Interfaces as locus of historical change
... The phenomenon of complex predicates (V-V, N-V or A-V sequences) is extremely pervasive in the South Asian linguistic area, occurring in all of the major language groups (Dravidian, Tibeto-Burmese, Indo-Aryan). Complex predicates have in fact been viewed as an example of areal spread due to language ...
... The phenomenon of complex predicates (V-V, N-V or A-V sequences) is extremely pervasive in the South Asian linguistic area, occurring in all of the major language groups (Dravidian, Tibeto-Burmese, Indo-Aryan). Complex predicates have in fact been viewed as an example of areal spread due to language ...
Course textbook
... are/living/in/the/age/of/big/data./It/turns/out/that/this/is/not/the/case./We/quickly/achieve/ what/psychologists/call/a/ceiling/effect./The/data/does/not/become/more/accurate./Obviously,/ if/you/cast/a/wide/enough/net/you/will/Wind/that/there/is/speaker/variation,/but/once/you/ identify/the/differ ...
... are/living/in/the/age/of/big/data./It/turns/out/that/this/is/not/the/case./We/quickly/achieve/ what/psychologists/call/a/ceiling/effect./The/data/does/not/become/more/accurate./Obviously,/ if/you/cast/a/wide/enough/net/you/will/Wind/that/there/is/speaker/variation,/but/once/you/ identify/the/differ ...
An Elicited Production Test of the Optional Infinitive Stage in Child
... Children’s scores correlate with their ages. Pearson correlation = .505, p = .004, two tailed, indicating that this measure of language development grows in tandem with chronological age. Among the errors children made, represented in Table 5, we find two prominent forms which seem likely to be OI f ...
... Children’s scores correlate with their ages. Pearson correlation = .505, p = .004, two tailed, indicating that this measure of language development grows in tandem with chronological age. Among the errors children made, represented in Table 5, we find two prominent forms which seem likely to be OI f ...
Danish: An Essential Grammar
... of Danish structure that in our experience tend to pose special problems for learners whose first language is English. To help learners, most of the examples have been translated. The ‘new comma’, as recommended by the Danish National Language Council, has been used throughout. The book is largely t ...
... of Danish structure that in our experience tend to pose special problems for learners whose first language is English. To help learners, most of the examples have been translated. The ‘new comma’, as recommended by the Danish National Language Council, has been used throughout. The book is largely t ...
Students` Workbook
... Units Six and Seven will expand your understanding of S/V/C patterns and prepositional phrases. Unit Eight, on phrases, begins your study of how all the words in any sentence work together to make meaning. In the final unit, Nine, you will learn the important difference between “sentence” and “claus ...
... Units Six and Seven will expand your understanding of S/V/C patterns and prepositional phrases. Unit Eight, on phrases, begins your study of how all the words in any sentence work together to make meaning. In the final unit, Nine, you will learn the important difference between “sentence” and “claus ...
Notes Cap 1A File - Northwest ISD Moodle
... to ask others what they like to do … ¿Qué te gusta hacer? ¿Qué te gusta más? ¿Te gusta…? ¿Y a ti? ...
... to ask others what they like to do … ¿Qué te gusta hacer? ¿Qué te gusta más? ¿Te gusta…? ¿Y a ti? ...
Chapter I LINGUISTICS
... was mainly concerned with an evaluative comparison of the source text and the target text, completely disregarding the complexity of both the source and the target contexts. In these early approaches to translation, the notion of equivalence between the two texts played a major part. However, things ...
... was mainly concerned with an evaluative comparison of the source text and the target text, completely disregarding the complexity of both the source and the target contexts. In these early approaches to translation, the notion of equivalence between the two texts played a major part. However, things ...
Valency classes in Yucatec Maya
... • With transitive verbs, the pronominal clitic cross-references the subject, while the suffix crossreferences the direct object. • With intransitive verbs, the pronominal element cross-references the subject. The syntagmatic slot chosen, with its paradigm, depends on the verb’s status, viz.: in comp ...
... • With transitive verbs, the pronominal clitic cross-references the subject, while the suffix crossreferences the direct object. • With intransitive verbs, the pronominal element cross-references the subject. The syntagmatic slot chosen, with its paradigm, depends on the verb’s status, viz.: in comp ...
Semantic Constraints on Lexical Categories
... General knowledge of the world can bring the learner to the point of having a fairly specific scenario, or situation model (Kintsch, 1986) associated with a piece of text containing an unknown word. The learner’s task is then to discern which parts of this scenario are likely to be associated with t ...
