Grammatical structure of the English Language
... It is but natural that the verb should take up as much, or indeed, more space than all the other parts of speech. It is the only part of speech in present-day English that has a morphological system based on a series of categories. It is the only part of speech that has analytical forms, and again t ...
... It is but natural that the verb should take up as much, or indeed, more space than all the other parts of speech. It is the only part of speech in present-day English that has a morphological system based on a series of categories. It is the only part of speech that has analytical forms, and again t ...
Gerundive Nominals and The Role of Aspect
... Abney (1987) posits that PRO-ing gerunds could be collapsed to either Possing or Acc-ing gerunds. Milsark (1988), building on Baker (1985), is interested in unifying all of the uses of -ing. He proposes that gerunds occur with either a PRO subject or a lexical subject. This proposal assigns the same ...
... Abney (1987) posits that PRO-ing gerunds could be collapsed to either Possing or Acc-ing gerunds. Milsark (1988), building on Baker (1985), is interested in unifying all of the uses of -ing. He proposes that gerunds occur with either a PRO subject or a lexical subject. This proposal assigns the same ...
10. - Universität Erfurt
... This is a linguistic investigation of the functional domain of possession in the Mayan language spoken on the peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. Most of the data were collected in fieldwork. A possessive relationship connects two elements, the possessor and the possessum. In the prototypical case, the fo ...
... This is a linguistic investigation of the functional domain of possession in the Mayan language spoken on the peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. Most of the data were collected in fieldwork. A possessive relationship connects two elements, the possessor and the possessum. In the prototypical case, the fo ...
18 The Instrumental Case Feminine declension nouns Masculine
... person/object evaluated positively/negatively A path, because it facilitates movement, can also be conceived of as a facilitator for action, an instrument, or a means (think of our English expression of a way to do things , where we also understand means and instruments in terms of a path by using t ...
... person/object evaluated positively/negatively A path, because it facilitates movement, can also be conceived of as a facilitator for action, an instrument, or a means (think of our English expression of a way to do things , where we also understand means and instruments in terms of a path by using t ...
thesis the translation of indonesian passive voice into english with
... subject of the clause, and if we want to talk about the actor of the sentence we make it the subject of the verb and use the verb in an active form. Transitive verbs in English are usually active, but can also occur in the passive voice. In English most passive constructions are formed with the auxi ...
... subject of the clause, and if we want to talk about the actor of the sentence we make it the subject of the verb and use the verb in an active form. Transitive verbs in English are usually active, but can also occur in the passive voice. In English most passive constructions are formed with the auxi ...
Yegana Baghirova MA thesis - Khazar University Institutional
... biologically innate, and the main form of communication. People use language to transfer their inner thoughts and feelings, make sense of complex and abstract notions, to learn to connect with others, to fulfill their needs, as well as to form rules and maintain the culture. The term "grammar" can a ...
... biologically innate, and the main form of communication. People use language to transfer their inner thoughts and feelings, make sense of complex and abstract notions, to learn to connect with others, to fulfill their needs, as well as to form rules and maintain the culture. The term "grammar" can a ...
2 The Dative Case
... game reads the story: “Philanthropists are people who like to help flowerpots. Some of them are very gullible and will believe every mud puddle they meet. These do-gooders will even give a refrigerator their last dime.” Although they are all grammatically correct, these sentences are not representat ...
... game reads the story: “Philanthropists are people who like to help flowerpots. Some of them are very gullible and will believe every mud puddle they meet. These do-gooders will even give a refrigerator their last dime.” Although they are all grammatically correct, these sentences are not representat ...
Armenian. Modern Eastern Armenian
... base verb. The main detransitive forms are the passive, anticausative, reciprocal and reflexive, all formed by means of one and the same suffix. The similarities and differences of these constructions are clearly set out and attention is drawn to areas of ambiguity. A section entitled ‘Special const ...
... base verb. The main detransitive forms are the passive, anticausative, reciprocal and reflexive, all formed by means of one and the same suffix. The similarities and differences of these constructions are clearly set out and attention is drawn to areas of ambiguity. A section entitled ‘Special const ...
