South African discourse analysis in theory and practice
... Nouns/noun phrases embedded in the VP, like the traditional direct and indirect object, may also contain embedded elements. It should be added that, minimally, there may be only one noun/noun phrase functioning as subject of the VP, but there can be more such nouns/noun phrases connected to the same ...
... Nouns/noun phrases embedded in the VP, like the traditional direct and indirect object, may also contain embedded elements. It should be added that, minimally, there may be only one noun/noun phrase functioning as subject of the VP, but there can be more such nouns/noun phrases connected to the same ...
Get-passives, Raising, and Control
... Taranto 2000; McIntyre 2005 for discussion and references), though recently Alexiadou (2005) has proposed a treatment somewhere between the genuine passive analysis and Haegeman’s analysis, wherein get is a semi-lexical head (see e.g. Corver & van Riemsdijk 2001 for discussion of this concept) in th ...
... Taranto 2000; McIntyre 2005 for discussion and references), though recently Alexiadou (2005) has proposed a treatment somewhere between the genuine passive analysis and Haegeman’s analysis, wherein get is a semi-lexical head (see e.g. Corver & van Riemsdijk 2001 for discussion of this concept) in th ...
A Brief History of Icelandic Weather Verbs
... Weather verbs in Icelandic are not “no-argument” predicates, but occur with a quasi-argument (non-referential pro) and can also take full NPs, in nominative, accusative or dative case. The use of the cases can be explained by the different origins of these verbs, most of which can be traced back to ...
... Weather verbs in Icelandic are not “no-argument” predicates, but occur with a quasi-argument (non-referential pro) and can also take full NPs, in nominative, accusative or dative case. The use of the cases can be explained by the different origins of these verbs, most of which can be traced back to ...
the Writing Manual to improve your papers
... 1. This sentence is a run on because it contains two separate sentences that are complete on their own without any punctuation to join them or period to separate them. “The boy loved to run” is a complete sentence, and so is “He could run for hours and hours without growing tired. 2. Either split th ...
... 1. This sentence is a run on because it contains two separate sentences that are complete on their own without any punctuation to join them or period to separate them. “The boy loved to run” is a complete sentence, and so is “He could run for hours and hours without growing tired. 2. Either split th ...
Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events
... I will refer to as 'aspectual composition ) and argument realization. Relying heavily on the works cited above, I will lay out in section 2 what I consider the aspectually relevant lexical properties of verbs. This will, then, be a classification of verbs, and not event-denoting predicates correspon ...
... I will refer to as 'aspectual composition ) and argument realization. Relying heavily on the works cited above, I will lay out in section 2 what I consider the aspectually relevant lexical properties of verbs. This will, then, be a classification of verbs, and not event-denoting predicates correspon ...
Investigating the abstractness of children`s early knowledge of
... citing similar results in Abbot-Smith, Lieven & Tomasello (2001). The new finding in Abbot-Smith et al.’s study is that the youngest children (2 ; 4) corrected the non-canonical word orders 21 % of the time, which is less than half that of the children aged 2; 8 in Akhtar’s study. However, this is wh ...
... citing similar results in Abbot-Smith, Lieven & Tomasello (2001). The new finding in Abbot-Smith et al.’s study is that the youngest children (2 ; 4) corrected the non-canonical word orders 21 % of the time, which is less than half that of the children aged 2; 8 in Akhtar’s study. However, this is wh ...
How do I talk about the past
... were like / what you used to do : (I was watching TV – I was happy – I used to watch TV every day) 3. The Pluperfect Tense - Le plus-que-parfait = What you had done: (I had watched TV; she said that I had watched TV). 4. The Past Historic- Le Passé Simple = a tense only used in novels ...
... were like / what you used to do : (I was watching TV – I was happy – I used to watch TV every day) 3. The Pluperfect Tense - Le plus-que-parfait = What you had done: (I had watched TV; she said that I had watched TV). 4. The Past Historic- Le Passé Simple = a tense only used in novels ...
