The Notion of Surface-Syntactic Relation Revisited
... SSyntRel, since in such cases the substitution by the DE-phrase is always possible. However, the defining properties of the Ds in both constructions do not warrant such a unification. An agreeing adjectival modifier and a prepositional phrase are so dissimilar in their SSynt-properties that there is ...
... SSyntRel, since in such cases the substitution by the DE-phrase is always possible. However, the defining properties of the Ds in both constructions do not warrant such a unification. An agreeing adjectival modifier and a prepositional phrase are so dissimilar in their SSynt-properties that there is ...
Basic English Grammar with Exercises
... current level of understanding of how the mind is instantiated in the brain. We are left, therefore, with only indirect ways of investigating language. Usually this works in the following way: we study what the linguistic system produces (grammatical sentences which have certain meanings) and we try ...
... current level of understanding of how the mind is instantiated in the brain. We are left, therefore, with only indirect ways of investigating language. Usually this works in the following way: we study what the linguistic system produces (grammatical sentences which have certain meanings) and we try ...
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... like a string of eternities. At times I was filled with motivation, but at many others it felt as if I was only being dragged through to barely make it to an end, or even a starting, point. Some other times, I was delivering only because I couldn’t bare the embarrassment of not keeping up with all o ...
... like a string of eternities. At times I was filled with motivation, but at many others it felt as if I was only being dragged through to barely make it to an end, or even a starting, point. Some other times, I was delivering only because I couldn’t bare the embarrassment of not keeping up with all o ...
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) A
... After the many years it took me to sew this grammar together, I couldn’t possibly come up with a fair list of all the people who helped me on my way. Completing a dissertation is not only a writing process, but also an emotional ride of happiness, excitement and despair. First, I owe the most heartf ...
... After the many years it took me to sew this grammar together, I couldn’t possibly come up with a fair list of all the people who helped me on my way. Completing a dissertation is not only a writing process, but also an emotional ride of happiness, excitement and despair. First, I owe the most heartf ...
Basic English Grammar with Exercises
... current level of understanding of how the mind is instantiated in the brain. We are left, therefore, with only indirect ways of investigating language. Usually this works in the following way: we study what the linguistic system produces (grammatical sentences which have certain meanings) and we try ...
... current level of understanding of how the mind is instantiated in the brain. We are left, therefore, with only indirect ways of investigating language. Usually this works in the following way: we study what the linguistic system produces (grammatical sentences which have certain meanings) and we try ...
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... Recall that a characteristic of topics is that they represent old information. At this point it is worth pointing out that the only element which necessarily encodes old information in sentence (21a) is the argument da bwai-deh, and not the temporal adverb yestadei. Indeed, it appears that only topi ...
... Recall that a characteristic of topics is that they represent old information. At this point it is worth pointing out that the only element which necessarily encodes old information in sentence (21a) is the argument da bwai-deh, and not the temporal adverb yestadei. Indeed, it appears that only topi ...
Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 6
... interrogative (questions), imperative (commands), and exclamatory (strong feelings). Write your responses on the lines provided. ...
... interrogative (questions), imperative (commands), and exclamatory (strong feelings). Write your responses on the lines provided. ...
THE EPP, NOMINATIVE CASE and EXPLETIVES
... is to satisfy the EPP, while the nominative Case-feature of I is checked by the postverbal NP via Agree, invalidating the analysis of Belletti (1988), according to which, the Case of this NP is partitive. A comparison of there-constructions with their non-agreeing counterparts in French and Russian ...
... is to satisfy the EPP, while the nominative Case-feature of I is checked by the postverbal NP via Agree, invalidating the analysis of Belletti (1988), according to which, the Case of this NP is partitive. A comparison of there-constructions with their non-agreeing counterparts in French and Russian ...
Introduction to Specific Language Impairment/SLI
... and Schaeffer (2003) for more detailed discussion of diagnostic criteria for SLI. Prevalence and Persistence of SLI Leonard (1989) estimates that around 6% of children suffer some form of language impairment (with 1.5% having a tested language age of less than two thirds of their tested mental age), ...
