Depiction Verbs and the Definiteness Effect
... quantified noun phrases ₍’s₎ as complements. For instance, though ‘Guercino drew a dog’ can be understood relationally to mean that there is a particular dog he drew, there is an alternative notional reading according to which he drew a dog but maybe not any particular dog. The logical form of th ...
... quantified noun phrases ₍’s₎ as complements. For instance, though ‘Guercino drew a dog’ can be understood relationally to mean that there is a particular dog he drew, there is an alternative notional reading according to which he drew a dog but maybe not any particular dog. The logical form of th ...
COMPLEX SENTENCE STRUCTURES
... underline the independent clauses. LABEL SUBJECTS AND VERBS. Correct the punctuation when necessary. Note: The subordinate conjunction IS PART OF THE DEPENDENT ...
... underline the independent clauses. LABEL SUBJECTS AND VERBS. Correct the punctuation when necessary. Note: The subordinate conjunction IS PART OF THE DEPENDENT ...
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), ...
Prepositions: Locators in Time and Place
... A preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence. In itself, a word like "in" or "after" is rather meaningless and hard to define in mere words. For instance, when you do try to define a preposition like "in" or "between" or "on," you invariably use your hands to show how som ...
... A preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence. In itself, a word like "in" or "after" is rather meaningless and hard to define in mere words. For instance, when you do try to define a preposition like "in" or "between" or "on," you invariably use your hands to show how som ...
3 syntactic functions of gerund
... The diploma work to be presented here deals with the issue of English gerund, one of the non-finite verb forms. The English gerund represents a complex linguistic issue, because it displays a variety of different morphological, syntactic and functional properties. The gerund as such is a topical phe ...
... The diploma work to be presented here deals with the issue of English gerund, one of the non-finite verb forms. The English gerund represents a complex linguistic issue, because it displays a variety of different morphological, syntactic and functional properties. The gerund as such is a topical phe ...
The Case for Case - UC Berkeley Linguistics
... on how to ‘use’ the words described in the preceding sections–how to combine them into sentences. In grammars where syntax is central, the forms of words are specified with respect to syntactic concepts, not the other way around. The modern grammarian, in other words, will describe the ‘comparative ...
... on how to ‘use’ the words described in the preceding sections–how to combine them into sentences. In grammars where syntax is central, the forms of words are specified with respect to syntactic concepts, not the other way around. The modern grammarian, in other words, will describe the ‘comparative ...
Document
... objective of the grammarian, according to this framework, is to extract meaning from a sentence as spoken by a lay person. It works with the assumption that language is used for communication. The meaning in a sentence is encoded, not only in words (the lexical items), but also in the relations betw ...
... objective of the grammarian, according to this framework, is to extract meaning from a sentence as spoken by a lay person. It works with the assumption that language is used for communication. The meaning in a sentence is encoded, not only in words (the lexical items), but also in the relations betw ...
Page 1 HERMES-IR Hitotsubashi University Repository Page 2 THE
... (She found the maiden lying on her bed.) In these examples the present participles appended to the accusative nouns and pronoun also stand in the accusative case so as to denote their adjunctive relation to the objects. The accusative case is externally clear in the ending -1ee of_ upasti5endne in e ...
... (She found the maiden lying on her bed.) In these examples the present participles appended to the accusative nouns and pronoun also stand in the accusative case so as to denote their adjunctive relation to the objects. The accusative case is externally clear in the ending -1ee of_ upasti5endne in e ...
The Textual Dimension Involved-Informational: A Corpus
... VBN: any past tense or irregular past participial verb VBG: -ing form of verb VB: base form of verb VBZ: third person, present tense form of verb PUB: ‘public’ verbs PRV: ‘private’ verbs SUA: ‚suasive’ verbs V: any verb WHP: WH pronouns – who, whom, whose, which WHO: other WH words – what, where, wh ...
... VBN: any past tense or irregular past participial verb VBG: -ing form of verb VB: base form of verb VBZ: third person, present tense form of verb PUB: ‘public’ verbs PRV: ‘private’ verbs SUA: ‚suasive’ verbs V: any verb WHP: WH pronouns – who, whom, whose, which WHO: other WH words – what, where, wh ...