... General knowledge of the world can bring the learner to the point of having a fairly specific scenario, or situation model (Kintsch, 1986) associated with a piece of text containing an unknown word. The learner’s task is then to discern which parts of this scenario are likely to be associated with t ...
THE ENGLISH -ING FORM FROM A
... their bare forms. Contrary to this, Tomasello (1992) observes that some verbs appear initially only inflected, interestingly often with the -ing ending. This naturally leads to the discussion of when children form grammatical categories, often emphasized as a crucial point of acquisition. The -ing i ...
... their bare forms. Contrary to this, Tomasello (1992) observes that some verbs appear initially only inflected, interestingly often with the -ing ending. This naturally leads to the discussion of when children form grammatical categories, often emphasized as a crucial point of acquisition. The -ing i ...
Why Grammar Matters: Conjugating Verbs in
... with the terminology that describes verb forms. 8 Fortunately, in most cases, it does not matter. In general, it is possible for a lawyer to speak and write well even if that lawyer is not familiar with the grammatical terminology that describes the structure of the English language. A person who ha ...
... with the terminology that describes verb forms. 8 Fortunately, in most cases, it does not matter. In general, it is possible for a lawyer to speak and write well even if that lawyer is not familiar with the grammatical terminology that describes the structure of the English language. A person who ha ...
Case and Event Structure
... would seem to be consistent with the intuition that, for example, a dragging event involves continuous impartation of force. For a throwing event, on the other hand, only the initial part of eV is cotemporaneous with s√. Possibly, this happens when the root introduces its own event (cf. Harley 1999 ...
... would seem to be consistent with the intuition that, for example, a dragging event involves continuous impartation of force. For a throwing event, on the other hand, only the initial part of eV is cotemporaneous with s√. Possibly, this happens when the root introduces its own event (cf. Harley 1999 ...
Computer-aided armchair linguistics
... Since I have been working on a method of semantic description which emphasizes the background conceptual structures for describing word meanings, 5 the first thing I wanted to do was to characterize situations involving risk. All situations for which the word risk is appropriate are situations in wh ...
... Since I have been working on a method of semantic description which emphasizes the background conceptual structures for describing word meanings, 5 the first thing I wanted to do was to characterize situations involving risk. All situations for which the word risk is appropriate are situations in wh ...
Destinos: 1-26 The Main Grammar Points, and Exercises with
... verbs that have irregular forms in the preterite. Most of them are the so-called strong preterites, which means that their stress pattern is like the present tense, with the emphasis always on the next to the last syllable, never on the last: examples are tuve, estuve, puso, hice, hizo, etc. These v ...
... verbs that have irregular forms in the preterite. Most of them are the so-called strong preterites, which means that their stress pattern is like the present tense, with the emphasis always on the next to the last syllable, never on the last: examples are tuve, estuve, puso, hice, hizo, etc. These v ...
An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language
... course books, and thus acquire a fuller understanding of the grammatical structure of Greek and patterns of contemporary usage. Some comparison should be made with our Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language. The present volume is not simply a shortened version of the earlier one, omit ...
... course books, and thus acquire a fuller understanding of the grammatical structure of Greek and patterns of contemporary usage. Some comparison should be made with our Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language. The present volume is not simply a shortened version of the earlier one, omit ...
A Contrastive Analysis of Enlgish and Arabic Morphology (1
... called a suffix, and if it is placed inside the root with which it is associated, it is called an infix. A word may contain up to three or four suffixes, but prefixes a single prefix, except for the negative prefix unbefore another prefix. When suffixes multiply, there is a fixed order in which they ...
... called a suffix, and if it is placed inside the root with which it is associated, it is called an infix. A word may contain up to three or four suffixes, but prefixes a single prefix, except for the negative prefix unbefore another prefix. When suffixes multiply, there is a fixed order in which they ...
Predicted errors in children’s early sentence comprehension
... Adults assign the same semantic role to conjoined nouns, resulting in simultaneous-action (John and Mary ran) or reciprocal-action interpretations (John and Mary kissed), depending on the verb (Gleitman, Gleitman, Miller, & Ostrin, 1996; Patson & Ferreira, 2009). Relatedly, Slobin and Bever (1982) a ...
... Adults assign the same semantic role to conjoined nouns, resulting in simultaneous-action (John and Mary ran) or reciprocal-action interpretations (John and Mary kissed), depending on the verb (Gleitman, Gleitman, Miller, & Ostrin, 1996; Patson & Ferreira, 2009). Relatedly, Slobin and Bever (1982) a ...
