Subject Complements
... A subject complement is a word or word group in the predicate that identifies or describes the subject. A subject complement is connected to the subject by a linking verb. It is the Predicate Nominative or Predicate Adjective. EXAMPLES The world’s oldest surviving religion is Judaism. [Judaism is a ...
... A subject complement is a word or word group in the predicate that identifies or describes the subject. A subject complement is connected to the subject by a linking verb. It is the Predicate Nominative or Predicate Adjective. EXAMPLES The world’s oldest surviving religion is Judaism. [Judaism is a ...
An equivalent of the standard of comparison relativization in Ainu
... Ainu allows to relativize on all the positions on Keenan and Comrie’s (1977) accessibility hierarchy except for the alienable possessor and standard of comparison 1 proper. Ainu is generally famous for its ability of stranding postpositions (7b), (8), which is particularly conspicuous in relativizat ...
... Ainu allows to relativize on all the positions on Keenan and Comrie’s (1977) accessibility hierarchy except for the alienable possessor and standard of comparison 1 proper. Ainu is generally famous for its ability of stranding postpositions (7b), (8), which is particularly conspicuous in relativizat ...
Indirect Object Pronouns
... Let's extract the IO phrase and its English equivalent: me compra buys (for) me te compra buys (for) you le compra buys (for) her nos compra buys (for) us ...
... Let's extract the IO phrase and its English equivalent: me compra buys (for) me te compra buys (for) you le compra buys (for) her nos compra buys (for) us ...
Chinese Main Verb Identification
... follows: The definition problem involved in automatically identifying the main verb from the computational point of view has not been tackled in detail. To our knowledge, only Luo [1995] has studied a relatively simple definition. Since there has not been sufficient discussion of the specification o ...
... follows: The definition problem involved in automatically identifying the main verb from the computational point of view has not been tackled in detail. To our knowledge, only Luo [1995] has studied a relatively simple definition. Since there has not been sufficient discussion of the specification o ...
LESSON 10: PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES (ADVERBS)
... In the bushes is an adverbial prepositional phrase modifying landed. Behind the house is an adjectival prepositional phrase telling us more about the noun bushes. Which bushes? The bushes behind the house. This prepositional phrase is modifying the object of the preposition (bushes) from the first p ...
... In the bushes is an adverbial prepositional phrase modifying landed. Behind the house is an adjectival prepositional phrase telling us more about the noun bushes. Which bushes? The bushes behind the house. This prepositional phrase is modifying the object of the preposition (bushes) from the first p ...
Why begin when you can commence – Aspects of near
... This essay is a corpus study, the aim of which is to investigate the usage of two nearsynonymous verb pairs that descend from Germanic and Romance languages. The four verbs begin, commence, hate, and detest were chosen for the study. The analysis is based on occurrences of the verbs in five subcorpo ...
... This essay is a corpus study, the aim of which is to investigate the usage of two nearsynonymous verb pairs that descend from Germanic and Romance languages. The four verbs begin, commence, hate, and detest were chosen for the study. The analysis is based on occurrences of the verbs in five subcorpo ...
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... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IMPERATIVES ( e.g. Be heard! or Don't be taken! ) -----------------DEPONENT IMPERATIVES ------------------------------------Genera ...
... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IMPERATIVES ( e.g. Be heard! or Don't be taken! ) -----------------DEPONENT IMPERATIVES ------------------------------------Genera ...
Present continuous tense A visit to zoo
... Present continuous tense • For making present continuous tense remove ‘na’ from infinitive and add ‘raha’, ‘rahey’ for masculine and ‘rahi’ for feminine. Then add various forms of verb ‘hona’ ‘to be’ (helping verbs). Subject Ali ...
... Present continuous tense • For making present continuous tense remove ‘na’ from infinitive and add ‘raha’, ‘rahey’ for masculine and ‘rahi’ for feminine. Then add various forms of verb ‘hona’ ‘to be’ (helping verbs). Subject Ali ...
Agreement: Matching Sentence Parts
... The singular subject she agrees with the singular verb hesitates. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. sing. subject sing. verb The singular subject procrastination agrees with the singular verb is. ...
... The singular subject she agrees with the singular verb hesitates. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. sing. subject sing. verb The singular subject procrastination agrees with the singular verb is. ...
simple and complex predicates
... Verbs and coverbs were shown in Ch. 2 to belong to clearly distinct word classes: verbs (also referred to as ‘generic verbs’) form a closed class whose members obligatorily carry verbal inflections, and cannot appear in a non-finite form. ‘Coverb’ is the term chosen here for a major lexical category ...
