English Syntax: An Introduction
... One important aspect of teaching English syntax (to native and nonnative undergraduate students alike) involves the balance in the overall approach between facts and theory. We understand that one important goal of teaching English syntax to undergraduate students is to help students enhance their u ...
... One important aspect of teaching English syntax (to native and nonnative undergraduate students alike) involves the balance in the overall approach between facts and theory. We understand that one important goal of teaching English syntax to undergraduate students is to help students enhance their u ...
(Warm Up Grammar 12 (1))
... 3. The gym was decorated more than it had been in previous years. 4. The mother woke up her children before they could wake up on their own. 5. Miranda failed her math test, so she will retake it next week. ...
... 3. The gym was decorated more than it had been in previous years. 4. The mother woke up her children before they could wake up on their own. 5. Miranda failed her math test, so she will retake it next week. ...
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
... continuous directed motion undergone by < 1 > motion involves rapid movement of legs, no continuous contact with ground ...
... continuous directed motion undergone by < 1 > motion involves rapid movement of legs, no continuous contact with ground ...
Introduction to Specific Language Impairment/SLI
... and Schaeffer (2003) for more detailed discussion of diagnostic criteria for SLI. Prevalence and Persistence of SLI Leonard (1989) estimates that around 6% of children suffer some form of language impairment (with 1.5% having a tested language age of less than two thirds of their tested mental age), ...
... and Schaeffer (2003) for more detailed discussion of diagnostic criteria for SLI. Prevalence and Persistence of SLI Leonard (1989) estimates that around 6% of children suffer some form of language impairment (with 1.5% having a tested language age of less than two thirds of their tested mental age), ...
ùit6 - Bilkent Repository
... is a noun phrase (NP) network including nominal and adjectival compounds in Turkish. The third is an adverbial phrase (ADVP) network including a subset of structures used as adverbial adjuncts in Turkish. The networks are interrelated as follows: The S network makes use of the NP and ADVP net works ...
... is a noun phrase (NP) network including nominal and adjectival compounds in Turkish. The third is an adverbial phrase (ADVP) network including a subset of structures used as adverbial adjuncts in Turkish. The networks are interrelated as follows: The S network makes use of the NP and ADVP net works ...
Thesis - Archive ouverte UNIGE
... The study on lexical causatives (0.2) addresses the question of why some verbs in some languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events describe ...
... The study on lexical causatives (0.2) addresses the question of why some verbs in some languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events describe ...
Financial support Basic data Outline of the talk BNs in object position
... porta faldilla. #La hi vam regalar l’ any passat. today wears skirt it to.her past give the year last (b) Avui porta una faldilla. La hi vam regalar l’ any passat. today wears a skirt it to.her past give the year last ‘Today she is wearing a skirt. We gave it to her last year.’ ...
... porta faldilla. #La hi vam regalar l’ any passat. today wears skirt it to.her past give the year last (b) Avui porta una faldilla. La hi vam regalar l’ any passat. today wears a skirt it to.her past give the year last ‘Today she is wearing a skirt. We gave it to her last year.’ ...
Application of Resolution Rules on phi
... “as two or more nouns or pronouns conjoined by a coordinating conjunction, or two or more nouns or pronouns separated by a pause or comma” (E. Koffi, personal communication, 2016). The sentence in example (2) contains a third person element (assuming that Ahmed is not present at the conversation) so ...
... “as two or more nouns or pronouns conjoined by a coordinating conjunction, or two or more nouns or pronouns separated by a pause or comma” (E. Koffi, personal communication, 2016). The sentence in example (2) contains a third person element (assuming that Ahmed is not present at the conversation) so ...
Dynamics, causation, duration in the predicate
... The study on lexical causatives (0.2) addresses the question of why some verbs in some languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events describe ...
... The study on lexical causatives (0.2) addresses the question of why some verbs in some languages do not alternate while their counterparts in other languages do. The results of the study suggest that the property which underlies the variation is the likelihood of external causation. Events describe ...
teaching technical english writing
... process is essential, where it is useful and where it is of marginal advantage. The main features of this book have grown out and taken shape from my class-room experience. Two of these features are worth commenting on. First, TTEW is fairly explicit about language forms and functions, including som ...