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION This chapter explains the background
... This noun phrase was preceded by word “the” a word traditionally referred to as definite article. Had been blown open by the storm is a verb phrase but inside verb phrase in turn breaks up into preposition phrase “by the storm” and a further noun phrase as a subject because the sentence is passive v ...
... This noun phrase was preceded by word “the” a word traditionally referred to as definite article. Had been blown open by the storm is a verb phrase but inside verb phrase in turn breaks up into preposition phrase “by the storm” and a further noun phrase as a subject because the sentence is passive v ...
Dative verbs: A crosslinguistic perspective
... associated with the caused possession and caused motion schemas, thus supporting the verb-sensitive approach. The give-type verbs are the prototypical dative verbs: they inherently lexicalize caused possession, and, concomitantly, they select a recipient, allowing them to be associated with the cau ...
... associated with the caused possession and caused motion schemas, thus supporting the verb-sensitive approach. The give-type verbs are the prototypical dative verbs: they inherently lexicalize caused possession, and, concomitantly, they select a recipient, allowing them to be associated with the cau ...
7116 Sentence Building Int.
... • Unlike cards and tiles, which have traditionally been used in reading and writing instruction, ...
... • Unlike cards and tiles, which have traditionally been used in reading and writing instruction, ...
Untitled
... (plural omaye gatd) is familiar and condescending, and is the word used in addressing servants, workmen, the members of one's own family, etc. Omaye san is almost the same as anata, but more familiar, and is used chiefly by women. Kisama and temaye are used in addressing coolies and other ...
... (plural omaye gatd) is familiar and condescending, and is the word used in addressing servants, workmen, the members of one's own family, etc. Omaye san is almost the same as anata, but more familiar, and is used chiefly by women. Kisama and temaye are used in addressing coolies and other ...
The Sentence Pattern Built on Linking Verbs
... FORMS OF BE: is, am , are-was, were, being, been ...
... FORMS OF BE: is, am , are-was, were, being, been ...
Grammar: Part I - Parts of Speech
... placed into at least one of eight groups, or classifications. The system of classifying words based on their function is known as the parts of speech. The eight parts of speech are noun pronoun verb adjective adverb preposition conjunction interjection Learning about the eight parts of speech will h ...
... placed into at least one of eight groups, or classifications. The system of classifying words based on their function is known as the parts of speech. The eight parts of speech are noun pronoun verb adjective adverb preposition conjunction interjection Learning about the eight parts of speech will h ...
Non-canonical applicatives and focalization in Tswana
... tone and in vowel quality that are crucial in morphological analysis but are not reflected in the orthography. Moreover, in the standard orthography of Tswana, many bound morphemes (in particular subject markers, object markers, TAM markers and negation markers prefixed to verb stems) are written as ...
... tone and in vowel quality that are crucial in morphological analysis but are not reflected in the orthography. Moreover, in the standard orthography of Tswana, many bound morphemes (in particular subject markers, object markers, TAM markers and negation markers prefixed to verb stems) are written as ...
concorde
... When coordinated items have the same number, there is pure grammatical concord: when they are both singular (1 and 2) the verb is also singular, when they are both plural (3), the verb is also plural. When coordinated items do not have the same number, English follows the principle of PROXIMITY: whi ...
... When coordinated items have the same number, there is pure grammatical concord: when they are both singular (1 and 2) the verb is also singular, when they are both plural (3), the verb is also plural. When coordinated items do not have the same number, English follows the principle of PROXIMITY: whi ...
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... Well is either an adjective, in the sense of one's health, or, more usually, an adverb: The team plays well together. Since good is an adjective, it shouldn't be used in place of the adverb well: The car is running well since it was tuned up. ...
... Well is either an adjective, in the sense of one's health, or, more usually, an adverb: The team plays well together. Since good is an adjective, it shouldn't be used in place of the adverb well: The car is running well since it was tuned up. ...
