A note on non-canonical passives: the case of the get
... It has been noted that the get-passive is not permitted with stative verbs and verbs that do not allow for the subject of the construction to be interpreted as affected. Some researchers even classify the construction as an adversative passive. As Siewierska (1984: 161) notes, the get-passives descr ...
... It has been noted that the get-passive is not permitted with stative verbs and verbs that do not allow for the subject of the construction to be interpreted as affected. Some researchers even classify the construction as an adversative passive. As Siewierska (1984: 161) notes, the get-passives descr ...
Nouns and Pronouns Mastery
... As we discussed in the basics of grammar chapter, pronouns take the place of nouns and refer to people or things previously mentioned in the sentence or surrounding sentences. A list of the most common pronouns follows: all another any anybody anyone anything both each either everybody everyone ...
... As we discussed in the basics of grammar chapter, pronouns take the place of nouns and refer to people or things previously mentioned in the sentence or surrounding sentences. A list of the most common pronouns follows: all another any anybody anyone anything both each either everybody everyone ...
Western Scholars Opinions on Rendering the Tense by Means of
... Western scholars have devoted a number of investigations to the study of the verbal system in the Semitic languages and, namely, in Arabic. In the discussions of the system, the issue of tense has always been a matter of debates. Zafer Youssef notes that, while expressing their opinions concerning t ...
... Western scholars have devoted a number of investigations to the study of the verbal system in the Semitic languages and, namely, in Arabic. In the discussions of the system, the issue of tense has always been a matter of debates. Zafer Youssef notes that, while expressing their opinions concerning t ...
§1 In Old English, a noun or a noun phrase inflected for Genitive
... (the head noun yþum ‘waves’ is not accompanied by a determiner) What this finding implies is that a preposed Genitive nominal with its own determiner functions as a determiner to the head, so the head noun does not need to be and in fact cannot be determined by any other extra determiner. But a post ...
... (the head noun yþum ‘waves’ is not accompanied by a determiner) What this finding implies is that a preposed Genitive nominal with its own determiner functions as a determiner to the head, so the head noun does not need to be and in fact cannot be determined by any other extra determiner. But a post ...
Kara Passmore Linguistics Senior Thesis POSSESSIVE-ING and ACCUSATIVE-ING Constructions in English
... Since indefinite and demonstrative pronouns have no possessive fonus, obviously POSSING is not available as construction for those subjects (example from Nunnally 1991: ...
... Since indefinite and demonstrative pronouns have no possessive fonus, obviously POSSING is not available as construction for those subjects (example from Nunnally 1991: ...
Common Sentence Errors Make your Writing More
... second, and takes plural verb): "Neither the dog nor the cats are allowed on the bed." ...
... second, and takes plural verb): "Neither the dog nor the cats are allowed on the bed." ...
The Oxford Guide to English Usage
... prior to the time of speaking, e. g. He said he would go. gerund the part of the verb which can be used like a noun, ending in—ing, e. g. What is the use of my scolding him? govern (said of a verb or preposition) to have (a noun or pronoun, or a case) ...
... prior to the time of speaking, e. g. He said he would go. gerund the part of the verb which can be used like a noun, ending in—ing, e. g. What is the use of my scolding him? govern (said of a verb or preposition) to have (a noun or pronoun, or a case) ...
Native Languages: A Support Document for the Teaching of
... This resource guide is intended for teachers of Ontario Oneida, Cayuga, and Mohawk as second languages. Its purpose is to describe the language patterns that occur in these Native languages and to reinforce teachers’ knowledge of the structure and functions of the various language elements (words an ...
... This resource guide is intended for teachers of Ontario Oneida, Cayuga, and Mohawk as second languages. Its purpose is to describe the language patterns that occur in these Native languages and to reinforce teachers’ knowledge of the structure and functions of the various language elements (words an ...
English Grammatical Collocations in Azeri
... The Azeri language is derived from the Oghuz family of languages and linguistically, it is most closely related to Turkish, Persian and Arabic. Regarding the grammar of Azeri, it can be said that it is an agglutinative language and frequently uses affixes and specifically suffixes. Most of them indi ...
