An Evaluation of Microsoft Word 97’s Grammar Checker
... makes an attempt, although not a very good one, at handling such errors after the verb to be. However, it is not programmed to catch objective personal pronouns used as subjects, as mentioned above, or subjective pronouns used as objects. The result is that the most common types of pronoun case erro ...
... makes an attempt, although not a very good one, at handling such errors after the verb to be. However, it is not programmed to catch objective personal pronouns used as subjects, as mentioned above, or subjective pronouns used as objects. The result is that the most common types of pronoun case erro ...
Domains within Words and their meanings: a case study
... (iii) If we look at idiomatic interpretations, as suggested by Marantz on the basis of idiomatic interpretations of adjectival passive participles vs. compositional interpretations of verbal passive participles in English, then (1) is not supported by the Greek data. Verbal adjectives involving affi ...
... (iii) If we look at idiomatic interpretations, as suggested by Marantz on the basis of idiomatic interpretations of adjectival passive participles vs. compositional interpretations of verbal passive participles in English, then (1) is not supported by the Greek data. Verbal adjectives involving affi ...
manual for the use of nehol: the negerhollands
... (Stein 2010:212-213, footnote 16). The slave letters included in the database are all the product of writing lessons by the Moravian missionaries. The Danish Lutheran church was much later in establishing a mission in the Danish colony to convert the slaves, which started only in 1756. The Danish mi ...
... (Stein 2010:212-213, footnote 16). The slave letters included in the database are all the product of writing lessons by the Moravian missionaries. The Danish Lutheran church was much later in establishing a mission in the Danish colony to convert the slaves, which started only in 1756. The Danish mi ...
Kinds of Adverbs
... adjectives) fall into comparables and non-comparables. The number of noncomparables is much greater among adverbs than among adjectives. In other words, there are many adverbs whose lexemes contain but one word (yesterday, always, northward, upstairs, etc.). In Russian we can meet the same thing: вч ...
... adjectives) fall into comparables and non-comparables. The number of noncomparables is much greater among adverbs than among adjectives. In other words, there are many adverbs whose lexemes contain but one word (yesterday, always, northward, upstairs, etc.). In Russian we can meet the same thing: вч ...
The Elements of Style - Academic Server| Cleveland State University
... Professor Strunk was a positive man. His book contains rules of grammar phrased as direct orders. In the main I have not tried to soften his commands, or modify his pronouncements, or remove the special objects of his scorn. I have tried, instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while sligh ...
... Professor Strunk was a positive man. His book contains rules of grammar phrased as direct orders. In the main I have not tried to soften his commands, or modify his pronouncements, or remove the special objects of his scorn. I have tried, instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while sligh ...
The Notion of Surface-Syntactic Relation Revisited
... emphasized that a labeled SSyntRel is language-specific. Its name r specifies a family of SSyntconstructions of language L that are described by the SSyntRel r; these constructions possess sufficiently similar properties, i.e. they show ‘family resemblances.’ A SSynt-construction, in its turn, repre ...
... emphasized that a labeled SSyntRel is language-specific. Its name r specifies a family of SSyntconstructions of language L that are described by the SSyntRel r; these constructions possess sufficiently similar properties, i.e. they show ‘family resemblances.’ A SSynt-construction, in its turn, repre ...
View/Open - Minerva Access
... Oksapmin, a Papuan (Non-Austronesian) language of Papua New Guinea. Oksapmin is spoken by around 8000 people, most of whom reside in the Tekin valley in Sandaun Province. The analysis in this thesis is based on the study of data from both elicitation and text collection undertaken on two field trips ...
... Oksapmin, a Papuan (Non-Austronesian) language of Papua New Guinea. Oksapmin is spoken by around 8000 people, most of whom reside in the Tekin valley in Sandaun Province. The analysis in this thesis is based on the study of data from both elicitation and text collection undertaken on two field trips ...
The syntactic analysis of the Dutch absentive
... It is indeed the case that many of my informants prefer the order vissen is in (12a), but the alternative order is vissen is also accepted by at least some of these informants (including myself), for which reason I marked this order by means of a percentage sign. I also found the order zijn–infiniti ...
... It is indeed the case that many of my informants prefer the order vissen is in (12a), but the alternative order is vissen is also accepted by at least some of these informants (including myself), for which reason I marked this order by means of a percentage sign. I also found the order zijn–infiniti ...
