view - Association for Computational Linguistics
... of a CP is not fully predictable from the meaning of its components. N-V combinations are subject to various levels of lexicalization. In some cases, the CP meaning is a specialization of the predictable meaning of the combination. For instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only t ...
... of a CP is not fully predictable from the meaning of its components. N-V combinations are subject to various levels of lexicalization. In some cases, the CP meaning is a specialization of the predictable meaning of the combination. For instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only t ...
English Grammar 2
... ٤. The Subject of a sentence usually comes first, but occasionally it is put after the Predicate; as, Here comes the bus. Sweet are the uses of adversity. ٥. In Imperative sentences the Subject is left out; as, Sit down. [Here the Subject You is understood]. Thank him. [Here too the Subject You is u ...
... ٤. The Subject of a sentence usually comes first, but occasionally it is put after the Predicate; as, Here comes the bus. Sweet are the uses of adversity. ٥. In Imperative sentences the Subject is left out; as, Sit down. [Here the Subject You is understood]. Thank him. [Here too the Subject You is u ...
Grammar - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... • A statement is a sentence that tells something. It ends with a period. . • A question is a sentence that asks something. It ends with a question mark. ? • A command tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. . • An exclamation shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation ma ...
... • A statement is a sentence that tells something. It ends with a period. . • A question is a sentence that asks something. It ends with a question mark. ? • A command tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. . • An exclamation shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation ma ...
as a PDF
... (cf. Toivonen 2003). However, until today, generative grammarians have not reached a general agreement on the kind of structure to assign to VPCs. A new perspective on the issue, which we will adopt here, was introduced by Booij (2002a,b). In his contributions, Booij claims that VPCs in Dutch (i.e. ...
... (cf. Toivonen 2003). However, until today, generative grammarians have not reached a general agreement on the kind of structure to assign to VPCs. A new perspective on the issue, which we will adopt here, was introduced by Booij (2002a,b). In his contributions, Booij claims that VPCs in Dutch (i.e. ...
Английская грамматика: базовый теоретический курс
... — The Conjunction — The Particle — The Article ...
... — The Conjunction — The Particle — The Article ...
Towards a structural typology of verb classes
... classification, however, it leaves certain ‘less motivated’ assignments, which in the history of a language may survive as relics. A child that starts out to learn the words of a language seems to need only a short time to detect the verb class vs. the noun class, and as soon as this happens, the ch ...
... classification, however, it leaves certain ‘less motivated’ assignments, which in the history of a language may survive as relics. A child that starts out to learn the words of a language seems to need only a short time to detect the verb class vs. the noun class, and as soon as this happens, the ch ...
The Case for Case - UC Berkeley Linguistics
... presupposing structures having properties of the kind to be developed in these pages. My paper will plead that the grammatical notion ‘case’ deserves a place in the base component of the grammar of every language. In the past, research on ‘case’ has amounted to an examination of the variety of seman ...
... presupposing structures having properties of the kind to be developed in these pages. My paper will plead that the grammatical notion ‘case’ deserves a place in the base component of the grammar of every language. In the past, research on ‘case’ has amounted to an examination of the variety of seman ...
t-lemma - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... perm: permission, i.e. smět, moci [may, to be allowed] Nesmíš kouřit. [You are not allowed to smoke] hrt: obligation, i.e. mít [should, to be obliged] Petr ti měl ty podklady poslat. [Petr was supposed to send you the documents] poss: possibility, i.e. moci, dát se [may, can, to be possible] To se d ...
... perm: permission, i.e. smět, moci [may, to be allowed] Nesmíš kouřit. [You are not allowed to smoke] hrt: obligation, i.e. mít [should, to be obliged] Petr ti měl ty podklady poslat. [Petr was supposed to send you the documents] poss: possibility, i.e. moci, dát se [may, can, to be possible] To se d ...
http://www.bktit.org BKTIT `s What ? - Tài Nguyên Số
... For ease of reference, all the entries in this book have been listed alphabetically rather than being divided into separate spelling, usage, punctuation and grammar sections. You will therefore find hypocrisy following hyphens; paragraphing following paraffin; who or whom? following whiskey or whisky?; ...
... For ease of reference, all the entries in this book have been listed alphabetically rather than being divided into separate spelling, usage, punctuation and grammar sections. You will therefore find hypocrisy following hyphens; paragraphing following paraffin; who or whom? following whiskey or whisky?; ...
