, bereaved is used before a noun or in the phrase the bereaved, bereft is used after a ...
... —, —, bereaved/bereft (adjectives) In the context of death: bereaved is used in the sense ‘having lost a close friend/relative’, bereft is possible but it means ‘sad and lonely because you have lost sb’. Typically, bereaved is used before a noun or in the phrase the bereaved, bereft is used after a ...
575 Tlingit Verbs - Sealaska Heritage Institute
... the verbs included in the research, twelve modes were systematically documented through consultation with a group of native speakers. The newly documented forms were compiled into a database using Toolbox software and additionally organized into a user-friendly online database, hosted on the Goldbel ...
... the verbs included in the research, twelve modes were systematically documented through consultation with a group of native speakers. The newly documented forms were compiled into a database using Toolbox software and additionally organized into a user-friendly online database, hosted on the Goldbel ...
Chapter 4: Syntactic Relations and Case Marking
... First, it exemplifies the rare type of language in which there is no evidence for the postulation of grammatical relations in addition to semantic predicate-argument relations; it is therefore evidence that grammatical relations are not universal in the first sense discussed in §4.0. Second, the gen ...
... First, it exemplifies the rare type of language in which there is no evidence for the postulation of grammatical relations in addition to semantic predicate-argument relations; it is therefore evidence that grammatical relations are not universal in the first sense discussed in §4.0. Second, the gen ...
the demotic verbal system - Oriental Institute
... thirty years are here applied to Demotic, often for the first time, 3 and advances made in the reading and understanding of Demotic itself are also incorporated. The result is the redefinition of the basic paradigms, the forms constituting these different paradigms, the meaning of each, and the synt ...
... thirty years are here applied to Demotic, often for the first time, 3 and advances made in the reading and understanding of Demotic itself are also incorporated. The result is the redefinition of the basic paradigms, the forms constituting these different paradigms, the meaning of each, and the synt ...
A typology of split conjunction
... The paper is structured as follows. First, in the next section I give an overview of what I believe are the principal parts in the state of the art regarding NP conjunction. This involves the relation between comitative and coordinative constructions, as well as other types of conjunctional strategi ...
... The paper is structured as follows. First, in the next section I give an overview of what I believe are the principal parts in the state of the art regarding NP conjunction. This involves the relation between comitative and coordinative constructions, as well as other types of conjunctional strategi ...
Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense
... tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. Cross-linguistic v ...
... tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. Cross-linguistic v ...
Grammar and Language Workbook - ESL
... 2. An action verb tells what someone or something does. The two types of action verbs are transitive and intransitive. A transitive verb is followed by a word or words—called the direct object—that answer the question what? or whom? An intransitive verb is not followed by a word that answers what? o ...
... 2. An action verb tells what someone or something does. The two types of action verbs are transitive and intransitive. A transitive verb is followed by a word or words—called the direct object—that answer the question what? or whom? An intransitive verb is not followed by a word that answers what? o ...
How weak and how definite are Weak Definites?
... that the understood value of the definite varies based on the value of another argument (typically the subject) in the sentence. Adopting this perspective, it is of course only responsible to point out that there are plenty of examples where definites receive co-varying interpretations, but which ar ...
... that the understood value of the definite varies based on the value of another argument (typically the subject) in the sentence. Adopting this perspective, it is of course only responsible to point out that there are plenty of examples where definites receive co-varying interpretations, but which ar ...
Two sources of scalarity within the verb phrase
... For instance, Hay et al. (1999) and Kennedy and Levin (2008) captialize on the fact that degree achievement verbs are derived from gradable adjectives and use insights from the properties of scale structure to derive the variable telicity effects that had previously been problematic under tradition ...
... For instance, Hay et al. (1999) and Kennedy and Levin (2008) captialize on the fact that degree achievement verbs are derived from gradable adjectives and use insights from the properties of scale structure to derive the variable telicity effects that had previously been problematic under tradition ...
Introducing Arguments - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
... combine into complex representations and (iii) identify the ways in which languages may differ with respect to their inventory of possible representations. This thesis aims to meet these requirements in the domain of verbal argument structure, focusing on the question of how arguments that are not, ...
... combine into complex representations and (iii) identify the ways in which languages may differ with respect to their inventory of possible representations. This thesis aims to meet these requirements in the domain of verbal argument structure, focusing on the question of how arguments that are not, ...
Spanish!Grammar!
... encountered, whether audibly or visually, and especially in proportion to the number of times they are made use of in a conscious effort to express a complete thought or idea. The vocabulary herein suggested consists of 620 (650, if numbers are included) different words selected on the basis of Buch ...
... encountered, whether audibly or visually, and especially in proportion to the number of times they are made use of in a conscious effort to express a complete thought or idea. The vocabulary herein suggested consists of 620 (650, if numbers are included) different words selected on the basis of Buch ...
Anaphora, Inversion, and Focus
... separate from the antecedent conditions on ellipsis. I argue that null operator movement, which is in part responsible for deriving the locality condition, violates an island at PF. The only way to ameliorate this violation, following Kennedy and Merchant (2000), is to elide the vP, explaining why e ...
... separate from the antecedent conditions on ellipsis. I argue that null operator movement, which is in part responsible for deriving the locality condition, violates an island at PF. The only way to ameliorate this violation, following Kennedy and Merchant (2000), is to elide the vP, explaining why e ...
towards a theory of denominals in english and romanian
... entries, then there is no need for silent items. If, on the other hand, one assumes only one lexical entry (be it the verb or the noun), then the need to capture the difference in meaning between the two might make silent items tempting. However, syntactic projections might equally serve this purpos ...
... entries, then there is no need for silent items. If, on the other hand, one assumes only one lexical entry (be it the verb or the noun), then the need to capture the difference in meaning between the two might make silent items tempting. However, syntactic projections might equally serve this purpos ...
SUBJUNCTIVE RELATIVES IN BULGARIAN AND MACEDONIAN
... Subjunctive relatives perform a combined purpose and modification function.3 The speaker anchors an unspecified participant in the discourse, through a modifying goal-oriented event. The lexical semantics of the “quest/acquisition” matrix verb and the goal meaning of the subjunctive clause have impl ...
... Subjunctive relatives perform a combined purpose and modification function.3 The speaker anchors an unspecified participant in the discourse, through a modifying goal-oriented event. The lexical semantics of the “quest/acquisition” matrix verb and the goal meaning of the subjunctive clause have impl ...