Choices: Examining the Parts of a Sentence
... 13. Tobagonians share their island with many types of snakes, lizards, and frogs. 14. Different kinds of bats, including the fish-eating bat, inhabit the island. 15. Four types of forests can be found in Tobago. 16. The mangrove forest occupies the wetlands. 17. The coastal edge of the island and th ...
... 13. Tobagonians share their island with many types of snakes, lizards, and frogs. 14. Different kinds of bats, including the fish-eating bat, inhabit the island. 15. Four types of forests can be found in Tobago. 16. The mangrove forest occupies the wetlands. 17. The coastal edge of the island and th ...
Usage-based vs. rule-based learning: the acquisition of word order
... reproduces lexically specific combinations of a wh-word and an auxiliary, e.g. what+will. Rowland & Pine (2000; henceforth R&P), further argue that wh-questions that appear with correct subject–auxiliary inversion contain wh-word and auxiliary combinations that are frequent in the input, e.g. where+d ...
... reproduces lexically specific combinations of a wh-word and an auxiliary, e.g. what+will. Rowland & Pine (2000; henceforth R&P), further argue that wh-questions that appear with correct subject–auxiliary inversion contain wh-word and auxiliary combinations that are frequent in the input, e.g. where+d ...
Persian complex predicates and the limits of inheritance
... form a hierarchy, that is there is a most general concept that dominates sub-concepts. The sub-concepts are said to inherit information from their super-concepts, hence the name inheritance hierarchy. From the encyclopedia example, it should be clear that some concepts can refer to several super-con ...
... form a hierarchy, that is there is a most general concept that dominates sub-concepts. The sub-concepts are said to inherit information from their super-concepts, hence the name inheritance hierarchy. From the encyclopedia example, it should be clear that some concepts can refer to several super-con ...
AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS` ERRORS IN USING ADJECTIVE
... - There‟s the man who teaches me the guitar. - I don‟t like people who lose their temper easily. - I think you should stay faithful to the person to whom you are married. The students‟ difficulties at school can be various. One of them is the learning attitude in the class that is different so that ...
... - There‟s the man who teaches me the guitar. - I don‟t like people who lose their temper easily. - I think you should stay faithful to the person to whom you are married. The students‟ difficulties at school can be various. One of them is the learning attitude in the class that is different so that ...
Sentence Puzzle
... the words into the best sentence possible and discussing the corrections which need to be made to the sentence. They would then write the sentence on their own paper, making all spelling, mechanics, and grammar corrections required. Once students have visited each station, teacher would lead a large ...
... the words into the best sentence possible and discussing the corrections which need to be made to the sentence. They would then write the sentence on their own paper, making all spelling, mechanics, and grammar corrections required. Once students have visited each station, teacher would lead a large ...
Review Of "Italian Syntax: A Government-Binding Approach
... be prefixed to non-ergative intransitives: (6) My note will outstick yours (because I use superior glue). Stick can occur with away, which is resisted by middles. Thus, though ex. 7 may not be beautiful, it is just as good as K&R's 38 with ergative verbs, and much better than their 37 with middles: ...
... be prefixed to non-ergative intransitives: (6) My note will outstick yours (because I use superior glue). Stick can occur with away, which is resisted by middles. Thus, though ex. 7 may not be beautiful, it is just as good as K&R's 38 with ergative verbs, and much better than their 37 with middles: ...
PowerPoint
... Null subject parameter(s) is/are not initially misset (kids don’t all start off speaking Italian or Chinese—contra Hyams 1986, 1992); rather, child null subjects are (at least in part) due to the availability of non-finite verbs (the OI stage). Most null subjects are licensed by being the subject of ...
... Null subject parameter(s) is/are not initially misset (kids don’t all start off speaking Italian or Chinese—contra Hyams 1986, 1992); rather, child null subjects are (at least in part) due to the availability of non-finite verbs (the OI stage). Most null subjects are licensed by being the subject of ...
L.8.1.a
... • Show information that trails off, either continuing or petering out • Indicate removed information • Are always three dots (Sometimes it appears there are four when a period follows to indicate and ending ...
... • Show information that trails off, either continuing or petering out • Indicate removed information • Are always three dots (Sometimes it appears there are four when a period follows to indicate and ending ...
