grammaticalization and the semantic
... Modal verbs in English and German have two main uses. One of these uses, commonly known as deontic, concerns conditions of the subject. The other use, epistemic, focuses on the speaker’s attitude towards the proposition. These disparate uses have not always existed in English and German; they are th ...
... Modal verbs in English and German have two main uses. One of these uses, commonly known as deontic, concerns conditions of the subject. The other use, epistemic, focuses on the speaker’s attitude towards the proposition. These disparate uses have not always existed in English and German; they are th ...
Hebrew Syntax and Exposition - James D. Price Publications
... CHAPTER 2: The Syntactic Attributes of Hebrew Nouns ................................................... 19 2.1 Noun Defined .......................................................................................................... 19 2.1.9 Characteristic Nouns ....................................... ...
... CHAPTER 2: The Syntactic Attributes of Hebrew Nouns ................................................... 19 2.1 Noun Defined .......................................................................................................... 19 2.1.9 Characteristic Nouns ....................................... ...
Kim, Kyumin - University of Toronto
... of my proposal, this fact suggests that some internal property of ‘the door’ is responsible for the event ‘opening’; thus, the morpheme can appear in (21b).5 Another point is that the data discussed in the section cannot receive an adequate account under the unaccusative analysis. Recall that in thi ...
... of my proposal, this fact suggests that some internal property of ‘the door’ is responsible for the event ‘opening’; thus, the morpheme can appear in (21b).5 Another point is that the data discussed in the section cannot receive an adequate account under the unaccusative analysis. Recall that in thi ...
to basic grammar rules
... 45. ‘as if’ used to convey the sense of pretension. When ‘as if’ is used in this sense, ‘were’ is used in all cases, even with third person singular. He behaves as if he was a king. Incorrect He behaves as if he were a king. Correct The sense of time and tense is also very important. Certain importa ...
... 45. ‘as if’ used to convey the sense of pretension. When ‘as if’ is used in this sense, ‘were’ is used in all cases, even with third person singular. He behaves as if he was a king. Incorrect He behaves as if he were a king. Correct The sense of time and tense is also very important. Certain importa ...
1. Some nouns always take a singular verb
... innings, gallows. (A) The scenery of Kashmir are enchanting. (Incorrect) (B) The scenery of Kashmir is enchanting. (Correct) (A) He has given advices. (Incorrect) (B) He has given advice. (Correct) (A) The Indian team defeated the English by innings. (Incorrect) (B) The Indian team defeated the Engl ...
... innings, gallows. (A) The scenery of Kashmir are enchanting. (Incorrect) (B) The scenery of Kashmir is enchanting. (Correct) (A) He has given advices. (Incorrect) (B) He has given advice. (Correct) (A) The Indian team defeated the English by innings. (Incorrect) (B) The Indian team defeated the Engl ...
Origins and development of adjectival passives in Spanish: A corpus
... determine the way the participial construction emerges and further extends taking over ser, and that the language change mechanism which drives this development is analogy. Specifically, we argue that this development is driven by the analogical relations established between participles appearing wi ...
... determine the way the participial construction emerges and further extends taking over ser, and that the language change mechanism which drives this development is analogy. Specifically, we argue that this development is driven by the analogical relations established between participles appearing wi ...
Title of paper - Semantics Archive
... take on a camping trip‟. These are goal-derived categories that are created spontaneously for use in more or less specialized contexts. Under this perspective adjectival passives may be seen as a means to extend and contextualize a concept‟s property space with respect to contextually salient goals. ...
... take on a camping trip‟. These are goal-derived categories that are created spontaneously for use in more or less specialized contexts. Under this perspective adjectival passives may be seen as a means to extend and contextualize a concept‟s property space with respect to contextually salient goals. ...
Building event-based ad hoc properties: On the
... take on a camping trip’. These are goal-derived categories that are created spontaneously for use in more or less specialized contexts. Under this perspective adjectival passives may be seen as a means to extend and contextualize a concept’s property space with respect to contextually salient goals. ...
... take on a camping trip’. These are goal-derived categories that are created spontaneously for use in more or less specialized contexts. Under this perspective adjectival passives may be seen as a means to extend and contextualize a concept’s property space with respect to contextually salient goals. ...
