The evolution of number in Otomi
... In Old Otomi, the number system in pronominals was based on a singular-dual-plural opposition, but the dual became an unstable value in the breaking up of the old dialectal continuum. The instability is witnessed in that some of the modern languages stray considerably from the original situation, w ...
... In Old Otomi, the number system in pronominals was based on a singular-dual-plural opposition, but the dual became an unstable value in the breaking up of the old dialectal continuum. The instability is witnessed in that some of the modern languages stray considerably from the original situation, w ...
Destinos: 27-52 The Main Grammar Points, and Exercises with
... Verbs in tenses of the subjunctive mood tend to be used in dependent clauses, so it is useful to understand what a clause is. Before explaining this simple grammatical term, and the difference between dependent and independent clauses, you should know that there are four types of dependent clauses t ...
... Verbs in tenses of the subjunctive mood tend to be used in dependent clauses, so it is useful to understand what a clause is. Before explaining this simple grammatical term, and the difference between dependent and independent clauses, you should know that there are four types of dependent clauses t ...
Destinos: 27-52 The Main Grammar Points, and Exercises with
... Verbs in tenses of the subjunctive mood tend to be used in dependent clauses, so it is useful to understand what a clause is. Before explaining this simple grammatical term, and the difference between dependent and independent clauses, you should know that there are four types of dependent clauses t ...
... Verbs in tenses of the subjunctive mood tend to be used in dependent clauses, so it is useful to understand what a clause is. Before explaining this simple grammatical term, and the difference between dependent and independent clauses, you should know that there are four types of dependent clauses t ...
25_chapter 13
... exercise which involves the breaking up of sentences into their parts and seeing the relationship existing among these parts. The grammatical term for this exercise is . (go to frame 2) However,thereis another type of grammatical exercise which is just opposite of analysis that doesn’t involve the t ...
... exercise which involves the breaking up of sentences into their parts and seeing the relationship existing among these parts. The grammatical term for this exercise is . (go to frame 2) However,thereis another type of grammatical exercise which is just opposite of analysis that doesn’t involve the t ...
Grammar: 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies
... or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior w ritten permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to t ...
... or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior w ritten permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to t ...
French Word Order and Lexical Weight
... and adverbs resist scrambling and must immediately precede the head (Sells [36]). Assuming a binary phrase structure for Korean, Sells contrasts X0 categories which must combine with an X0 head, with X1 and X2 categories which can combine with an X1 head; only the phrases with an X1 head can scrambl ...
... and adverbs resist scrambling and must immediately precede the head (Sells [36]). Assuming a binary phrase structure for Korean, Sells contrasts X0 categories which must combine with an X0 head, with X1 and X2 categories which can combine with an X1 head; only the phrases with an X1 head can scrambl ...
On the grammar of names
... ontogenetic connexion between the two kinds of naming involved (cf. e.g. Anderson 2000). However I am concerned here with the status in the (adult) grammar of items like Bonzo and Polly but not with those like snipe, except in so far as this last indeed instantiates a grammatical non-name, viz. a co ...
... ontogenetic connexion between the two kinds of naming involved (cf. e.g. Anderson 2000). However I am concerned here with the status in the (adult) grammar of items like Bonzo and Polly but not with those like snipe, except in so far as this last indeed instantiates a grammatical non-name, viz. a co ...
University of Groningen Data-driven identification of fixed
... a more common concept in the literature (Fernando and Flavell, 1981; Nunberg et al., 1994). A non-transparent meaning is the manifestation of opacity. Thus, the more opaque the meaning of a fixed expression is, the more unpredictable it is. Fernando and Flavell (1981) compared the semantic unpredict ...