Pi-lan
... The interrogative is derived in terms of the ordering; the first is V-raising because the Aux does not dominate a Modal and the verb with the feature specification [+AUX] is raised to Aux to support Tense; the second is Aux-raising that satisfies the [+Q]-Comp. Finally, the surface structure emerge ...
... The interrogative is derived in terms of the ordering; the first is V-raising because the Aux does not dominate a Modal and the verb with the feature specification [+AUX] is raised to Aux to support Tense; the second is Aux-raising that satisfies the [+Q]-Comp. Finally, the surface structure emerge ...
here - The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
... túle "came"; OEA: cóm. Evidently a past tense of tul- "come" (Etym s.v. TUL), formed by the lengthening of the stem-vowel and addition of the past suffix -e; the same formation could be seen in ohta-káre below. In Etym, however, past tense of kar- "make, do" is given as karne, so Tolkien might have ...
... túle "came"; OEA: cóm. Evidently a past tense of tul- "come" (Etym s.v. TUL), formed by the lengthening of the stem-vowel and addition of the past suffix -e; the same formation could be seen in ohta-káre below. In Etym, however, past tense of kar- "make, do" is given as karne, so Tolkien might have ...
NOUNS AND NOUN PHRASES
... islands other than where the main villages are situated. The people therefore travel frequently to work in their gardens, either for a single day or for up to several weeks at a time. Garden produce includes taro, cassava, pumpkin, sugar cane, sweet potato and cucumber. The main types of fruit grown ...
... islands other than where the main villages are situated. The people therefore travel frequently to work in their gardens, either for a single day or for up to several weeks at a time. Garden produce includes taro, cassava, pumpkin, sugar cane, sweet potato and cucumber. The main types of fruit grown ...
Dutch and German verb clusters in Performance
... Within the psycholinguistically motivated syntactic framework of Performance Grammar, we develop a linearization model that we claim captures a broad range of linear order phenomena in Dutch and German clauses, including the verb clustering phenomena focused in this volume. In Section 1, we lay out ...
... Within the psycholinguistically motivated syntactic framework of Performance Grammar, we develop a linearization model that we claim captures a broad range of linear order phenomena in Dutch and German clauses, including the verb clustering phenomena focused in this volume. In Section 1, we lay out ...
The neuter in Bantu A Systemic Functional analysis
... others do not but indicate the class number in the gloss by means of a colon. Again, I do not know for all the languages which part of the noun is the prefixal morpheme and which is the nominal root. Apart from such minor inconsistancies, I have tried to make the glossing system used here as consist ...
... others do not but indicate the class number in the gloss by means of a colon. Again, I do not know for all the languages which part of the noun is the prefixal morpheme and which is the nominal root. Apart from such minor inconsistancies, I have tried to make the glossing system used here as consist ...
Junior Skill Builders: Grammar in 15 Minutes a Day
... language (maybe you have studied many of them already at school). Understanding the inner structure of sentences and writing doesn’t have to be mind numbing; it can be fun and challenging if you approach it with the right mindset. You will only benefit from your hard efforts to make heads or tails of ...
... language (maybe you have studied many of them already at school). Understanding the inner structure of sentences and writing doesn’t have to be mind numbing; it can be fun and challenging if you approach it with the right mindset. You will only benefit from your hard efforts to make heads or tails of ...
Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing
... context. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 #25 e form of a morpheme (root or affix) can be sensitive to its morphological context. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
... context. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 #25 e form of a morpheme (root or affix) can be sensitive to its morphological context. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
The Verbal System of the Cape Verdean Creole of Tarrafal
... Island in the genesis of CVC and presents the structure and methodology of this thesis. Chapter Two offers a review of the literature on TMA markers in CVC. These previous studies are discussed in chronological order and some new insights are offered. Chapter Three presents an analysis of the meanin ...
