Non-concord in Existential-There Constructions: A Corpus - S
... Language 12, 111-137. Non-concord between the notional subject and the verb is an oft-cited characteristic of existential there-constructions. Recognizing some limitations of the previous studies (Meechan & Foley, 1994; Insua & Martinez, 2003), this paper seeks to resolve them by leading a more focu ...
... Language 12, 111-137. Non-concord between the notional subject and the verb is an oft-cited characteristic of existential there-constructions. Recognizing some limitations of the previous studies (Meechan & Foley, 1994; Insua & Martinez, 2003), this paper seeks to resolve them by leading a more focu ...
BASIC KOREAN: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK
... Korean-as-a-foreign-language (KFL) teaching and learning in the Englishspeaking world has hardly been popular among non-Koreans until quite recently. However, the number of KFL learners has started to grow rapidly since the latter half of the 1970s for various reasons, such as the increasing visibil ...
... Korean-as-a-foreign-language (KFL) teaching and learning in the Englishspeaking world has hardly been popular among non-Koreans until quite recently. However, the number of KFL learners has started to grow rapidly since the latter half of the 1970s for various reasons, such as the increasing visibil ...
English Co-reference Guidelines
... According to the guidelines written for a name-tagging task at Georgetown University, "A human reading [a text] is able to understand it using her knowledge of language as well as her knowledge of the world. To get a computer to do the same, it is helpful to prepare examples of text marked up with w ...
... According to the guidelines written for a name-tagging task at Georgetown University, "A human reading [a text] is able to understand it using her knowledge of language as well as her knowledge of the world. To get a computer to do the same, it is helpful to prepare examples of text marked up with w ...
chapter 11 the preterit tense
... Different Yo Forms in the Preterit Tense In Chapter 1, I discuss the spelling and pronunciation rules of Spanish. These rules are extremely consistent, and some times a conjugated form of the verb must change its spelling to maintain the correct pronunciation. This happens in the yo form of specific ...
... Different Yo Forms in the Preterit Tense In Chapter 1, I discuss the spelling and pronunciation rules of Spanish. These rules are extremely consistent, and some times a conjugated form of the verb must change its spelling to maintain the correct pronunciation. This happens in the yo form of specific ...
The Syntactic Operator se in Spanish
... The last clarification in the description of the data that follows concerns the so-called “strength” of the Agreement nodes. Here I again follow minimalist assumptions in considering that a functional node is “strong” when its features have to be checked overtly (that is, by the time the sentence is ...
... The last clarification in the description of the data that follows concerns the so-called “strength” of the Agreement nodes. Here I again follow minimalist assumptions in considering that a functional node is “strong” when its features have to be checked overtly (that is, by the time the sentence is ...
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. ...
1. Introduction
... 3. PRO is in Complementary Distribution with Overt Pronouns Assuming that PRO exists in languages like English, we have to explain similarities and differences with other pronominal expressions. Focusing on English only, it might appear that the most salient difference between PRO and a subject pron ...
... 3. PRO is in Complementary Distribution with Overt Pronouns Assuming that PRO exists in languages like English, we have to explain similarities and differences with other pronominal expressions. Focusing on English only, it might appear that the most salient difference between PRO and a subject pron ...
Reciprocal markers in Adyghe, their relations and interactions
... The first two prefixes, viz. ze- and zere-, occupy the slot of one of the agreement affixes in the verb form, while other slots are occupied by agreement markers. The prefix ze- is used on subject-oriented “canonical”i reciprocals of two-place intransitive bases (cf. (24b)) and subject-oriented “ind ...
... The first two prefixes, viz. ze- and zere-, occupy the slot of one of the agreement affixes in the verb form, while other slots are occupied by agreement markers. The prefix ze- is used on subject-oriented “canonical”i reciprocals of two-place intransitive bases (cf. (24b)) and subject-oriented “ind ...
