Constructing verb paradigms in French: adult construals and
... Bloom et al. 1980; Chenu and Jisa 2006; de Villiers 1985; Naigles and HoffGinsburg 1998). Finally, within morphology, differences in meaning can be signalled by differences in form or by differences in the linguistic constructions in which a form is used. If children grasp this pragmatic principle e ...
... Bloom et al. 1980; Chenu and Jisa 2006; de Villiers 1985; Naigles and HoffGinsburg 1998). Finally, within morphology, differences in meaning can be signalled by differences in form or by differences in the linguistic constructions in which a form is used. If children grasp this pragmatic principle e ...
Present Simple
... sometimes we use the Present Continuous to say that we are in the process of doing a longer action which is in progress; however, we might not be doing it at this exact second Sometimes, speakers use the Present Continuous to indicate that something will or will not happen in the near future. The ...
... sometimes we use the Present Continuous to say that we are in the process of doing a longer action which is in progress; however, we might not be doing it at this exact second Sometimes, speakers use the Present Continuous to indicate that something will or will not happen in the near future. The ...
Bakalářská práce
... usually used when we do not know or we do not want to mention who or what is doing the action, or in the case of emphasizing the object. We wrote the test. The test was written by us. ...
... usually used when we do not know or we do not want to mention who or what is doing the action, or in the case of emphasizing the object. We wrote the test. The test was written by us. ...
Old, Middle, and Early Modern Morphology and Syntax through
... In this book, we’ll examine linguistic characteristics of several texts throughout the early history of English, using basic grammatical terminology. For each text, we will focus on issues such as the word order, the endings on nouns and verbs, the presence of auxiliaries, articles, and pronouns, ...
... In this book, we’ll examine linguistic characteristics of several texts throughout the early history of English, using basic grammatical terminology. For each text, we will focus on issues such as the word order, the endings on nouns and verbs, the presence of auxiliaries, articles, and pronouns, ...
Bulgarian reference grammar
... with a population of 7,351,234.1 Although relatively small in comparison to some other countries, Bulgaria is extremely rich historically, culturally, geographically and linguistically. Quite a number of speakers of Bulgarian live outside of Bulgaria, with significant populations in, among others, U ...
... with a population of 7,351,234.1 Although relatively small in comparison to some other countries, Bulgaria is extremely rich historically, culturally, geographically and linguistically. Quite a number of speakers of Bulgarian live outside of Bulgaria, with significant populations in, among others, U ...
Towards the Automatic Mining of Similes in Literary Texts
... or the canonical vehicle by a related noun or an extended noun phrase. The second and last experiment (Mpouli & Ganascia, 2016b) studies noun+colour term (CT) similes of the type “storm-green sky” in order to investigate if their use of colours correlates the Berlin and Kay’s hypothesis (1969) and h ...
... or the canonical vehicle by a related noun or an extended noun phrase. The second and last experiment (Mpouli & Ganascia, 2016b) studies noun+colour term (CT) similes of the type “storm-green sky” in order to investigate if their use of colours correlates the Berlin and Kay’s hypothesis (1969) and h ...
Remarks on Denominal Verbs
... they are composed of semantic categories. In this respect they represent different schools of semantics. H&K follow the “meaning-is-syntactic” line staked out most emphatically by Hornstein (1984), and embraced in varying forms by many other workers associated with Chomsky. B&W’s work on the other h ...
... they are composed of semantic categories. In this respect they represent different schools of semantics. H&K follow the “meaning-is-syntactic” line staked out most emphatically by Hornstein (1984), and embraced in varying forms by many other workers associated with Chomsky. B&W’s work on the other h ...
Sample: Lesson One - Pro Lingua Associates
... Only a few English nouns are masculine or feminine. This is good news if you are learning English because it means that you rarely need to think about whether a noun is masculine or feminine! ...
... Only a few English nouns are masculine or feminine. This is good news if you are learning English because it means that you rarely need to think about whether a noun is masculine or feminine! ...
Let and allow
... In English, to talk about giving and refusing permission, we can use both let and allow. Both words mean 'give permission to do something'. First, here's Matt using let. ...
... In English, to talk about giving and refusing permission, we can use both let and allow. Both words mean 'give permission to do something'. First, here's Matt using let. ...
A constructional approach to English verbal gerunds
... verb it is derived from, the phrase formed by a verbal gerund and its complements will look like a VP. And, since a gerund selects for both a subject and a specifier, it will be eligible to head either a nonfin-head-subj-cx, which combines a head with an accusative NP subject, or a noun-poss-cx, whi ...
... verb it is derived from, the phrase formed by a verbal gerund and its complements will look like a VP. And, since a gerund selects for both a subject and a specifier, it will be eligible to head either a nonfin-head-subj-cx, which combines a head with an accusative NP subject, or a noun-poss-cx, whi ...
This chapter makes theoretical contributions to construction grammar
... handle in the framework of construction grammar, but this issue goes beyond the scope of our article, which focuses on Russian rather than English. A highly inflected language, such as Russian, clearly marks elements in terms of their roles in a construction, relegating word order to pragmatic funct ...
... handle in the framework of construction grammar, but this issue goes beyond the scope of our article, which focuses on Russian rather than English. A highly inflected language, such as Russian, clearly marks elements in terms of their roles in a construction, relegating word order to pragmatic funct ...
Year_4_LY_1695.1_EDIT_TEXT_DW
... Year 4 ACELY 1691 Read different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and ...
... Year 4 ACELY 1691 Read different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and ...
A brief grammar of Euskara - University of the Basque Country
... provided in different sections. For instance, you may notice that the determiner a is sometimes glossed as 'the', sometimes as 'det'. The reason becomes clear, I hope, in the section devoted to the determiner a, where it is shown that it is not really a definite article ('the'), but very often it ca ...
