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... 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 ...
Nathaniel Dorgbetor
... Per the asymmetric relationship between the internal arguments in the DOC; variants of the shell structure, originally proposed by Larson (1988), has been assumed nowadays in the analyses of the structure of the English DOC. The standard view on the English DOC has been that it can only have the V-G ...
... Per the asymmetric relationship between the internal arguments in the DOC; variants of the shell structure, originally proposed by Larson (1988), has been assumed nowadays in the analyses of the structure of the English DOC. The standard view on the English DOC has been that it can only have the V-G ...
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 ...
Financial support Basic data Outline of the talk BNs in object position
... BNs in languages with determiners have to denote properties anyway. We argue that BNs are not semantic arguments of the verbs they appear with. So no reason (of the sort advanced in Chierchia 1984) to say that they denote kinds or other entities. Kind terms are not restricted in their distribution i ...
... BNs in languages with determiners have to denote properties anyway. We argue that BNs are not semantic arguments of the verbs they appear with. So no reason (of the sort advanced in Chierchia 1984) to say that they denote kinds or other entities. Kind terms are not restricted in their distribution i ...
24 Important Words and Phrases
... be used for a variety of activities and events. Hours 13:00 to 11:00 teach you the most effective ways to ask yes/no and information questions. In the event of a lack of communication, you’ll be prepared. You’ll also be able to properly furnish any necessary information being asked of you, in a quic ...
... be used for a variety of activities and events. Hours 13:00 to 11:00 teach you the most effective ways to ask yes/no and information questions. In the event of a lack of communication, you’ll be prepared. You’ll also be able to properly furnish any necessary information being asked of you, in a quic ...
On Comparative Suppletion
... (and adverbs) that have suppletive comparatives (good/well-better, bad-worse; much/manymore, little/few-less). Over such a small sample size, the absence of the ABA pattern, or of any other pattern, could be synchronically accidental. What makes the generalizations above of interest is their cross-l ...
... (and adverbs) that have suppletive comparatives (good/well-better, bad-worse; much/manymore, little/few-less). Over such a small sample size, the absence of the ABA pattern, or of any other pattern, could be synchronically accidental. What makes the generalizations above of interest is their cross-l ...
Uppsala University
... iconic origin to some or all occurrences of reduplication, i.e. whether or not there is any ‘obvious’ function of it that is conventional in most or all languages that use it. As we will see, the process of reduplication will result in seemingly different semantic modifications when used on differen ...
... iconic origin to some or all occurrences of reduplication, i.e. whether or not there is any ‘obvious’ function of it that is conventional in most or all languages that use it. As we will see, the process of reduplication will result in seemingly different semantic modifications when used on differen ...
Kurmanji lessons
... tune (=there isn't), with plural tunin (=there aren't). E.g.: Çi heye, çi tune? [=What's new, lit. 'What is there, what isn't there'] ...
... tune (=there isn't), with plural tunin (=there aren't). E.g.: Çi heye, çi tune? [=What's new, lit. 'What is there, what isn't there'] ...
bardi verb morphology in historical perspective
... This dissertation is an investigation into the structure of verbal predicates in Bardi, a Nyulnyulan language from the North-Western Australian coast. I examine possible synchronic analyses and reconstruct the history of the systems between Proto-Nyulnyulan and the modern attested languages. There h ...
... This dissertation is an investigation into the structure of verbal predicates in Bardi, a Nyulnyulan language from the North-Western Australian coast. I examine possible synchronic analyses and reconstruct the history of the systems between Proto-Nyulnyulan and the modern attested languages. There h ...
PropBank Annotation Guidelines - Computational Language and
... For some verbs, it is impossible to provide one set of semantic roles for all senses of the verb. For example, the two senses of the verb ‘leave’ in the examples below take different arguments: Mary left the room Mary left her daughter-in-law her pearls in her will In such cases, frame files disting ...
... For some verbs, it is impossible to provide one set of semantic roles for all senses of the verb. For example, the two senses of the verb ‘leave’ in the examples below take different arguments: Mary left the room Mary left her daughter-in-law her pearls in her will In such cases, frame files disting ...
The semantics of the Turkish accusative marked
... In line with Enç (1991) Kennelly maintains that discourse linking of definites take place under the relation of identity which she calls directbinding. Specific indefinites, on the other hand, are assumed to receive their reading via indirect-binding. Kennelly, suggesting that there can in fact be ...
... In line with Enç (1991) Kennelly maintains that discourse linking of definites take place under the relation of identity which she calls directbinding. Specific indefinites, on the other hand, are assumed to receive their reading via indirect-binding. Kennelly, suggesting that there can in fact be ...
Heroic deeds and devious villains:
... believe it is important to be a good reader, and since we see reading as a meaningful and important activity, we want our children to read as much as possible. We are not indifferent, however, to what kind of literature children should read. Although we usually accept that some books can be read for ...