... The Azeri language is derived from the Oghuz family of languages and linguistically, it is most closely related to Turkish, Persian and Arabic. Regarding the grammar of Azeri, it can be said that it is an agglutinative language and frequently uses affixes and specifically suffixes. Most of them indi ...
What Is a Clause?
... should be to independent clauses. Rewrite the paragraph, connecting the dependent clauses to independent clauses. Most teenagers get an allowance. They can spend this money. However they choose. Some teens spend the money on clothing and other items that they need. Others spend their allowance carel ...
... should be to independent clauses. Rewrite the paragraph, connecting the dependent clauses to independent clauses. Most teenagers get an allowance. They can spend this money. However they choose. Some teens spend the money on clothing and other items that they need. Others spend their allowance carel ...
Creole Genesis and Universality: Case, Word Order, and Agreement
... order, and agreement is to answer the question ‘who did what to whom and when, where, how, etc.,’ or in other words, to identify the grammatical and semantic role of all the noun phrases (NPs) in a sentence (Melinger 2009). This thesis will examine the emergence of case, word order, and agreement in ...
... order, and agreement is to answer the question ‘who did what to whom and when, where, how, etc.,’ or in other words, to identify the grammatical and semantic role of all the noun phrases (NPs) in a sentence (Melinger 2009). This thesis will examine the emergence of case, word order, and agreement in ...
Egenéto he basileia tou kosmou tou kyríou hêmon kai tou
... conjunction “that”: Savin Elessar ar i nánë aran Ondórëo “I belive that Elessar really existed and that he was a king of Gondor”, savin i E[lessarno] quetië naitë *“I believe that Elessar’s speaking [is] true”. The form nai “be it that”, well-known from Namárië, can also now be recognized as being s ...
... conjunction “that”: Savin Elessar ar i nánë aran Ondórëo “I belive that Elessar really existed and that he was a king of Gondor”, savin i E[lessarno] quetië naitë *“I believe that Elessar’s speaking [is] true”. The form nai “be it that”, well-known from Namárië, can also now be recognized as being s ...
Paraphrasing factoid dependency trees into fluent sentences in a
... classification terms are the words from the open categories, in particular nouns and adjectives. The words from the closed categories are just stop words. In a classification experiment reported in [1], it was indeed found that nouns, verbs, and to a lesser degree adjectives and adverbs are the only ...
... classification terms are the words from the open categories, in particular nouns and adjectives. The words from the closed categories are just stop words. In a classification experiment reported in [1], it was indeed found that nouns, verbs, and to a lesser degree adjectives and adverbs are the only ...
Eighth Grade - winnpsb.org
... Gerund as an object of the preposition. He was scolded for running in the house. Gerund PhraseA gerund phrase is a group of words which begins with a gerund and is followed by modifiers, direct objects, indirect objects or prepositional phrases. Finding a needle in a haystack would be easier than wh ...
... Gerund as an object of the preposition. He was scolded for running in the house. Gerund PhraseA gerund phrase is a group of words which begins with a gerund and is followed by modifiers, direct objects, indirect objects or prepositional phrases. Finding a needle in a haystack would be easier than wh ...
More than One Sense Per Discourse
... Prior work on the number of senses per discourse was reported in [Gale et al. 92]. Their work was motivated by their experiments with word sense disambiguation. They noticed a strong relationship between discourse and meaning and they proposed the following hypothesis: When a word occurs more than o ...
... Prior work on the number of senses per discourse was reported in [Gale et al. 92]. Their work was motivated by their experiments with word sense disambiguation. They noticed a strong relationship between discourse and meaning and they proposed the following hypothesis: When a word occurs more than o ...
Blocking of Phrasal Constructions by Lexical Items Introduction
... prevents the creation and use of another form that would otherwise be expected to occur.1 . Perhaps the most prominent cases are those in which the existence of an irregular form prevents the corresponding regular form from being used. In English for example, the existence of the irregular plural me ...