... Verbs and coverbs were shown in Ch. 2 to belong to clearly distinct word classes: verbs (also referred to as ‘generic verbs’) form a closed class whose members obligatorily carry verbal inflections, and cannot appear in a non-finite form. ‘Coverb’ is the term chosen here for a major lexical category ...
Chapter 3 Sentence Structure: Predicates Rule
... In this chapter I will present many different kinds of seemingly related simple sentences with the confidence that this will be more helpful than showing you a bunch of big, long, complicated sentences that only have one apparent thing in common: being Cebuano. In a simple sentence you can see a pat ...
... In this chapter I will present many different kinds of seemingly related simple sentences with the confidence that this will be more helpful than showing you a bunch of big, long, complicated sentences that only have one apparent thing in common: being Cebuano. In a simple sentence you can see a pat ...
Lisa filled water into the cup: The roles of
... unmarked. Whichever one of these possibilities is correct, we would expect few transfer effects for ground-only verbs, as most English ground-only verbs are also ground-only in German, though fill is a notable exception (see Appendix ...
... unmarked. Whichever one of these possibilities is correct, we would expect few transfer effects for ground-only verbs, as most English ground-only verbs are also ground-only in German, though fill is a notable exception (see Appendix ...
Relative clauses in Asante Twi
... Twi relative clauses, such as ɔ-ɔ-sɾɪ ‘she is laughing’ in (1), are preceded by an invariant relativizer āà, whose phonemic form is discussed in detail in §2. Relative clauses are frequently followed by the relative clause enclitic no (discussed further in §3), which is glossed in this work as a dep ...
... Twi relative clauses, such as ɔ-ɔ-sɾɪ ‘she is laughing’ in (1), are preceded by an invariant relativizer āà, whose phonemic form is discussed in detail in §2. Relative clauses are frequently followed by the relative clause enclitic no (discussed further in §3), which is glossed in this work as a dep ...
33 HOW COMPLEMENTS DIFFER FROM ADJUNCTS IN PERSIAN
... functions respectively.1 Lambton (1961:61), however, recognizes neither 'adjunct' nor 'complement' as Persian functional categories, mainly because she does not recognize AdvPs, NPs, and AdjPs as formally distinct syntactic classes. Bateni (1969) recognizes four types of complement: direct object, p ...
... functions respectively.1 Lambton (1961:61), however, recognizes neither 'adjunct' nor 'complement' as Persian functional categories, mainly because she does not recognize AdvPs, NPs, and AdjPs as formally distinct syntactic classes. Bateni (1969) recognizes four types of complement: direct object, p ...
Comparing MOSAIC and the Variational Learning Model
... [+Tense] grammar. Past tense forms and the 2nd and 3rd present tense singular display Tense (or Tense-dependent morphology) and were counted as rewarding the [+Tense] grammar. The 1st singular present tense form, while distinct from the infinitive, matches the verb stem. In line with Legate and Yan ...
... [+Tense] grammar. Past tense forms and the 2nd and 3rd present tense singular display Tense (or Tense-dependent morphology) and were counted as rewarding the [+Tense] grammar. The 1st singular present tense form, while distinct from the infinitive, matches the verb stem. In line with Legate and Yan ...
finiteverb - University of Essex
... of head-to-head movement) first to AGR and then to T, so that have/be also inflect both for tense and agreement; from T they can be raised to C, resulting in inversion structures such as 'Was he telling the truth?'. Clauses containing finite nonauxiliary verbs (e.g. 'He tells the truth') involve a n ...
... of head-to-head movement) first to AGR and then to T, so that have/be also inflect both for tense and agreement; from T they can be raised to C, resulting in inversion structures such as 'Was he telling the truth?'. Clauses containing finite nonauxiliary verbs (e.g. 'He tells the truth') involve a n ...
journal of linguistics
... habit as habitual, but I rarely go or I went once would not. Similarly, 'simple' and 'progressive' labels are often confused with some kind of simple or progressive activity, a correlation which is usually difficult to define or demonstrate. And again, the concentration on 'historic present' has obs ...
... habit as habitual, but I rarely go or I went once would not. Similarly, 'simple' and 'progressive' labels are often confused with some kind of simple or progressive activity, a correlation which is usually difficult to define or demonstrate. And again, the concentration on 'historic present' has obs ...
