The grammar of hitting and breaking in Kimaragang Dusun
... window broke) but systematically impossible with hit verbs (John hit the window vs. *The window hit). A second test involves a kind of “possessor ascension”, a paraphrase in which the possessor of a body-part noun can be expressed as direct object. This paraphrase is grammatical with hit verbs (I hi ...
... window broke) but systematically impossible with hit verbs (John hit the window vs. *The window hit). A second test involves a kind of “possessor ascension”, a paraphrase in which the possessor of a body-part noun can be expressed as direct object. This paraphrase is grammatical with hit verbs (I hi ...
Double Double, Morphology and Trouble: Looking into
... We adopt a similar analysis of reciprocals in Indonesian to the analysis of Alsina (1997) and Butt (1997) for causative verbs in Chichewa and permissives in Urdu, respectively: the reciprocal verb formation in Indonesian is a type of complex predicate in that the elements of the reciprocal combine t ...
... We adopt a similar analysis of reciprocals in Indonesian to the analysis of Alsina (1997) and Butt (1997) for causative verbs in Chichewa and permissives in Urdu, respectively: the reciprocal verb formation in Indonesian is a type of complex predicate in that the elements of the reciprocal combine t ...
The semantic constraints on the VERB + zhĕ nouns in
... Whether –zhe is a suffix or a bound root remains controversial. Here I adopt the argument in Packard (2000) that –zhe is a word formation affix because there is a clear contrast between –zhe and the bound root, -yuan, which means ‘person whose job is X’. Words formed with –yuan tend to have meanings ...
... Whether –zhe is a suffix or a bound root remains controversial. Here I adopt the argument in Packard (2000) that –zhe is a word formation affix because there is a clear contrast between –zhe and the bound root, -yuan, which means ‘person whose job is X’. Words formed with –yuan tend to have meanings ...
MOVEMENT TRIGGERS AND THE ETIOLOGY OF
... the Italian adposition fa and historical data show that the form [YP [XP]] is attested at least one century and a half before the form [XP], so that it is easily conceivable an elapsed process of clause contraction. I will try to show here that this phenomenon has been driven by syntactic movement. ...
... the Italian adposition fa and historical data show that the form [YP [XP]] is attested at least one century and a half before the form [XP], so that it is easily conceivable an elapsed process of clause contraction. I will try to show here that this phenomenon has been driven by syntactic movement. ...
II PRONOUNS APPENDIX B When we speak or write about different
... Study the following sentences and write *R* if the underlined pronoun shows that the action returns to its doer (if it is used as the object of a verb or a preposition) and write *E* if the underlined pronoun puts an emphasis on the doer of an action, (a) Rakesh himself had said this. ...
... Study the following sentences and write *R* if the underlined pronoun shows that the action returns to its doer (if it is used as the object of a verb or a preposition) and write *E* if the underlined pronoun puts an emphasis on the doer of an action, (a) Rakesh himself had said this. ...
Building Statives
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
Coordination of Unlikes without Unlike Categories
... This allows the verb to take as complements APs, NPs, or conjunctions of AP and NP categories, such as ‘Pat became [wealthy and a Republican]’. Verbs like ‘to grow’ on the other hand, specify for [COMPS hAPi] and are therefore unable to take complements which are of a type more general than adj. Thu ...
... This allows the verb to take as complements APs, NPs, or conjunctions of AP and NP categories, such as ‘Pat became [wealthy and a Republican]’. Verbs like ‘to grow’ on the other hand, specify for [COMPS hAPi] and are therefore unable to take complements which are of a type more general than adj. Thu ...
Building Statives - Semantics Archive
... that syntactic decomposition doesn’t seem an option because in many cases, the required decomposition does not match the morphological structure of the verbs in question. In Kratzer 1998, I proposed that those verbs that allow target state passives and modification by für-PPs are verbs that are cons ...
... that syntactic decomposition doesn’t seem an option because in many cases, the required decomposition does not match the morphological structure of the verbs in question. In Kratzer 1998, I proposed that those verbs that allow target state passives and modification by für-PPs are verbs that are cons ...
Grammar Practice Workbook Grade 12 Grammar and Composition
... Commas and Coordinate Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Commas and Nonessential Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 ...
