Kokama-Kokamilla - Scholars` Bank
... documentation of the structures of the language and the functions they serve, with rich exemplification. This study is based on significant fieldwork since 1997, allowing the analysis to be grounded in text data. One of KK’s most salient typological features is a morphological distinction between ma ...
... documentation of the structures of the language and the functions they serve, with rich exemplification. This study is based on significant fieldwork since 1997, allowing the analysis to be grounded in text data. One of KK’s most salient typological features is a morphological distinction between ma ...
Adverbs of time
... adverbs express such ideas as manner, time and place (location or destination). Only manner adverbs have a recognizable form, most of them (but not all) consisting of the ending -ly on an adjective base. Their form cannot recognize other adverbs. They may modify almost any kind of construction in En ...
... adverbs express such ideas as manner, time and place (location or destination). Only manner adverbs have a recognizable form, most of them (but not all) consisting of the ending -ly on an adjective base. Their form cannot recognize other adverbs. They may modify almost any kind of construction in En ...
On Participial Imperatives
... In the remainder of this article, we will compare the negative nominal and participial imperatives in (21) and (23) with the non-negated participial imperatives in (5)-(6). The question arises as to why negative nominal and participial imperatives are highly productive, while the participial imperat ...
... In the remainder of this article, we will compare the negative nominal and participial imperatives in (21) and (23) with the non-negated participial imperatives in (5)-(6). The question arises as to why negative nominal and participial imperatives are highly productive, while the participial imperat ...
Speaking Iban - reuteler.org
... emphasize a sound which you are not getting properly. It may be to make the sound of the word fit more closely to what he thinks that word looks like in its printed form. So have your informant use the word in a complete sentence. Usually this will bring out the proper pronunciation. In going throug ...
... emphasize a sound which you are not getting properly. It may be to make the sound of the word fit more closely to what he thinks that word looks like in its printed form. So have your informant use the word in a complete sentence. Usually this will bring out the proper pronunciation. In going throug ...
On the notion of subject for subject-oriented adverbs
... advancement transformations (e.g. passive and subject-to-subject raising), and being involved in the validation of morphosyntactic features (e.g. nominative case on the argument itself and agreement morphology on the finite verb). However, though this phrase-structural notion of subject seemed to be ...
... advancement transformations (e.g. passive and subject-to-subject raising), and being involved in the validation of morphosyntactic features (e.g. nominative case on the argument itself and agreement morphology on the finite verb). However, though this phrase-structural notion of subject seemed to be ...
T.C. Mersin Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü İngiliz Dili ve
... situation). Of these features, non-factuality is the common one for both epistemic and deontic modality and is used as basis to many linguistic researches. These two types are also named as root and epistemic modality (Bybee et al. 1994; Papafragou, 1998, 2000; Coates, 1983), since the deontic meani ...
... situation). Of these features, non-factuality is the common one for both epistemic and deontic modality and is used as basis to many linguistic researches. These two types are also named as root and epistemic modality (Bybee et al. 1994; Papafragou, 1998, 2000; Coates, 1983), since the deontic meani ...
a complete grammar of esperanto
... are really explained, instead of being dismissed with the unsatisfactory remark that ”the imperative follows ’por ke,’” or the ”use of ’tiel ... ke’ and ’tia ... ke’ must be distinguished from that of ’tiel ... kiel’ and ’tia ... kia,’” etc., with but little intimation of when and why ”por ke”, ”tie ...
... are really explained, instead of being dismissed with the unsatisfactory remark that ”the imperative follows ’por ke,’” or the ”use of ’tiel ... ke’ and ’tia ... ke’ must be distinguished from that of ’tiel ... kiel’ and ’tia ... kia,’” etc., with but little intimation of when and why ”por ke”, ”tie ...
Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog
... This dissertation presents an analysis of Tagalog within the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Tagalog is a non-configurational language in which the grammatical subject does not occupy a unique structural position. Nevertheless, the grammar of Tagalog makes crucial reference to the notion of ...
... This dissertation presents an analysis of Tagalog within the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Tagalog is a non-configurational language in which the grammatical subject does not occupy a unique structural position. Nevertheless, the grammar of Tagalog makes crucial reference to the notion of ...