... a more common concept in the literature (Fernando and Flavell, 1981; Nunberg et al., 1994). A non-transparent meaning is the manifestation of opacity. Thus, the more opaque the meaning of a fixed expression is, the more unpredictable it is. Fernando and Flavell (1981) compared the semantic unpredict ...
syntax and processing of scrambling constructions in russian
... without whom this dissertation would have been impossible: Professors Janet Dean Fodor, Lyn Frazier, Robert Fiengo, and Dianne Bradley. I owe it to Janet Fodor that I became fascinated with psycholinguistics and syntactic sentence processing. My doubts about what linguistic field to pursue ended wit ...
... without whom this dissertation would have been impossible: Professors Janet Dean Fodor, Lyn Frazier, Robert Fiengo, and Dianne Bradley. I owe it to Janet Fodor that I became fascinated with psycholinguistics and syntactic sentence processing. My doubts about what linguistic field to pursue ended wit ...
BINDING IN SWAHILI MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX. NAME
... Mohammed (2001) defines pronouns as a set of items that can be used to replace or substitute nouns or noun phrases. According to this definition, it appears like any set of items, which replaces a noun, or a noun phrase is a pronoun. Personal pronouns in Swahili Mohammed (2001) identifies two groups ...
... Mohammed (2001) defines pronouns as a set of items that can be used to replace or substitute nouns or noun phrases. According to this definition, it appears like any set of items, which replaces a noun, or a noun phrase is a pronoun. Personal pronouns in Swahili Mohammed (2001) identifies two groups ...
ARCHIVEr JUN 30 1975
... This author, in turn, benefited not only by completing a thesis, but also by sharing the relationships on which it rests. ...
... This author, in turn, benefited not only by completing a thesis, but also by sharing the relationships on which it rests. ...
Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study
... Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the ‘Brown family’ of corpora, ...
... Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the ‘Brown family’ of corpora, ...
18 The Instrumental Case Feminine declension nouns Masculine
... she-NOM managed clean-up in apartment-LOC, and now kitchen-NOM shone cleanliness-INST.] After visiting her mother and before her evening shift in the restaurant she managed to clean up the apartment, and now the kitchen shone with cleanliness . You¢ll also need some imagination to tackle an example ...
... she-NOM managed clean-up in apartment-LOC, and now kitchen-NOM shone cleanliness-INST.] After visiting her mother and before her evening shift in the restaurant she managed to clean up the apartment, and now the kitchen shone with cleanliness . You¢ll also need some imagination to tackle an example ...
Dr. Cahit Karakuş WEB PAGE
... 1.2. Types of Sentence ......................................................................................................... 37 1.2.1. Mood and Voice ..................................................................................................... 43 1.2.2. Agreement and Disagreement ....... ...
... 1.2. Types of Sentence ......................................................................................................... 37 1.2.1. Mood and Voice ..................................................................................................... 43 1.2.2. Agreement and Disagreement ....... ...
stylistic analysis of a portrait of the artist as a young man from lexical
... portrait of the characters is based on introspection rather than a description. He believed in impersonality of the author, so he used the DIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE, the adoption of the characters thought is a monologue, the INDIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE, presents thoughts as seen from within the char ...
... portrait of the characters is based on introspection rather than a description. He believed in impersonality of the author, so he used the DIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE, the adoption of the characters thought is a monologue, the INDIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE, presents thoughts as seen from within the char ...
Dictionaries, Lexicography and Language Learning
... some of them already do)? This would be in line with the increasing practice of producing language-specific or region-specific EFL courses rather than global ones intended for everybody. Conversely, if people in fact use bilingual dictionaries as learners' dictionaries, and not "just" as translation ...
... some of them already do)? This would be in line with the increasing practice of producing language-specific or region-specific EFL courses rather than global ones intended for everybody. Conversely, if people in fact use bilingual dictionaries as learners' dictionaries, and not "just" as translation ...
Embedded clauses
... obvious to both speaker and hearer that the hearer knows and does not have to be reminded of p.” In other words, it is okay to assert something that the hearer knows if we think that a reminder might be in place. Accordingly, we often state something that we take everybody present to know—and someti ...
