A Grammar of Proto-Germanic
... since the early days of historical linguistics in the early nineteenth century, as by Jacob Grimm in four large volumes, a full bibliography is enormous; it can be accessed through bibliographic journals like those of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft or the Modern Language Association as well as the ...
... since the early days of historical linguistics in the early nineteenth century, as by Jacob Grimm in four large volumes, a full bibliography is enormous; it can be accessed through bibliographic journals like those of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft or the Modern Language Association as well as the ...
articles basque resultatives and related issues
... intransitive verbs, like in German die Äpfel sind ganz verfault “the apples are quite rotten”, but also for expressing objective resultatives from transitive verbs, like in French le bâton est cassé “the stick is broken”, in which case it may be difficult to distinguish from a passive form. But, in ...
... intransitive verbs, like in German die Äpfel sind ganz verfault “the apples are quite rotten”, but also for expressing objective resultatives from transitive verbs, like in French le bâton est cassé “the stick is broken”, in which case it may be difficult to distinguish from a passive form. But, in ...
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... Compound words are the combination of two words with different meaning and give a new word with a new meaning. Example: dining table, bath room, bed room, compound wall, kitchen ware, iron hand. Activity: Match the following: sea ...
... Compound words are the combination of two words with different meaning and give a new word with a new meaning. Example: dining table, bath room, bed room, compound wall, kitchen ware, iron hand. Activity: Match the following: sea ...
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Irregular Verbs Up Close
... you need to know about the concept of mood. Logically, if there is such a thing as an irregular verb, there must be some pattern it deviates from, something that defines what regular is. So, in order to understand irregular verbs, you have to be sure that you know what regular verbs look like. Let’s ...
... you need to know about the concept of mood. Logically, if there is such a thing as an irregular verb, there must be some pattern it deviates from, something that defines what regular is. So, in order to understand irregular verbs, you have to be sure that you know what regular verbs look like. Let’s ...
IV. Two-Verb Sequences and Germanic SOV
... variants from Sankt Gallen, Zürich, and Bern). Various generalisations can be drawn from these data: All the VO-languages allow only one and the same order. The OV languages, on the other hand, differ in which order they prefer, and 7 out of 9 OV languages also allow more than one order (actually 8 ...
... variants from Sankt Gallen, Zürich, and Bern). Various generalisations can be drawn from these data: All the VO-languages allow only one and the same order. The OV languages, on the other hand, differ in which order they prefer, and 7 out of 9 OV languages also allow more than one order (actually 8 ...
On the Origin and History of the English Prepositional Type A
... hunting] were to other progressives." It has been generally agreed that the OE construction consisting of a preposition and a gerundial verb, of the type ic wces on huntun e, under certain circumstances, lends itself better to the expression of passive meaning. Summing up, it can be said that a-phra ...
... hunting] were to other progressives." It has been generally agreed that the OE construction consisting of a preposition and a gerundial verb, of the type ic wces on huntun e, under certain circumstances, lends itself better to the expression of passive meaning. Summing up, it can be said that a-phra ...
Personal pronouns - Vista Higher Learning
... d. In all voseo regions, vos adopted the direct and indirect object pronouns of tú (Te digo a vos. I tell you.) as well as its possessive and reflexive pronouns (Vos te sentás en tu silla. You sit in your chair.). 13.B.3 Vosotros/as - ustedes a. In Spain, there are two plural address forms: the in ...
... d. In all voseo regions, vos adopted the direct and indirect object pronouns of tú (Te digo a vos. I tell you.) as well as its possessive and reflexive pronouns (Vos te sentás en tu silla. You sit in your chair.). 13.B.3 Vosotros/as - ustedes a. In Spain, there are two plural address forms: the in ...
Les pronoms interrogatifs
... before a vowel and replace it with an apostrophe as you do with "est-ce que"]). Notice also that in English we ask questions with dangling prepositions; e.g., "Who are you talking to?", while in French the preposition is included in the interrogative pronoun at the beginning of the question (this mo ...
... before a vowel and replace it with an apostrophe as you do with "est-ce que"]). Notice also that in English we ask questions with dangling prepositions; e.g., "Who are you talking to?", while in French the preposition is included in the interrogative pronoun at the beginning of the question (this mo ...