... process is essential, where it is useful and where it is of marginal advantage. The main features of this book have grown out and taken shape from my class-room experience. Two of these features are worth commenting on. First, TTEW is fairly explicit about language forms and functions, including som ...
teaching english clause structure
... returned safely calls for celebration' would sound a bit odd if changed to the pattern with introductory 'it'. If it is necessary to give pupils practice in using this structure, a combination or completion drill can be used. e.g. combination He has obtained his Ph.D. This calls for celebration. Tha ...
... returned safely calls for celebration' would sound a bit odd if changed to the pattern with introductory 'it'. If it is necessary to give pupils practice in using this structure, a combination or completion drill can be used. e.g. combination He has obtained his Ph.D. This calls for celebration. Tha ...
T H E I N C E P... E D T O P I C S ...
... 19th century, was used as a name of a region in the central Ethiopian highlands).5 Until the reign of Haile Sellassie I, Amharic speakers used to identify themselves on a more local level, for example, as Gojjame ʽa person from Gojjamʼ (Meyer 2011a; 2011b; Lewis, Simons, & Fennig 2015) (see also Gir ...
... 19th century, was used as a name of a region in the central Ethiopian highlands).5 Until the reign of Haile Sellassie I, Amharic speakers used to identify themselves on a more local level, for example, as Gojjame ʽa person from Gojjamʼ (Meyer 2011a; 2011b; Lewis, Simons, & Fennig 2015) (see also Gir ...
Words
... The Devastating Dilemma of the Wasow/Dubinsky&Simango two places theory: From the morphophonological point of view, all affixation looks similar (or at least the differences between different sorts of affixation viewed phonologically don’t generally correlate with the lexical vs. syntactic distinct ...
... The Devastating Dilemma of the Wasow/Dubinsky&Simango two places theory: From the morphophonological point of view, all affixation looks similar (or at least the differences between different sorts of affixation viewed phonologically don’t generally correlate with the lexical vs. syntactic distinct ...
Practice - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... Have you ever enjoyed this winter activity? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. Try it sometime if you can. • An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark. What giant footprints these are! • A compound sentence cont ...
... Have you ever enjoyed this winter activity? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. Try it sometime if you can. • An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark. What giant footprints these are! • A compound sentence cont ...
VOICE Part-of-Speech Tagging and Lemmatization Manual
... However, when criteria for categorization are specified, how far particular instances of actual use meet these criteria is often problematic. There are times when linguistic forms and/or their cotextual connections give sufficient evidence for their grammatical categories to be assigned with some de ...
... However, when criteria for categorization are specified, how far particular instances of actual use meet these criteria is often problematic. There are times when linguistic forms and/or their cotextual connections give sufficient evidence for their grammatical categories to be assigned with some de ...
painless english – lesson 002 – pronouns
... Here, use the possessive pronoun its to show possession of the noun name. Do not confuse the possessive pronoun its with it’s, which is the contraction of it is. ...
... Here, use the possessive pronoun its to show possession of the noun name. Do not confuse the possessive pronoun its with it’s, which is the contraction of it is. ...
- MIT Press Journals
... will not address problems related to derivational morphology; its semantics is notoriously noncompositional and does not interact with grammatical meaning. Moreover, without a semantically powerful lexicon such as Pustejovsky’s (1991), even the most productive fragment of derivational morphology is ...
... will not address problems related to derivational morphology; its semantics is notoriously noncompositional and does not interact with grammatical meaning. Moreover, without a semantically powerful lexicon such as Pustejovsky’s (1991), even the most productive fragment of derivational morphology is ...
The Category of Participles
... It is possible that other adjectival positions are sensitive to the state–event distinction as well, for example secondary predicates (see Embick 2004 for discussion). To summarize, above I have shown with the help of morphological and distributional diagnostics that so called "verbal" and "adjectiv ...
