chapters 4 and 5
... Verbs are distinguished depending on what objects or object predicates they select. Verbs that select objects are called transitive verbs and those that don't, as in (36) below, intransitive. If the verb selects one object, as in (13) and (14) above, it is (mono)transitive; if it selects two objects ...
... Verbs are distinguished depending on what objects or object predicates they select. Verbs that select objects are called transitive verbs and those that don't, as in (36) below, intransitive. If the verb selects one object, as in (13) and (14) above, it is (mono)transitive; if it selects two objects ...
noun
... Notice that nouns often make their plurals by adding an s, but verbs don’t. Why is this important? Because each sentence must be either about one thing or about more than one thing, and if the noun is singular but the verb is plural, then we can not tell! The number must show. Future verb tenses, ho ...
... Notice that nouns often make their plurals by adding an s, but verbs don’t. Why is this important? Because each sentence must be either about one thing or about more than one thing, and if the noun is singular but the verb is plural, then we can not tell! The number must show. Future verb tenses, ho ...
article
... The Modern Hebrew (MH) desiderative construction must obey four conditions: 1. A subordinate clause headed by the clitic še= ‘that’ must be present. 2. The verb in the subordinate clause must be marked with future tense. 3. The grammatical properties genus, number, and person tend to be specified, i ...
... The Modern Hebrew (MH) desiderative construction must obey four conditions: 1. A subordinate clause headed by the clitic še= ‘that’ must be present. 2. The verb in the subordinate clause must be marked with future tense. 3. The grammatical properties genus, number, and person tend to be specified, i ...
Free! - Classical Academic Press
... Quiz your classmates or anyone else you know who is also taking Spanish. Quiz your teacher or parent, and have that person quiz you. Have contests to see who can get the most right or who can give the answers fastest. Make your own written test, and see how many you can get right. ...
... Quiz your classmates or anyone else you know who is also taking Spanish. Quiz your teacher or parent, and have that person quiz you. Have contests to see who can get the most right or who can give the answers fastest. Make your own written test, and see how many you can get right. ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Grammar and
... he has endeavored to eliminate these Sa'a elements from the present work. In the translations made into Lau, some use has been made of the gerundive, following the use in Sa'a; but until we have further evidence of the validity of this usage it must be regarded as not belonging to the genius of the ...
... he has endeavored to eliminate these Sa'a elements from the present work. In the translations made into Lau, some use has been made of the gerundive, following the use in Sa'a; but until we have further evidence of the validity of this usage it must be regarded as not belonging to the genius of the ...
Emai Separation Verbs and Telicity
... no typically verb behavior vis-à-vis functional categories and no argument selectional behavior. CS a, however, is associated with the encoding of separation events where an affected entity, as grammatical subject or direct object, undergoes a change of material state or condition. In the following, ...
... no typically verb behavior vis-à-vis functional categories and no argument selectional behavior. CS a, however, is associated with the encoding of separation events where an affected entity, as grammatical subject or direct object, undergoes a change of material state or condition. In the following, ...
Infinitive Clauses: Tensed or Untensed
... Tense is a grammatical category that is used in the descriptions of verbs; it specifies the time of the action or event relative to the moment of utterance (Quirk et al., 1985: 176). Time, on the other hand, is a universal concept that exists in all languages; the two terms, then, are not synonymous ...
... Tense is a grammatical category that is used in the descriptions of verbs; it specifies the time of the action or event relative to the moment of utterance (Quirk et al., 1985: 176). Time, on the other hand, is a universal concept that exists in all languages; the two terms, then, are not synonymous ...
view - Association for Computational Linguistics
... of its components. N-V combinations are subject to various levels of lexicalization. In some cases, the CP meaning is a specialization of the predictable meaning of the combination. For instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only to hit somebody with a knife; dast dâdan ‘to shake ...
... of its components. N-V combinations are subject to various levels of lexicalization. In some cases, the CP meaning is a specialization of the predictable meaning of the combination. For instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only to hit somebody with a knife; dast dâdan ‘to shake ...
Cause Event Representations for Happiness and Surprise
... Emotions have been widely studied in and across various disciplines. Various linguistic and psychological theories of emotions were proposed previously (e.g. Plutchik 1980, Frijda 1986, Weiss and Cropanozano 1996). They are generally considered the least tangible aspects of human experience, but exe ...
