Electronic Dictionaries viewed from South Africa - Hermes
... instances where a noun phrase is followed immediately by a pronoun with the same referent, e.g. the parents, they are supposed to pay ten rands. For non-standard verb complementation he cites examples where make is usually followed by a ‘to’ infinitive rather than a bare infinitive as is illustrated ...
... instances where a noun phrase is followed immediately by a pronoun with the same referent, e.g. the parents, they are supposed to pay ten rands. For non-standard verb complementation he cites examples where make is usually followed by a ‘to’ infinitive rather than a bare infinitive as is illustrated ...
Experiments for Dependency Parsing of Greek
... last features are also used for nouns, articles, pronouns, and passive participles. Verb tags include features for tense and aspect, while articles are distinguished for definiteness. Manual annotation at these levels allows to examine how the parser’s accuracy is affected in realistic, automatic pr ...
... last features are also used for nouns, articles, pronouns, and passive participles. Verb tags include features for tense and aspect, while articles are distinguished for definiteness. Manual annotation at these levels allows to examine how the parser’s accuracy is affected in realistic, automatic pr ...
Explaining the (A)telicity Property of English Verb Phrases
... c. The doctor examined an enormous number of patients in 3 hours this morning It seems that any expression of quantity, rather than a precise expression of quantity, is sufficient for a predicate to qualify as telic. This makes it implausible that a VP is telic if and only if there is a homomorphism ...
... c. The doctor examined an enormous number of patients in 3 hours this morning It seems that any expression of quantity, rather than a precise expression of quantity, is sufficient for a predicate to qualify as telic. This makes it implausible that a VP is telic if and only if there is a homomorphism ...
Transitivity of a Chinese Verb-Result Compound and Affected
... Lin (1998) predicts a VR’s transitivity and V2’s affected argument based on V1’s transitivity and whether V2 is predicative of animate or inanimate entities. This approach seems promising for automatic processing since transitivity properties and selectional restrictions can be annotated. Regarding ...
... Lin (1998) predicts a VR’s transitivity and V2’s affected argument based on V1’s transitivity and whether V2 is predicative of animate or inanimate entities. This approach seems promising for automatic processing since transitivity properties and selectional restrictions can be annotated. Regarding ...
Phenomenon of Masculinity and Femininity: An Etymological Study
... that one should not investigate them in other linguistics fields such as syntax. In syntax, for example, there are many issues that rely on whether the noun is masculine or feminine, mainly when it goes to masculinizing or femininizing the verb using a feminine marker either obligatory or optionally ...
... that one should not investigate them in other linguistics fields such as syntax. In syntax, for example, there are many issues that rely on whether the noun is masculine or feminine, mainly when it goes to masculinizing or femininizing the verb using a feminine marker either obligatory or optionally ...
6.3 Resource - Prepositions
... 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 ...
Ethnic adjectives are proper adjectives∗ Boban Arsenijevic
... Alexiadou & Stavrou (2011) (A&S), working in the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993), treat thematically used EAs (thEAs) as hidden nominals, but classificatorily used EAs (clEAs) as proper, ‘deep’ adjectives which are merely homophonous to thEAs. Since their article focuses o ...
... Alexiadou & Stavrou (2011) (A&S), working in the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993), treat thematically used EAs (thEAs) as hidden nominals, but classificatorily used EAs (clEAs) as proper, ‘deep’ adjectives which are merely homophonous to thEAs. Since their article focuses o ...
Detransitivisation in Irish Sign Language ESF Intersign Workshop on
... oriented and /or moving towards each other. Each hand denotes, as it were, one side of the reciprocal relationship. Agreement markers which refer to both subject/agent and direct object/patient are indicated on each hand’ (McDonnell ...
... oriented and /or moving towards each other. Each hand denotes, as it were, one side of the reciprocal relationship. Agreement markers which refer to both subject/agent and direct object/patient are indicated on each hand’ (McDonnell ...
HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES
... on the one hand, and the relatively euphonious languages of the Sacramento valley (Maidu, Yana, Wintun) on the other, inclining rather to the latter than to the former. From the former group it differs chiefly in the absence of voiceless i-sounds (L, 1,2 .rd) and of velar stops (q, g, g!); from the ...