... provided in different sections. For instance, you may notice that the determiner a is sometimes glossed as 'the', sometimes as 'det'. The reason becomes clear, I hope, in the section devoted to the determiner a, where it is shown that it is not really a definite article ('the'), but very often it ca ...
French Level 1 Study Guide
... All information in this document is subject to change without notice. This document is provided for informational purposes only and Rosetta Stone Ltd. makes no guarantees, representations or warranties, either express or implied, about the information contained within the document or about the docum ...
... All information in this document is subject to change without notice. This document is provided for informational purposes only and Rosetta Stone Ltd. makes no guarantees, representations or warranties, either express or implied, about the information contained within the document or about the docum ...
the conditional tense
... In Spanish, infinitives are not preceded by their equivalent of the word to. They have 3 groups of verbs which have their own ‘surname’. ...
... In Spanish, infinitives are not preceded by their equivalent of the word to. They have 3 groups of verbs which have their own ‘surname’. ...
- Scholar@UC
... Plural, Books. Tell the number of the following nouns. Books, hours, paper, pen, i~k, boy, girl, ~abl e , house, cart, ...
... Plural, Books. Tell the number of the following nouns. Books, hours, paper, pen, i~k, boy, girl, ~abl e , house, cart, ...
Reviewing Basic Sentence Patterns
... We now have become acquainted with three kinds of word groups that are used like adjectives to modify nouns. ADJECTIVE PHRASE: a girl with a dog ADJECTIVE CLAUSE: a girl who was walking her dog PARTICIPIAL PHRASE: a girl walking her dog ...
... We now have become acquainted with three kinds of word groups that are used like adjectives to modify nouns. ADJECTIVE PHRASE: a girl with a dog ADJECTIVE CLAUSE: a girl who was walking her dog PARTICIPIAL PHRASE: a girl walking her dog ...
A Structural Account of English Tenseless Clausal
... clauses: present participle and past participle. To Declerk (2006: 17), these two labels are not quite felicitous as the terms past and present are tense distinctions while participle clauses are tenseless. The researcher totally agrees with Declerk‟s view because participle clauses carry no indicat ...
... clauses: present participle and past participle. To Declerk (2006: 17), these two labels are not quite felicitous as the terms past and present are tense distinctions while participle clauses are tenseless. The researcher totally agrees with Declerk‟s view because participle clauses carry no indicat ...
Pronoun Agreement
... Ann and I play tennis. She and I are equally matched. • To check, delete the other subject. I play tennis. ...
... Ann and I play tennis. She and I are equally matched. • To check, delete the other subject. I play tennis. ...
1 The Distribution of Negative NPs and Some Typological
... d. ‘Hanako read no book.’ Hanako-wa dono hon-mo yoma-nak-atta. Hanako-Top any book read-Not-Past [Lit. I did not read any book.] In (4a-b), for example, negation is solely expressed by the postverbal particle nak, and the indefinite pronoun dare-mo would be suitably translated as ‘anybody’ or ‘every ...
... d. ‘Hanako read no book.’ Hanako-wa dono hon-mo yoma-nak-atta. Hanako-Top any book read-Not-Past [Lit. I did not read any book.] In (4a-b), for example, negation is solely expressed by the postverbal particle nak, and the indefinite pronoun dare-mo would be suitably translated as ‘anybody’ or ‘every ...
Inevitable reanalysis - Universität Konstanz
... been (e.g., in > inn ‘place in which to dwell or lodge’ in English, or derrière ‘behind’>‘backside, bottom’ in French); but such re-categorizations, performed on the fly or lexicalized, may also yield lexical categories distinct from those of an adposition’s ultimate source (e.g., English down > to d ...
... been (e.g., in > inn ‘place in which to dwell or lodge’ in English, or derrière ‘behind’>‘backside, bottom’ in French); but such re-categorizations, performed on the fly or lexicalized, may also yield lexical categories distinct from those of an adposition’s ultimate source (e.g., English down > to d ...
The Passive and the Notion of Transitivity
... All these sentences are in the simple present. The utterer merely validates the relation between the grammatical subject and the predicate, and presents what he is saying as true in itself, independent of any particular point of view. The verbs belonging to set 1 (Resemble, have, mean, fit, cost, we ...
... All these sentences are in the simple present. The utterer merely validates the relation between the grammatical subject and the predicate, and presents what he is saying as true in itself, independent of any particular point of view. The verbs belonging to set 1 (Resemble, have, mean, fit, cost, we ...
Chapter 2
... mountainous region of Cameroon‟s West and Northwest Provinces. The more southerly Grassfields Bantu communities adjoin Zone A of Narrow Bantu, particularly A10, A40, and A50. The average size of a Grassfields Bantu language community is some 50,000: this is raised by eight larger (100,000 to 300,000 ...
... mountainous region of Cameroon‟s West and Northwest Provinces. The more southerly Grassfields Bantu communities adjoin Zone A of Narrow Bantu, particularly A10, A40, and A50. The average size of a Grassfields Bantu language community is some 50,000: this is raised by eight larger (100,000 to 300,000 ...
Online Tutoring System For Essay Writing
... 1. It’s dangerous to ride a motorcycle without wearing a helmet 2. To learn a second language is to adopt a second culture. 3. The dean asked the faculty not to forget to turn in their grade reports. 4. My parents allow me to use their car over the weekend. 5. To tell him the story now might upset h ...
... 1. It’s dangerous to ride a motorcycle without wearing a helmet 2. To learn a second language is to adopt a second culture. 3. The dean asked the faculty not to forget to turn in their grade reports. 4. My parents allow me to use their car over the weekend. 5. To tell him the story now might upset h ...