Thematic Roles and Syntactic Structure
... pieces, we find that John is seen as undergoing a change of state and hence is a patient in (5b) and (6b), while the article is seen as a cause in (5b) and is in this respect like an agent. Indeed, Pesetsky points out that verbs like please, frighten, and anger are morphologically causative forms in ...
... pieces, we find that John is seen as undergoing a change of state and hence is a patient in (5b) and (6b), while the article is seen as a cause in (5b) and is in this respect like an agent. Indeed, Pesetsky points out that verbs like please, frighten, and anger are morphologically causative forms in ...
Chinese Main Verb Identification
... icl_groups/corpus/dwldform1.asp. The corpus contains one month of data from People's Daily (January 1998). It has been both word segmented and part-of-speech tagged. “/r”, “/v” etc. are the part-of-speech tags. “/ww” denotes the end of the sentences. In Chinese, “地”(de) is used after an adjective or ...
... icl_groups/corpus/dwldform1.asp. The corpus contains one month of data from People's Daily (January 1998). It has been both word segmented and part-of-speech tagged. “/r”, “/v” etc. are the part-of-speech tags. “/ww” denotes the end of the sentences. In Chinese, “地”(de) is used after an adjective or ...
Fulltext: english,
... (19) can also mean ’The ice breaker broke the iceberg’ because both nouns can be either the nominative or the accusative case. In (20) both mjesec and oblak are either nominative or accusative, but the only plausible semantic and pragmatic interpretation is the one given in the translation of (20). ...
... (19) can also mean ’The ice breaker broke the iceberg’ because both nouns can be either the nominative or the accusative case. In (20) both mjesec and oblak are either nominative or accusative, but the only plausible semantic and pragmatic interpretation is the one given in the translation of (20). ...
gerúndio - CLUL - Universidade de Lisboa
... forming complex sequences of two verbal elements. In modern EP, it tends to fall into disuse after some auxiliary verbs, the uninflected infinitive (preceded by a preposition) emerging instead. This paper identifies and briefly characterises the contexts where this competition «gerúndio»-infinitive ...
... forming complex sequences of two verbal elements. In modern EP, it tends to fall into disuse after some auxiliary verbs, the uninflected infinitive (preceded by a preposition) emerging instead. This paper identifies and briefly characterises the contexts where this competition «gerúndio»-infinitive ...
The objective conjugation in Hungarian: agreement without phi
... Cross-linguistically, the features of verbal agreement tend to be φ-features, because those are the features of the pronouns from which the agreement inflections derive historically (Bopp 1842; Givón 1976; Bresnan and Mchombo 1987: 747). The transition from incorporated pronoun to agreement marker h ...
... Cross-linguistically, the features of verbal agreement tend to be φ-features, because those are the features of the pronouns from which the agreement inflections derive historically (Bopp 1842; Givón 1976; Bresnan and Mchombo 1987: 747). The transition from incorporated pronoun to agreement marker h ...
Participles, gerunds and syntactic categories
... non-X0 theoretic structures are admitted in LFG, but assuming that non-endocentric structures are a marked feature of grammar, it does suggest that mixed categories should be admitted only where an alternative, X0 theoretic, analysis cannot adequately account for the linguistic data. ...
... non-X0 theoretic structures are admitted in LFG, but assuming that non-endocentric structures are a marked feature of grammar, it does suggest that mixed categories should be admitted only where an alternative, X0 theoretic, analysis cannot adequately account for the linguistic data. ...
draft - University of Delaware
... are held constant, but the structure of the clause containing those lexical items changes. The canonical instance of this case change occurs in the passive, illustrated below: ...
... are held constant, but the structure of the clause containing those lexical items changes. The canonical instance of this case change occurs in the passive, illustrated below: ...
Romanian Grammar
... 4.2.4.2. The past optative-conditional 4.2.4.2.1. Forming the past optative-conditional 4.2.4.2.2. Using the past optative-conditional 4.2.5. The presumptive 4.2.5.1. The present presumptive (forms and usage) 4.2.5.2. The present progressive presumptive (forms and usage) 4.2.5.3. The past presumptiv ...
... 4.2.4.2. The past optative-conditional 4.2.4.2.1. Forming the past optative-conditional 4.2.4.2.2. Using the past optative-conditional 4.2.5. The presumptive 4.2.5.1. The present presumptive (forms and usage) 4.2.5.2. The present progressive presumptive (forms and usage) 4.2.5.3. The past presumptiv ...
Romanian Grammar
... 4.2.4.2. The past optative-conditional 4.2.4.2.1. Forming the past optative-conditional 4.2.4.2.2. Using the past optative-conditional 4.2.5. The presumptive 4.2.5.1. The present presumptive (forms and usage) 4.2.5.2. The present progressive presumptive (forms and usage) 4.2.5.3. The past presumptiv ...