Grammar Essentials 3rd Edition
... Colloquialisms are informal words and phrases such as in a bind, pulled it off, real good, etc. These words and phrases are widely used in conversations between friends, but in business writing, they portray an attitude of familiarity that may cause your message to be taken less seriously than you i ...
... Colloquialisms are informal words and phrases such as in a bind, pulled it off, real good, etc. These words and phrases are widely used in conversations between friends, but in business writing, they portray an attitude of familiarity that may cause your message to be taken less seriously than you i ...
Grammar and Language Workbook, Part 1
... 30. Does that seem like a lot of money to you ? 31. When did Americans begin going to Alaska ? 32. Americans began going to Alaska during the 1890s and 1900s . 33. They went there to look for gold . 34. Large amounts of “black gold” were discovered in Alaska in 1968 . 35. What is “black gold” ? 36. ...
... 30. Does that seem like a lot of money to you ? 31. When did Americans begin going to Alaska ? 32. Americans began going to Alaska during the 1890s and 1900s . 33. They went there to look for gold . 34. Large amounts of “black gold” were discovered in Alaska in 1968 . 35. What is “black gold” ? 36. ...
- SOAS Research Online
... differences between tones and vowels in different dialects. The phonology of Sumtu has been described provisionally by Kerstin Herr (2012) and Kee Shein Mang (2012) of SIL International, with the goal or developing and promoting a standardised orthography for Sumtu. At the time of writing the only m ...
... differences between tones and vowels in different dialects. The phonology of Sumtu has been described provisionally by Kerstin Herr (2012) and Kee Shein Mang (2012) of SIL International, with the goal or developing and promoting a standardised orthography for Sumtu. At the time of writing the only m ...
I find the book worth reading.
... generation of the twentieth century linguists as O.Jesperson. In our times, quite a few scholars, among them the successors of Descriptive linguistics, consider these verbs as part of the general set of modal verbs, "modal auxiliaries" expressing the meanings of capability, probability, permission, ...
... generation of the twentieth century linguists as O.Jesperson. In our times, quite a few scholars, among them the successors of Descriptive linguistics, consider these verbs as part of the general set of modal verbs, "modal auxiliaries" expressing the meanings of capability, probability, permission, ...
CHAPTER FIVE
... shall, should, can, could, may, might, must, and ought to and the latter includes had better, have (got) to, be able to, used to, and would rather. In this study, only pure modal verbs are analyzed because the meaning of semi-modal verbs is easier than that of pure modal verbs. As for the meanings ...
... shall, should, can, could, may, might, must, and ought to and the latter includes had better, have (got) to, be able to, used to, and would rather. In this study, only pure modal verbs are analyzed because the meaning of semi-modal verbs is easier than that of pure modal verbs. As for the meanings ...
full text pdf
... Comitative-instrumental and Causal-final. These are the most important cases from the point of view of our research, as we focus on the possibilities of expressing them in a language which does not have such categories. ...
... Comitative-instrumental and Causal-final. These are the most important cases from the point of view of our research, as we focus on the possibilities of expressing them in a language which does not have such categories. ...
2 The Dative Case
... some words, so you suggest flowerpot, mud puddle, and refrigerator. Then the leader of the 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 l ...
... some words, so you suggest flowerpot, mud puddle, and refrigerator. Then the leader of the 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 l ...
compounds
... indicate their grammatical functions, for example number, tense, degree, without involving a full semantic change (i.e. a change in meaning). i n f l e x i o n a l morphemes. paradigm Inflectionally related word forms are the forms of the same word A paradigm is the complete set of related wordforms ...
... indicate their grammatical functions, for example number, tense, degree, without involving a full semantic change (i.e. a change in meaning). i n f l e x i o n a l morphemes. paradigm Inflectionally related word forms are the forms of the same word A paradigm is the complete set of related wordforms ...
