What is a pronoun?
... possible in restrictive relative clauses, but that is preferred to which when the antecedents are non-personal indefinite pronouns like all, much, little, none, any, a few, or are impersonal nouns with superlative adjectives, ordinal numerals (including last, next, etc.), only very, no, all, much, l ...
... possible in restrictive relative clauses, but that is preferred to which when the antecedents are non-personal indefinite pronouns like all, much, little, none, any, a few, or are impersonal nouns with superlative adjectives, ordinal numerals (including last, next, etc.), only very, no, all, much, l ...
Argument Structure and verbal semantic class
... by someone else –me, in the example- or by something). But each one of the sentences focuses in a different component of the basic event, thus entailing both aspectual changes (from inergativity to passivity, resultativity, etc.) and semantic class (we can see at least one sentence belonging to each ...
... by someone else –me, in the example- or by something). But each one of the sentences focuses in a different component of the basic event, thus entailing both aspectual changes (from inergativity to passivity, resultativity, etc.) and semantic class (we can see at least one sentence belonging to each ...
Infinitive Clauses: Tensed or Untensed
... 1-1 Tense, Time and Aspect: Tense is a grammatical category that is used in the descriptions of verbs; it specifies the time of the action or event relative to the moment of utterance (Quirk et al., 1985: 176). Time, on the other hand, is a universal concept that exists in all languages; the two ter ...
... 1-1 Tense, Time and Aspect: Tense is a grammatical category that is used in the descriptions of verbs; it specifies the time of the action or event relative to the moment of utterance (Quirk et al., 1985: 176). Time, on the other hand, is a universal concept that exists in all languages; the two ter ...
Imperfect Aspect in English and Indonesian Verbs
... If expressed in the past time, the verb phrase used to plus infinitive is used to indicate a past habit. Sentences (12) and (13) express the discontinued habit of mutual visiting and speaking. (12) We used to visit each other quite often. (13) He used to speak several languages. Next, imperfect aspe ...
... If expressed in the past time, the verb phrase used to plus infinitive is used to indicate a past habit. Sentences (12) and (13) express the discontinued habit of mutual visiting and speaking. (12) We used to visit each other quite often. (13) He used to speak several languages. Next, imperfect aspe ...
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 ...
The syntax of preverbal ge- in Old English
... I won’t push this too much, but this can make sense of why ge- is a prefix, while -en is a suffix. • Given any reasonable implementation of the Mirror Principle, if the three heads in the structure above combine in a single word, the expected unmarked order is res-proc-init-AspR . • Note that it is ...
... I won’t push this too much, but this can make sense of why ge- is a prefix, while -en is a suffix. • Given any reasonable implementation of the Mirror Principle, if the three heads in the structure above combine in a single word, the expected unmarked order is res-proc-init-AspR . • Note that it is ...
Do INSTRUCTION AND EXPOSURE MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON
... According to the curriculum, in narrations the main events of the story which advance the plot line are expressed in the passe simple while the imparfait 'imperfect' provides background. As with other verb forms, in the passe simple students must learn the root and which inflectional endings it take ...
... According to the curriculum, in narrations the main events of the story which advance the plot line are expressed in the passe simple while the imparfait 'imperfect' provides background. As with other verb forms, in the passe simple students must learn the root and which inflectional endings it take ...
Making Syntax of Sense: Number Agreement in
... natural gender (e.g., masculine he, feminine she, neuter it). Additional distinctions involve person (e.g., third person he and first person I) and case (e.g., nominative he, accusative him, possessive his). The objective frequencies with which speakers must choose between singular and plural forms ...
... natural gender (e.g., masculine he, feminine she, neuter it). Additional distinctions involve person (e.g., third person he and first person I) and case (e.g., nominative he, accusative him, possessive his). The objective frequencies with which speakers must choose between singular and plural forms ...
dependent clauses File
... Diego biked to the lake where he likes to go swimming . ( Where he likes to go swimming is a relative clause. It contains the relative adverb where, the subject he, and the verb likes. The clause modifies the noun lake.) ...
... Diego biked to the lake where he likes to go swimming . ( Where he likes to go swimming is a relative clause. It contains the relative adverb where, the subject he, and the verb likes. The clause modifies the noun lake.) ...