... obvious to both speaker and hearer that the hearer knows and does not have to be reminded of p.” In other words, it is okay to assert something that the hearer knows if we think that a reminder might be in place. Accordingly, we often state something that we take everybody present to know—and someti ...
Egyptian arabic grammar
... sites etc are written in Modern Standard Arabic. And if you want to read Arabic handwriting, that's a different ballgame altogether. An understanding of the Arabic alphabet can sometimes be useful, but it is by no means essential. The examples in this document are therefore written in both arabic an ...
... sites etc are written in Modern Standard Arabic. And if you want to read Arabic handwriting, that's a different ballgame altogether. An understanding of the Arabic alphabet can sometimes be useful, but it is by no means essential. The examples in this document are therefore written in both arabic an ...
Grammatical structure of the English Language
... 1. The gerund of transitive verbs can take a direct object. I had now made good progress in understanding and speaking their language. (Swift) ...
... 1. The gerund of transitive verbs can take a direct object. I had now made good progress in understanding and speaking their language. (Swift) ...
Document
... hitherto been practised, contrastive typology also aims at establishing the most general structural types of languages on the basis of their dominant or common phonetical/phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic features. Apart from this contrastive typology may equally treat dominant or commo ...
... hitherto been practised, contrastive typology also aims at establishing the most general structural types of languages on the basis of their dominant or common phonetical/phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic features. Apart from this contrastive typology may equally treat dominant or commo ...
interrogatives and relatives in some varieties of english
... complementiser layer, as proposed by this line of research, enables us to account for embedded inversion in terms of different syntactic projections available in different ―portions‖ of CP layer. The accessability of CP in dependent clauses has already been discussed for Romance languages, (see Beni ...
... complementiser layer, as proposed by this line of research, enables us to account for embedded inversion in terms of different syntactic projections available in different ―portions‖ of CP layer. The accessability of CP in dependent clauses has already been discussed for Romance languages, (see Beni ...
Lenition of the Conjugated Prepositions in Irish and Welsh
... final syllable of unstressed words – this original environment was lost and because of this the occurrence of lenition became phonologically unpredictable. Most instances of lenition in the Celtic languages can be explained relatively easily by looking at the historical phonological context of the l ...
... final syllable of unstressed words – this original environment was lost and because of this the occurrence of lenition became phonologically unpredictable. Most instances of lenition in the Celtic languages can be explained relatively easily by looking at the historical phonological context of the l ...
a complete grammar of esperanto the international language
... A general characteristic of obvious advantage is that almost without exception new forms and constructions are illustrated by means of words or roots already familiar. Likewise, the new words or roots of each lesson recur at least once in the next lesson, and usually in some lesson thereafter as wel ...
... A general characteristic of obvious advantage is that almost without exception new forms and constructions are illustrated by means of words or roots already familiar. Likewise, the new words or roots of each lesson recur at least once in the next lesson, and usually in some lesson thereafter as wel ...
Document
... the language features/phenomena or the planes/aspects to which they belong, and irrespective of the number of languages involved, the final aims of major typological investigations are the following: 1) to identify and classify accordingly the main isomorphic and allomorphic features characteristic ...
... the language features/phenomena or the planes/aspects to which they belong, and irrespective of the number of languages involved, the final aims of major typological investigations are the following: 1) to identify and classify accordingly the main isomorphic and allomorphic features characteristic ...
Reflexive Verben Theorie learning target rules
... "konzentrieren" is the reflexive verb of the sentence. "mich" (=> ich) is the object of the sentence although I must admit that's quite difficult to understand because how can somebody or something "being concentrated"? It's logical that somebody can wash me or move me or shave me but concentrate me ...
... "konzentrieren" is the reflexive verb of the sentence. "mich" (=> ich) is the object of the sentence although I must admit that's quite difficult to understand because how can somebody or something "being concentrated"? It's logical that somebody can wash me or move me or shave me but concentrate me ...