Andrzej Wilanowski Transitiveness of passive forms in Homer
... lacking in the features mentioned above. However, the verbs transitive in semantic sense are a common element, and therefore two groups can be distinguished: the verbs intransitive in grammatical but transitive in semantic sense and the verbs intransitive in both senses8. This group contains the ver ...
... lacking in the features mentioned above. However, the verbs transitive in semantic sense are a common element, and therefore two groups can be distinguished: the verbs intransitive in grammatical but transitive in semantic sense and the verbs intransitive in both senses8. This group contains the ver ...
Chapter 4 Modifiers and Complements Adjectives and Adjective
... 35. What a jerk I ran into! In some of these sentences, it is possible to put the preposition before the wh- word in the front, as in 36. To whom are you talking? 37. I built the stage on which you are standing. but not others, as in 38. *On what I rely is the truth. 39. *Into what a jerk I ran! In ...
... 35. What a jerk I ran into! In some of these sentences, it is possible to put the preposition before the wh- word in the front, as in 36. To whom are you talking? 37. I built the stage on which you are standing. but not others, as in 38. *On what I rely is the truth. 39. *Into what a jerk I ran! In ...
Brain responses to nouns, verbs and class
... afforded by nouns and verbs, according to their norming results. There have also been reports of word class-related differences in EEG gamma band activity 500–800 ms after stimulus onset (Pulvermüller et al., 1996, 1999a), verbs showing greater activity over central (‘motor’) sites and nouns showin ...
... afforded by nouns and verbs, according to their norming results. There have also been reports of word class-related differences in EEG gamma band activity 500–800 ms after stimulus onset (Pulvermüller et al., 1996, 1999a), verbs showing greater activity over central (‘motor’) sites and nouns showin ...
Locality Constraints on the Interpretation of Roots: The Case of
... Such incarnation occurs when the root is put in a nominal or verbal environment. It then acquires an actual instantiation as a noun or a verb, an instantiation that is both pronounceable (recall that the consonantal root is unpronounceable on its own) and has a particular semantic interpretation, sp ...
... Such incarnation occurs when the root is put in a nominal or verbal environment. It then acquires an actual instantiation as a noun or a verb, an instantiation that is both pronounceable (recall that the consonantal root is unpronounceable on its own) and has a particular semantic interpretation, sp ...
Morpho-semantic Relations in Wordnet – a Case Study for two
... Serbian equivalent {čelični:1} with exactly the same definition. Actually in English this relation is expressed by the respective nouns used with an adjectival function (rarely at the derivational level, consider wooden↔wood, golden↔gold), thus the concepts exist in English as well and the mirror no ...
... Serbian equivalent {čelični:1} with exactly the same definition. Actually in English this relation is expressed by the respective nouns used with an adjectival function (rarely at the derivational level, consider wooden↔wood, golden↔gold), thus the concepts exist in English as well and the mirror no ...
MORE THOUGHTS ON THE COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION OF THE
... The zero degree of the extent to which the primary categories are conveyed by notional components is all but reached by the passive (jsemvoldn, -a, -o, byla bych voldna). In them, through the endings -, a, -o, -i, -y, -a, the notional com ponent functions only as co-conveyer of number. Owing to thi ...
... The zero degree of the extent to which the primary categories are conveyed by notional components is all but reached by the passive (jsemvoldn, -a, -o, byla bych voldna). In them, through the endings -, a, -o, -i, -y, -a, the notional com ponent functions only as co-conveyer of number. Owing to thi ...
QUESTIONS ON LANGUAGE 1) Name the 3 ways in which a
... Answer: Alumnus, alumni, alumna, alumnae, respectively. 10) What are the 3 types of participles in English? Answer: Present participle (ending in -ing); past participle (e.g., talked); and perfect participle (having or having been). 11) As what 3 parts of speech may infinitives be used? Answer: As n ...
... Answer: Alumnus, alumni, alumna, alumnae, respectively. 10) What are the 3 types of participles in English? Answer: Present participle (ending in -ing); past participle (e.g., talked); and perfect participle (having or having been). 11) As what 3 parts of speech may infinitives be used? Answer: As n ...
Island constraints and overgeneralization in language acquisition
... repeated exposure. Similarity, the properties of construction slots are acquired through repeated exposure to utterances that instantiate the relevant construction. If all the items that appear in a particular slot share a particular property (whether this is semantic, phonological, pragmatic etc.), ...
... repeated exposure. Similarity, the properties of construction slots are acquired through repeated exposure to utterances that instantiate the relevant construction. If all the items that appear in a particular slot share a particular property (whether this is semantic, phonological, pragmatic etc.), ...