Adverbs
... When adverbs are used to make comparisons, they are either in the comparative or superlative form. The comparative form is made by adding -er to the end of an adverb. Examples… close closer ...
... When adverbs are used to make comparisons, they are either in the comparative or superlative form. The comparative form is made by adding -er to the end of an adverb. Examples… close closer ...
The Origin of the Latin Gerund and Gerundive
... horses’ = ‘time to ask for horses’. The last example can also be rendered with the gerund: tempus equ^s poscend%. The only certain connection of these forms is with the Sabellic gerundive, a formation attested in both Oscan (e.g., s a k r a n n a s (Lat. sacrandae) ‘to be consecrated’, ú p s a n n a ...
... horses’ = ‘time to ask for horses’. The last example can also be rendered with the gerund: tempus equ^s poscend%. The only certain connection of these forms is with the Sabellic gerundive, a formation attested in both Oscan (e.g., s a k r a n n a s (Lat. sacrandae) ‘to be consecrated’, ú p s a n n a ...
Grammar Practice Workbook
... Possessive nouns name who or what owns or has something. They can be singular or plural. The dogs’ names are Trooper and Sam. Traci’s dog can do tricks. To form the possessive of all singular nouns and plural nouns not ending in s, add an apostrophe and s. sun men boss ...
... Possessive nouns name who or what owns or has something. They can be singular or plural. The dogs’ names are Trooper and Sam. Traci’s dog can do tricks. To form the possessive of all singular nouns and plural nouns not ending in s, add an apostrophe and s. sun men boss ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Grammar and
... _afutada sui_ they all, _gera lea sui na_ they have gone already. To express totality the suffixed pronoun singular third and all persons plural are added to a root _afuta_, formed from _afu_ to complete, with _ta_ noun termination: _afutanafera_ all the land, _afutana nonigu_ all my whole body. It ...
... _afutada sui_ they all, _gera lea sui na_ they have gone already. To express totality the suffixed pronoun singular third and all persons plural are added to a root _afuta_, formed from _afu_ to complete, with _ta_ noun termination: _afutanafera_ all the land, _afutana nonigu_ all my whole body. It ...
By Peter Ryan 2008 - Affiliates Marketing Solutions
... Usually, homophones are in groups of two (our, hour), but very occasionally they can be in groups of three (to, too, two) or even four. If we take "bear" for an example, we can add another word to the group" “Our bear (the animal) cannot bear (tolerate) being bare (naked) in the winter – this is act ...
... Usually, homophones are in groups of two (our, hour), but very occasionally they can be in groups of three (to, too, two) or even four. If we take "bear" for an example, we can add another word to the group" “Our bear (the animal) cannot bear (tolerate) being bare (naked) in the winter – this is act ...
Sentence Basics
... direct objects I gave a passing grade. o indirect objects I gave Jack a passing grade o object of preposition I gave a passing grade to Jack. o predicate nominative Torture is running in the morning. o ...
... direct objects I gave a passing grade. o indirect objects I gave Jack a passing grade o object of preposition I gave a passing grade to Jack. o predicate nominative Torture is running in the morning. o ...
PDF - Routledge Handbooks Online
... Spanish is by far the most widely spoken of the modern Romance languages, and as an international vehicle for commerce and diplomacy is fast encroaching on the preeminent position long enjoyed by French. (Details of its geographical distribution together with speaker statistics will be found in Chap ...
... Spanish is by far the most widely spoken of the modern Romance languages, and as an international vehicle for commerce and diplomacy is fast encroaching on the preeminent position long enjoyed by French. (Details of its geographical distribution together with speaker statistics will be found in Chap ...
Draft for M. Rappaport Hovav, E. Doron, and I. Sichel (ed). Syntax
... item’s designation. Should we construe sauté as involving a heat-with-a-small-amountof-fat subevent and separate stirring subevent? We cannot use the fact that the situation can be described by a single word without begging the question we are aiming to address: can a single verb designate two causa ...
... item’s designation. Should we construe sauté as involving a heat-with-a-small-amountof-fat subevent and separate stirring subevent? We cannot use the fact that the situation can be described by a single word without begging the question we are aiming to address: can a single verb designate two causa ...
Native Languages: A Support Document for the Teaching of
... base can be just a root, or it can consist of a root plus incorporated noun or derivational suffix. A verb can also have one or more prepronominal prefixes, which occur before the pronominal prefix and convey additional information about the action or state described by the verb. O C M ...
... base can be just a root, or it can consist of a root plus incorporated noun or derivational suffix. A verb can also have one or more prepronominal prefixes, which occur before the pronominal prefix and convey additional information about the action or state described by the verb. O C M ...
Personal Pronouns
... Personal Pronouns Unlike English nouns, which usually do not change form except for the addition of an -s ending to create the plural or the apostrophe + s to create the possessive, personal pronouns (which stand for persons or things) change form according to their various uses within a sentence. T ...