... Commas and Coordinate Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Commas and Nonessential Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 ...
89212104-Ch.8
... The claim that noun phrases have the structure in (65a) is known as the DP Hypothesis. It is believed that noun phrases include the category Agr under D which parallels the Agr category of I in IPs. Spec-head agreement phenomenon in DP, too. English does not have rich agreement inflection. ...
... The claim that noun phrases have the structure in (65a) is known as the DP Hypothesis. It is believed that noun phrases include the category Agr under D which parallels the Agr category of I in IPs. Spec-head agreement phenomenon in DP, too. English does not have rich agreement inflection. ...
SOME NOTES ON ENGLISH AND SLOVAK PERSONAL PRONOUNS
... My, obcania tejto krajiny, rozhodneme o svojej buducnostl. ...
... My, obcania tejto krajiny, rozhodneme o svojej buducnostl. ...
Temporal Properties of Persian and English
... future, and future perfect, Persian has only five tense forms; it lacks future perfect tense and present perfect tense is being used instead. Inherent aspect and tense are syntactically instantiated in both English and Persian. The model that has been followed is based on Arad's (1996) and Borer's ( ...
... future, and future perfect, Persian has only five tense forms; it lacks future perfect tense and present perfect tense is being used instead. Inherent aspect and tense are syntactically instantiated in both English and Persian. The model that has been followed is based on Arad's (1996) and Borer's ( ...
THE SIMPLE SENTENCE: COMMUNICATIVE TYPES
... 3) Alternative questions imply a choice between two or more possible answers. Like “yes/no” questions, they open with a verb operator, but the suggestion of choice expressed by the disjunctive conjunction or makes the “yes/no” answer impossible. The part of the question before the conjunction or is ...
... 3) Alternative questions imply a choice between two or more possible answers. Like “yes/no” questions, they open with a verb operator, but the suggestion of choice expressed by the disjunctive conjunction or makes the “yes/no” answer impossible. The part of the question before the conjunction or is ...
a subtitling analysis of verbs and verb phrases in divergent movie by
... language, Italian language, French language, and etc. Some people can learn foreign language without join a course or something else, they can learn foreign language through entertainment like movies, songs, novel, books, article, drama, and etc. One of the entertainment which has to use translatio ...
... language, Italian language, French language, and etc. Some people can learn foreign language without join a course or something else, they can learn foreign language through entertainment like movies, songs, novel, books, article, drama, and etc. One of the entertainment which has to use translatio ...
Participle-Converbs in Iron Ossetic: Syntactic and Semantic
... 'perceptual unity'" (as in (6), where standing is not a manner of watching the TV, but is simply a state of affairs concomittant with the action in the main clause). Obviously, there are borderline cases, but (4) and (6) are quite clearly different for the native speakers. It is important to note th ...
... 'perceptual unity'" (as in (6), where standing is not a manner of watching the TV, but is simply a state of affairs concomittant with the action in the main clause). Obviously, there are borderline cases, but (4) and (6) are quite clearly different for the native speakers. It is important to note th ...
Tense and Aspect in Urdu
... yielding in imminent future reading, which can be stated as in (1). (17) Imminent Future: E R & R > S & the event will take place with great certainty, i.e., minus the modal readings the future usually carries. The role of the case marker in (0b), however, poses a puzzle. As shown below (section 3.3 ...
... yielding in imminent future reading, which can be stated as in (1). (17) Imminent Future: E R & R > S & the event will take place with great certainty, i.e., minus the modal readings the future usually carries. The role of the case marker in (0b), however, poses a puzzle. As shown below (section 3.3 ...
Participle Phrases
... Participle phrases are understood to work as adjectives even when they seem to have very adverbial meanings such as the examples of present participles above. You may remember from the chapter on adjectives that participles can be used just like any adjective that comes after an article and before t ...
... Participle phrases are understood to work as adjectives even when they seem to have very adverbial meanings such as the examples of present participles above. You may remember from the chapter on adjectives that participles can be used just like any adjective that comes after an article and before t ...