... on the one hand, and the relatively euphonious languages of the Sacramento valley (Maidu, Yana, Wintun) on the other, inclining rather to the latter than to the former. From the former group it differs chiefly in the absence of voiceless i-sounds (L, 1,2 .rd) and of velar stops (q, g, g!); from the ...
A Comparative Study of Imperative Sentences in English and
... much as we can.) (Kuteli, 1972:87). The category of tense is present in the meaning of imperative sentences. For instance, in cases when there are emphasized a number of repeated actions occurring in the past, it is used the second person singular imperative mood for the three persons, singular and ...
... much as we can.) (Kuteli, 1972:87). The category of tense is present in the meaning of imperative sentences. For instance, in cases when there are emphasized a number of repeated actions occurring in the past, it is used the second person singular imperative mood for the three persons, singular and ...
АНГЛІЙСЬКА МОВА
... Before these articles leave the factory to be forwarded to the retailer, each one is thoroughly ... . a) looked at b) appraised c) inspected d) seen ...
... Before these articles leave the factory to be forwarded to the retailer, each one is thoroughly ... . a) looked at b) appraised c) inspected d) seen ...
Effective Writing
... and so on. By the way, the verb “be,” which has the additional forms, “am,” “is,” “are,” “was,” “were,” “been,” and “being” –eight forms in total, is a true state-of-being verb. There are only two others (linking verbs that can take either a predicate adjective or a predicate noun): “become” and “re ...
... and so on. By the way, the verb “be,” which has the additional forms, “am,” “is,” “are,” “was,” “were,” “been,” and “being” –eight forms in total, is a true state-of-being verb. There are only two others (linking verbs that can take either a predicate adjective or a predicate noun): “become” and “re ...
Graded representations in the acquisition of English and German
... Therefore we compared English active transitives, in which semantic roles (e.g., agent versus patient) are marked by one cue—word order, with German. In German, word order and case-marking collaborate in marking the same noun phrase as subject in 68% of active transitive sentences in child-directed ...
... Therefore we compared English active transitives, in which semantic roles (e.g., agent versus patient) are marked by one cue—word order, with German. In German, word order and case-marking collaborate in marking the same noun phrase as subject in 68% of active transitive sentences in child-directed ...
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
... consonant inventory including glottalized stops, also grammatical gender and adjectival agreement, an ergative construction which was lost again but has left its traces in the grammatical system, especially in the nominal inflection, a construction with a dative subject which was partly preserved in ...
... consonant inventory including glottalized stops, also grammatical gender and adjectival agreement, an ergative construction which was lost again but has left its traces in the grammatical system, especially in the nominal inflection, a construction with a dative subject which was partly preserved in ...
Reaching agreement
... Figure 2 caricatures the control and constraint views from a psycholinguistic perspective. In both panels of the figure, the speaker’s message is shown as the origin of notional number, and in the depicted message, the notional number is two. Control, in the right-hand panel, creates verb number thr ...
... Figure 2 caricatures the control and constraint views from a psycholinguistic perspective. In both panels of the figure, the speaker’s message is shown as the origin of notional number, and in the depicted message, the notional number is two. Control, in the right-hand panel, creates verb number thr ...
The Spanish DELPH-IN Grammar - Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat
... that the grammar deals with; instead, in Section 4, we present the implementation of cliticization phenomena for standard peninsular Spanish –including cliticization, clitic doubling, and clitic climbing– and the closely related phenomena of reflexive and reciprocal constructions, and the so-called ...
... that the grammar deals with; instead, in Section 4, we present the implementation of cliticization phenomena for standard peninsular Spanish –including cliticization, clitic doubling, and clitic climbing– and the closely related phenomena of reflexive and reciprocal constructions, and the so-called ...
LOCATIVE SENTENCES AND RELATED CONSTRUCTIONS IN
... In spite of this difference, I assume that the way to check case for the subject clitic in (17a) is essentially the same as for the subject clitic in (16). The elitie hi in (17a) checks its oblique or dative case with a [-person] Agreement head.!! In a case where the clitic hi moves to a specifier p ...
... In spite of this difference, I assume that the way to check case for the subject clitic in (17a) is essentially the same as for the subject clitic in (16). The elitie hi in (17a) checks its oblique or dative case with a [-person] Agreement head.!! In a case where the clitic hi moves to a specifier p ...
gothic word order patterns as attested in the gothic gospel of luke
... The historical background of the Germanic tribe known as the Goths touches upon the development of their language and forms its characteristic features hardly observed in other Germanic tongues. The Goths were the first Germanic tribe to migrate from their home in Götland, Southern Scandinavia, and ...