... Emotions have been widely studied in and across various disciplines. Various linguistic and psychological theories of emotions were proposed previously (e.g. Plutchik 1980, Frijda 1986, Weiss and Cropanozano 1996). They are generally considered the least tangible aspects of human experience, but exe ...
1 10. Hortative (Excerpt from Eggleston, 2013) The hortative is the
... potential modes. Note that this only occurs with Ø conjugation verbs, and never with na, ga, or ga conjugation verbs. These are notated in the verb theme in parentheses, following the verb’s conjugation prefix and verb type as: CVV Imp/Hort/Pot. For example, the theme for the first example given bel ...
... potential modes. Note that this only occurs with Ø conjugation verbs, and never with na, ga, or ga conjugation verbs. These are notated in the verb theme in parentheses, following the verb’s conjugation prefix and verb type as: CVV Imp/Hort/Pot. For example, the theme for the first example given bel ...
Case and Event Structure
... the.birds.NOM have followed the.helicopter.ACC all way.ACC of the.airport.DAT ‘The birds have followed the helicopter all the way from the airport’ ...
... the.birds.NOM have followed the.helicopter.ACC all way.ACC of the.airport.DAT ‘The birds have followed the helicopter all the way from the airport’ ...
Ontology lexica and automatic grammar generation
... the ontology with lexical and linguistic information. An ontology lexicon specifies how ontology concepts correspond to natural language expressions. This can support: I Interpretation (knowing how natural language expressions should be interpreted with respect to a given ontology) I ...
... the ontology with lexical and linguistic information. An ontology lexicon specifies how ontology concepts correspond to natural language expressions. This can support: I Interpretation (knowing how natural language expressions should be interpreted with respect to a given ontology) I ...
Analyzing English Grammar
... then a basic level of communication is retained. As discussed above, what one typically finds among ESL students is that those functional elements which reflect more abstract properties of language are inconsistently produced and often get deleted in the early stages of learning a second language. O ...
... then a basic level of communication is retained. As discussed above, what one typically finds among ESL students is that those functional elements which reflect more abstract properties of language are inconsistently produced and often get deleted in the early stages of learning a second language. O ...
Basic Punctuation Help Tips
... Instructions are often used on signs, in manuals and in recipes. They are written using the imperative verb. But what exactly is an imperative verb? An imperative verb, also known as a ‘bossy verb’ is a verb (doing word) that doesn’t have ‘to’ or any noun or pronoun before it. Continued on the next ...
... Instructions are often used on signs, in manuals and in recipes. They are written using the imperative verb. But what exactly is an imperative verb? An imperative verb, also known as a ‘bossy verb’ is a verb (doing word) that doesn’t have ‘to’ or any noun or pronoun before it. Continued on the next ...
Printable Book
... 1. "Us" is the subject of the infinitive "to rise." That infinitive phrase is the direct object of the infinitive "to tell," and the "to tell phrase functions as an adverb to "crow." 2. "For" here functions as a coordinating conjunction -- See "So" and "For" as Conjunctions. 3. Let me begin with the ...
... 1. "Us" is the subject of the infinitive "to rise." That infinitive phrase is the direct object of the infinitive "to tell," and the "to tell phrase functions as an adverb to "crow." 2. "For" here functions as a coordinating conjunction -- See "So" and "For" as Conjunctions. 3. Let me begin with the ...
Basic English Grammar Book 2
... Read the sentences. Does the collective noun indicate a group acting together as a single unit? If so, circle the singular verb. Does the collective noun indicate a group in which each member acts individually? Circle the plural noun. 1. The jury (were/was) arguing about the importance of evidenc ...
... Read the sentences. Does the collective noun indicate a group acting together as a single unit? If so, circle the singular verb. Does the collective noun indicate a group in which each member acts individually? Circle the plural noun. 1. The jury (were/was) arguing about the importance of evidenc ...
A Classification of Imperatives: A Statistical Study
... Similar in some respects to the category called "Exclamatory" is this group that might be called a challenge to understanding (4 examples). These are clearly verb forms, not interjectional, but they are a call to know, to perceive, to understand. Luke 12:39, "And be sure of this, that. . . ." The ve ...
