The No-Nonsense Guide to Learning Chitumbuka: Volume 1
... want to say. This is not a great practice of course, but, if you just want to get on your feet in Chitumbuka, taking this approach is a good way to begin. When making nouns plural in Chitumbuka, you change the front of the word, not the end of it as in English. How do you pluralize stuff? The table ...
... want to say. This is not a great practice of course, but, if you just want to get on your feet in Chitumbuka, taking this approach is a good way to begin. When making nouns plural in Chitumbuka, you change the front of the word, not the end of it as in English. How do you pluralize stuff? The table ...
The Syntactic Operator se in Spanish
... Zubizarreta (1987), Everett (1995) etc.), middle (Manzini 1983), impersonal reflexive (Bruhn de Garavito (1999)). Here I name it after its traditional terminology (Alcina and Blecua’s (1980) pasiva refleja). In the reflexive passive, as in the impersonal, the external argume ...
... Zubizarreta (1987), Everett (1995) etc.), middle (Manzini 1983), impersonal reflexive (Bruhn de Garavito (1999)). Here I name it after its traditional terminology (Alcina and Blecua’s (1980) pasiva refleja). In the reflexive passive, as in the impersonal, the external argume ...
PERT Review Guide - Valencia College
... Also remember that had has two forms: past tense in time and past tense in possession. It had rained (past tense in time) I had a date (past tense possession) Some rare cases require both forms to communicate something specific: I had had a date. (He once did, but the date was cancelled. He no longe ...
... Also remember that had has two forms: past tense in time and past tense in possession. It had rained (past tense in time) I had a date (past tense possession) Some rare cases require both forms to communicate something specific: I had had a date. (He once did, but the date was cancelled. He no longe ...
Canto - Classical Academic Press
... about who is doing the action in the sentence and when that action happens. In Spanish, instead of adding extra words, you show who is doing the action and when the action happens by changing the last few letters (the ending) of a verb. Changing the ending of a verb to show who is doing the action a ...
... about who is doing the action in the sentence and when that action happens. In Spanish, instead of adding extra words, you show who is doing the action and when the action happens by changing the last few letters (the ending) of a verb. Changing the ending of a verb to show who is doing the action a ...
lesson six
... instance, the past tense of the verb lav- "lick" is seen to be lávë (attested in Namárië as part of the verb undulávë "down-licked", that is, "covered"). Likewise, the past tense of the negative verb um- "not do" or "not be" is said to be úmë (Etym, entry UGU/UMU; we will return to this peculiar ve ...
... instance, the past tense of the verb lav- "lick" is seen to be lávë (attested in Namárië as part of the verb undulávë "down-licked", that is, "covered"). Likewise, the past tense of the negative verb um- "not do" or "not be" is said to be úmë (Etym, entry UGU/UMU; we will return to this peculiar ve ...
The Syntactic Cartography of the TP Layer in Minimalism
... motivation for verb movement. If formal features, tense, and Case can all be valued via Agree in-situ in the SVO order, what else can motivate verb movement in VSO order? The second issue is the subject-verb agreement asymmetry. The verb loses its plural number morphology when it moves over the subj ...
... motivation for verb movement. If formal features, tense, and Case can all be valued via Agree in-situ in the SVO order, what else can motivate verb movement in VSO order? The second issue is the subject-verb agreement asymmetry. The verb loses its plural number morphology when it moves over the subj ...
An Automatic Procedure for Topic
... topic and focus may use the input information on word order, on the systemic ordering of kinds of complementations (reflected by the underlying order of the items included in the focus), on definiteness, and on lexical semantic properties of words. An algorithm for the analysis of English sentences ...
... topic and focus may use the input information on word order, on the systemic ordering of kinds of complementations (reflected by the underlying order of the items included in the focus), on definiteness, and on lexical semantic properties of words. An algorithm for the analysis of English sentences ...
Bible Greek: Basic Grammar of the Greek New
... A companion book for the Bible Greek Vpod Internet Video Instruction Program biblegreekvpod.com ...
... A companion book for the Bible Greek Vpod Internet Video Instruction Program biblegreekvpod.com ...