French Language Studies – Grammar Reference Resource
... Adjectives: Formation and Placement ......................................................................................................................... 40 Adjectives that proceed the nour .......................................................................................................... ...
... Adjectives: Formation and Placement ......................................................................................................................... 40 Adjectives that proceed the nour .......................................................................................................... ...
Polysemy of verbal prefixes in Russian: conceptual structure versus
... of the similarities in meaning, while the structure into which a prefix is inserted varies, and serves as the source of di↵erences. I show that the semantic di↵erences go hand in hand with structural di↵erences, and the meaning of a prefix is predictable based on the event structure of the verb it a ...
... of the similarities in meaning, while the structure into which a prefix is inserted varies, and serves as the source of di↵erences. I show that the semantic di↵erences go hand in hand with structural di↵erences, and the meaning of a prefix is predictable based on the event structure of the verb it a ...
Theoretical Approaches to Locative Inversion
... does not involve any additional morphology (as opposed to passive, applicative etc.). The fact that the non-inverted and the inverted structure have distinct (if not even complementary) uses in discourse also makes locative inversion an interesting object of information structural research. Any acco ...
... does not involve any additional morphology (as opposed to passive, applicative etc.). The fact that the non-inverted and the inverted structure have distinct (if not even complementary) uses in discourse also makes locative inversion an interesting object of information structural research. Any acco ...
Dependent Clause Constructions Key Examples
... cr animal kill=act.irr=pl that animal=gen meat take=act.irr quot say=act.pst ‘Whatever animal they kill, that animal’s meat they should bring, he said.’ (Peterson 2006: 299) Correlative construction Remark: There are two types of correlative constructions: (i) With je-class markers: ...
... cr animal kill=act.irr=pl that animal=gen meat take=act.irr quot say=act.pst ‘Whatever animal they kill, that animal’s meat they should bring, he said.’ (Peterson 2006: 299) Correlative construction Remark: There are two types of correlative constructions: (i) With je-class markers: ...
Passive and passive-like constructions in English and Polish
... the meaning of the basic passive and which can be seen as resulting from alterations in grammatical voice. In particular the thesis describes and analyses several related types of construction including the passive, the impersonal, and the anticausative. The main objective of this dissertation is a ...
... the meaning of the basic passive and which can be seen as resulting from alterations in grammatical voice. In particular the thesis describes and analyses several related types of construction including the passive, the impersonal, and the anticausative. The main objective of this dissertation is a ...
Lisaun 1: Hasee malu (greetings)
... If you book someone, it means you bother, irritate, or bug them, for instance by talking to them when they are trying to concentrate. When people book aan (an = self), they are in motion, moving parts of their body or shifting position of their own accord: e.g. Bebee komesa book aan ‘The baby starte ...
... If you book someone, it means you bother, irritate, or bug them, for instance by talking to them when they are trying to concentrate. When people book aan (an = self), they are in motion, moving parts of their body or shifting position of their own accord: e.g. Bebee komesa book aan ‘The baby starte ...
Further and Farther
... A division of labor between further and farther with regard to their present-day usage has been long maintained in the prescriptive tradition. Going as far back as the 19th century, Cobbett (1883 [1818]: 49) implies that further is more flexible in that it is not only the comparative degree of far b ...
... A division of labor between further and farther with regard to their present-day usage has been long maintained in the prescriptive tradition. Going as far back as the 19th century, Cobbett (1883 [1818]: 49) implies that further is more flexible in that it is not only the comparative degree of far b ...
Lenition of the Conjugated Prepositions in Irish and Welsh
... which means that the pronoun should go back to *mene4. However, this ending would have caused nasalisation, instead of lenition. For this reason, it is generally believed that the lenition observed after the 1sg form is caused by analogy with another, quite similar form in the paradigm of possessive ...
... which means that the pronoun should go back to *mene4. However, this ending would have caused nasalisation, instead of lenition. For this reason, it is generally believed that the lenition observed after the 1sg form is caused by analogy with another, quite similar form in the paradigm of possessive ...
ISSUES IN THE PLACEMENT OF ENCLITIC PERSONAL
... prosodic evidence it can obtain from poetry—the only linguistic form with clearly discernible prosodic breaks. As such, the occurrence of line breaks and caesuras offer clear clues to the prosody of Vedic Sanskrit that can otherwise not be recovered easily and should not be ignored. This needs to be ...