... and Schaeffer (2003) for more detailed discussion of diagnostic criteria for SLI. Prevalence and Persistence of SLI Leonard (1989) estimates that around 6% of children suffer some form of language impairment (with 1.5% having a tested language age of less than two thirds of their tested mental age), ...
1844
... tongues, Habit will, with attention on the learner's part, so familiarize them to the mind, that they may, after the lapse of many years, become as spontaneously the vehicle of his thoughts as his mother tongue. Such in fact was my own case, and this circumstance will, I hope, plead as my apology fo ...
... tongues, Habit will, with attention on the learner's part, so familiarize them to the mind, that they may, after the lapse of many years, become as spontaneously the vehicle of his thoughts as his mother tongue. Such in fact was my own case, and this circumstance will, I hope, plead as my apology fo ...
How weak and how definite are Weak Definites?
... A reviewer points out that speaker’s usually have their local hospital etc. in mind when using Weak Definites. But my main point is that this is not necessarily so, as can be seen rather clearly from quantified examples like (1), where there may be no one local hospital in that sense. ...
... A reviewer points out that speaker’s usually have their local hospital etc. in mind when using Weak Definites. But my main point is that this is not necessarily so, as can be seen rather clearly from quantified examples like (1), where there may be no one local hospital in that sense. ...
Alexandra Anna Spalek Verb Meaning and Combinatory Semantics: A Corpus-Based Study of
... attempt. And yet what I most appreciate in her as an advisor were these ‘mummymoments’ when she understood that I was totally lost and would provide some simple advice, which converted a monstrous problem into a challenge and nothing more! I would like to learn to do this kind of magic one day. Most ...
... attempt. And yet what I most appreciate in her as an advisor were these ‘mummymoments’ when she understood that I was totally lost and would provide some simple advice, which converted a monstrous problem into a challenge and nothing more! I would like to learn to do this kind of magic one day. Most ...
ŠIAULIAI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT
... order to specify the denominal verb. Sandor (2007) in the earlier publications defines conversion as ‘a non-concatenative process where the lexical category of a lexeme changes into another lexical category, without adding an affix to it. For example, the noun a tree changes into another lexical cat ...
... order to specify the denominal verb. Sandor (2007) in the earlier publications defines conversion as ‘a non-concatenative process where the lexical category of a lexeme changes into another lexical category, without adding an affix to it. For example, the noun a tree changes into another lexical cat ...
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Grammar of the Classical Newari [SCANN]
... agential or instrum ental case; w hen it is intransitive, the pure stem serves as subject. T he sam e form expresses the object or end-point of a transitive action. An exam ple may illustrate this, rajan dhu syatam “ through the king ligerkilling (took place)” ; raja wonam “ king-going (took place)” ...
... agential or instrum ental case; w hen it is intransitive, the pure stem serves as subject. T he sam e form expresses the object or end-point of a transitive action. An exam ple may illustrate this, rajan dhu syatam “ through the king ligerkilling (took place)” ; raja wonam “ king-going (took place)” ...
On participles
... Building on the left-right asymmetry hypothesis advocated in Kayne (1994 and subsequent work), Cinque (1999, 2003, 2005a,b, 2006) claims that the head of the phrase is categorically and cross-linguistically the right-most element in the syntactic structure. It follows from this that all modifiers of ...
... Building on the left-right asymmetry hypothesis advocated in Kayne (1994 and subsequent work), Cinque (1999, 2003, 2005a,b, 2006) claims that the head of the phrase is categorically and cross-linguistically the right-most element in the syntactic structure. It follows from this that all modifiers of ...
AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF GERUND AMONG THE
... made by learners of a foreign language leniently but the most important reason is that the error itself may actually be necessary part of learning a language.” (Norrish, 1983:6). In learning a language, we often find some words that have the same meaning but different functions. In the English and I ...