The head of Verb+Noun compounds in the Romance languages
... exclusively female referents, the Verb+Noun compound has feminine gender (cf. NGRALE 2009, ch. 2). When it refers to an Instrument with which a person is able to perform some action or operation, it has – presumably default – masculine gender. The number of Verb+Noun compounds that have been incorpo ...
... exclusively female referents, the Verb+Noun compound has feminine gender (cf. NGRALE 2009, ch. 2). When it refers to an Instrument with which a person is able to perform some action or operation, it has – presumably default – masculine gender. The number of Verb+Noun compounds that have been incorpo ...
Parts of Speech
... clauses #2 Indefinite Pronouns general way to refer to nouns #3 Demonstrative Pronouns point out specific persons, places, things or ideas. ...
... clauses #2 Indefinite Pronouns general way to refer to nouns #3 Demonstrative Pronouns point out specific persons, places, things or ideas. ...
Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2
... At the opposite end of the spectrum, some models hold that L1 and L2 rely on largely (DeKeyser, 2000, 2003) or entirely (Bley-Vroman, 1989) different mechanisms. For Bley-Vroman, this distinction is based on the unavailability of Universal Grammar (UG) in later language learning. For DeKeyser, the d ...
... At the opposite end of the spectrum, some models hold that L1 and L2 rely on largely (DeKeyser, 2000, 2003) or entirely (Bley-Vroman, 1989) different mechanisms. For Bley-Vroman, this distinction is based on the unavailability of Universal Grammar (UG) in later language learning. For DeKeyser, the d ...
Ovid, Metamorphoses 8
... is described as foedum?' The effect of separating the adjective from the noun, and placing the adjective first, is to emphasise foedum. 156 mātris adulterium: mātris refers to Pasiphae, the mother of the bull. The phrase economically encapsulates Pasiphae's double wrongdoing; she has betrayed her hu ...
... is described as foedum?' The effect of separating the adjective from the noun, and placing the adjective first, is to emphasise foedum. 156 mātris adulterium: mātris refers to Pasiphae, the mother of the bull. The phrase economically encapsulates Pasiphae's double wrongdoing; she has betrayed her hu ...
A constructional approach to English verbal gerunds
... This rule produces a lexical entry for a verbal gerund from the present participle form of the verb. The verbal gerund differs syntactically from the participle in two ways: it is of category gerund and it subcategorizes for both a specifier and a subject. Since a verbal gerund selects for the same ...
... This rule produces a lexical entry for a verbal gerund from the present participle form of the verb. The verbal gerund differs syntactically from the participle in two ways: it is of category gerund and it subcategorizes for both a specifier and a subject. Since a verbal gerund selects for the same ...
Grades 6–8 - Scholastic
... Distribute copies of the model passage “The Cathedral of Junk” on page 7 to students. Allow time for them to read it on their own, or ask them to follow along as you read it aloud. Then use the teaching guide on page 6 to discuss general notes on nouns and how the writer used them in the passage. ...
... Distribute copies of the model passage “The Cathedral of Junk” on page 7 to students. Allow time for them to read it on their own, or ask them to follow along as you read it aloud. Then use the teaching guide on page 6 to discuss general notes on nouns and how the writer used them in the passage. ...
1. Introduction - Studies in African Linguistics
... right. In other words, apparent shift by two syllables is decomposed into a special feature of underlying forms plus one tone shift rule. Roberts [1992] posits three separate tone spreading rules, each spreading tone once to the right. Sietsema [1989], in contrast, posits metrical structure which, g ...
... right. In other words, apparent shift by two syllables is decomposed into a special feature of underlying forms plus one tone shift rule. Roberts [1992] posits three separate tone spreading rules, each spreading tone once to the right. Sietsema [1989], in contrast, posits metrical structure which, g ...
Grammar - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... • A statement is a sentence that tells something. It ends with a period. • A question is a sentence that asks something. It ends with a question mark. Statement: There are many ways to make new friends. Question: What do you do to make friends? Write statement if the sentence tells something. Write ...
... • A statement is a sentence that tells something. It ends with a period. • A question is a sentence that asks something. It ends with a question mark. Statement: There are many ways to make new friends. Question: What do you do to make friends? Write statement if the sentence tells something. Write ...