Innovative 1PL Subject Constructions in Finnish
... province, China. The data presented here is based on ongoing fieldwork by the authors. In Rtau, there are two main ways of reporting what someone else has said, direct speech (DS) and semi-direct speech (SDS). The authors have been unable to ascertain the existence of any other type of reported spee ...
... province, China. The data presented here is based on ongoing fieldwork by the authors. In Rtau, there are two main ways of reporting what someone else has said, direct speech (DS) and semi-direct speech (SDS). The authors have been unable to ascertain the existence of any other type of reported spee ...
HOW TO IDENTIFY THE FUNCTION OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
... Here is the conclusion of the discussion that the writer can state. The readers can identify the functions of prepositional phrases by seeing their position in the sentence and their meaning. Before coming to the main conclusion the writer gives the two statements as follows: First, Prepositional ph ...
... Here is the conclusion of the discussion that the writer can state. The readers can identify the functions of prepositional phrases by seeing their position in the sentence and their meaning. Before coming to the main conclusion the writer gives the two statements as follows: First, Prepositional ph ...
The syntactic analysis of the Dutch absentive
... Semantic considerations seem to favor the analysis in (11b), given that bare-inf nomina lizations like een boek kopen ‘buying a book’ normally do not denote properties that can be attributed to the referent of the subject of a copular construction.8 This section will show that although the syntacti ...
... Semantic considerations seem to favor the analysis in (11b), given that bare-inf nomina lizations like een boek kopen ‘buying a book’ normally do not denote properties that can be attributed to the referent of the subject of a copular construction.8 This section will show that although the syntacti ...
altaf POS Guideline 2009
... Tagset that just list down the categories applicable only for a particular language. It has been designed mostly based on the SPSAL tagset [SPSAL 2007] which has been proposed as a common framework for all Indian languages. Analyses for disambiguating the confusing examples have primarily been influ ...
... Tagset that just list down the categories applicable only for a particular language. It has been designed mostly based on the SPSAL tagset [SPSAL 2007] which has been proposed as a common framework for all Indian languages. Analyses for disambiguating the confusing examples have primarily been influ ...
interrogatives and relatives in some varieties of english
... complementiser layer, as proposed by this line of research, enables us to account for embedded inversion in terms of different syntactic projections available in different ―portions‖ of CP layer. The accessability of CP in dependent clauses has already been discussed for Romance languages, (see Beni ...
... complementiser layer, as proposed by this line of research, enables us to account for embedded inversion in terms of different syntactic projections available in different ―portions‖ of CP layer. The accessability of CP in dependent clauses has already been discussed for Romance languages, (see Beni ...
On the processing of regular and irregular forms of verbs and nouns
... past tenses. Aphasic patients with posterior lesions and word-finding problems along with a group of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease performed worse with irregularly inflected verbs. A contrasting pattern was reported for one aphasic patient with an anterior lesion and for a group of pat ...
... past tenses. Aphasic patients with posterior lesions and word-finding problems along with a group of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease performed worse with irregularly inflected verbs. A contrasting pattern was reported for one aphasic patient with an anterior lesion and for a group of pat ...
Using the South Tyneside Assessment of Syntactic Structures
... What does the assessment consist of? All the materials for STASS are contained in a spiral bound book, available from the authors for £72. The pictures were updated in 2008. The materials are aimed at children in the 3-5 age group so could not realistically be used with deaf children beyond the age ...
... What does the assessment consist of? All the materials for STASS are contained in a spiral bound book, available from the authors for £72. The pictures were updated in 2008. The materials are aimed at children in the 3-5 age group so could not realistically be used with deaf children beyond the age ...
corpus-based cognitive semantics a contrastive
... some other situations such as fail, dissolve. Start, on the other hand, likes less abstract verbs and takes a larger variety of verbs: it is found with basic general purpose verbs (go, do, get, come, try, make, put), verbs that express communicative activities (talk, say, ask, cry), and other, more ...
... some other situations such as fail, dissolve. Start, on the other hand, likes less abstract verbs and takes a larger variety of verbs: it is found with basic general purpose verbs (go, do, get, come, try, make, put), verbs that express communicative activities (talk, say, ask, cry), and other, more ...