C H A P T E R I The ways in which new words are formed, and the
... cannot treat of the productivity of elements since that is a measure of the difference between our corpus and some future corpus of the language.’ Leonard Bloomfield, whose book Language[5] was the next work of major influence after that of de Saussure, re-emphasized the necessity of a scientific ap ...
... cannot treat of the productivity of elements since that is a measure of the difference between our corpus and some future corpus of the language.’ Leonard Bloomfield, whose book Language[5] was the next work of major influence after that of de Saussure, re-emphasized the necessity of a scientific ap ...
Chapter 3 PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES A preposition is a word that
... II. Sentence Analysis: classify the italicized phrases as either adjectival or adverbial by writing Adj. or Adv. Then, classify the types of sentences. 1. The girl in red is the one I mean. 2. The guests arrived at noon. 3. The tree on the hill is a landmark. 4. The house sits on the hill. 5. The of ...
... II. Sentence Analysis: classify the italicized phrases as either adjectival or adverbial by writing Adj. or Adv. Then, classify the types of sentences. 1. The girl in red is the one I mean. 2. The guests arrived at noon. 3. The tree on the hill is a landmark. 4. The house sits on the hill. 5. The of ...
5 NOUNS
... few other smaller patterns; some words are simply irregular and do not conform to any pattern (see 5.3). Second, there is a group of human nouns which often have alternative dual and plural forms which pattern differently from other irregular words, and refer to different constellations of referents ...
... few other smaller patterns; some words are simply irregular and do not conform to any pattern (see 5.3). Second, there is a group of human nouns which often have alternative dual and plural forms which pattern differently from other irregular words, and refer to different constellations of referents ...
(2005). Some thoughts on Balto-Finnic passives and impersonals
... Vihman (2002) treat it as a passive voice form (an impersonal passive), Blevins (2003) has proposed that it is an active impersonal form. We argue that a reclassification of the Balto-Finnic impersonal passive as an active impersonal form is questionable: the construction displays a number of proper ...
... Vihman (2002) treat it as a passive voice form (an impersonal passive), Blevins (2003) has proposed that it is an active impersonal form. We argue that a reclassification of the Balto-Finnic impersonal passive as an active impersonal form is questionable: the construction displays a number of proper ...
Using Verb Tenses
... starting ("starts"). They will have written their first exam by the time we get out of bed. Here, the act of getting out of bed occurs sometime after the writing of the exam. ...
... starting ("starts"). They will have written their first exam by the time we get out of bed. Here, the act of getting out of bed occurs sometime after the writing of the exam. ...
University of Groningen Time reference decoupled from tense
... syntactic operations and access to information structure; however, agrammatic individuals lack sufficient resources to apply these operations (Avrutin, 2000; 2006). They fail to perform multiple syntactic operations simultaneously due to limited working memory capacities according to processing acco ...
... syntactic operations and access to information structure; however, agrammatic individuals lack sufficient resources to apply these operations (Avrutin, 2000; 2006). They fail to perform multiple syntactic operations simultaneously due to limited working memory capacities according to processing acco ...
Let Us All Learn About ---==”Subject and Verb Agreement”
... b. A number of farmers attend a seminar about agriculture. ...
... b. A number of farmers attend a seminar about agriculture. ...
"the white tiger" and "the reluctant fundamentalist"
... will also study how often they have used lexical items that fall into different categories like standard English – British or American, substandard English, dialect and Indian English. ...
... will also study how often they have used lexical items that fall into different categories like standard English – British or American, substandard English, dialect and Indian English. ...
Syntactic analysis of Arabic adverb`s between Arabic and English: X
... The study finds out the following: Position of Arabic adverbs is more changeable than English in terms of tense and manner. Arabic sentences have multiple meaning in relation to the adverb locus which leads to nominal, adverbial or adjectival sentence. Arabic has less number of irregular verbs which ...
... The study finds out the following: Position of Arabic adverbs is more changeable than English in terms of tense and manner. Arabic sentences have multiple meaning in relation to the adverb locus which leads to nominal, adverbial or adjectival sentence. Arabic has less number of irregular verbs which ...
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.