... prosodic evidence it can obtain from poetry—the only linguistic form with clearly discernible prosodic breaks. As such, the occurrence of line breaks and caesuras offer clear clues to the prosody of Vedic Sanskrit that can otherwise not be recovered easily and should not be ignored. This needs to be ...
1 Chinese Passives in Comparative Perspective C.
... A fourth argument against the PP-status of the bei-NP comes from anaphorbinding. It is now widely known that the reflexive pronoun ziji is subject-oriented, i.e., it must take a subject as its antecedent (see Tang 1989, Cole et al 1990, Huang and Tang 1991, inter alia). In the following passive sent ...
... A fourth argument against the PP-status of the bei-NP comes from anaphorbinding. It is now widely known that the reflexive pronoun ziji is subject-oriented, i.e., it must take a subject as its antecedent (see Tang 1989, Cole et al 1990, Huang and Tang 1991, inter alia). In the following passive sent ...
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... It is not clear whether the classification in (2) is exhaustive, and occasionally it may be difficult to decide to which semantic class a certain N1 belongs. Furthermore, N1s tend to shift from one class to another (especially in the direction of quantifier nouns) when their referring force weakens, ...
... It is not clear whether the classification in (2) is exhaustive, and occasionally it may be difficult to decide to which semantic class a certain N1 belongs. Furthermore, N1s tend to shift from one class to another (especially in the direction of quantifier nouns) when their referring force weakens, ...
Oriented Adverbs - Universität Tübingen
... What is the connection, in the above example, between a person's property of being careful and the property of events with the same name? Alternations of this kind are extremely pervasive and entirely regular, so one must suspect that there is something about the underlying lexical meaning of adject ...
... What is the connection, in the above example, between a person's property of being careful and the property of events with the same name? Alternations of this kind are extremely pervasive and entirely regular, so one must suspect that there is something about the underlying lexical meaning of adject ...
Verbs and Verb Phrases - UvA-DARE
... This being said, it is important to point out that SoD will pay ample attention to certain aspects of meaning, and reference will also be made to phonological aspects such as stress and intonation wherever they are relevant (e.g., in the context of word order phenomena like in (1)). The reason for t ...
... This being said, it is important to point out that SoD will pay ample attention to certain aspects of meaning, and reference will also be made to phonological aspects such as stress and intonation wherever they are relevant (e.g., in the context of word order phenomena like in (1)). The reason for t ...
Semi-Compositional Noun + Verb Constructions
... Results of rule-based methods enhanced by syntactic features for semi-compositional constructions in terms of precision, recall and F-measure evaluated on the 30% of SzegedParalellFX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
... Results of rule-based methods enhanced by syntactic features for semi-compositional constructions in terms of precision, recall and F-measure evaluated on the 30% of SzegedParalellFX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Diachrony in Clause Linkage and Related Issues By Toshio Ohori
... various conceptual ramifications, which any grammatical theory must take good care of. This granted, there still can be, and in fact are, several branching points in approaching the phenomena under investigation, and I will discuss some of them below in order to clarify my general theoretical outloo ...
... various conceptual ramifications, which any grammatical theory must take good care of. This granted, there still can be, and in fact are, several branching points in approaching the phenomena under investigation, and I will discuss some of them below in order to clarify my general theoretical outloo ...
Verbal breakups - Utrecht University Repository
... Appendices ........................................................................................................................................ 71 Appendix I. Background participants ................................................................................................... 71 Appendix I ...
... Appendices ........................................................................................................................................ 71 Appendix I. Background participants ................................................................................................... 71 Appendix I ...
ON THE SYNTAX OF PARTICIPIAL MODIFIERS*
... node (PTCP). The endowment of the PTCP node with N-features underlies the nominal distribution of participles. The verbal features of the participle originate in the verbal head and in the functional heads which form its extended projection. 2.2.2. TYPES OF PARTICIPIAL MODIFIERS. Participial modifie ...
... node (PTCP). The endowment of the PTCP node with N-features underlies the nominal distribution of participles. The verbal features of the participle originate in the verbal head and in the functional heads which form its extended projection. 2.2.2. TYPES OF PARTICIPIAL MODIFIERS. Participial modifie ...