- IOE EPrints
... learning processes they employ, and the assumptions they make as regards various English constructions. On this basis suggestions are made toward a better teaching method. The method used for the analysis is that of Error Analysis, with Contrastive Analysis used at the explanatory stage when necessa ...
... learning processes they employ, and the assumptions they make as regards various English constructions. On this basis suggestions are made toward a better teaching method. The method used for the analysis is that of Error Analysis, with Contrastive Analysis used at the explanatory stage when necessa ...
ON THE SYNTAX OF PARTICIPIAL MODIFIERS*
... overtly marking tense oppositions within phrasal and clausal participial modifier depends on the morphological profile of verbal paradigms. To mark tense, aspect, and mood distinctions on the participle itself, the TAM inflection must be detachable from finite verb agreement, where finiteness is def ...
... overtly marking tense oppositions within phrasal and clausal participial modifier depends on the morphological profile of verbal paradigms. To mark tense, aspect, and mood distinctions on the participle itself, the TAM inflection must be detachable from finite verb agreement, where finiteness is def ...
Gerund Handout
... A gerund is a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being. However, since a gerund functions as a noun, it occupies some positions in a sentence t ...
... A gerund is a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being. However, since a gerund functions as a noun, it occupies some positions in a sentence t ...
Final Assessment
... on the materials that are now in the First Book of this series. Now working toward an “Ideal” sequence, I’ve been puzzled about what to include and excluded from this second book. Originally, I made a mistake with the first book in this series by including too much—I focused on enabling first grader ...
... on the materials that are now in the First Book of this series. Now working toward an “Ideal” sequence, I’ve been puzzled about what to include and excluded from this second book. Originally, I made a mistake with the first book in this series by including too much—I focused on enabling first grader ...
Non-subject Arguments in Indonesian - ORB
... discussed in this thesis, who generously shared their time and knowledge with me. In particular, Umar Muslim was an endlessly patient teacher of both Indonesian and Javanese, and was always willing to share his own insights as a linguist. Katarina Sukamto, Eli Riharti, and Lalu Dasmara all also were ...
... discussed in this thesis, who generously shared their time and knowledge with me. In particular, Umar Muslim was an endlessly patient teacher of both Indonesian and Javanese, and was always willing to share his own insights as a linguist. Katarina Sukamto, Eli Riharti, and Lalu Dasmara all also were ...
Ellipsis in Farsi Complex Predicates
... My second aim is to show that v-stranding VPE, despite showing surface differences with English VPE, does not differ significantly in its licensing requirements. Just like English VPE, v-stranding VPE requires: 1) the presence of an overt, tense inflecting head (Zagona 1982, Lobeck 1995), and 2) the s ...
... My second aim is to show that v-stranding VPE, despite showing surface differences with English VPE, does not differ significantly in its licensing requirements. Just like English VPE, v-stranding VPE requires: 1) the presence of an overt, tense inflecting head (Zagona 1982, Lobeck 1995), and 2) the s ...
The Oxford Guide To English Grammar Pdf
... We can also combine two or more clauses in one sentence. For example, we can use and to link the clauses. Our flight time will be approximately forty-five minutes, and we shall be climbing to an altitude of eight thousand feet and cruising at a speed of two hundred and fifty miles an hour. For detai ...
... We can also combine two or more clauses in one sentence. For example, we can use and to link the clauses. Our flight time will be approximately forty-five minutes, and we shall be climbing to an altitude of eight thousand feet and cruising at a speed of two hundred and fifty miles an hour. For detai ...
Polish numerals and quantifiers: A syntactic analysis of subject‐verb
... probe (by virtue of its unvalued features) seeks out an active goal within its ccommand domain. The probe takes on the features of the goal and in exchange, assigns it case, after which both become inactive for further agreement relationships. If any elements are left with unvalued features at the e ...
... probe (by virtue of its unvalued features) seeks out an active goal within its ccommand domain. The probe takes on the features of the goal and in exchange, assigns it case, after which both become inactive for further agreement relationships. If any elements are left with unvalued features at the e ...
code/API
... is only able to identify and translate nouns in all their forms, but it can also still define verbs in their base form and it can tag the verb for all its forms, but only if it is given the word's conjugation. For nouns, my program will determine what the case of the noun is by “chopping off” the en ...