Caesar Selections - Online Grammatical Appendix - 04-09
... a. Most nouns ending in –is are declined like hostis. Arar (for Araris), M., the (river) Saone, and Liger (for Ligeris), M., the (river) Loire, are declined in the singular like turris. Ignis, M., fire, and nāvis, F., ship, often have the ablative –ī. Mare, N., sea, is declined like cubīle, but appe ...
... a. Most nouns ending in –is are declined like hostis. Arar (for Araris), M., the (river) Saone, and Liger (for Ligeris), M., the (river) Loire, are declined in the singular like turris. Ignis, M., fire, and nāvis, F., ship, often have the ablative –ī. Mare, N., sea, is declined like cubīle, but appe ...
Inside and Outside the Middle - The University of British Columbia
... both intransitive and reflexive functions, the most obvious suggestion is that what is involved is a middle, in the sense of Kemmer (1993).4 The middle is a network of constructions with overlapping properties. The key feature that these constructions share is that they are syntactically intransitiv ...
... both intransitive and reflexive functions, the most obvious suggestion is that what is involved is a middle, in the sense of Kemmer (1993).4 The middle is a network of constructions with overlapping properties. The key feature that these constructions share is that they are syntactically intransitiv ...
Pronouns
... 2. Correct grammar reveals the writer’s attention to detail, competency, and professionalism. If it seems like the writer is too distracted or sloppy to learn the rules of grammar, it begs the question, where else are they distracted and sloppy. Your written words are representing you. You want the ...
... 2. Correct grammar reveals the writer’s attention to detail, competency, and professionalism. If it seems like the writer is too distracted or sloppy to learn the rules of grammar, it begs the question, where else are they distracted and sloppy. Your written words are representing you. You want the ...
Long Head Movement is Short Head Movement
... orders are allowed in Dutch, but in either case the structure behaves like a monoclausal one and the evidence for clustering is the same (Evers 1975). In cases with more than two verbs, the cluster-internal order in Dutch obligatorily has governing verbs before governed verbs, but this is an acciden ...
... orders are allowed in Dutch, but in either case the structure behaves like a monoclausal one and the evidence for clustering is the same (Evers 1975). In cases with more than two verbs, the cluster-internal order in Dutch obligatorily has governing verbs before governed verbs, but this is an acciden ...
Dutch Tenses and the Analysis of a Literary Text: The Case of Marga
... simple past. In the Dutch original: "Het Staat vast dat de twee monteurs [...] eerst aanlegden bij De Salamander"; "Het kan zijn dat ze het nog te koud of te donker vonden [...]"; "hei is ook mogelijk dat het kwam door [...]." Surely, these are unusual combinations of plain narrative and objective, ...
... simple past. In the Dutch original: "Het Staat vast dat de twee monteurs [...] eerst aanlegden bij De Salamander"; "Het kan zijn dat ze het nog te koud of te donker vonden [...]"; "hei is ook mogelijk dat het kwam door [...]." Surely, these are unusual combinations of plain narrative and objective, ...
vytautas magnus university
... language is important not only for communities who use it as the means of communication, but for international communication as well. The Lithuanian language is important for its users to preserve the culture and traditions as well as being the backbone of the nation’s identity. The significance of ...
... language is important not only for communities who use it as the means of communication, but for international communication as well. The Lithuanian language is important for its users to preserve the culture and traditions as well as being the backbone of the nation’s identity. The significance of ...
Prametric variation in number
... verb follows the Latin pattern shown in (7), a sentence with a dative subject (mihi), an impersonal verb that means modality (licet) and an object (the infinitive clause negligenti esse).6 Deontic existential constructions with infinitive clause in object position are introduced in section 6. ...
... verb follows the Latin pattern shown in (7), a sentence with a dative subject (mihi), an impersonal verb that means modality (licet) and an object (the infinitive clause negligenti esse).6 Deontic existential constructions with infinitive clause in object position are introduced in section 6. ...
Latin for Children: Primer C
... The options for number (which tells you how many, as you no doubt remember) are singular (one) and plural (more than one). The options for case, which helps you determine the noun’s role in the sentence, are: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and ablative. Now, listing the different forms of ...
... The options for number (which tells you how many, as you no doubt remember) are singular (one) and plural (more than one). The options for case, which helps you determine the noun’s role in the sentence, are: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and ablative. Now, listing the different forms of ...