A brief grammar of euskara - Addi - University of the Basque Country
... This is a short grammar of the Basque language, or Euskara as it is called by its speakers. What follows is a partial description of the syntax of Euskara. The text has been arranged in the following fashion: there is an index where you can find the distribution of topics. Within each of the topics, ...
... This is a short grammar of the Basque language, or Euskara as it is called by its speakers. What follows is a partial description of the syntax of Euskara. The text has been arranged in the following fashion: there is an index where you can find the distribution of topics. Within each of the topics, ...
FREN 1101 (Stephenson)
... before a vowel and replace it with an apostrophe as you do with "est-ce que"]). Notice also that in English we ask questions with dangling prepositions; e.g., "Who are you talking to?", while in French the preposition is included in the interrogative pronoun at the beginning of the question (this mo ...
... before a vowel and replace it with an apostrophe as you do with "est-ce que"]). Notice also that in English we ask questions with dangling prepositions; e.g., "Who are you talking to?", while in French the preposition is included in the interrogative pronoun at the beginning of the question (this mo ...
Slide 1
... Actors When infinitive phrases have an “actor,” they may be roughly characterized as the “subject” of the action or state expressed in the infinitive. It is somewhat misleading to use the word subject, though, since an infinitive phrase is not a full clause with a subject and a finite verb. Also rem ...
... Actors When infinitive phrases have an “actor,” they may be roughly characterized as the “subject” of the action or state expressed in the infinitive. It is somewhat misleading to use the word subject, though, since an infinitive phrase is not a full clause with a subject and a finite verb. Also rem ...
fulltext - LOT Publications
... Internal plurative ............................................................... 183 ...
... Internal plurative ............................................................... 183 ...
Mixed Categories and Argument Transfer in the Korean
... The question, then, is how the arguments in (1) are marked with verbal cases although they are semantic arguments of the main predicate which appears to be a noun. Two main types of analyses have been proposed. The first type is the argument transfer analysis proposed by Grimshaw and Mester (1988) f ...
... The question, then, is how the arguments in (1) are marked with verbal cases although they are semantic arguments of the main predicate which appears to be a noun. Two main types of analyses have been proposed. The first type is the argument transfer analysis proposed by Grimshaw and Mester (1988) f ...
A note on non-canonical passives: the case of the get
... It has been noted that the get-passive is not permitted with stative verbs and verbs that do not allow for the subject of the construction to be interpreted as affected. Some researchers even classify the construction as an adversative passive. As Siewierska (1984: 161) notes, the get-passives descr ...
... It has been noted that the get-passive is not permitted with stative verbs and verbs that do not allow for the subject of the construction to be interpreted as affected. Some researchers even classify the construction as an adversative passive. As Siewierska (1984: 161) notes, the get-passives descr ...
11 Fula
... imperative: wolw-at-ay „keep on talking!‟, but only two voices, there being no Passive Imperative (Arnott 1970:248). Other modal forms include a desiderative (suffixes -u, -o, or -Ø): ‟Alla wall-am „God help me‟; ‟Alla hinno-mo, faranoo-mo „God have pity on him and pardon him‟, and a subjunctive (vo ...
... imperative: wolw-at-ay „keep on talking!‟, but only two voices, there being no Passive Imperative (Arnott 1970:248). Other modal forms include a desiderative (suffixes -u, -o, or -Ø): ‟Alla wall-am „God help me‟; ‟Alla hinno-mo, faranoo-mo „God have pity on him and pardon him‟, and a subjunctive (vo ...
View PDF - CiteSeerX
... The question, then, is how the arguments in (1) are marked with verbal cases although they are semantic arguments of the main predicate which appears to be a noun. Two main types of analyses have been proposed. The first type is the argument transfer analysis proposed by Grimshaw and Mester (1988) f ...
... The question, then, is how the arguments in (1) are marked with verbal cases although they are semantic arguments of the main predicate which appears to be a noun. Two main types of analyses have been proposed. The first type is the argument transfer analysis proposed by Grimshaw and Mester (1988) f ...
01 SAT Prep Class Vocab Writing Grammar
... Make impure or inferior by adding improper ingredients; contaminate; pollute. ...
... Make impure or inferior by adding improper ingredients; contaminate; pollute. ...
Chapter The Many Facets of the Cause-Effect Relation
... kind B to occur if, when A occurs, B always follows, but when A does not occur, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not. On the other hand, if when A does not occur, B never occurs, but when A occurs, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not, then A is a necessary though not a sufficient condition for B to ...