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... WeU can function as an adverb and an adjective. As an adverb it means "in a good manner." In slang expressions, such as "He did good on the test" or "She swam good in the meet," goad is wrong. Correct usage requires "He did well on the test" and "She swam weU in the meet." WeU is used as an adjectiv ...
... WeU can function as an adverb and an adjective. As an adverb it means "in a good manner." In slang expressions, such as "He did good on the test" or "She swam good in the meet," goad is wrong. Correct usage requires "He did well on the test" and "She swam weU in the meet." WeU is used as an adjectiv ...
French Regular
... Verbs that end in -ger, like manger, have a spelling change before endings that begin with the hard vowels a or o. Because g followed by a or o would make a hard g sound (like in gold), e has to be added after g to keep the g soft (as in gel). In the present tense and the imperative, this g > ge spe ...
... Verbs that end in -ger, like manger, have a spelling change before endings that begin with the hard vowels a or o. Because g followed by a or o would make a hard g sound (like in gold), e has to be added after g to keep the g soft (as in gel). In the present tense and the imperative, this g > ge spe ...
Adjectives Original handout by Olga Lizoń and Filip Wojnowski
... Distributive (each, every; either neither) Quantitative (some, any, no, little/few; many, much; one, twenty) Interrogative (which, what, whose) Possessive (my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their) Of quality (clever, dry, fat, golden, good, heavy, square) ...
... Distributive (each, every; either neither) Quantitative (some, any, no, little/few; many, much; one, twenty) Interrogative (which, what, whose) Possessive (my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their) Of quality (clever, dry, fat, golden, good, heavy, square) ...
Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan
... We will show that this nonargumental behavior is intimately connected to the semantics of Spanish and Catalan object BNs, which share semantic properties that have been associated with some types of incorporated nominals (see e.g. Van Geenhoven 1996, Farkas & de Swart 2003, Dayal 2003, Dobrovie-Sori ...
... We will show that this nonargumental behavior is intimately connected to the semantics of Spanish and Catalan object BNs, which share semantic properties that have been associated with some types of incorporated nominals (see e.g. Van Geenhoven 1996, Farkas & de Swart 2003, Dayal 2003, Dobrovie-Sori ...
A Phase-Based Approach to ECM across CP in Korean
... Under the PIC, then, LD ECM is expected to be impossible in Korean just as in English, as shown in (8). Furthermore, the contrast between stative verbs and transitive verbs is puzzling and extremely unusual, because what seems to be at stake is that a syntactic relation between two elements, i.e., t ...
... Under the PIC, then, LD ECM is expected to be impossible in Korean just as in English, as shown in (8). Furthermore, the contrast between stative verbs and transitive verbs is puzzling and extremely unusual, because what seems to be at stake is that a syntactic relation between two elements, i.e., t ...
An analysis of the German Perfekti
... A. Präteritum as well as Perfekt is appropriate whenever the speaker wants to talk about some event, state or process, in short, situation, that occurred or obtained in the past (cf. exx. 3, 4 above). In these contexts, both forms would be translated by the English (simple or progressive) past. This ...
... A. Präteritum as well as Perfekt is appropriate whenever the speaker wants to talk about some event, state or process, in short, situation, that occurred or obtained in the past (cf. exx. 3, 4 above). In these contexts, both forms would be translated by the English (simple or progressive) past. This ...
An analysis of the German Perfekti
... A. Präteritum as well as Perfekt is appropriate whenever the speaker wants to talk about some event, state or process, in short, situation, that occurred or obtained in the past (cf. exx. 3, 4 above). In these contexts, both forms would be translated by the English (simple or progressive) past. This ...
... A. Präteritum as well as Perfekt is appropriate whenever the speaker wants to talk about some event, state or process, in short, situation, that occurred or obtained in the past (cf. exx. 3, 4 above). In these contexts, both forms would be translated by the English (simple or progressive) past. This ...
Free! - Classical Academic Press
... •Ask questions whenever you are not sure of something. •Memorize your Spanish words. You will only have to learn about ten new words a week. Here are some tips that will help you memorize your Spanish words: Chant or sing your words, just as you will learn them in this course. It is much easier t ...