... prevents the creation and use of another form that would otherwise be expected to occur.1 . Perhaps the most prominent cases are those in which the existence of an irregular form prevents the corresponding regular form from being used. In English for example, the existence of the irregular plural me ...
AT Iriskulov Theoretical Grammar of English
... are morphemic changes - the addition of suffixes and morphological means concomitant morphophonemic adjustments - which adopt words to perform certain structural function without changing their lexical meanings 5. Derivational contrast is the contrast between words which have the same base but diffe ...
... are morphemic changes - the addition of suffixes and morphological means concomitant morphophonemic adjustments - which adopt words to perform certain structural function without changing their lexical meanings 5. Derivational contrast is the contrast between words which have the same base but diffe ...
Analyzing English Grammar
... In additional to the Lexical vs. Functional category distinction at the morphological-inflection level, the same distinction holds at the word level: the distinction is labeled (i) @link Form Class word vs. (ii) @link Structure Class word. One way of observing this lexical vs. functional distinction ...
... In additional to the Lexical vs. Functional category distinction at the morphological-inflection level, the same distinction holds at the word level: the distinction is labeled (i) @link Form Class word vs. (ii) @link Structure Class word. One way of observing this lexical vs. functional distinction ...
Grammatical Relations Author Contact Information Corresponding
... Latin and Russian), or through different forms of other structural constituents related to NPs (e.g., forms of articles and nouns in German). Alongside inflectional morphology many languages (such as Japanese and Korean) make use of grammatical words or particles (usually prepositions or postpositio ...
... Latin and Russian), or through different forms of other structural constituents related to NPs (e.g., forms of articles and nouns in German). Alongside inflectional morphology many languages (such as Japanese and Korean) make use of grammatical words or particles (usually prepositions or postpositio ...
Conjunctions - Google Sites
... After, before, since, till, and until can be subordinating conjunctions or prepositions, depending on how they are used. In the first example below, until is a subordinating conjunction because it connects two complete ideas. In the second example, until is the first word in a prepositional phrase. ...
... After, before, since, till, and until can be subordinating conjunctions or prepositions, depending on how they are used. In the first example below, until is a subordinating conjunction because it connects two complete ideas. In the second example, until is the first word in a prepositional phrase. ...
Semantic Annotation of Deverbal Nominalizations in the Spanish
... the data in the corpus. First, it is not always possible to distinguish between event and result, since the linguistic context is sometimes not informative enough. We label such cases as underspecified types (1c), resulting finally in three possible denotation values. Second, we noticed that nominal ...
... the data in the corpus. First, it is not always possible to distinguish between event and result, since the linguistic context is sometimes not informative enough. We label such cases as underspecified types (1c), resulting finally in three possible denotation values. Second, we noticed that nominal ...
Semantic Annotation of Deverbal Nominalizations in the Spanish
... the data in the corpus. First, it is not always possible to distinguish between event and result, since the linguistic context is sometimes not informative enough. We label such cases as underspecified types (1c), resulting finally in three possible denotation values. Second, we noticed that nominal ...
... the data in the corpus. First, it is not always possible to distinguish between event and result, since the linguistic context is sometimes not informative enough. We label such cases as underspecified types (1c), resulting finally in three possible denotation values. Second, we noticed that nominal ...
fromkin-4-syntax
... very different functions in the English language. For example only “*Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is a grammatically well formed sentence, although all of the sentences demonstrate incompatabilities of certain words with other words in the same sentence. ...
... very different functions in the English language. For example only “*Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is a grammatically well formed sentence, although all of the sentences demonstrate incompatabilities of certain words with other words in the same sentence. ...
Why are `as soon as` clauses marked for predicate
... sequenciality, e.g. anteriority or posteriority wrt. to main clause event + ‘when’ clauses often indicate anteriority (but are underspecified), but do not indicate when exactly the event in the main clause will happen ...
... sequenciality, e.g. anteriority or posteriority wrt. to main clause event + ‘when’ clauses often indicate anteriority (but are underspecified), but do not indicate when exactly the event in the main clause will happen ...