... kind B to occur if, when A occurs, B always follows, but when A does not occur, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not. On the other hand, if when A does not occur, B never occurs, but when A occurs, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not, then A is a necessary though not a sufficient condition for B to ...
The Meaning of Syntactic Dependencies
... and (2) is the object denoted by a syntactic pattern where the head and dependent words are syntactically constrained to be respectively a verb and a noun. According to this idea, a syntactic dependency like subj can be the function denoted by the following syntactic pattern: "NOUN + subj + VERB". I ...
... and (2) is the object denoted by a syntactic pattern where the head and dependent words are syntactically constrained to be respectively a verb and a noun. According to this idea, a syntactic dependency like subj can be the function denoted by the following syntactic pattern: "NOUN + subj + VERB". I ...
This opposition reveals a special category, the category
... Modern English, as distinct from Modern Russian, is a language of analytical structure. Relations of words in the sentence are expressed mainly by the positions of words or by special form-words. The main means of expressing syntactic relations in Russian (a language of synthetic structure) is the s ...
... Modern English, as distinct from Modern Russian, is a language of analytical structure. Relations of words in the sentence are expressed mainly by the positions of words or by special form-words. The main means of expressing syntactic relations in Russian (a language of synthetic structure) is the s ...
9. THE VERB The verb is defined as a principal part of speech in the
... aspect (indefinite/continuous and perfective/imperfective); voice (active, passive, reflexive), mood (finite forms, e.g. indicative, conditional, subjunctive, imperative and non-finite, e.g. infinitive, gerund, present participle, past participle); tense (present, present perfect, past tense, past p ...
... aspect (indefinite/continuous and perfective/imperfective); voice (active, passive, reflexive), mood (finite forms, e.g. indicative, conditional, subjunctive, imperative and non-finite, e.g. infinitive, gerund, present participle, past participle); tense (present, present perfect, past tense, past p ...
Relative clausesRules File
... We saw the new play written by Tom Stoppard at the Old Vic. The second piece played by the orchestra was very well received. These are also examples of reduced subject relative clauses, but this time the word immediately following the noun which is being described is not an -ing type finite verb but ...
... We saw the new play written by Tom Stoppard at the Old Vic. The second piece played by the orchestra was very well received. These are also examples of reduced subject relative clauses, but this time the word immediately following the noun which is being described is not an -ing type finite verb but ...
Raoul Zamponi
... (ca. 575,000), Gabon (374,000), and Congo (Brazzaville) (6,000). It belongs to the subgroup A70 (Beti-Fang, Ewondo-Fang) of the “zone” A of Bantu languages together with four languages localized in southern Cameroon: Eton (52,000 speakers), Ewondo (578,000 speakers), BebeleBebil (30,000 speakers) an ...
... (ca. 575,000), Gabon (374,000), and Congo (Brazzaville) (6,000). It belongs to the subgroup A70 (Beti-Fang, Ewondo-Fang) of the “zone” A of Bantu languages together with four languages localized in southern Cameroon: Eton (52,000 speakers), Ewondo (578,000 speakers), BebeleBebil (30,000 speakers) an ...
SOME NOTES ON ENGLISH AND SLOVAK PERSONAL
... Not all languages have the same system of personal pronouns. In Hungarian, for example, gender is not distinguished, and there are special pronouns corresponding to the Slovak VY when used to show respect (distinguishing number as well); special pronouns of respect exist in Spanish and in other lang ...
... Not all languages have the same system of personal pronouns. In Hungarian, for example, gender is not distinguished, and there are special pronouns corresponding to the Slovak VY when used to show respect (distinguishing number as well); special pronouns of respect exist in Spanish and in other lang ...
Grammar Manual - Richard Têtu`s room
... (1) Nouns that follow between are plural. Bob is between twenty and twenty-five years of age. (2) Nouns that follow from are singular. Bill works from the first to the third day of the week. b) Compound words (1) If the word is solid and has no hyphen, add the normal plural at the end of the word. B ...
... (1) Nouns that follow between are plural. Bob is between twenty and twenty-five years of age. (2) Nouns that follow from are singular. Bill works from the first to the third day of the week. b) Compound words (1) If the word is solid and has no hyphen, add the normal plural at the end of the word. B ...