Commands in Deni (Arawá)
... Turning the discussion to the subclass II verb structure, the slots 1 and 2 are always filled in scheme 2. However, to form the smallest subclass II verbal word, besides slot 1 and 2, at least one of categories assigned to slots 6 and 7 must occur. That is, the smallest subclass II verbal word is co ...
... Turning the discussion to the subclass II verb structure, the slots 1 and 2 are always filled in scheme 2. However, to form the smallest subclass II verbal word, besides slot 1 and 2, at least one of categories assigned to slots 6 and 7 must occur. That is, the smallest subclass II verbal word is co ...
Baule SVCs: Two distinct varieties of missing objects.
... problem is, that the verbs klo, 'like', kpѐ 'hate', si 'know', sro 'fear', wun 'see', kan 'touch' also all require an overt object. These verbs do not have an affected object. In Larson (2002) I attempt a first characterization of the generalization that causes verbs to belong to one class or the ot ...
... problem is, that the verbs klo, 'like', kpѐ 'hate', si 'know', sro 'fear', wun 'see', kan 'touch' also all require an overt object. These verbs do not have an affected object. In Larson (2002) I attempt a first characterization of the generalization that causes verbs to belong to one class or the ot ...
Direct Object Pronouns: Part I
... Paul bought the flowers. He took them home and gave them to his wife. When the pronoun replaces the name of the direct object, use the following pronouns: me (me) te (you-familiar) lo, la (him, her, it, you-formal) nos (us) os (you-all-familiar) los, las (them, you-all-formal) In an affirmative stat ...
... Paul bought the flowers. He took them home and gave them to his wife. When the pronoun replaces the name of the direct object, use the following pronouns: me (me) te (you-familiar) lo, la (him, her, it, you-formal) nos (us) os (you-all-familiar) los, las (them, you-all-formal) In an affirmative stat ...
Grammar Guide
... If a word is plural, but does not end with –s, you will include the ‘s as normal. The children’s toys were all broken. When two or more nouns are joined together using the word “and”, you do not have to add ‘s to all nouns. Just add it to the last noun to show possession: Bill and Susie’s car. Anoth ...
... If a word is plural, but does not end with –s, you will include the ‘s as normal. The children’s toys were all broken. When two or more nouns are joined together using the word “and”, you do not have to add ‘s to all nouns. Just add it to the last noun to show possession: Bill and Susie’s car. Anoth ...
USOS DE LOS VERBOS SER / ESTAR
... encantar, entristecer, fascinar, fastidiar, importar, interesar, molestar, poner furioso (histérico, triste), sorprender Notes: 1) The conjunction que always has to be present in order to have a subjunctive in a noun clause, and the subjunctive is always after que, not before. The only exceptions ar ...
... encantar, entristecer, fascinar, fastidiar, importar, interesar, molestar, poner furioso (histérico, triste), sorprender Notes: 1) The conjunction que always has to be present in order to have a subjunctive in a noun clause, and the subjunctive is always after que, not before. The only exceptions ar ...
Case in German – An HPSG Analysis
... This is usually explained by a subject-to-object-raising analysis of passivization.3 The subject of a finite sentence receives nominative and the object accusative if its case is structural. In (2b), the object of the verb geschlagen is raised to subject of the passive auxiliary werden and therefore ...
... This is usually explained by a subject-to-object-raising analysis of passivization.3 The subject of a finite sentence receives nominative and the object accusative if its case is structural. In (2b), the object of the verb geschlagen is raised to subject of the passive auxiliary werden and therefore ...
An incomplete sentence is called a sentence fragment. A fragment
... - A CONJUNCTION is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence. - F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.: For-And-Nor-But-Or-Yet-So. - A COORDINATING CONJUNCTION connects two independent clauses/sentences, it is often accompanied by a comma. Ex: He ran home, and he ate his lunch. -A COMPOUND SUBJECT is tw ...
... - A CONJUNCTION is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence. - F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.: For-And-Nor-But-Or-Yet-So. - A COORDINATING CONJUNCTION connects two independent clauses/sentences, it is often accompanied by a comma. Ex: He ran home, and he ate his lunch. -A COMPOUND SUBJECT is tw ...
Exercise Set 3.5
... future perfect ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ __________________ Complete the following declensions. ...
... future perfect ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ __________________ Complete the following declensions. ...