... believe it is important to be a good reader, and since we see reading as a meaningful and important activity, we want our children to read as much as possible. We are not indifferent, however, to what kind of literature children should read. Although we usually accept that some books can be read for ...
The meaning of the English present participle
... understood against the background of the syntactic slot they fill. Specifically, we start from the observation that present participles often occupy the position of an adjective phrase in the higher clause. Different semantic effects arise from the tension between the verbal semantics of the partici ...
... understood against the background of the syntactic slot they fill. Specifically, we start from the observation that present participles often occupy the position of an adjective phrase in the higher clause. Different semantic effects arise from the tension between the verbal semantics of the partici ...
DEICTIC AND ANAPHORIC TENSE IN KOREAN: A TWO
... In this chapter, I consider the definitions of tense and aspect and the need for a distinction between deictic tense and anaphoric tense in connection with the concept of reference point (Reichenbach 1947). Further, I address the definition of three temporal primitives: speech time, situation time, ...
... In this chapter, I consider the definitions of tense and aspect and the need for a distinction between deictic tense and anaphoric tense in connection with the concept of reference point (Reichenbach 1947). Further, I address the definition of three temporal primitives: speech time, situation time, ...
Complex Predicates Müller, Stefan
... the author’s theoretical work. It is very convenient to use electronic corpora to find data to justify certain claims about idioms and derivational morphology. For these particular surveys I used mainly the taz CD roms, which contain thirteen years of the newspaper. I also used the COSMAS corpus tha ...
... the author’s theoretical work. It is very convenient to use electronic corpora to find data to justify certain claims about idioms and derivational morphology. For these particular surveys I used mainly the taz CD roms, which contain thirteen years of the newspaper. I also used the COSMAS corpus tha ...
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... As we compared the RSV with the Hebrew text, I began to note surprising phenomena. The RSV would translate the same verb form with different temporal meanings in English. The question then arose in my mind whether there would be any principled way of knowing why there are such different translations ...
... As we compared the RSV with the Hebrew text, I began to note surprising phenomena. The RSV would translate the same verb form with different temporal meanings in English. The question then arose in my mind whether there would be any principled way of knowing why there are such different translations ...
Non-subject Arguments in Indonesian - ORB
... theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Both the properties associated with the various types of argument and the means by which they are licensed in clauses turn out to be problematic. Two argument verbs appear in a range of clause types which are related in interesting ways. I argue t ...
... theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Both the properties associated with the various types of argument and the means by which they are licensed in clauses turn out to be problematic. Two argument verbs appear in a range of clause types which are related in interesting ways. I argue t ...
HAVE + PERFECT PARTICIPLE
... In this work, I contend that our understanding of the genesis of the periphrastic have-perfect in the Romance and Germanic languages (illustrated in 1.5) requires a detailed appreciation of the structures and meanings associated with other concatenations of have and a perfect participle (illustrate ...
... In this work, I contend that our understanding of the genesis of the periphrastic have-perfect in the Romance and Germanic languages (illustrated in 1.5) requires a detailed appreciation of the structures and meanings associated with other concatenations of have and a perfect participle (illustrate ...
All_The_Arabic_You_Should_Have_Learned
... I know that students never read the preface to a book so I am including the material below in this section instead. Yes, I know that you know everything in the world about how to study Arabic and even more about how to work through a self-study guide. That is why your Arabic is weak and your grammat ...
... I know that students never read the preface to a book so I am including the material below in this section instead. Yes, I know that you know everything in the world about how to study Arabic and even more about how to work through a self-study guide. That is why your Arabic is weak and your grammat ...
Syntax of Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek
... desirable to state somewhat more fully than was done in the former preface the purpose which it is hoped the book will serve. Classified according to its intent, it belongs among the aids to the interpretation of the New Testament. It is designed to assist English-speaking students in the task of tr ...
... desirable to state somewhat more fully than was done in the former preface the purpose which it is hoped the book will serve. Classified according to its intent, it belongs among the aids to the interpretation of the New Testament. It is designed to assist English-speaking students in the task of tr ...
Intermediate Spanish for Dummies
... 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, 317-572-3447, fax 317-572-4355, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley ...
... 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, 317-572-3447, fax 317-572-4355, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley ...
Part II: Writing in the Present
... 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, 317-572-3447, fax 317-572-4355, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley ...
... 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, 317-572-3447, fax 317-572-4355, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley ...
Structural Classification of English Modals
... Modality is a contentious topic within the linguistics community with a vast diaspora of theories, approaches, interpretations, and classification schemes – some complementary and some far from it. English relies on modal expressions more than many languages and possesses a vast complexity of mood a ...
... Modality is a contentious topic within the linguistics community with a vast diaspora of theories, approaches, interpretations, and classification schemes – some complementary and some far from it. English relies on modal expressions more than many languages and possesses a vast complexity of mood a ...
Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense
... tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. Cross-linguistic v ...
... tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. Cross-linguistic v ...