Master`s Thesis - Nikhil Krishnaswamy
... As language is an inherently temporal phenomenon, consisting of sequential symbolic representations expressed over time, temporal aspect in language is wellstudied. As a grammatical category, a verb’s temporal aspect marks how the action, event, or state denoted by the verb relates to the flow of ti ...
... As language is an inherently temporal phenomenon, consisting of sequential symbolic representations expressed over time, temporal aspect in language is wellstudied. As a grammatical category, a verb’s temporal aspect marks how the action, event, or state denoted by the verb relates to the flow of ti ...
- SOAS Research Online
... In this analysis I describe three aspects and their markers in siSwati, two of which have a common feature as they both link two separate time periods and are called dual-time period aspects. One is the PERSISTIVE, morphologically encoded by -sa-, which is welldocumented and studied cross-linguistic ...
... In this analysis I describe three aspects and their markers in siSwati, two of which have a common feature as they both link two separate time periods and are called dual-time period aspects. One is the PERSISTIVE, morphologically encoded by -sa-, which is welldocumented and studied cross-linguistic ...
Serial Verb Constructions
... Not all of these parameters are new—but the way in which they are systematically discussed and applied provides an original perspective and presents a comprehensive view of serial verb constructions worldwide. The week of the workshop was an intellectually stimulating and exciting time, full of disc ...
... Not all of these parameters are new—but the way in which they are systematically discussed and applied provides an original perspective and presents a comprehensive view of serial verb constructions worldwide. The week of the workshop was an intellectually stimulating and exciting time, full of disc ...
PERFECTIVITY MIGHT NOT SCOPE OVER MODALITY
... modals: (i) the so-called “past tense” modals: could, should, ought and (ii) need. Depending on the analysis of may and might in (17), counterfactual readings (or external perfect readings) are also attested with (some) epistemic modals. The internal perfect reading can obtain with all the epistemic ...
... modals: (i) the so-called “past tense” modals: could, should, ought and (ii) need. Depending on the analysis of may and might in (17), counterfactual readings (or external perfect readings) are also attested with (some) epistemic modals. The internal perfect reading can obtain with all the epistemic ...
Full text - Universiteit Leiden
... The process leading to this thesis began when, during my MA studies in Zurich, my then supervisor Dr. Philippe Maurer introduced me to a Timorese student, Eduardo da Costa Guterres. His native tongue, Makasae, ended up being the topic of my MA thesis. Eduardo’s commitment and enthusiasm convinced me ...
... The process leading to this thesis began when, during my MA studies in Zurich, my then supervisor Dr. Philippe Maurer introduced me to a Timorese student, Eduardo da Costa Guterres. His native tongue, Makasae, ended up being the topic of my MA thesis. Eduardo’s commitment and enthusiasm convinced me ...
the present perfect: an exercise in the study of events
... associated to the present perfect structure in Brazilian Portuguese, known as the “pretérito perfeito composto” (PPC), this dissertation takes an approach that involves constructing interfaces at every level of analysis. The unique problem the PPC presents is its often obligatory meaning of repetiti ...
... associated to the present perfect structure in Brazilian Portuguese, known as the “pretérito perfeito composto” (PPC), this dissertation takes an approach that involves constructing interfaces at every level of analysis. The unique problem the PPC presents is its often obligatory meaning of repetiti ...
Tense and Aspect Systems
... can or should be used (e.g., the cases when, say, the Past tense in English can or should be used) and the cases when it cannot. This will have little or no bearing on the logic of the notion of impreciseness, however. ...
... can or should be used (e.g., the cases when, say, the Past tense in English can or should be used) and the cases when it cannot. This will have little or no bearing on the logic of the notion of impreciseness, however. ...
View/Download PDF - Digital Learning Department
... Spanish, students improve their vocabulary and grammar. Intense listening comprehension exercises aid in understanding more complex thoughts and subjects. ...
... Spanish, students improve their vocabulary and grammar. Intense listening comprehension exercises aid in understanding more complex thoughts and subjects. ...
Destinos: 27-52 The Main Grammar Points, and Exercises with
... First of all, the subjunctive is not a new verb tense, but rather an entire, new verb system. The subjunctive, which is also called the subjunctive mood, has four tenses: present subjunctive, present perfect subjunctive, past subjunctive (sometimes referred to as imperfect subjunctive), and past per ...