... made by learners of a foreign language leniently but the most important reason is that the error itself may actually be necessary part of learning a language.” (Norrish, 1983:6). In learning a language, we often find some words that have the same meaning but different functions. In the English and I ...
Putting Pieces Together: Combining FrameNet, VerbNet
... Selectional restrictions – as part of the VerbNet-defined semantic knowledge – are used for both semantic role identification and syntax-semantics translation. Consider for example the sentence I break the window versus the sentence The hammer breaks the window. Although the participants in the intera ...
... Selectional restrictions – as part of the VerbNet-defined semantic knowledge – are used for both semantic role identification and syntax-semantics translation. Consider for example the sentence I break the window versus the sentence The hammer breaks the window. Although the participants in the intera ...
Overt Nominative Subjects in Infinitival Complements
... agreement relation in order to be fully specified (see Kratzer 2006 on bound pronouns, and Sigurdsson 2007 for grounding) and all DPs have been argued to need a valued T feature (Pesetsky and Torrego 2006). Turning to (12), the absence of overt pronominal controllees may simply follow from some of t ...
... agreement relation in order to be fully specified (see Kratzer 2006 on bound pronouns, and Sigurdsson 2007 for grounding) and all DPs have been argued to need a valued T feature (Pesetsky and Torrego 2006). Turning to (12), the absence of overt pronominal controllees may simply follow from some of t ...
Grammar and Language Workbook
... 1. A singular noun is a word that names one person, place, thing, or idea: brother, classroom, piglet, and joy. A plural noun names more than one person, place, thing, or idea: brothers, classrooms, piglets, and joys. 2. To help you determine whether a word in a sentence is a noun, try adding it to ...
... 1. A singular noun is a word that names one person, place, thing, or idea: brother, classroom, piglet, and joy. A plural noun names more than one person, place, thing, or idea: brothers, classrooms, piglets, and joys. 2. To help you determine whether a word in a sentence is a noun, try adding it to ...
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... Russian has comitative prepositional phrases which are VP-adjuncts consisting of the preposition s (with) and an instrumental case-marked NP. I will summarize the main arguments in favor of distinguishing adjunction from s-coordination. Some of these arguments have been mentioned in previous literat ...
... Russian has comitative prepositional phrases which are VP-adjuncts consisting of the preposition s (with) and an instrumental case-marked NP. I will summarize the main arguments in favor of distinguishing adjunction from s-coordination. Some of these arguments have been mentioned in previous literat ...
On the licensing and recovering of imperative subjects Melani Wratil
... 3.2. Arguments against non-overt imperative subjects Of course, also objections to the assumption that imperative subjects exist are put forward in current works on the imperative sentence. But most of these counterarguments are not really convincing. Rosengren (1992) and Platzack & Rosengren (1994) ...
... 3.2. Arguments against non-overt imperative subjects Of course, also objections to the assumption that imperative subjects exist are put forward in current works on the imperative sentence. But most of these counterarguments are not really convincing. Rosengren (1992) and Platzack & Rosengren (1994) ...
1 Present participles
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
`Have` and the Link Between Perfects and Existentials in Old Catalan
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
Present participles: Categorial classification and derivation Aya
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
... behave both like verbs and like adjectives, this is due to the fact that verbal and adjectival passives are very often homophonous (Wasow 1977, Levin & Rapapport 1986, among many others). There are thus two distinct entries, one verbal and one adjectival, rather than one "mixed" entry. Following thi ...
French Language Studies – Grammar Reference Resource
... The difference between count and mass nouns is usually clearcut. However, something that is typically countable such as an animal (one armadillo, two armadillos, three armadillos) can nevertheless be conceived of in terms of amass, as in the following tasteless example. Berk! Il y a du tatou écrasé ...
... The difference between count and mass nouns is usually clearcut. However, something that is typically countable such as an animal (one armadillo, two armadillos, three armadillos) can nevertheless be conceived of in terms of amass, as in the following tasteless example. Berk! Il y a du tatou écrasé ...