Are Nouns Easier to Learn Than Verbs? Three Experimental Studies
... condition) to be shown as static objects, while in verb studies (conditions), objects are shown in dynamic events. That means that children learning verbs must attend to moving dynamic events and learn new words at the same time (as they do in everyday life). The noword new event condition in our st ...
... condition) to be shown as static objects, while in verb studies (conditions), objects are shown in dynamic events. That means that children learning verbs must attend to moving dynamic events and learn new words at the same time (as they do in everyday life). The noword new event condition in our st ...
Word-class-changing inflection and morphological theory
... all-or-nothing features. Some linguists (e.g. Dressler 1989, Luraghi 1994) have discussed inflection and derivation in terms of prototypicality, pointing out that some types of affixes are prototypically inflectional (e.g. case affixes and person/number agreement affixes), whereas others are prototy ...
... all-or-nothing features. Some linguists (e.g. Dressler 1989, Luraghi 1994) have discussed inflection and derivation in terms of prototypicality, pointing out that some types of affixes are prototypically inflectional (e.g. case affixes and person/number agreement affixes), whereas others are prototy ...
On the Reciprocal in Ndebele - Nordic Journal of African Studies
... marker (SM) and object marker (OM) that cross-reference noun phrases (NPs), tense/aspect, modality, etc. are prefixed. The reciprocal in Ndebele, like in most Bantu languages, is clearly marked by the verbal suffix -an-. It denotes “action […] performed […] by someone or something upon another and v ...
... marker (SM) and object marker (OM) that cross-reference noun phrases (NPs), tense/aspect, modality, etc. are prefixed. The reciprocal in Ndebele, like in most Bantu languages, is clearly marked by the verbal suffix -an-. It denotes “action […] performed […] by someone or something upon another and v ...
The Definite Article and Possessive Marking in Amharic
... the Minimalist Program (2004), we would like to treat the Amharic article as an inflectional suffix. We furthermore would like to assume that the noun is the semantic and syntactic head of the nominal phrase and that the indefinite determiner and, demonstratives, and quantifiers are selected by the ...
... the Minimalist Program (2004), we would like to treat the Amharic article as an inflectional suffix. We furthermore would like to assume that the noun is the semantic and syntactic head of the nominal phrase and that the indefinite determiner and, demonstratives, and quantifiers are selected by the ...
Verb Resource Book
... The first principal part is the first person singular, present tense. It usually ends in the letter “-ō.” The second principal part is the present active infinitive. It usually ends in “-re” and can be used both to help identify the conjugation and to form the present stem. You can form the present ...
... The first principal part is the first person singular, present tense. It usually ends in the letter “-ō.” The second principal part is the present active infinitive. It usually ends in “-re” and can be used both to help identify the conjugation and to form the present stem. You can form the present ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... that a verb cannot occur with a sister NP (a direct object). Such verbs are often called intransitive. The frame +[__NP], in contrast, indicates that the verb requires a direct object. Such verbs are called transitive. Verbs (such as study) that optionally take a direct object have the subcategoriza ...
... that a verb cannot occur with a sister NP (a direct object). Such verbs are often called intransitive. The frame +[__NP], in contrast, indicates that the verb requires a direct object. Such verbs are called transitive. Verbs (such as study) that optionally take a direct object have the subcategoriza ...
The Tamil Case System
... NMG) as consisting of a finite number of cases1 (realized morphologically as nominal or pronominal suffixes), to some of which postpositional suffixes may be added. In these traditional analyses there is always a clear distinction made between postpositional morphemes and case endings. Thus the usua ...
... NMG) as consisting of a finite number of cases1 (realized morphologically as nominal or pronominal suffixes), to some of which postpositional suffixes may be added. In these traditional analyses there is always a clear distinction made between postpositional morphemes and case endings. Thus the usua ...
Verbal inflection and overflow auxiliaries
... into the derivation. The question for this type of approach is not in explaining why auxiliaries can appear, but in limiting them to those environments where no simple inflected verb exists: if auxiliaries are a freely-available way to introduce inflectional features into a derivation, there is no ...
... into the derivation. The question for this type of approach is not in explaining why auxiliaries can appear, but in limiting them to those environments where no simple inflected verb exists: if auxiliaries are a freely-available way to introduce inflectional features into a derivation, there is no ...
