gradable and ungradable adjectives
... Substantivized adjectives may fall into several groups, according to their meaning and the nominal features they possess. Wholly substantivized adjectives (adjectives converted into nouns) have all the characteristics of nouns: the number, the case, the gender. They may be used with the indefinite o ...
... Substantivized adjectives may fall into several groups, according to their meaning and the nominal features they possess. Wholly substantivized adjectives (adjectives converted into nouns) have all the characteristics of nouns: the number, the case, the gender. They may be used with the indefinite o ...
The Problematic Use of Infinitive in English
... In addition, having no subject and tense agreement, as other types of non-finite constructions, the infinitival construction, to Huddleston(1988:51), is non-kernel that requires a double reference to the subject in the sense that the subordinate clause lacks a subject and the missing subject is reco ...
... In addition, having no subject and tense agreement, as other types of non-finite constructions, the infinitival construction, to Huddleston(1988:51), is non-kernel that requires a double reference to the subject in the sense that the subordinate clause lacks a subject and the missing subject is reco ...
Temporal Properties of Persian and English
... nally, while English has six tense forms such as present, present perfect, past, past perfect, future, and future perfect, Persian has only five tense forms; it lacks future perfect tense and present perfect tense is being used instead. Inherent aspect and tense are syntactically instantiated in bot ...
... nally, while English has six tense forms such as present, present perfect, past, past perfect, future, and future perfect, Persian has only five tense forms; it lacks future perfect tense and present perfect tense is being used instead. Inherent aspect and tense are syntactically instantiated in bot ...
S3 Sem 2, repaso
... 1. Don’t hurt yourself. (tú) _________________________ 1. Be good. (tú) _________________________ 2. Understand me well. (ud.) ...
... 1. Don’t hurt yourself. (tú) _________________________ 1. Be good. (tú) _________________________ 2. Understand me well. (ud.) ...
On number and numberlessness in languages without articles
... ‘The children have found a mouse.’ (not ‘mice’!) Moreover, number-neutral nominals have no room for higher adjectival modifiers, in the sense of Svenonius (2008), Beauseroy and Knittel (2008), such as evaluative adjectives. This is true for complements of intensive reflexives, as shown in (16a), ...
... ‘The children have found a mouse.’ (not ‘mice’!) Moreover, number-neutral nominals have no room for higher adjectival modifiers, in the sense of Svenonius (2008), Beauseroy and Knittel (2008), such as evaluative adjectives. This is true for complements of intensive reflexives, as shown in (16a), ...
small clauses and participial constructions - E
... begin, start, continue, cease which should be analysed as raisers in examples like those below: ...
... begin, start, continue, cease which should be analysed as raisers in examples like those below: ...
An incomplete sentence is called a sentence fragment. A fragment
... describing the subject. (common linking verbs: is, are, was, am, be, like) Ex: Ms. McHugh is very old. Ex: I ran 4 miles yesterday. - A sentence MUST have a subject and a predicate to be a complete sentence. Ex: He woke up early. Ex: Ran home from school. - A sentence fragment is a group of words th ...
... describing the subject. (common linking verbs: is, are, was, am, be, like) Ex: Ms. McHugh is very old. Ex: I ran 4 miles yesterday. - A sentence MUST have a subject and a predicate to be a complete sentence. Ex: He woke up early. Ex: Ran home from school. - A sentence fragment is a group of words th ...
Chapter 5 Nawat - DCU School of Computing
... Nawat is an Uto-Aztecan language (Campbell, 1985). It is related to the Nahuatl language spoken in Mexico (which is where the Pipils originally came from, see section 5.3). When the Spanish arrived in Central America, they initially tried to teach the locals Spanish. However, as they failed to do th ...
... Nawat is an Uto-Aztecan language (Campbell, 1985). It is related to the Nahuatl language spoken in Mexico (which is where the Pipils originally came from, see section 5.3). When the Spanish arrived in Central America, they initially tried to teach the locals Spanish. However, as they failed to do th ...
Evidence of optional infinitive verbs in the spontaneous speech of
... context, defined as whether or not they agreed with plausibly associated subjects in the grammatical context. Our results show that children with SLI produced significantly more errors in verb finiteness, taking into account obligatory context, than did their typicallydeveloping counterparts. We con ...
... context, defined as whether or not they agreed with plausibly associated subjects in the grammatical context. Our results show that children with SLI produced significantly more errors in verb finiteness, taking into account obligatory context, than did their typicallydeveloping counterparts. We con ...
2016 Editorial Style Guide
... occasionally is used in psychology to describe an emotion, but there is no need for it in everyday language. Effect, as a verb, means to cause: He will effect many changes in the company. Effect, as a noun, means result: The effect was overwhelming. He miscalculated the effect of his actions. It was ...
... occasionally is used in psychology to describe an emotion, but there is no need for it in everyday language. Effect, as a verb, means to cause: He will effect many changes in the company. Effect, as a noun, means result: The effect was overwhelming. He miscalculated the effect of his actions. It was ...