French Verbs Made Simple(r)
... lar to virtually all of the nearly 800 “irregular”-er verbs: only two do not follow precise patterns throughout their conjugations. Recognizing and learning these patterns is a far more efficient way to learn French verbs than simply attempting to memorize what may at first seem like almost random irr ...
... lar to virtually all of the nearly 800 “irregular”-er verbs: only two do not follow precise patterns throughout their conjugations. Recognizing and learning these patterns is a far more efficient way to learn French verbs than simply attempting to memorize what may at first seem like almost random irr ...
Untitled
... similar patterns occur for thousands of other verbs of English. The subdiscipline of linguistics that deals with such patterns is called morphology. The existence of such patterns also implies that words may have an internal constituent structure. For instance, walking can be divided into the consti ...
... similar patterns occur for thousands of other verbs of English. The subdiscipline of linguistics that deals with such patterns is called morphology. The existence of such patterns also implies that words may have an internal constituent structure. For instance, walking can be divided into the consti ...
Lexical aspect in English
... I hope she’s coming down ... because I start work on Thursday (1a-030 312) They chose to start their daunting trek from the Canadian Arctic (s2b-024 042) The two most important constructions are (ii) and (iii) which have catenatives (The term ‘catenative’ is long established for the sequences of ver ...
... I hope she’s coming down ... because I start work on Thursday (1a-030 312) They chose to start their daunting trek from the Canadian Arctic (s2b-024 042) The two most important constructions are (ii) and (iii) which have catenatives (The term ‘catenative’ is long established for the sequences of ver ...
- MIT Press Journals
... must now supply the ingredients of a morphosyntactic calculus. This leads to a theory in which semantic composition parallels morphosyntactic combination by virtue of bound morphemes’ being able to pick their domains just like words (above X0 , if needed). A comparison of English and Turkish in this ...
... must now supply the ingredients of a morphosyntactic calculus. This leads to a theory in which semantic composition parallels morphosyntactic combination by virtue of bound morphemes’ being able to pick their domains just like words (above X0 , if needed). A comparison of English and Turkish in this ...
French language course
... The punctuation symbols in French operates very similarly to English with the same meaning. The only punctuation symbol not present in French would be the quotation marks; these are replaced by the guillemets shown in the table above. The two stroke punctuation marks (such as ;, :, ?, !) may require ...
... The punctuation symbols in French operates very similarly to English with the same meaning. The only punctuation symbol not present in French would be the quotation marks; these are replaced by the guillemets shown in the table above. The two stroke punctuation marks (such as ;, :, ?, !) may require ...
Observations on the optionality of modern Catalan participle
... monarchs and dictators, including Ferdinand and Isabella, Philip V, and Franco, have restricted and/or forbidden the use of Catalan, subjugating it to Castilian Spanish, the main language spoken throughout the rest of Spain (Nath, 1998). Because of its past as a minority language in many ways, Catal ...
... monarchs and dictators, including Ferdinand and Isabella, Philip V, and Franco, have restricted and/or forbidden the use of Catalan, subjugating it to Castilian Spanish, the main language spoken throughout the rest of Spain (Nath, 1998). Because of its past as a minority language in many ways, Catal ...
Pronouns
... yours, his, hers, ours, and theirs as modifiers before nouns. These pronouns stand alone and are separated from the nouns to which they refer. The responsibility is yours if an attachment with a virus is opened. His was the only e-mail message that I read today. ...
... yours, his, hers, ours, and theirs as modifiers before nouns. These pronouns stand alone and are separated from the nouns to which they refer. The responsibility is yours if an attachment with a virus is opened. His was the only e-mail message that I read today. ...
Grammar Context
... Mouse, added sound and music to his movies, and produced the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Many people think he was a great cartoonist, but he wasn’t. Instead, he was a great ...
... Mouse, added sound and music to his movies, and produced the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Many people think he was a great cartoonist, but he wasn’t. Instead, he was a great ...