Grammar progress test - St. John`s Community Primary School
... Tick the option that shows how the underlined words are used in the sentence below. As fast as he could, Tom ran towards the playground. Tick one. as a subordinate clause ...
... Tick the option that shows how the underlined words are used in the sentence below. As fast as he could, Tom ran towards the playground. Tick one. as a subordinate clause ...
Brain Potentials Elicited by Garden-Path Sentences
... 150 filler sentences were added to each list, some of which were part of a second experiment not described in this article. Thirty of these were ungrammatical, and another 30 were semantically implausible. Fillers were constructed such that verbs used in the experimental sentences appeared approxima ...
... 150 filler sentences were added to each list, some of which were part of a second experiment not described in this article. Thirty of these were ungrammatical, and another 30 were semantically implausible. Fillers were constructed such that verbs used in the experimental sentences appeared approxima ...
The Coming and Going of `Lexical Prefixes` in Siraya
... Siraya verbs often have prefixed elements that give lexical information about their host verb. In this paper I have a closer look at these elements and show that they represent several related but distinct phenomena. Although they have indiscriminately been called ‘lexical prefixes’ in the literatur ...
... Siraya verbs often have prefixed elements that give lexical information about their host verb. In this paper I have a closer look at these elements and show that they represent several related but distinct phenomena. Although they have indiscriminately been called ‘lexical prefixes’ in the literatur ...
Embedded clauses
... (1995), note that V2 is seen in clausal complements of certain verbs, called “bridge verbs”. But as Vikner points out, the verbs in question are not necessarily bridge verbs in the sense that they allow extraction out of the clause they have as complement. In fact, according to Vikner it seems that ...
... (1995), note that V2 is seen in clausal complements of certain verbs, called “bridge verbs”. But as Vikner points out, the verbs in question are not necessarily bridge verbs in the sense that they allow extraction out of the clause they have as complement. In fact, according to Vikner it seems that ...
ELA 2
... What would happen if he forgot an important date with the woman who he was to marry? Answer: What - interrogative; he - personal; who - relative ...
... What would happen if he forgot an important date with the woman who he was to marry? Answer: What - interrogative; he - personal; who - relative ...
Canonical Types and Noun Phrase Configuration in Fijian
... the verb. This fact may now be interpreted on a par with the observation that objects are restricted to elements of type in the hypothetical language described above: these are the only elements
which may directly combine with the predicate to yield a well-formed expression for the larger
clause ...
... the verb. This fact may now be interpreted on a par with the observation that objects are restricted to elements of type
STRUCTURE AND USE QT? VERBS 0^ MOTION WJM
... means of body parts as instrument. There is no reduncr ancy between these two pieces o information, but one could still ask which one is the more salient meaning component for the language user. There is an empirical way to go about this question. It is based on what Noordman and Levelt have called ...
... means of body parts as instrument. There is no reduncr ancy between these two pieces o information, but one could still ask which one is the more salient meaning component for the language user. There is an empirical way to go about this question. It is based on what Noordman and Levelt have called ...
Guide to Revising Grammar and Punctuation
... me, you, him, her, he, she, we, they, them, it, his, us 11. Verb Verbs are action, doing or being words. If there is no verb, the sentence will not make sense. The verb tense tells you when something happened. 12. Modifier A modifier is a word, phrase, or clause which functions as an adjective or an ...
... me, you, him, her, he, she, we, they, them, it, his, us 11. Verb Verbs are action, doing or being words. If there is no verb, the sentence will not make sense. The verb tense tells you when something happened. 12. Modifier A modifier is a word, phrase, or clause which functions as an adjective or an ...
On the superficiality of Welsh agreement
... Agreement is a complex phenomenon, which has been discussed quite extensively; see e.g. Corbett (2006). Among the questions that arise about it is: What level of representation is relevant? It is widely assumed that agreement normally involves abstract levels. For Minimalism, it is one manifestation ...
... Agreement is a complex phenomenon, which has been discussed quite extensively; see e.g. Corbett (2006). Among the questions that arise about it is: What level of representation is relevant? It is widely assumed that agreement normally involves abstract levels. For Minimalism, it is one manifestation ...