... It is possible that other adjectival positions are sensitive to the state–event distinction as well, for example secondary predicates (see Embick 2004 for discussion). To summarize, above I have shown with the help of morphological and distributional diagnostics that so called "verbal" and "adjectiv ...
Clitics in Word Grammar
... To put this discussion into historical perspective, in 1984 the only linguistic units that I recognised were Word and Phoneme - I explicitly denied the need for Morpheme (Hudson 1984:55). However I did accept the need for Morpheme in 1990 (Hudson 1990:85), and I still think this is correct. This mea ...
... To put this discussion into historical perspective, in 1984 the only linguistic units that I recognised were Word and Phoneme - I explicitly denied the need for Morpheme (Hudson 1984:55). However I did accept the need for Morpheme in 1990 (Hudson 1990:85), and I still think this is correct. This mea ...
The dialect of the Mitrovica Roma
... In spite of the similarities with Gurbet dialects documented elsewhere in former Yugoslavia, none of my informants indicated this term as their ethnonym. Older informants who were born and raised in the early 1970s generally favour the religious designation Xoraxane Roma ‘Muslim Roma’, also in use ...
... In spite of the similarities with Gurbet dialects documented elsewhere in former Yugoslavia, none of my informants indicated this term as their ethnonym. Older informants who were born and raised in the early 1970s generally favour the religious designation Xoraxane Roma ‘Muslim Roma’, also in use ...
Judges Manual
... Tournament Rules, which make this manual the game‟s official judging reference. This manual includes all changes made in the 2016-2017 LinguiSHTIK Tournament Rules. This manual has been written to provide those who judge LinguiSHTIK and those who would like to judge LinguiSHTIK with a handy referenc ...
... Tournament Rules, which make this manual the game‟s official judging reference. This manual includes all changes made in the 2016-2017 LinguiSHTIK Tournament Rules. This manual has been written to provide those who judge LinguiSHTIK and those who would like to judge LinguiSHTIK with a handy referenc ...
X-BAR MOTIVATED
... arguments. These requirements are both syntactic and semantic. In John ate disgusting store-bought cookies and John felt deep-rooted emotional pain, both ate and felt have NP subjects and objects. The verbs have c-selected to NPs. But John is an agent of eating and an experiencer of feeling pain. Li ...
... arguments. These requirements are both syntactic and semantic. In John ate disgusting store-bought cookies and John felt deep-rooted emotional pain, both ate and felt have NP subjects and objects. The verbs have c-selected to NPs. But John is an agent of eating and an experiencer of feeling pain. Li ...
Gerund or Infinitive?
... 20. In addition to simple gerund and infinitive forms, there are progressive gerund and infinitive forms, passive gerund and infinitive forms and perfect gerund and infinitive forms as well as combinations of these forms. Progressive forms are used to emphasize that an action is taking place now. P ...
... 20. In addition to simple gerund and infinitive forms, there are progressive gerund and infinitive forms, passive gerund and infinitive forms and perfect gerund and infinitive forms as well as combinations of these forms. Progressive forms are used to emphasize that an action is taking place now. P ...
Old Nubian Relative Clauses
... We will start with an overview of attributive rcs in §3, divided between coreferential (the subject of the rc is coreferential with the antecedent of the rc) in §3.1 and non-coreferential (the subject of the rc is not coreferential with the antecedent of the rc) in §3.2. Non-coreferential rcs are fu ...
... We will start with an overview of attributive rcs in §3, divided between coreferential (the subject of the rc is coreferential with the antecedent of the rc) in §3.1 and non-coreferential (the subject of the rc is not coreferential with the antecedent of the rc) in §3.2. Non-coreferential rcs are fu ...
The use of gaan+ infinitive in narratives of older bilingual children of
... eatinf ‘We are all eating’ Poes ga slapen (L. 3;6.9) cat go sleepinf ‘The cat is sleeping’ ...
... eatinf ‘We are all eating’ Poes ga slapen (L. 3;6.9) cat go sleepinf ‘The cat is sleeping’ ...