... First of all, the subjunctive is not a new verb tense, but rather an entire, new verb system. The subjunctive, which is also called the subjunctive mood, has four tenses: present subjunctive, present perfect subjunctive, past subjunctive (sometimes referred to as imperfect subjunctive), and past per ...
Spanish!Grammar!
... chapter. As to grouping of units, it seems to me far more effective strategically and pedagogically to divide the grammar into its unitary difficulties and to attack these units individually, rather than in combinations of four, three, or even two. Hence the thirty-six lessons in this book, each dev ...
... chapter. As to grouping of units, it seems to me far more effective strategically and pedagogically to divide the grammar into its unitary difficulties and to attack these units individually, rather than in combinations of four, three, or even two. Hence the thirty-six lessons in this book, each dev ...
1 Rise of the Auxiliaries: a case for auxiliary raising vs. affix
... be initially merged. Obviously certain modal verbs such as epistemic must need not be merged in this projection, but it appears to be a required merge position for many other modals.5 Having established a hierarchy from which to work, Section 3 presents an outline of the two fundamental analyses tha ...
... be initially merged. Obviously certain modal verbs such as epistemic must need not be merged in this projection, but it appears to be a required merge position for many other modals.5 Having established a hierarchy from which to work, Section 3 presents an outline of the two fundamental analyses tha ...
SUBJUNCTIVE RELATIVES IN BULGARIAN AND MACEDONIAN
... In the glosses of the examples, the following abbreviations are used: 1/2/3 = 1st/2nd/3rd person; Acc = accusative (case); Anaph = anaphoric; Cl = clitic; Dat = dative (case); F = feminine; Imp = imperative; Imperf = imperfect, imperfective (aspect); Impers = impersonal; Indic = indicative; M = masc ...
... In the glosses of the examples, the following abbreviations are used: 1/2/3 = 1st/2nd/3rd person; Acc = accusative (case); Anaph = anaphoric; Cl = clitic; Dat = dative (case); F = feminine; Imp = imperative; Imperf = imperfect, imperfective (aspect); Impers = impersonal; Indic = indicative; M = masc ...
Phrases
... My favorite president Harry Truman led the American people through the end of World War II. One check is to eliminate the appositive, and see what happens. Here, you have a complete sentence, but you really don’t know to whom I am referring. The information is incomplete. I need to supply his name. ...
... My favorite president Harry Truman led the American people through the end of World War II. One check is to eliminate the appositive, and see what happens. Here, you have a complete sentence, but you really don’t know to whom I am referring. The information is incomplete. I need to supply his name. ...
PREFIXED ADJECTIVAL PARTICIPLES
... Prefixation ensures here that the result state is reached. Below, we will also see an unaccusativity test using the formation of -lý participles. ...
... Prefixation ensures here that the result state is reached. Below, we will also see an unaccusativity test using the formation of -lý participles. ...
A Reference Grammar of Dena Michelle Elizabeth Morrison Doctor
... in Bena is its tense aspect system-Bena distinguishes four separate past tenses and three distinct futures; these interact with five aspects. The second major focus of Chapter 5 is the use of a series of suffixes in verbal derivation. The sixth chapter of the grammar describes adverbs and other inva ...
... in Bena is its tense aspect system-Bena distinguishes four separate past tenses and three distinct futures; these interact with five aspects. The second major focus of Chapter 5 is the use of a series of suffixes in verbal derivation. The sixth chapter of the grammar describes adverbs and other inva ...
THE EPP, NOMINATIVE CASE and EXPLETIVES
... include not only unaccusative constructions, in which the verb assigns inherent nominative to the postverbal NP, but also cases, where verbs do not have a nominative Case-feature and even cases when no verb is present at all, in languages like Russian and Hebrew that allow verbless sentences. The la ...
... include not only unaccusative constructions, in which the verb assigns inherent nominative to the postverbal NP, but also cases, where verbs do not have a nominative Case-feature and even cases when no verb is present at all, in languages like Russian and Hebrew that allow verbless sentences. The la ...