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 ...
Japanese Grammar Guide - Tae Kim`s Guide to Learning Japanese
... 4.4.2 Expressing a sequence of verbs with the te-form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.3 Expressing reason or causation using 「から」 and 「ので」 . . . . . . . 4.4.4 Using 「のに」 to mean "despite" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Expressing contradiction using 「が」 and 「けど」 . . . . . . . . . ...
... 4.4.2 Expressing a sequence of verbs with the te-form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.3 Expressing reason or causation using 「から」 and 「ので」 . . . . . . . 4.4.4 Using 「のに」 to mean "despite" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.5 Expressing contradiction using 「が」 and 「けど」 . . . . . . . . . ...
Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses, Second
... speak,” “they speak.” Only the third-person singular makes a change in the present tense of most English verbs, taking on the ending “-s.” In Spanish, there are six different verb endings for each verb tense, corresponding to the six subject pronoun groups—the singular and plural of first-person, se ...
... speak,” “they speak.” Only the third-person singular makes a change in the present tense of most English verbs, taking on the ending “-s.” In Spanish, there are six different verb endings for each verb tense, corresponding to the six subject pronoun groups—the singular and plural of first-person, se ...
Towards SSyntRels - Wanner - Observatoire de linguistique Sens
... Relations [= DSyntRels], the SSyntRels are not universal: the set of SSyntRels has to be established empirically, individually for each L , very much like the set of phonemes or inflectional categories (e.g. tenses or grammatical cases). Consequently, one needs some principles based on which differe ...
... Relations [= DSyntRels], the SSyntRels are not universal: the set of SSyntRels has to be established empirically, individually for each L , very much like the set of phonemes or inflectional categories (e.g. tenses or grammatical cases). Consequently, one needs some principles based on which differe ...
Part II: A Close Look at Parts of Speech
... Chapter 2: Noun and Article Basics: Gender and Number ...........................................25 A Primer on Articles ................................................................................................................25 Dealing with the definite article “the” ........................ ...
... Chapter 2: Noun and Article Basics: Gender and Number ...........................................25 A Primer on Articles ................................................................................................................25 Dealing with the definite article “the” ........................ ...
Destinos: 27-52 The Main Grammar Points, and Exercises with
... or verb system: the present, progressive, preterite, imperfect and future are all indicative tenses. They were not called present indicative, preterite indicative, imperfect indicative, etc., because the indicative was the only verb system you knew, and so the distinction between the indicative and ...
... or verb system: the present, progressive, preterite, imperfect and future are all indicative tenses. They were not called present indicative, preterite indicative, imperfect indicative, etc., because the indicative was the only verb system you knew, and so the distinction between the indicative and ...
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 that are commonly used in modern Spanish: present subjunctive, present perfect subjunctive, past subjunctive (sometimes referred t ...
... 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 that are commonly used in modern Spanish: present subjunctive, present perfect subjunctive, past subjunctive (sometimes referred t ...
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 ...
Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs - Munin
... where the gerund – which, following Borgonovo (1994), is always an adjunct in Spanish – is L-marked; this L-marking makes extraction possible. Other accounts, such as Demonte (1987), posit an operation of reanalysis (Zwart 1993; Stowell 1995) and use a modified definition of c-command to account for ...
... where the gerund – which, following Borgonovo (1994), is always an adjunct in Spanish – is L-marked; this L-marking makes extraction possible. Other accounts, such as Demonte (1987), posit an operation of reanalysis (Zwart 1993; Stowell 1995) and use a modified definition of c-command to account for ...
STRUCTURAL PRIMING IN TURKISH GENITIVE
... drawing “PhD Comics”, which made me realize that I was not alone in this. Thanks for not having Cecilia graduate before I did! I am also grateful to these little ones: Ömer Sinan, Öykü Naz, Dodo and Sibel for reminding me of pure curiosity about life and for their innocent love. Very sincere thanks ...
