- Lancaster EPrints
... 2.3. Impersonal constructions in Puxian.................................................................. 55 2.4. The distribution of pronominal impersonals in Puxian..................................... 71 2.4.1. Identifying pronominal impersonals.................................................... ...
... 2.3. Impersonal constructions in Puxian.................................................................. 55 2.4. The distribution of pronominal impersonals in Puxian..................................... 71 2.4.1. Identifying pronominal impersonals.................................................... ...
Nominal Roots as Event Predicates in English Denominal
... a constraint on possible interpretations is identified: intransitive denominal conversion verbs are infelicitous where the source nominal is intended to be an incremental theme (#apple ‘eat apple’), a patient (#shirt ‘wear shirt’), or the holder of a result state (#window ‘open window’). This little ...
... a constraint on possible interpretations is identified: intransitive denominal conversion verbs are infelicitous where the source nominal is intended to be an incremental theme (#apple ‘eat apple’), a patient (#shirt ‘wear shirt’), or the holder of a result state (#window ‘open window’). This little ...
CEBUANO LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES
... role a noun plays in a Cebuano sentence. The marker always comes in front of the noun along with any modifying words (such as adjectives). These markers are similar (but are not exactly the same) to the English articles “the” and “a, an”. So, all nouns need a marker from one of the sets. The languag ...
... role a noun plays in a Cebuano sentence. The marker always comes in front of the noun along with any modifying words (such as adjectives). These markers are similar (but are not exactly the same) to the English articles “the” and “a, an”. So, all nouns need a marker from one of the sets. The languag ...
The Oxford Guide to English Usage CONTENTS Table of Contents
... e.g. old in the old dog; opposite of predicative. auxiliary verb a verb used in forming tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs. case ...
... e.g. old in the old dog; opposite of predicative. auxiliary verb a verb used in forming tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs. case ...
Abkhaz Viacheslav A. Chirikba
... Before the Georgian-Abkhaz war, the Abkhazians constituted 17.8 per cent of their republic's ethnic breakdown, being the second largest minority after the Kartvelians (i.e. Megrelians, Georgians and Svans), who comprised 45 .7 per cent. The other ethnic groups in Abkhazia are Armenians and Russians ...
... Before the Georgian-Abkhaz war, the Abkhazians constituted 17.8 per cent of their republic's ethnic breakdown, being the second largest minority after the Kartvelians (i.e. Megrelians, Georgians and Svans), who comprised 45 .7 per cent. The other ethnic groups in Abkhazia are Armenians and Russians ...
Glossary 2015 - Cambridge English
... Taking part and being involved and interested in something. When learners think about their own learning and what their own needs are and try to do things themselves to learn more, they are taking an active role in their learning. See passive role. Active voice noun In English grammar, there are act ...
... Taking part and being involved and interested in something. When learners think about their own learning and what their own needs are and try to do things themselves to learn more, they are taking an active role in their learning. See passive role. Active voice noun In English grammar, there are act ...
ABSTRACT - NEHU Institutional Repository
... is, 'the Achik language' which means 'the language of hill men'. They also call it Mande Kusik 'the language of men'.'* The term 'Garo' was given to them by other communities who came across them, but the people themselves use the terms Achik or Mande. Garo is predominantly a verb final language, so ...
... is, 'the Achik language' which means 'the language of hill men'. They also call it Mande Kusik 'the language of men'.'* The term 'Garo' was given to them by other communities who came across them, but the people themselves use the terms Achik or Mande. Garo is predominantly a verb final language, so ...
mandarin compound verbs - Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
... syntactically or morphosyntactically related and which belong to a coherent whole; alternate terms: collocation, expression, formation, structure. content morpheme: Morpheme with concrete meaning rather than grammatical function; e.g. 人 ren2 ‘person’ is a content morpheme; 與 yu3 ‘and’ is a grammatic ...
... syntactically or morphosyntactically related and which belong to a coherent whole; alternate terms: collocation, expression, formation, structure. content morpheme: Morpheme with concrete meaning rather than grammatical function; e.g. 人 ren2 ‘person’ is a content morpheme; 與 yu3 ‘and’ is a grammatic ...
IRREGULAR VERBS
... Shrunken is an adjective that is used both before a noun and after a verb: a shrunken old woman; She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic. The programme’s audience has shrunk dramatically in the last few months. Note the film title: Honey I Shrunk the Kids. ...
... Shrunken is an adjective that is used both before a noun and after a verb: a shrunken old woman; She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic. The programme’s audience has shrunk dramatically in the last few months. Note the film title: Honey I Shrunk the Kids. ...