The Origin and Development of Nonconcatenative Morphology by
... main processes result in the creation or disruption of nonconcatenative morphology. The first and perhaps most important is the morphologization of previously phonological alternations. This includes alternations related to the long-distance influence of a vowel or consonant and those occasioned by ...
... main processes result in the creation or disruption of nonconcatenative morphology. The first and perhaps most important is the morphologization of previously phonological alternations. This includes alternations related to the long-distance influence of a vowel or consonant and those occasioned by ...
Passive - University of Hawaii
... passive morpheme absorbs the external argument of the verb and therefore renders the verb unaccusative. In this view, the passive construction is intransitive. Accordingly, the underlying O receives case in the active Agr. Thus, in the English passive, the underlying O appears in NOM. This definitio ...
... passive morpheme absorbs the external argument of the verb and therefore renders the verb unaccusative. In this view, the passive construction is intransitive. Accordingly, the underlying O receives case in the active Agr. Thus, in the English passive, the underlying O appears in NOM. This definitio ...
Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs - Munin
... an argument of the head denoting the process of the event), thereby allowing extraction. 2 The validity of CED has been called into question since it was proposed in the 80’s. See Haegeman et al. (2014) for an overview of the problems that the CED has to face and for a proposal based on the decompos ...
... an argument of the head denoting the process of the event), thereby allowing extraction. 2 The validity of CED has been called into question since it was proposed in the 80’s. See Haegeman et al. (2014) for an overview of the problems that the CED has to face and for a proposal based on the decompos ...
Transferring the Spanish Subjunctive Mood into English
... morphologically different from the present indicative and it only exists in the singular which is were (indicative was), and consequently, the rest of the forms of the English subjunctive are not distinct from the indicative. The subjunctive in Spanish is used more frequently than in English and als ...
... morphologically different from the present indicative and it only exists in the singular which is were (indicative was), and consequently, the rest of the forms of the English subjunctive are not distinct from the indicative. The subjunctive in Spanish is used more frequently than in English and als ...
A Typology of Verbal Borrowings
... The present volume is the revised version of my dissertation which was submitted to the Faculty of Philology of Leipzig University in January 2008 and defended in July 2008. This thesis took shape during the four years of the XXVIIIth Olympiad which I spent at the Department of Linguistics of the M ...
... The present volume is the revised version of my dissertation which was submitted to the Faculty of Philology of Leipzig University in January 2008 and defended in July 2008. This thesis took shape during the four years of the XXVIIIth Olympiad which I spent at the Department of Linguistics of the M ...
Constructions with and without articles Henriëtte de Swart
... 2010) for the technicalities of the OT analysis, which constitutes the background of this investigation. The main aim of the current paper is to translate the intuitions about weak referentiality into a formal syntax-semantics interface for bare nominals in configurations different from regular subj ...
... 2010) for the technicalities of the OT analysis, which constitutes the background of this investigation. The main aim of the current paper is to translate the intuitions about weak referentiality into a formal syntax-semantics interface for bare nominals in configurations different from regular subj ...
The Uzbek tense aspect modality system
... It is made up of three main axis: - tense: distant past/past/present/future, - aspect: perfective/imperfective, - aspect: focal/non-focal. Tense distinctions: - present, past, and future tenses are absolute tenses referring to a time respectively at, before and after the moment of utterance. - the d ...
... It is made up of three main axis: - tense: distant past/past/present/future, - aspect: perfective/imperfective, - aspect: focal/non-focal. Tense distinctions: - present, past, and future tenses are absolute tenses referring to a time respectively at, before and after the moment of utterance. - the d ...
The verbal valency in the Prague Dependency Treebank
... object. As a rule, ADDR is animate (promise something to somebody.ADDR, talk to somebody.ADDR about something, teach someone.ADDR something). Effect (EFF) is the semantic counterpart of the second object or of the verbal attribute (break something into something.EFF, appoint somebody as somebody.EFF ...
... object. As a rule, ADDR is animate (promise something to somebody.ADDR, talk to somebody.ADDR about something, teach someone.ADDR something). Effect (EFF) is the semantic counterpart of the second object or of the verbal attribute (break something into something.EFF, appoint somebody as somebody.EFF ...