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... • An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark. That’s a great act! • A compound sentence is made up of two sentences joined by a comma (,) and a conjunction, such as and, or, or but. A. Write whether each sentence is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or excla ...
... • An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark. That’s a great act! • A compound sentence is made up of two sentences joined by a comma (,) and a conjunction, such as and, or, or but. A. Write whether each sentence is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or excla ...
The Oxford Guide to English Usage CONTENTS Table of Contents
... I should or I would 4.27 I who, you who, etc. 4.28 like 4.29 -lily adverbs 4.30 may or might 4.31 measurement, nouns of 4.32 need 4.33 neither...nor 4.34 neither (pronoun) 4.35 none (pronoun) 4.36 ought 4.37 participles 4.38 preposition at end 4.39 quantity, nouns of 4.40 reflexive pronouns 4.41 rel ...
... I should or I would 4.27 I who, you who, etc. 4.28 like 4.29 -lily adverbs 4.30 may or might 4.31 measurement, nouns of 4.32 need 4.33 neither...nor 4.34 neither (pronoun) 4.35 none (pronoun) 4.36 ought 4.37 participles 4.38 preposition at end 4.39 quantity, nouns of 4.40 reflexive pronouns 4.41 rel ...
Introduction
... the present, English-Uzbek and Uzbek-English Dictionaries had not been available1. That’s why it is necessary to learn and compare English and Uzbek lexicology, grammar and phonetics. Compound words are words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free forms. In a compound w ...
... the present, English-Uzbek and Uzbek-English Dictionaries had not been available1. That’s why it is necessary to learn and compare English and Uzbek lexicology, grammar and phonetics. Compound words are words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free forms. In a compound w ...
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... In this paper, I ask two questions: (i) Is the null object in the binaa participle an example of a parasitic gap, and (ii) if not, what are the conditions on this participle construction? These questions are of interest because linguistic theory is largely concerned with the licensing of the overt c ...
... In this paper, I ask two questions: (i) Is the null object in the binaa participle an example of a parasitic gap, and (ii) if not, what are the conditions on this participle construction? These questions are of interest because linguistic theory is largely concerned with the licensing of the overt c ...
VCV Words with Long and Short Vowels
... about it in your own comic. Use examples from the text to help explain how an illustrated book is made. Create a comic using the cat and the dog that watched as the illustrations were created in What Do Illustrators Do? Draw and write what illustrators do. Use details from page 246 for Step 1 and pa ...
... about it in your own comic. Use examples from the text to help explain how an illustrated book is made. Create a comic using the cat and the dog that watched as the illustrations were created in What Do Illustrators Do? Draw and write what illustrators do. Use details from page 246 for Step 1 and pa ...
On past participles and their external arguments
... care of by Voice (see e.g. Kratzer, 1996, and many others) and that Voice can take a verbal participial complement. If the external argument of the participle appears as a DP in the specifier of Voice, as in active constructions, the result is an active past participle. If it instead takes the form ...
... care of by Voice (see e.g. Kratzer, 1996, and many others) and that Voice can take a verbal participial complement. If the external argument of the participle appears as a DP in the specifier of Voice, as in active constructions, the result is an active past participle. If it instead takes the form ...
1. Introduction 1 2. Three Major Types of Actants
... I chose the term actant over other terms for the following three reasons: • First, to emphasize the parallelism between all three types of actants. I want the same term on all levels of representation, and it is preferable to speak of semantic and syntactic actants rather than semantic and syntactic ...
... I chose the term actant over other terms for the following three reasons: • First, to emphasize the parallelism between all three types of actants. I want the same term on all levels of representation, and it is preferable to speak of semantic and syntactic actants rather than semantic and syntactic ...
The message in the navel: (ir)realisness in Swahili
... In this paper I will use the expression “Tense-Aspect-Modality” (TAM) to refer to a set of prefixes and suffixes that are attached to verb stems in Swahili, even though some of these affixes signal information that falls outside the scope of traditional definitions of tense, aspect, and modality (se ...
... In this paper I will use the expression “Tense-Aspect-Modality” (TAM) to refer to a set of prefixes and suffixes that are attached to verb stems in Swahili, even though some of these affixes signal information that falls outside the scope of traditional definitions of tense, aspect, and modality (se ...