Open Access - Biblio UGent
... possession of an event can be expressed in two different ways: either with BE or with HAVE (1a-b). Note that the meaning of the HAVE-FEVP (1a) seems to be the same of the meaning of the BE-FEVP (1b). It seems then that Flemish exhibits an alternation between HAVE and BE which can be understood as an ...
... possession of an event can be expressed in two different ways: either with BE or with HAVE (1a-b). Note that the meaning of the HAVE-FEVP (1a) seems to be the same of the meaning of the BE-FEVP (1b). It seems then that Flemish exhibits an alternation between HAVE and BE which can be understood as an ...
Limitations on metonymic uses of –ion nominalizations
... used to refer to ‘the state of being sad’ through SAD IS DOWN metaphor. The original meaning of inspiration was ‘the action of breathing in’. It developed into figurative meaning: ‘a breathing in or infusion of some idea, purpose, etc. into the mind’ through the metaphor MENTAL FUNCTIONING IS BREATH ...
... used to refer to ‘the state of being sad’ through SAD IS DOWN metaphor. The original meaning of inspiration was ‘the action of breathing in’. It developed into figurative meaning: ‘a breathing in or infusion of some idea, purpose, etc. into the mind’ through the metaphor MENTAL FUNCTIONING IS BREATH ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging
... of some action or process; and temporal adverbs describe the time that some action or event took place (yesterday, Monday). Because of the heterogeneous nature of this class, some adverbs (e.g., temporal adverbs like Monday) are tagged in some tagging schemes as nouns. The closed classes differ more ...
... of some action or process; and temporal adverbs describe the time that some action or event took place (yesterday, Monday). Because of the heterogeneous nature of this class, some adverbs (e.g., temporal adverbs like Monday) are tagged in some tagging schemes as nouns. The closed classes differ more ...
Le: from pronoun to intensifier*
... leı́smo means that le is used less as an NP argument and more as an oblique: concomitant with the decline of le in two-participant situations is an increase in its co-occurrence with an NP argument in threeparticipant situations (e.g. LE llevava su comida ‘he was bringing his food TO HIM’ (DLNE 95, ...
... leı́smo means that le is used less as an NP argument and more as an oblique: concomitant with the decline of le in two-participant situations is an increase in its co-occurrence with an NP argument in threeparticipant situations (e.g. LE llevava su comida ‘he was bringing his food TO HIM’ (DLNE 95, ...
- Goldsmiths Research Online
... /s/, /z/ or /iz/ at the end of the first group of words seems to serve as a signal for this interpretation. The lack of this signal is itself meaningful, so the lack of /s/, /z/ or /iz/ in a form becomes as significant as their presence and the forms with and without the ending are in contrast to ea ...
... /s/, /z/ or /iz/ at the end of the first group of words seems to serve as a signal for this interpretation. The lack of this signal is itself meaningful, so the lack of /s/, /z/ or /iz/ in a form becomes as significant as their presence and the forms with and without the ending are in contrast to ea ...
A Computational Analysis of the Persian Noun Phrase
... Pronoun. Pronouns include personal as well as quantifying pronouns (QPronouns) such as everyone and someone. Pronouns usually appear in the position of the possessor, and they can form a whole NP on their own. Note that personal pronouns can appear either as separate lexical elements or as morphemes ...
... Pronoun. Pronouns include personal as well as quantifying pronouns (QPronouns) such as everyone and someone. Pronouns usually appear in the position of the possessor, and they can form a whole NP on their own. Note that personal pronouns can appear either as separate lexical elements or as morphemes ...
Any student of Russian as a foreign language has been faced with
... opposition to perfectivization, this process tends to use suffixes instead of prefixes. The suffixes involved are (hard and soft variants) -yvaj-/-ivaj-, -vaj-, and the unproductive -aj(Tikhonov, 1998: 18). Imperfectivization always forms pure aspectual pairs, because, unlike prefixes, the suffixes ...
... opposition to perfectivization, this process tends to use suffixes instead of prefixes. The suffixes involved are (hard and soft variants) -yvaj-/-ivaj-, -vaj-, and the unproductive -aj(Tikhonov, 1998: 18). Imperfectivization always forms pure aspectual pairs, because, unlike prefixes, the suffixes ...