... The historical background of the Germanic tribe known as the Goths touches upon the development of their language and forms its characteristic features hardly observed in other Germanic tongues. The Goths were the first Germanic tribe to migrate from their home in Götland, Southern Scandinavia, and ...
4. DUAL NOUNS
... Tiersma (1999: 31) thinks that these are the prints French left on English; that French influenced legal English also in creating names of persons referring to opposite parties. According to him “the past participles of French verbs ending with -ee later came to be used as names of persons receiving ...
... Tiersma (1999: 31) thinks that these are the prints French left on English; that French influenced legal English also in creating names of persons referring to opposite parties. According to him “the past participles of French verbs ending with -ee later came to be used as names of persons receiving ...
On expletive subject pronoun drop in Colloquial French
... 3.2 ICs with non-expressed IL as precursors to a new change (Fonseca-Greber, 2004) Fonseca-Greber (2004: 86) considers the non-expression of IL in ICs in CF both a clear indication of the (near) completion of the morphologisation of clitic subject pronouns and the ‘leading edge of a new change’ (cf. ...
... 3.2 ICs with non-expressed IL as precursors to a new change (Fonseca-Greber, 2004) Fonseca-Greber (2004: 86) considers the non-expression of IL in ICs in CF both a clear indication of the (near) completion of the morphologisation of clitic subject pronouns and the ‘leading edge of a new change’ (cf. ...
ACT English Test Prep
... These two sentences would make equal sense if you switched the order of the adjectives: “Rebecca’s new dog has silky, long hair” and “The angry, loud protesters mobbed the building.” The case is different if you have an essential adjective modifying the noun. Essential adjectives specify the nouns t ...
... These two sentences would make equal sense if you switched the order of the adjectives: “Rebecca’s new dog has silky, long hair” and “The angry, loud protesters mobbed the building.” The case is different if you have an essential adjective modifying the noun. Essential adjectives specify the nouns t ...
GREENBERG`S ASYMMETRY IN ARABIC: A CONSEQUENCE OF
... canonical /madad/ is converted to [madd] before a vowel-initial suffix, via a process of syncope as in /madad Ⳮ V/ → [maddV], and in some cases via a process of metathesis as in (the imperfect) /ya Ⳮ mdud Ⳮ V/ → [yamuddV]. But as McCarthy (1986:247–48) observes, this analysis treats the alternation ...
... canonical /madad/ is converted to [madd] before a vowel-initial suffix, via a process of syncope as in /madad Ⳮ V/ → [maddV], and in some cases via a process of metathesis as in (the imperfect) /ya Ⳮ mdud Ⳮ V/ → [yamuddV]. But as McCarthy (1986:247–48) observes, this analysis treats the alternation ...
1 Paper accepted for publication in Language Sciences Explaining
... Because of its elegance, Perlmutter and Moore’s explanation of the Russian data is quite attractive. It can therefore be argued that as long as no alternative explanation is provided, both the use of null forms and the rule that the case of the subject of the infinitive is dative cannot be rejected ...
... Because of its elegance, Perlmutter and Moore’s explanation of the Russian data is quite attractive. It can therefore be argued that as long as no alternative explanation is provided, both the use of null forms and the rule that the case of the subject of the infinitive is dative cannot be rejected ...
Conceptual plural information is used to guide early
... In both of these cases, the appropriate verb would be is – singular – because gang is a singular noun (*the gang are here, in American English). However, participants produced significantly more plural verb continuations (were) with distributed representations (2a) than with assemblage representation ...
... In both of these cases, the appropriate verb would be is – singular – because gang is a singular noun (*the gang are here, in American English). However, participants produced significantly more plural verb continuations (were) with distributed representations (2a) than with assemblage representation ...
On Verb-Initial and Verb-Final Word Orders in Lokaa.
... typology of word order types, and reliable ways to tell one type from another. In this article, I look in some detail at sentences of this kind in Lokaa, discussing how they are generated, and how the orders found in Lokaa differ from those of certain other, superficially similar African languages. ...
... typology of word order types, and reliable ways to tell one type from another. In this article, I look in some detail at sentences of this kind in Lokaa, discussing how they are generated, and how the orders found in Lokaa differ from those of certain other, superficially similar African languages. ...