Gerunds in Greek - Brill Online Books and Journals
... a connective, should in principle leave it underspecified with regard to its argument or adjunct status, as is for example the case with English infinitival or gerund clauses which may appear in either argument or adjunct positions (e.g. purposive clauses as adjuncts). In other words, if the status of ...
... a connective, should in principle leave it underspecified with regard to its argument or adjunct status, as is for example the case with English infinitival or gerund clauses which may appear in either argument or adjunct positions (e.g. purposive clauses as adjuncts). In other words, if the status of ...
Grammar in Context Proficiency Level
... If you are the kind of learner for whom this book has been written, you will have learnt English intensively for months or less intensively for years. You will now be in contact with the language as it is used by British, American and other native speakers in conversation, on radio and television, i ...
... If you are the kind of learner for whom this book has been written, you will have learnt English intensively for months or less intensively for years. You will now be in contact with the language as it is used by British, American and other native speakers in conversation, on radio and television, i ...
bardi verb morphology in historical perspective
... Nyulnyulan language from the North-Western Australian coast. I discuss the morphology and syntax of both simple and complex predicate structures and examine the historical changes which have led to the behavior of Bardi verbal structures in the modern language. In order to do this I compare verbs in ...
... Nyulnyulan language from the North-Western Australian coast. I discuss the morphology and syntax of both simple and complex predicate structures and examine the historical changes which have led to the behavior of Bardi verbal structures in the modern language. In order to do this I compare verbs in ...
IV - Fountainhead Press
... amount of revenue to our relatively small company, so my boss has told me. That he will be creating a new administrative position. Will be filled by an internal promotion. The promotion, however, will be contingent upon the success of this latest campaign. With this information, the office is dedica ...
... amount of revenue to our relatively small company, so my boss has told me. That he will be creating a new administrative position. Will be filled by an internal promotion. The promotion, however, will be contingent upon the success of this latest campaign. With this information, the office is dedica ...
Abkhaz Viacheslav A. Chirikba
... Before the Georgian-Abkhaz war, the Abkhazians constituted 17.8 per cent of their republic's ethnic breakdown, being the second largest minority after the Kartvelians (i.e. Megrelians, Georgians and Svans), who comprised 45 .7 per cent. The other ethnic groups in Abkhazia are Armenians and Russians ...
... Before the Georgian-Abkhaz war, the Abkhazians constituted 17.8 per cent of their republic's ethnic breakdown, being the second largest minority after the Kartvelians (i.e. Megrelians, Georgians and Svans), who comprised 45 .7 per cent. The other ethnic groups in Abkhazia are Armenians and Russians ...
1. Some nouns always take a singular verb
... innings, gallows. (A) The scenery of Kashmir are enchanting. (Incorrect) (B) The scenery of Kashmir is enchanting. (Correct) (A) He has given advices. (Incorrect) (B) He has given advice. (Correct) (A) The Indian team defeated the English by innings. (Incorrect) (B) The Indian team defeated the Engl ...
... innings, gallows. (A) The scenery of Kashmir are enchanting. (Incorrect) (B) The scenery of Kashmir is enchanting. (Correct) (A) He has given advices. (Incorrect) (B) He has given advice. (Correct) (A) The Indian team defeated the English by innings. (Incorrect) (B) The Indian team defeated the Engl ...
code/API
... -- does your program handle errors, or does it crash on errors of input? -- tests: summarize the basic analysis and testing of this version of your program My program currently requires two files: the program itself, and the Latin dictionary file. It reads the dictionary in and parses through it, re ...
... -- does your program handle errors, or does it crash on errors of input? -- tests: summarize the basic analysis and testing of this version of your program My program currently requires two files: the program itself, and the Latin dictionary file. It reads the dictionary in and parses through it, re ...
Up above as a Complex Preposition
... (7) It was good to be a flyer, up above it all, godlike in your vision. (BNC G0L 707) (8) My lad took me blackberryin' a month or two back, up above the quarry, and I seen'em.’ (BNC HTH 634) The string can be used as a place adverbial: (9) And now fly up above the forest, and take on a human form. ( ...
... (7) It was good to be a flyer, up above it all, godlike in your vision. (BNC G0L 707) (8) My lad took me blackberryin' a month or two back, up above the quarry, and I seen'em.’ (BNC HTH 634) The string can be used as a place adverbial: (9) And now fly up above the forest, and take on a human form. ( ...
A NON-CONFIGURATIONAL LANGUAGE?