3 Speech act distinctions in syntax
... The conventional forces of these sentences share the following feature: they signal the desire of the speaker to gain information from the addressee. Furthermore, these three types have a syntactic commonality in that they all involve placing a verb before the subject (but see section ...
... The conventional forces of these sentences share the following feature: they signal the desire of the speaker to gain information from the addressee. Furthermore, these three types have a syntactic commonality in that they all involve placing a verb before the subject (but see section ...
Algonquian verb structure: Plains Cree1
... Cree is a typical polysynthetic language in the sense that almost all of the grammatical information is given in the verb, and very little in the noun. This means that verbs are frequent and also morphologically complex. Before discussing the verb, I will first briefly discuss other word classes and ...
... Cree is a typical polysynthetic language in the sense that almost all of the grammatical information is given in the verb, and very little in the noun. This means that verbs are frequent and also morphologically complex. Before discussing the verb, I will first briefly discuss other word classes and ...
RELC Journal
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
On Representations in Morphology Case, Agreement and Inversion
... an adequateview, it would reduce the 'morphologicalrepresentation'of a word to the sequence of formativescomposingit, where each formativeis (uniquely)associated with some semantic materialor grammaticalcategories as its content. Especiallyin the treatmentof inflection,though, the range of classical ...
... an adequateview, it would reduce the 'morphologicalrepresentation'of a word to the sequence of formativescomposingit, where each formativeis (uniquely)associated with some semantic materialor grammaticalcategories as its content. Especiallyin the treatmentof inflection,though, the range of classical ...
Double Double, Morphology and Trouble: Looking into
... that provide access to finite-state calculus algorithms, in particular the X EROX F INITE -S TATE C ALCULUS implementation (Beesley and Karttunen, 2003). The finite-state network we create with these tools is a transducer, which allows for a lower language — or a definition of the allowable surface ...
... that provide access to finite-state calculus algorithms, in particular the X EROX F INITE -S TATE C ALCULUS implementation (Beesley and Karttunen, 2003). The finite-state network we create with these tools is a transducer, which allows for a lower language — or a definition of the allowable surface ...
this PDF file - Minda Masagi Journals
... conclude that the independent clause and dependent clause seems the same, however if the writer analyze deeper, they are extremely different. See the table 2. Words and phrases are constituents of the clause. The clause can be grouped into four categories of functional constituents: First, Subject. ...
... conclude that the independent clause and dependent clause seems the same, however if the writer analyze deeper, they are extremely different. See the table 2. Words and phrases are constituents of the clause. The clause can be grouped into four categories of functional constituents: First, Subject. ...
Lecture Notes: Linguistics
... How can people understand so many sentences, when most of them are so rare that they will only be heard once if they are heard at all? Our understanding of exactly how this could work took a great leap early in this century when mathematicians noticed that our ability to do this is analogous to the ...
... How can people understand so many sentences, when most of them are so rare that they will only be heard once if they are heard at all? Our understanding of exactly how this could work took a great leap early in this century when mathematicians noticed that our ability to do this is analogous to the ...
noun - Salarean
... that of taking an object (when the verb is Transitive) and adverbial qualifiers. In short, the Infinitive is a Verb-Noun. ...
... that of taking an object (when the verb is Transitive) and adverbial qualifiers. In short, the Infinitive is a Verb-Noun. ...
Grammar Practice Workbook - Muncie Central Early College
... Underline all linking verbs in the sentences below. 1. She said that she feels confident about the success of the plan. 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The ...
... Underline all linking verbs in the sentences below. 1. She said that she feels confident about the success of the plan. 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The ...
Grammar Practice Workbook
... Underline all linking verbs in the sentences below. 1. She said that she feels confident about the success of the plan. 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The ...
... Underline all linking verbs in the sentences below. 1. She said that she feels confident about the success of the plan. 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The ...
Nominalizations as a window into the structure and
... • Starting point of this talk: word formation is entirely syntactic and there is no generative lexicon (as in Distributed Morphology, Nanosyntax, Exoskeletal Syntax,...) • Corollary of the lack of a generative lexicon is the principle of containment: “the analysis and structures proposed for a form ...
... • Starting point of this talk: word formation is entirely syntactic and there is no generative lexicon (as in Distributed Morphology, Nanosyntax, Exoskeletal Syntax,...) • Corollary of the lack of a generative lexicon is the principle of containment: “the analysis and structures proposed for a form ...
Grammar Practice Workbook
... Underline all linking verbs in the sentences below. 1. She said that she feels confident about the success of the plan. 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The ...
... Underline all linking verbs in the sentences below. 1. She said that she feels confident about the success of the plan. 2. Thai food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried it. 3. That is the year Maria was born. 4. Herbs grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is adequate. 5. The ...
Chapter 3 PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES A preposition is a word that
... The injured man seemed in a daze. (follows a linking verb) COMMONLY USED PREPOSITIONS above ...
... The injured man seemed in a daze. (follows a linking verb) COMMONLY USED PREPOSITIONS above ...