... 4.2.4.2. The past optative-conditional 4.2.4.2.1. Forming the past optative-conditional 4.2.4.2.2. Using the past optative-conditional 4.2.5. The presumptive 4.2.5.1. The present presumptive (forms and usage) 4.2.5.2. The present progressive presumptive (forms and usage) 4.2.5.3. The past presumptiv ...
Gros Ventre Student Grammar
... second case, the ending [suffix] -ed is added to the word. The suffix indicates that the action in question happened in the past rather than the present. You can add this ending to all kinds of verbs: ‘I looked’ ‘I sailed’ etc. On the other hand, when you shift from ‘I like her’ to ‘you like her’ to ...
... second case, the ending [suffix] -ed is added to the word. The suffix indicates that the action in question happened in the past rather than the present. You can add this ending to all kinds of verbs: ‘I looked’ ‘I sailed’ etc. On the other hand, when you shift from ‘I like her’ to ‘you like her’ to ...
1 Paper accepted for publication in Language Sciences Explaining
... the use of null forms and the rule that the case of the subject of the infinitive is dative cannot be rejected. This opinion is clearly expressed by Perlmutter (2007, p. 304), when he states that ‘[w]hile readers are certainly entitled to their opinions about what is desirable or undesirable, it is ...
... the use of null forms and the rule that the case of the subject of the infinitive is dative cannot be rejected. This opinion is clearly expressed by Perlmutter (2007, p. 304), when he states that ‘[w]hile readers are certainly entitled to their opinions about what is desirable or undesirable, it is ...
An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language
... This grammar is intended to serve as a work of reference. It does not provide a graded course of study, for which we assume the learner will use other materials. (Some suggestions of suitable works are given at the end of the book.) What the book does offer, in comparison with most ‘methods’, is mor ...
... This grammar is intended to serve as a work of reference. It does not provide a graded course of study, for which we assume the learner will use other materials. (Some suggestions of suitable works are given at the end of the book.) What the book does offer, in comparison with most ‘methods’, is mor ...
Part 2 "Of the Verb": An Australian grammar : comprehending the
... has struck, this morning understood; Bun-kil-If-un lnlng', I have struck myself this day. 3. The Peifect past Aorist, which asserts the act as completed, without reference to any particn1ar period in past time: as, Bim-kul-la, struck. This is not the participle. 4. The Plupeifect, which asserts the ...
... has struck, this morning understood; Bun-kil-If-un lnlng', I have struck myself this day. 3. The Peifect past Aorist, which asserts the act as completed, without reference to any particn1ar period in past time: as, Bim-kul-la, struck. This is not the participle. 4. The Plupeifect, which asserts the ...
1) Choice between subjective and objective case
... customer, doctor, speaker, teacher, students etc, can either be male or female. When used in the singular for generic reference, these nouns are generally referred to as “ he, his or him”, or use plural forms “they , their or them” instead . ...
... customer, doctor, speaker, teacher, students etc, can either be male or female. When used in the singular for generic reference, these nouns are generally referred to as “ he, his or him”, or use plural forms “they , their or them” instead . ...
Writing conventions: Spelling
... The following words have been made by adding a suffix to a base word which ends in a silent e (e.g. advantage, scarce, race). The word and suffix are shown in brackets. In some cases the silent e is dropped and in others it is kept. ...
... The following words have been made by adding a suffix to a base word which ends in a silent e (e.g. advantage, scarce, race). The word and suffix are shown in brackets. In some cases the silent e is dropped and in others it is kept. ...
Linguistic units and
... A few verbs have become fossils (“pseudo-composites”), i.e. originally complex signs which are now simple but which retain evidence of their one-time complexity – chasten, hasten, (not really “make chaste” or “make haste” now but “punish” and “hurry”), liken, (i.e. “compare”, not “make like”), deade ...
... A few verbs have become fossils (“pseudo-composites”), i.e. originally complex signs which are now simple but which retain evidence of their one-time complexity – chasten, hasten, (not really “make chaste” or “make haste” now but “punish” and “hurry”), liken, (i.e. “compare”, not “make like”), deade ...
Passive Sentences
... 1. The object of the active verb is the subject of the passive verb (“English” in the example sentences below). Therefore, verbs which cannot be followed by objects (intransitive verbs) cannot be used in passive voice. These are some common intransitive verbs: appear, arrive, come, cry, die, go, hap ...