... •Ask questions whenever you are not sure of something. •Memorize your Spanish words. You will only have to learn about ten new words a week. Here are some tips that will help you memorize your Spanish words: Chant or sing your words, just as you will learn them in this course. It is much easier t ...
Verb movement in Germanic and Celtic
... therefore occupy a subject position in the tree. How does this work, and why would it trigger verb movement? In a language with relatively many inflectional endings, more features are required for the description of that paradigm. The empirical observation is that languages with V to I movement have ...
... therefore occupy a subject position in the tree. How does this work, and why would it trigger verb movement? In a language with relatively many inflectional endings, more features are required for the description of that paradigm. The empirical observation is that languages with V to I movement have ...
Words and Sentences
... Verbs ending in o typically add -es: veto → vetoes. The third person singular present indicative in English is notable cross-linguistically for being a morphologically marked form for a semantically unmarked one. That is to say the the third person singular is usually taken to be the most basic form ...
... Verbs ending in o typically add -es: veto → vetoes. The third person singular present indicative in English is notable cross-linguistically for being a morphologically marked form for a semantically unmarked one. That is to say the the third person singular is usually taken to be the most basic form ...
English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style
... spoken language. The only exception to this is the occasional example taken from ‘general’ English, where a ‘general’ example gives a clearer idea of usage than a ‘scientific’ example would do (this I have done above all in the section on modal verbs). Aspects which are common to research papers and ...
... spoken language. The only exception to this is the occasional example taken from ‘general’ English, where a ‘general’ example gives a clearer idea of usage than a ‘scientific’ example would do (this I have done above all in the section on modal verbs). Aspects which are common to research papers and ...
The Curious Case of Metonymic Verbs
... In order to determine how event-like the typical object is for a given predicate, we have to distinguish which objects have an event sense. We define an event noun as a noun with at least one WordNet synset (Fellbaum, 2010) that is dominated in the synset hierarchy by one of the top nodes shown in T ...
... In order to determine how event-like the typical object is for a given predicate, we have to distinguish which objects have an event sense. We define an event noun as a noun with at least one WordNet synset (Fellbaum, 2010) that is dominated in the synset hierarchy by one of the top nodes shown in T ...
RELC Journal
... time introduced on account of the departure of the Cantonese-speaking maid and the arrival of a Filipino maid. The new maid did not speak any Cantonese and had just enough simple English to enable her to communicate with other members in the household. It can be said that Poupee, Elvoo’s sister olde ...
... time introduced on account of the departure of the Cantonese-speaking maid and the arrival of a Filipino maid. The new maid did not speak any Cantonese and had just enough simple English to enable her to communicate with other members in the household. It can be said that Poupee, Elvoo’s sister olde ...
Comments on Abusch`s theory of tense
... normally understood to mean 'every person in the whole universe', and so we shouldn't expect some time to necessarily mean 'some time in the past, present, or future.' Let's represent implicit quantifier restrictions at LF as free predicate variables which receive values from the context and interse ...
... normally understood to mean 'every person in the whole universe', and so we shouldn't expect some time to necessarily mean 'some time in the past, present, or future.' Let's represent implicit quantifier restrictions at LF as free predicate variables which receive values from the context and interse ...
They are can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must
... English verbs, in terms of their functions in forming verb phrases, fall into two major categories: main verbs and auxiliaries. Auxiliaries can again be divided into primary auxiliaries, modal auxiliaries, and semi-auxiliaries. ...
... English verbs, in terms of their functions in forming verb phrases, fall into two major categories: main verbs and auxiliaries. Auxiliaries can again be divided into primary auxiliaries, modal auxiliaries, and semi-auxiliaries. ...
A Practical grammar of the pali language
... Locative: Of, relating to, or being a grammatical case in certain inflected languages that indicates place in or on which or time at which, as in Latin domì, 'at home.' Nominative: Of, relating to, or belonging to a case of the subject of a finite verb (as I in I wrote the letter) and of words ident ...
... Locative: Of, relating to, or being a grammatical case in certain inflected languages that indicates place in or on which or time at which, as in Latin domì, 'at home.' Nominative: Of, relating to, or belonging to a case of the subject of a finite verb (as I in I wrote the letter) and of words ident ...