... is only able to identify and translate nouns in all their forms, but it can also still define verbs in their base form and it can tag the verb for all its forms, but only if it is given the word's conjugation. For nouns, my program will determine what the case of the noun is by “chopping off” the en ...
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 ...
The Sentence
... 6. During the American Revolution, the colonists needed a symbol of their independence. 7. George Washington wanted flags for the army. 8. Unfortunately, the flags did not arrive until the end of the Revolutionary War. 9. According to legend, Betsy Ross made the first flag. 10. However, most histori ...
... 6. During the American Revolution, the colonists needed a symbol of their independence. 7. George Washington wanted flags for the army. 8. Unfortunately, the flags did not arrive until the end of the Revolutionary War. 9. According to legend, Betsy Ross made the first flag. 10. However, most histori ...
Lang Arts 11 HANDBOOK Grammar textbook
... with geometric shapes. Notice also that [6] both of the Moorish designs shown below (left and center) are symmetrical. One twentieth-century Dutch artist [7] who was inspired by designs like [8] these from Moorish buildings was [9] M. C. Escher. [10] Many of Escher’s designs, however, feature birds, ...
... with geometric shapes. Notice also that [6] both of the Moorish designs shown below (left and center) are symmetrical. One twentieth-century Dutch artist [7] who was inspired by designs like [8] these from Moorish buildings was [9] M. C. Escher. [10] Many of Escher’s designs, however, feature birds, ...
The semantics of the Turkish accusative marked
... position, a/Numeral Noun-Case (i.e., accusative, dative, locative, ablative and comitative) construction can induce partitivity. Enç’s notion of ‘partitivity’ appears to be a property of all the case marked DPs occurring in the object position, hence cannot be viewed as an intrinsic property of the ...
... position, a/Numeral Noun-Case (i.e., accusative, dative, locative, ablative and comitative) construction can induce partitivity. Enç’s notion of ‘partitivity’ appears to be a property of all the case marked DPs occurring in the object position, hence cannot be viewed as an intrinsic property of the ...
AFF - MPG.PuRe
... my research in Atayal. He not only taught me Indonesian, Tagalog, and Austronesian linguistics, but also writing of textbooks and foreign lang~agepedagogy. He always believe6 in me and challeoged me to move forward. Professor Linda Waugh taught me morphology and semiotics. She played a crucial role ...
... my research in Atayal. He not only taught me Indonesian, Tagalog, and Austronesian linguistics, but also writing of textbooks and foreign lang~agepedagogy. He always believe6 in me and challeoged me to move forward. Professor Linda Waugh taught me morphology and semiotics. She played a crucial role ...
Constructional idioms as products of linguistic change: the aan het +
... These observations show that the occurrence of aan in present-day standard Dutch is bound to PPs with specific types of NPs, such as NPs of the type het + infinitive. This use of aan is a reflex of an earlier stage of Dutch in which the preposition aan had a more elaborated use as locative prepositi ...
... These observations show that the occurrence of aan in present-day standard Dutch is bound to PPs with specific types of NPs, such as NPs of the type het + infinitive. This use of aan is a reflex of an earlier stage of Dutch in which the preposition aan had a more elaborated use as locative prepositi ...
How to Use the Holt Handbook CD
... Cajuns are descended from a [1] group of French settlers who were expelled from Acadia (a region including parts of present-day Maine and eastern Canada) by the British in 1755. When some of these displaced people settled in the [2] Atchafalaya Basin in southeastern Louisiana, they had to invent [3] ...
... Cajuns are descended from a [1] group of French settlers who were expelled from Acadia (a region including parts of present-day Maine and eastern Canada) by the British in 1755. When some of these displaced people settled in the [2] Atchafalaya Basin in southeastern Louisiana, they had to invent [3] ...
1 xxx - Edmond
... to other sections as needed. In some sections I suggest sample prose, but of course language X may have different patterns, requiring complete or partial rewriting. Translations of example sentences are suggestions only. xxx is used as a variable for the phonological form of a morpheme, word, etc.. ...
... to other sections as needed. In some sections I suggest sample prose, but of course language X may have different patterns, requiring complete or partial rewriting. Translations of example sentences are suggestions only. xxx is used as a variable for the phonological form of a morpheme, word, etc.. ...