... For this reason (among others), recent developments in generative grammar have moved away from the distinction between configurational and non-configurational languages, and many, if not most, generative syntacticians now seem to believe that the X'-theory (and binary branching) can adequately acco ...
... For this reason (among others), recent developments in generative grammar have moved away from the distinction between configurational and non-configurational languages, and many, if not most, generative syntacticians now seem to believe that the X'-theory (and binary branching) can adequately acco ...
Very Exceptional Case
... (2) is expressed with the aid of a wh-operator does not in any way force us to assume that in (1), too, such an operator is present. After all, (2) is only one way of paraphrasing (1); another would be (i): (i) Ik weet zijn woonplaats I know his living-place (Note that in dialect dictionaries the co ...
... (2) is expressed with the aid of a wh-operator does not in any way force us to assume that in (1), too, such an operator is present. After all, (2) is only one way of paraphrasing (1); another would be (i): (i) Ik weet zijn woonplaats I know his living-place (Note that in dialect dictionaries the co ...
1 xxx - Edmond
... organizing data on other Dogon languages; the chapter, section, and subsection organization will have to be adjusted to the contours of each specific language. Subsections may be added, deleted, or moved to other sections as needed. In some sections I suggest sample prose, but of course language X m ...
... organizing data on other Dogon languages; the chapter, section, and subsection organization will have to be adjusted to the contours of each specific language. Subsections may be added, deleted, or moved to other sections as needed. In some sections I suggest sample prose, but of course language X m ...
Robust Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in
... Classifier accuracy over all verb tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Classifier accuracy over top-n verb types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 SVM-TK accuracy over top-n verb types, predicted features . . 93 Cumulative size of datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Accuracy of sequentia ...
... Classifier accuracy over all verb tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Classifier accuracy over top-n verb types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 SVM-TK accuracy over top-n verb types, predicted features . . 93 Cumulative size of datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Accuracy of sequentia ...
The Origin and Development of Nonconcatenative Morphology by
... 4.2. The role of semantics and the fate of derived forms .........................................................145 4.2.1. The T- and N-stems: Semitic reflexive forms ........................................................... 146 4.2.1.1. Competition and loss...................................... ...
... 4.2. The role of semantics and the fate of derived forms .........................................................145 4.2.1. The T- and N-stems: Semitic reflexive forms ........................................................... 146 4.2.1.1. Competition and loss...................................... ...
Complex sentences in Avatime
... • Foley & Van Valin (1984) propose the notion cosubordination for some constructions that seem to be in between subordination and coordination - especially cause chaining and serial verb constructions. • In clausal cosubordination, the linked units share illocutionary force, tense and negation (Van ...
... • Foley & Van Valin (1984) propose the notion cosubordination for some constructions that seem to be in between subordination and coordination - especially cause chaining and serial verb constructions. • In clausal cosubordination, the linked units share illocutionary force, tense and negation (Van ...
Complex Predicates Müller, Stefan
... is relevant for the markedness of examples with reference to indirect objects. In Chapter 5 I show that resultative constructions in German behave like raising constructions. A lexical rule will be suggested that transitivizes intransitive verbs and adds a result predicate. The most complex phenomen ...
... is relevant for the markedness of examples with reference to indirect objects. In Chapter 5 I show that resultative constructions in German behave like raising constructions. A lexical rule will be suggested that transitivizes intransitive verbs and adds a result predicate. The most complex phenomen ...
Language Arts Curriculum Guide Template
... a. Practice writing about random topics. Use personal topics, picture writing (provide pictures for ideas, movie writing (watch a clip), etc. b. Review and use 6+1 Writing for the “Ideas and Content” trait. Students practice individual and in groups. Cross out ideas which are not main ideas or relev ...
... a. Practice writing about random topics. Use personal topics, picture writing (provide pictures for ideas, movie writing (watch a clip), etc. b. Review and use 6+1 Writing for the “Ideas and Content” trait. Students practice individual and in groups. Cross out ideas which are not main ideas or relev ...
4. Categorizing and Tagging Words
... eat is transitive, requiring two arguments (the eater and the eaten). Other verbs are more complex; for instance put requires three arguments, the agent doing the putting, the entity being put somewhere, and a location. The -ing suffix appears on nouns derived from verbs, e.g. the falling of the lea ...
... eat is transitive, requiring two arguments (the eater and the eaten). Other verbs are more complex; for instance put requires three arguments, the agent doing the putting, the entity being put somewhere, and a location. The -ing suffix appears on nouns derived from verbs, e.g. the falling of the lea ...