ADJECTIVE + PARTICIPLE
... 1) Don’t use an apostrophe with a non-possessive plural noun, unless it’s an acronym, letters, numbers or something that’s hard to read otherwise. INCORRECT: How many kid’s do you have? The Defendant’s rest, Your Honor. When was the last time you saw the Brown’s? I had some errand’s to run. On ...
... 1) Don’t use an apostrophe with a non-possessive plural noun, unless it’s an acronym, letters, numbers or something that’s hard to read otherwise. INCORRECT: How many kid’s do you have? The Defendant’s rest, Your Honor. When was the last time you saw the Brown’s? I had some errand’s to run. On ...
Thoughts on grammaticalization
... example is the development of the Latin preposition ad ‘at, towards’ into the Spanish direct object marker a. It must be made clear at the outset that this treatment is preliminary, incomplete and imperfect. It presents little more than what has been found out in the two centuries in which the subje ...
... example is the development of the Latin preposition ad ‘at, towards’ into the Spanish direct object marker a. It must be made clear at the outset that this treatment is preliminary, incomplete and imperfect. It presents little more than what has been found out in the two centuries in which the subje ...
Thoughts on grammaticalization
... example is the development of the Latin preposition ad ‘at, towards’ into the Spanish direct object marker a. It must be made clear at the outset that this treatment is preliminary, incomplete and imperfect. It presents little more than what has been found out in the two centuries in which the subje ...
... example is the development of the Latin preposition ad ‘at, towards’ into the Spanish direct object marker a. It must be made clear at the outset that this treatment is preliminary, incomplete and imperfect. It presents little more than what has been found out in the two centuries in which the subje ...
predication and equation in copular sentences: russian vs. english
... to be derived from it ? If so, how are equative and specificational sentences to be derived from their predicational source in a compositional way ? English is a language in which, at least superficially, equative, predicational and specificational copular sentences resemble one another in surface m ...
... to be derived from it ? If so, how are equative and specificational sentences to be derived from their predicational source in a compositional way ? English is a language in which, at least superficially, equative, predicational and specificational copular sentences resemble one another in surface m ...
INFLECTION OF ADJECTIVES
... last syllable, such as profound, remote, etc., and also others that cannot be easily described, such as pleasant, cruel, quiet, etc., or in these same words and m a n y others m a y use both the old form in -er and -est and the newer analytic form with more and most, as in pleasanter or more pleasan ...
... last syllable, such as profound, remote, etc., and also others that cannot be easily described, such as pleasant, cruel, quiet, etc., or in these same words and m a n y others m a y use both the old form in -er and -est and the newer analytic form with more and most, as in pleasanter or more pleasan ...
A Large-Scale Japanese CFG Derived from a Syntactically
... Since the sentences of a normal, syntactically annotated corpus have “semantically correct” structure, the derived grammar creates many parse results, representing a different possible reading, i.e. meaning. A syntactic parser does not deal with semantics. Hence, it is difficult to deal with ambigui ...
... Since the sentences of a normal, syntactically annotated corpus have “semantically correct” structure, the derived grammar creates many parse results, representing a different possible reading, i.e. meaning. A syntactic parser does not deal with semantics. Hence, it is difficult to deal with ambigui ...
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... The book is designed for the students of the senior courses of the University faculties of foreign languages and Teachers' Training Colleges. The aim of the book is therefore to lead the students to a scientific understanding of new assumptions and views of language as system, keeping abreast of the ...
... The book is designed for the students of the senior courses of the University faculties of foreign languages and Teachers' Training Colleges. The aim of the book is therefore to lead the students to a scientific understanding of new assumptions and views of language as system, keeping abreast of the ...
Polish numerals and quantifiers: A syntactic analysis of subject‐verb
... (masculine gendered nouns referring to humans) in subject position. This is found even with the numerals 2,3,4 which previously showed agreement. Compare (1a) with (2a) below – with (1a) there was no agreement mismatch, but with (2a) there is: ...
... (masculine gendered nouns referring to humans) in subject position. This is found even with the numerals 2,3,4 which previously showed agreement. Compare (1a) with (2a) below – with (1a) there was no agreement mismatch, but with (2a) there is: ...
1 Paper accepted for publication in Language Sciences Explaining
... Because of its elegance, Perlmutter and Moore’s explanation of the Russian data is quite attractive. It can therefore be argued that as long as no alternative explanation is provided, both the use of null forms and the rule that the case of the subject of the infinitive is dative cannot be rejected ...