... drawing “PhD Comics”, which made me realize that I was not alone in this. Thanks for not having Cecilia graduate before I did! I am also grateful to these little ones: Ömer Sinan, Öykü Naz, Dodo and Sibel for reminding me of pure curiosity about life and for their innocent love. Very sincere thanks ...
Read More - UHN - Univ. HKBP Nommensen
... modifiers; It cannot be said that either of these uses is primary with respect to the other. It has been claimed that adjectives or, more generally, property concept words are most commonly used to introduce new discourse referents, and to predicate a property of an established discourse referent; t ...
... modifiers; It cannot be said that either of these uses is primary with respect to the other. It has been claimed that adjectives or, more generally, property concept words are most commonly used to introduce new discourse referents, and to predicate a property of an established discourse referent; t ...
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... means of a single character for each category) after the dividing symbol ´.´ (full stop) or ´:´ (colon) in the following order: part of speech, gender, number, case, degree of comparison and an agreement. For example, for the requirement of accusative we write .4, for plural locative .P6 etc. If any ...
... means of a single character for each category) after the dividing symbol ´.´ (full stop) or ´:´ (colon) in the following order: part of speech, gender, number, case, degree of comparison and an agreement. For example, for the requirement of accusative we write .4, for plural locative .P6 etc. If any ...
The verbal valency in the Prague Dependency Treebank
... means of a single character for each category) after the dividing symbol ´.´ (full stop) or ´:´ (colon) in the following order: part of speech, gender, number, case, degree of comparison and an agreement. For example, for the requirement of accusative we write .4, for plural locative .P6 etc. If any ...
... means of a single character for each category) after the dividing symbol ´.´ (full stop) or ´:´ (colon) in the following order: part of speech, gender, number, case, degree of comparison and an agreement. For example, for the requirement of accusative we write .4, for plural locative .P6 etc. If any ...
bardi verb morphology in historical perspective
... She very generously provided me with all her field notes, drafts, and dictionary elicitation tapes, which were invaluable and made my own fieldwork much more focused. She also gave me advice while in the field and by her own high standards of ethics in fieldwork made it much easier for me to work th ...
... She very generously provided me with all her field notes, drafts, and dictionary elicitation tapes, which were invaluable and made my own fieldwork much more focused. She also gave me advice while in the field and by her own high standards of ethics in fieldwork made it much easier for me to work th ...
Perfect - utdiscamusomnes
... Caput XVIII: Deponents; perfect passive participles 18A.There is a certain class of verbs, called deponent, that only show passive forms--but have more or less active meanings. and often take a direct object. You are familiar with the English use of the Latin term non sequitur, which means “it doesn ...
... Caput XVIII: Deponents; perfect passive participles 18A.There is a certain class of verbs, called deponent, that only show passive forms--but have more or less active meanings. and often take a direct object. You are familiar with the English use of the Latin term non sequitur, which means “it doesn ...
Clause linking in Japhug - Hal-SHS
... For instance, the verb sat ‘kill’ selects the direction ‘down’ for all its forms: perfective 1sg→3sg pɯ-sat-a, imperfective pjɯ-sat, perfective 3sg→3’ pa-sat and evidential pjɤ-sat. Some verbs may allow several directions with slightly different semantics. Thus, ndza ‘eat’ normally selects the ‘up’ d ...
... For instance, the verb sat ‘kill’ selects the direction ‘down’ for all its forms: perfective 1sg→3sg pɯ-sat-a, imperfective pjɯ-sat, perfective 3sg→3’ pa-sat and evidential pjɤ-sat. Some verbs may allow several directions with slightly different semantics. Thus, ndza ‘eat’ normally selects the ‘up’ d ...
KISS Level 3. 2. 1 - Ellipsis in Clauses
... the instructional material on subjects and verbs, and then the students immediately all try to find the subjects and verbs in a short passage that they wrote. The teacher would go nuts trying to check all of this. In other words, it makes much more sense for the students to all do a few of the same ...
... the instructional material on subjects and verbs, and then the students immediately all try to find the subjects and verbs in a short passage that they wrote. The teacher would go nuts trying to check all of this. In other words, it makes much more sense for the students to all do a few of the same ...