... 1. The object of the active verb is the subject of the passive verb (“English” in the example sentences below). Therefore, verbs which cannot be followed by objects (intransitive verbs) cannot be used in passive voice. These are some common intransitive verbs: appear, arrive, come, cry, die, go, hap ...
Lesson 6 - InTheBeginning.org
... names of fruits are neuter. Some nouns may rarely be either masculine or feminine. These types of nouns are of common gender. 6.1.3 Stem. A stem remain unchanged when various affixes modify a word’s grammatical function. Whereas case endings determine the noun’s function, the stem carries the basic ...
... names of fruits are neuter. Some nouns may rarely be either masculine or feminine. These types of nouns are of common gender. 6.1.3 Stem. A stem remain unchanged when various affixes modify a word’s grammatical function. Whereas case endings determine the noun’s function, the stem carries the basic ...
view - Association for Computational Linguistics
... of its components. N-V combinations are subject to various levels of lexicalization. In some cases, the CP meaning is a specialization of the predictable meaning of the combination. For instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only to hit somebody with a knife; dast dâdan ‘to shake ...
... of its components. N-V combinations are subject to various levels of lexicalization. In some cases, the CP meaning is a specialization of the predictable meaning of the combination. For instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only to hit somebody with a knife; dast dâdan ‘to shake ...
la ciudad el mar el país
... 2. Yo vi ( a ) un monumento grande en el parque nacional. 3. Escribimos muchas tarjetas ( a ) nuestros primos. 4. Visité ( a ) mi familia durante las vacaciones. 5. Lavaron ( a ) su perro Fifí. 6. Buscamos ( a ) una tienda de ropa buena. 7. Compré ( a ) un boleto de avión ayer. 8. Busqué ( a ) mi he ...
... 2. Yo vi ( a ) un monumento grande en el parque nacional. 3. Escribimos muchas tarjetas ( a ) nuestros primos. 4. Visité ( a ) mi familia durante las vacaciones. 5. Lavaron ( a ) su perro Fifí. 6. Buscamos ( a ) una tienda de ropa buena. 7. Compré ( a ) un boleto de avión ayer. 8. Busqué ( a ) mi he ...
Gerunds as Subjects
... 3. Yes! It is a gerund; it ends in –ing, and it is acting as a noun. What is a baby’s way of communicating. Crying is! ...
... 3. Yes! It is a gerund; it ends in –ing, and it is acting as a noun. What is a baby’s way of communicating. Crying is! ...
Locative Invenion, Definiteness, and Free Word Order in Russian
... b. (?)Na stol byla postavlena tarelka. on table was put plate-Nam. 'On the table was put a plate' c.?? Na stol byla postavlena tarelka Mariei. on table was put plate-Nam. Maria-Instr. 'On the table was placed a plate by Maria' ...
... b. (?)Na stol byla postavlena tarelka. on table was put plate-Nam. 'On the table was put a plate' c.?? Na stol byla postavlena tarelka Mariei. on table was put plate-Nam. Maria-Instr. 'On the table was placed a plate by Maria' ...
Singulars and Plurals in Dutch: Evidence for a Parallel Dual
... frequency become available to the central system in the same amount of time. Schreuder and Baayen (1995) outline a race model with fully parallel routes. Their model is based on a spreading activation network with three representational layers: a layer of form-based modality-specific access represen ...
... frequency become available to the central system in the same amount of time. Schreuder and Baayen (1995) outline a race model with fully parallel routes. Their model is based on a spreading activation network with three representational layers: a layer of form-based modality-specific access represen ...
English-awareness-chapter-2-Grammar-pronouns
... Correct : I remember the day which he came on or, I remember the day that he came. Rule : The relative pronoun that is preferred to who or which (i) after adjectives in the superlative degree. (ii) after all, same, any, none, nothing, only. (iii) after the interrogative pronouns who, what.(iv) after ...
... Correct : I remember the day which he came on or, I remember the day that he came. Rule : The relative pronoun that is preferred to who or which (i) after adjectives in the superlative degree. (ii) after all, same, any, none, nothing, only. (iii) after the interrogative pronouns who, what.(iv) after ...
Infinitive phrase, gerund phrase, appositive phrase, participial
... Like other non-finite verb forms (like participles, converbs, gerunds and. An infinitive phrase is a verb phrase constructed with the verb in infinitive form. constituent of a larger clause o. Absolute Phrases || Appositive Phrases || Gerund Phrases || Infinitive Phrases ||. adjectives, of course (" ...
... Like other non-finite verb forms (like participles, converbs, gerunds and. An infinitive phrase is a verb phrase constructed with the verb in infinitive form. constituent of a larger clause o. Absolute Phrases || Appositive Phrases || Gerund Phrases || Infinitive Phrases ||. adjectives, of course (" ...