... Similar in some respects to the category called "Exclamatory" is this group that might be called a challenge to understanding (4 examples). These are clearly verb forms, not interjectional, but they are a call to know, to perceive, to understand. Luke 12:39, "And be sure of this, that. . . ." The ve ...
Grace Theological Journal 8
... Similar in some respects to the category called "Exclamatory" is this group that might be called a challenge to understanding (4 examples). These are clearly verb forms, not interjectional, but they are a call to know, to perceive, to understand. Luke 12:39, "And be sure of this, that. ..." The verb ...
... Similar in some respects to the category called "Exclamatory" is this group that might be called a challenge to understanding (4 examples). These are clearly verb forms, not interjectional, but they are a call to know, to perceive, to understand. Luke 12:39, "And be sure of this, that. ..." The verb ...
Adding Adjectives and Adverbs From
... Identifying Simple Subjects and Verbs ......................................................... 8 What Is a Sentence? ......................................................................................................... 8 1 [ID] - Sentence or Phrase? ............................................. ...
... Identifying Simple Subjects and Verbs ......................................................... 8 What Is a Sentence? ......................................................................................................... 8 1 [ID] - Sentence or Phrase? ............................................. ...
Suffixes
... Learners http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ and Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary http://learnersdictionary.com/. Only those affixes are listed here that can be found in the readings taken from Word Structure and Vocabulary. NOTE: Some of the items are word elements rather than affixes. aprefi ...
... Learners http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ and Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary http://learnersdictionary.com/. Only those affixes are listed here that can be found in the readings taken from Word Structure and Vocabulary. NOTE: Some of the items are word elements rather than affixes. aprefi ...
Chapter 7: Subordinate Clauses
... f. The teacher was pleased with their competent reworking of the problem. Progressive Verbs vs. Adjectives: It is possible to confuse these superficially similar forms, but there are ways to distinguish them. Consider the progressive form g. His diatribes were boring us. and the subject complement ...
... f. The teacher was pleased with their competent reworking of the problem. Progressive Verbs vs. Adjectives: It is possible to confuse these superficially similar forms, but there are ways to distinguish them. Consider the progressive form g. His diatribes were boring us. and the subject complement ...
Developing language resources for English
... part of speech (verb, noun, adjective, etc.) is added to the corpus in the form of tags. Machine translation for English-Chinese, English-Arabic, English-French, and many other pairs of languages are relatively quite advanced. On the other hand, very little work has been done in developing machine t ...
... part of speech (verb, noun, adjective, etc.) is added to the corpus in the form of tags. Machine translation for English-Chinese, English-Arabic, English-French, and many other pairs of languages are relatively quite advanced. On the other hand, very little work has been done in developing machine t ...
Present participles: Categorial classification and derivation Aya
... others) claim that all present participles are adjectival in addition to being verbal; In contrast, Chomsky (1957), Fabb (1984), Brekke (1988), Bennis & Wehrmann (1990) and others claim that only some present participles are adjectival, Brekke (1988) being the only study trying to characterize this ...
... others) claim that all present participles are adjectival in addition to being verbal; In contrast, Chomsky (1957), Fabb (1984), Brekke (1988), Bennis & Wehrmann (1990) and others claim that only some present participles are adjectival, Brekke (1988) being the only study trying to characterize this ...
On the expression of TAM on nouns: Evidence from Tundra Nenets
... feature on D(eterminer) is uninterpretable and licenses the nominative Case with all associated effects, a Salishan language Halkomelem possesses interpretable T on D and the category of nominal tense. However, in Matthewson’s (2005) analyses of St’aʹt’imcets, a related Salishan language, the tempor ...
... feature on D(eterminer) is uninterpretable and licenses the nominative Case with all associated effects, a Salishan language Halkomelem possesses interpretable T on D and the category of nominal tense. However, in Matthewson’s (2005) analyses of St’aʹt’imcets, a related Salishan language, the tempor ...
The Classification of Subjunctive
... BDF, 185. My translation; NASB renders this subjunctive as if it were an infinitive object clause: 'What do you wish me to do for you?' ...
... BDF, 185. My translation; NASB renders this subjunctive as if it were an infinitive object clause: 'What do you wish me to do for you?' ...