Adverbs
... Some adverbs and adjectives that have the same form include fast, first, last, early, and right. Use an adjective to modify a noun or pronoun. Turn left at the first stop sign. ...
... Some adverbs and adjectives that have the same form include fast, first, last, early, and right. Use an adjective to modify a noun or pronoun. Turn left at the first stop sign. ...
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 ...
Title A Contrastive Study of Japanese Compound
... seven groups according to the type of Japanese predicate and whether or not it involves deru or dasu in some form. Japanese simplex verbs other than deru/dasu make up the largest category and represent 50.8% of the total correspondence pairs. Japanese V-V compounds represent 23.6% of the total, one ...
... seven groups according to the type of Japanese predicate and whether or not it involves deru or dasu in some form. Japanese simplex verbs other than deru/dasu make up the largest category and represent 50.8% of the total correspondence pairs. Japanese V-V compounds represent 23.6% of the total, one ...
Kamasau (Wand Tuan) Grammar Morpheme to Sentence
... Because of this functional perspective, the following description will be more functional than structural in its approach. Some structural description will be included, but is not intended to be the primary focus. In giving examples, I try to select brief examples from texts that hopefully will stil ...
... Because of this functional perspective, the following description will be more functional than structural in its approach. Some structural description will be included, but is not intended to be the primary focus. In giving examples, I try to select brief examples from texts that hopefully will stil ...
Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head
... favoring null arguments (zero anaphora). De Vries (2005: 367) notes that in spontaneous speech, and in particular when expressing sequences of events, speakers of Papuan languages use nominals (nouns or anaphoric pronouns) very infrequently. When they do so, they normally express no more than one no ...
... favoring null arguments (zero anaphora). De Vries (2005: 367) notes that in spontaneous speech, and in particular when expressing sequences of events, speakers of Papuan languages use nominals (nouns or anaphoric pronouns) very infrequently. When they do so, they normally express no more than one no ...
Domains within Words and their meanings: a case study
... are expected to have a meaning predictable from the meaning of the corresponding verbs, while –tos forms are expected to be highly idiosyncratic. However, as will be shown in this section, a closer investigation of the morphology of –tos forms in connection to their syntax and semantics reveals tha ...
... are expected to have a meaning predictable from the meaning of the corresponding verbs, while –tos forms are expected to be highly idiosyncratic. However, as will be shown in this section, a closer investigation of the morphology of –tos forms in connection to their syntax and semantics reveals tha ...
9-12 Grammar Key
... answers provide. For instance, do you give credit for ―adverb of place,‖ or insist on ―adverbial prepositional phrase of place‖? Is one better than the other? Unfortunately, we are not able to make that decision for you. You get to decide. In the key, we do not separate limiting adjectives in the an ...
... answers provide. For instance, do you give credit for ―adverb of place,‖ or insist on ―adverbial prepositional phrase of place‖? Is one better than the other? Unfortunately, we are not able to make that decision for you. You get to decide. In the key, we do not separate limiting adjectives in the an ...
NOUN-NOUN COMBINATIONS IN TECHNICAL ENGLISH Nguyen
... the least). These relations covered over 80% of the NNCs in terms of tokens and over 75% in terms of types. Fourteen tasks which could be used as teaching activities and exercises are introduced. These tasks are classified into different levels from the least to the most difficult and presented in d ...
... the least). These relations covered over 80% of the NNCs in terms of tokens and over 75% in terms of types. Fourteen tasks which could be used as teaching activities and exercises are introduced. These tasks are classified into different levels from the least to the most difficult and presented in d ...
Can - E4Thai
... Grammar is without a doubt one of the most daunting aspects of the English language, an area riddled with complexities, inconsistencies, and contradictions. It has also been in a state of flux for pretty much its entire existence. For native speakers of English, as well as for those learning it as a ...
... Grammar is without a doubt one of the most daunting aspects of the English language, an area riddled with complexities, inconsistencies, and contradictions. It has also been in a state of flux for pretty much its entire existence. For native speakers of English, as well as for those learning it as a ...
6:201-236 - Linguistics at Cambridge
... A second argument is found in the form of the verb. Some southern and eastern Bantu languages display a morphological alternation in the verb, depending on the relation between the verb and the following element. The conjoint (cj) verb form can only be used when followed by some element, whereas the ...
... A second argument is found in the form of the verb. Some southern and eastern Bantu languages display a morphological alternation in the verb, depending on the relation between the verb and the following element. The conjoint (cj) verb form can only be used when followed by some element, whereas the ...