Parts of speech
... most important words in a phrase, e.g. “BBC” from “British Broadcasting Corporation”. In grammar abbreviated forms of auxiliary verbs are common, e.g. ‘d = ...
... most important words in a phrase, e.g. “BBC” from “British Broadcasting Corporation”. In grammar abbreviated forms of auxiliary verbs are common, e.g. ‘d = ...
ANOTHER LOOK AT PARTICIPLES AND
... 3. All premodifying participle-looking words in English (whether derived by -en or ing) and those postmodifying ones that are taken to be adjectives (cf. Test B and (13a)) are stative. Bresnan (to appear) puts this in the following way. "It is clear that adjective conversion in general denotes a sta ...
... 3. All premodifying participle-looking words in English (whether derived by -en or ing) and those postmodifying ones that are taken to be adjectives (cf. Test B and (13a)) are stative. Bresnan (to appear) puts this in the following way. "It is clear that adjective conversion in general denotes a sta ...
1 Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Old Turkic and Altai
... According to Heine (1993: 48ff.), during the period of shift from full lexical verb to grammaticalized functor element, there is a certain amount of ambiguity associated with the use of the not-yet semantically bleached auxiliary element. Thus, a form may have lexical- (including serial-) type funct ...
... According to Heine (1993: 48ff.), during the period of shift from full lexical verb to grammaticalized functor element, there is a certain amount of ambiguity associated with the use of the not-yet semantically bleached auxiliary element. Thus, a form may have lexical- (including serial-) type funct ...
Language Structure Assignment 7: Key to Seminar
... (The reason is that these structures can be expanded to structures where the adjective functions as a predicative adjective after a form of be: … as soon as it is possible for you to come; … as it is usual for us to do.) When used in these senses, look and smell are linking verbs in English; they th ...
... (The reason is that these structures can be expanded to structures where the adjective functions as a predicative adjective after a form of be: … as soon as it is possible for you to come; … as it is usual for us to do.) When used in these senses, look and smell are linking verbs in English; they th ...
Early comprehension of the Spanish plural.
... Spanish-speaking children show – for novel words – an earlier systematic production of /-s/ in development than /-es/ (Bedore & Leonard, ; Kernan & Blount ; Pérez-Pereira, ). Thus, a child learning Spanish must learn two rather than three cues; in addition the statistical distribution of ...
... Spanish-speaking children show – for novel words – an earlier systematic production of /-s/ in development than /-es/ (Bedore & Leonard, ; Kernan & Blount ; Pérez-Pereira, ). Thus, a child learning Spanish must learn two rather than three cues; in addition the statistical distribution of ...
COMPARISON IN BAMBARA: AN INFINITIVAL VERB PHRASE* Jan
... AI i ka baw ka ca ka temen Ali his goats are many and surpass sheep over 'Ali has more goats than sheep' ...
... AI i ka baw ka ca ka temen Ali his goats are many and surpass sheep over 'Ali has more goats than sheep' ...
CHAPTER 5 Negation
... Negative raising moves not up into the main clause of a sentence and combines it with an auxiliary or the appropriate form of do. The meaning of the sentence does not change. As illustrated in (23), the negative raising rule can be applied to a sentence when the main verb expresses an opinion (i.e., ...
... Negative raising moves not up into the main clause of a sentence and combines it with an auxiliary or the appropriate form of do. The meaning of the sentence does not change. As illustrated in (23), the negative raising rule can be applied to a sentence when the main verb expresses an opinion (i.e., ...
Chapter 9
... The ‘clause’ is defined here as the minimal unit of syntactic organization that includes a verbal element, finite or non-finite. Thus it encompasses the ‘verb phrase’ (predicate and any modifiers) and any ‘noun phrases’ (nouns and any modifiers) needed to fill the predicate’s argument slots. The not ...
... The ‘clause’ is defined here as the minimal unit of syntactic organization that includes a verbal element, finite or non-finite. Thus it encompasses the ‘verb phrase’ (predicate and any modifiers) and any ‘noun phrases’ (nouns and any modifiers) needed to fill the predicate’s argument slots. The not ...