... Because of its elegance, Perlmutter and Moore’s explanation of the Russian data is quite attractive. It can therefore be argued that as long as no alternative explanation is provided, both the use of null forms and the rule that the case of the subject of the infinitive is dative cannot be rejected ...
Arabic Loanwords in Tatar and Swahili: Morphological Assimilation
... Swahili, a Bantu family language, and Tatar, an Altai family language, are both agglutinative languages. Therefore, there should be a general tendency toward Arabic word assimilation. While analyzing loanwords in Swahili Th. C. Schaderberg asserts that throughout its history, Swahili has been a cont ...
... Swahili, a Bantu family language, and Tatar, an Altai family language, are both agglutinative languages. Therefore, there should be a general tendency toward Arabic word assimilation. While analyzing loanwords in Swahili Th. C. Schaderberg asserts that throughout its history, Swahili has been a cont ...
Verbs in spoken sentence processing Goede, Dieuwke de
... associations between the extracted element (argument) and its subcategorizer (verb). Thus, it involves identifying a verb and associating the filler directly with an unsaturated position in the argument structure of the verb. So in example (10) the DAH predicts activation of the boy after the verb a ...
... associations between the extracted element (argument) and its subcategorizer (verb). Thus, it involves identifying a verb and associating the filler directly with an unsaturated position in the argument structure of the verb. So in example (10) the DAH predicts activation of the boy after the verb a ...
Word - The Open University
... The Acknowledgements section is also used to bring to your attention any other Special Restrictions which may apply to the content. For example there may be times when the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Sharealike licence does not apply to any of the content even if owned by us (The Open University ...
... The Acknowledgements section is also used to bring to your attention any other Special Restrictions which may apply to the content. For example there may be times when the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Sharealike licence does not apply to any of the content even if owned by us (The Open University ...
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... and the set of conventions on when to use which relation. Although dependency relations would be ideally expressive, exclusive, coherent and concise, there are often trade-offs between some of these properties. As such, it becomes a challenge to balance a grammar around them. Considering the drawbac ...
... and the set of conventions on when to use which relation. Although dependency relations would be ideally expressive, exclusive, coherent and concise, there are often trade-offs between some of these properties. As such, it becomes a challenge to balance a grammar around them. Considering the drawbac ...
Kamasau (Wand Tuan) Grammar Morpheme to Sentence
... Province by about 700 people. Wand Tuan is part of the Marienberg stock-level family of the Torricelli Phylum (Laycock, 1973:16,74). This description is hierarchical, beginning with morphology and word structure and proceeding through phrases and clauses. I view language as a functional, dynamic sys ...
... Province by about 700 people. Wand Tuan is part of the Marienberg stock-level family of the Torricelli Phylum (Laycock, 1973:16,74). This description is hierarchical, beginning with morphology and word structure and proceeding through phrases and clauses. I view language as a functional, dynamic sys ...
Pictorial English grammar
... to school also functions as an adverb. This shows that when the prepositional phrase functions as adverb, it has a tire, and that adverbs themselves also have a tire. The straightforward explanation of the function of the adverb is: adverbs modify verbs. For example, yesterday can be compared in the ...
... to school also functions as an adverb. This shows that when the prepositional phrase functions as adverb, it has a tire, and that adverbs themselves also have a tire. The straightforward explanation of the function of the adverb is: adverbs modify verbs. For example, yesterday can be compared in the ...
Final Assessment
... The original KISS sequence (the “Grade-Level” books) began in third grade. When I was asked to make a book for second-graders, I did, but it was focused primarily on the materials that are now in the First Book of this series. Now working toward an “Ideal” sequence, I’ve been puzzled about what to i ...
... The original KISS sequence (the “Grade-Level” books) began in third grade. When I was asked to make a book for second-graders, I did, but it was focused primarily on the materials that are now in the First Book of this series. Now working toward an “Ideal” sequence, I’ve been puzzled about what to i ...
Where the Past is in the Perfect
... to the main verb stem. This participle is also used to form passive constructions, though in this use it is often referred to as the passive participle. Each of the traditional names for the participle (past, perfect, and passive) is either theoretically loaded or appropriate only for a subset of it ...
... to the main verb stem. This participle is also used to form passive constructions, though in this use it is often referred to as the passive participle. Each of the traditional names for the participle (past, perfect, and passive) is either theoretically loaded or appropriate only for a subset of it ...