4. Categorizing and Tagging Words
... Automatic tagging can bring a number of benefits. It helps predict the behavior of a previously unseen word. For example, if we encounter the word blogging we can probably infer that it is a verb, with the root blog, and likely to occur after forms of the auxiliary to be (e.g. he was blogging). Part ...
... Automatic tagging can bring a number of benefits. It helps predict the behavior of a previously unseen word. For example, if we encounter the word blogging we can probably infer that it is a verb, with the root blog, and likely to occur after forms of the auxiliary to be (e.g. he was blogging). Part ...
UNIVERSITY OF TARTU FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
... The topic of this work is the partitive case and its functions, i.e. its assignment in certain semantic and syntactic environments involving verbs. Which functions were formerly taken by the partitive but are now represented by other case forms? What are the conditions for these case forms and how c ...
... The topic of this work is the partitive case and its functions, i.e. its assignment in certain semantic and syntactic environments involving verbs. Which functions were formerly taken by the partitive but are now represented by other case forms? What are the conditions for these case forms and how c ...
as a PDF
... My study of the literature on the meanings of verb forms of Biblical Hebrew, as will be seen in the survey, contributes to my understanding of the problem. However, they do not provide objective and empirically testable parameters that could be used to decide on how BH could be classified and the me ...
... My study of the literature on the meanings of verb forms of Biblical Hebrew, as will be seen in the survey, contributes to my understanding of the problem. However, they do not provide objective and empirically testable parameters that could be used to decide on how BH could be classified and the me ...
1-1 1-1 Japanese Audio Flashcard Lessons, Grammar Guide, 9
... Ja is the short form of dewa, which forms the first part of the phrase dewa arimasen = ja arimasen = ‘something is not something else.’ For example hon dewa arimasen = hon ja arimasen = ‘it isn't a book.’ Arimasu is the masu form of the plain speech verb aru = ‘exist’ (used for inanimate things, inc ...
... Ja is the short form of dewa, which forms the first part of the phrase dewa arimasen = ja arimasen = ‘something is not something else.’ For example hon dewa arimasen = hon ja arimasen = ‘it isn't a book.’ Arimasu is the masu form of the plain speech verb aru = ‘exist’ (used for inanimate things, inc ...
1 - JWoodsDistrict205
... pronouns, and interrogative pronouns. Some pronouns can appear in more than one classification. The way in which a pronoun is classified depends on how it is used in a sentence. Personal pronouns refer to three types of people: the speaker or speakers, those spoken to, and those spoken about. When a ...
... pronouns, and interrogative pronouns. Some pronouns can appear in more than one classification. The way in which a pronoun is classified depends on how it is used in a sentence. Personal pronouns refer to three types of people: the speaker or speakers, those spoken to, and those spoken about. When a ...
Inflection
In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. The inflection of verbs is also called conjugation, and the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns is also called declension.An inflection expresses one or more grammatical categories with a prefix, suffix or infix, or another internal modification such as a vowel change. For example, the Latin verb ducam, meaning ""I will lead"", includes the suffix -am, expressing person (first), number (singular), and tense (future). The use of this suffix is an inflection. In contrast, in the English clause ""I will lead"", the word lead is not inflected for any of person, number, or tense; it is simply the bare form of a verb.The inflected form of a word often contains both a free morpheme (a unit of meaning which can stand by itself as a word), and a bound morpheme (a unit of meaning which cannot stand alone as a word). For example, the English word cars is a noun that is inflected for number, specifically to express the plural; the content morpheme car is unbound because it could stand alone as a word, while the suffix -s is bound because it cannot stand alone as a word. These two morphemes together form the inflected word cars.Words that are never subject to inflection are said to be invariant; for example, the English verb must is an invariant item: it never takes a suffix or changes form to signify a different grammatical category. Its categories can be determined only from its context.Requiring the inflections of more than one word in a sentence to be compatible according to the rules of the language is known as concord or agreement. For example, in ""the choir sings"", ""choir"" is a singular noun, so ""sing"" is constrained in the present tense to use the third person singular suffix ""s"".Languages that have some degree of inflection are synthetic languages. These can be highly inflected, such as Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, or weakly inflected, such as English. Languages that are so inflected that a sentence can consist of a single highly inflected word (such as many American Indian languages) are called polysynthetic languages. Languages in which each inflection conveys only a single grammatical category, such as Finnish, are known as agglutinative languages, while languages in which a single inflection can convey multiple grammatical roles (such as both nominative case and plural, as in Latin and German) are called fusional. Languages such as Mandarin Chinese that never use inflections are called analytic or isolating.