... Island in the genesis of CVC and presents the structure and methodology of this thesis. Chapter Two offers a review of the literature on TMA markers in CVC. These previous studies are discussed in chronological order and some new insights are offered. Chapter Three presents an analysis of the meanin ...
Verb movement in Germanic and Celtic
... therefore occupy a subject position in the tree. How does this work, and why would it trigger verb movement? In a language with relatively many inflectional endings, more features are required for the description of that paradigm. The empirical observation is that languages with V to I movement have ...
... therefore occupy a subject position in the tree. How does this work, and why would it trigger verb movement? In a language with relatively many inflectional endings, more features are required for the description of that paradigm. The empirical observation is that languages with V to I movement have ...
Studies in African Linguistics Volume 17, Number 3, December
... bearing but segmentally non-specified vowel (a postulation that may have some historical justification). One should note that with verbs in grade 7, the ufinal grade, the L of the suffix does not result in a falling tone, e.g. dafuwaa 'being well cooked' « dafu) ,not *dafuwaa. There are two very dif ...
... bearing but segmentally non-specified vowel (a postulation that may have some historical justification). One should note that with verbs in grade 7, the ufinal grade, the L of the suffix does not result in a falling tone, e.g. dafuwaa 'being well cooked' « dafu) ,not *dafuwaa. There are two very dif ...
Constructing grammatical meaning
... iconic correlations between relative bulk and predictability/familiarity as they have been applied in the semantically based accounts of Russian (Haiman 1983, Kemmer 1993), and it also speaks to Kemmer’s typology of reflexives and middles. On the surface Czech would seem to fall into Kemmer’s (1993: ...
... iconic correlations between relative bulk and predictability/familiarity as they have been applied in the semantically based accounts of Russian (Haiman 1983, Kemmer 1993), and it also speaks to Kemmer’s typology of reflexives and middles. On the surface Czech would seem to fall into Kemmer’s (1993: ...
Innovative 1PL Subject Constructions in Finnish
... Construction (Finnish Passive) is applied with free 1PL subject pronoun to encode 1PL subject. Due to the replacement of 1PL conjugational construction by Impersonal construction, another previously unexisting pattern has become general in Colloquial Finnish: occurence of a Nominative Object in a co ...
... Construction (Finnish Passive) is applied with free 1PL subject pronoun to encode 1PL subject. Due to the replacement of 1PL conjugational construction by Impersonal construction, another previously unexisting pattern has become general in Colloquial Finnish: occurence of a Nominative Object in a co ...
Metonymy Interpretation Using X NO Y Examples
... 1999a). Metonymy is a metaphorical expression in which the name of something is substituted for another thing associated with the thing named. For example, in the Japanese sentence of “boku ga torusutoi wo yomu (I read Tolstoi),” the word “torusutoi (Tolstoi)” is a metonymic word. In this case, the ...
... 1999a). Metonymy is a metaphorical expression in which the name of something is substituted for another thing associated with the thing named. For example, in the Japanese sentence of “boku ga torusutoi wo yomu (I read Tolstoi),” the word “torusutoi (Tolstoi)” is a metonymic word. In this case, the ...
Style Guide - Delta Sigma Pi
... All similar words (alley, drive, road, terrace, etc.) are always spelled out. Capitalize them when part of a formal name without a number; lowercase when used alone or with two or more names. Abbreviate such words when appearing at the top of a letter or on an envelope. ...
... All similar words (alley, drive, road, terrace, etc.) are always spelled out. Capitalize them when part of a formal name without a number; lowercase when used alone or with two or more names. Abbreviate such words when appearing at the top of a letter or on an envelope. ...
english grammar - Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft
... The organization of the article is as follows. Section 2 discusses S.’s theory of the relations between aspectual and temporal structure in Russian and formulates our criticism. Section 3.1. outlines the architecture of the Tense/Aspect system in Russian. In section 3.2., we will distinguish between ...
... The organization of the article is as follows. Section 2 discusses S.’s theory of the relations between aspectual and temporal structure in Russian and formulates our criticism. Section 3.1. outlines the architecture of the Tense/Aspect system in Russian. In section 3.2., we will distinguish between ...