... Personal Pronouns Unlike English nouns, which usually do not change form except for the addition of an -s ending to create the plural or the apostrophe + s to create the possessive, personal pronouns (which stand for persons or things) change form according to their various uses within a sentence. T ...
lexical decomposition
... b. If x is a bachelor, then x is an unmarried adult human male. (Katz, : ...
... b. If x is a bachelor, then x is an unmarried adult human male. (Katz, : ...
Diminutives and augmentatives in Beja (North-Cushitic) - Hal-SHS
... system, both diminutives and augmentatives make use of the alveolar lateral approximant. Such a fact also goes against iconicity and a straightforward correlation between sound symbolism and evaluative morphology in Beja. From a diachronic viewpoint, it has to be noted that in Beja the origin of th ...
... system, both diminutives and augmentatives make use of the alveolar lateral approximant. Such a fact also goes against iconicity and a straightforward correlation between sound symbolism and evaluative morphology in Beja. From a diachronic viewpoint, it has to be noted that in Beja the origin of th ...
here - UCLA Linguistics
... a sequence of sentences, and the study of discourse (which includes texts and dialogs) is certainly a very vital one. Unfortunately, even sentences are so complicated that it will take all our time to study them. The methods, however, shall be useful for discourse analysis as well. For a linguist, l ...
... a sequence of sentences, and the study of discourse (which includes texts and dialogs) is certainly a very vital one. Unfortunately, even sentences are so complicated that it will take all our time to study them. The methods, however, shall be useful for discourse analysis as well. For a linguist, l ...
INTRODUCTION TO SUMERIAN GRAMMAR
... easily be drawn was used to write a homophonous word which could not so easily be depicted, especially an abstract idea. For example, the picture of an arrow, pronounced /ti/, became also the standard sign for ti "rib" as well as for the verb ti(l) "to live." The adoption of the rebus principle was ...
... easily be drawn was used to write a homophonous word which could not so easily be depicted, especially an abstract idea. For example, the picture of an arrow, pronounced /ti/, became also the standard sign for ti "rib" as well as for the verb ti(l) "to live." The adoption of the rebus principle was ...
Mixed (Non)veridicality and mood choice with emotive verbs
... can be generalized to predict the observed variation, and the potential of dual patterns. The variation illustrates, in the clearest way, the complexity one is confronted with when trying to establish a general pattern of mood choice across a number of languages— and how difficult it is to come up w ...
... can be generalized to predict the observed variation, and the potential of dual patterns. The variation illustrates, in the clearest way, the complexity one is confronted with when trying to establish a general pattern of mood choice across a number of languages— and how difficult it is to come up w ...
The Welsh Vocabulary Builder 1
... approximately 2000 words each, selected from a representative range of text types to illustrate modern (mainly post 1970) Welsh prose writing. . . The sample included materials from the fields of novels and short stories, religious writing, children's literature both factual and fiction, non-fiction ...
... approximately 2000 words each, selected from a representative range of text types to illustrate modern (mainly post 1970) Welsh prose writing. . . The sample included materials from the fields of novels and short stories, religious writing, children's literature both factual and fiction, non-fiction ...
The Argument Structure of Elementary Sentences
... what is the status of the nouns which are not concrete, that is, where do the nouns appear which we call intuitively abstract? Our example can be used to clarify this point. We have in fact observed: N2 =: l'intervention de Bob + (le fait + ce) que Bob interviendrait N2 =: Bob's intervention + the f ...
... what is the status of the nouns which are not concrete, that is, where do the nouns appear which we call intuitively abstract? Our example can be used to clarify this point. We have in fact observed: N2 =: l'intervention de Bob + (le fait + ce) que Bob interviendrait N2 =: Bob's intervention + the f ...
Part of Speech Annotation of a Turkish-German Code
... the syntactic level, we have to take into account UD syntax representation, especially for segmenting Turkish words. Besides the recent popularity of the UD-based annotations, the major advantage of UD in our work is that the UD guidelines are intended to be as language-general as possible. For a mu ...
... the syntactic level, we have to take into account UD syntax representation, especially for segmenting Turkish words. Besides the recent popularity of the UD-based annotations, the major advantage of UD in our work is that the UD guidelines are intended to be as language-general as possible. For a mu ...
English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style
... range of disciplines. What I discovered confirmed that each discipline (and indeed subdiscipline) tends to use English in very specific ways that are not consistent across disciplines. An obvious example is the use of we. In some disciplines, we (and even I) are used freely; in other disciplines, th ...
... range of disciplines. What I discovered confirmed that each discipline (and indeed subdiscipline) tends to use English in very specific ways that are not consistent across disciplines. An obvious example is the use of we. In some disciplines, we (and even I) are used freely; in other disciplines, th ...
Constraints on the formal structure of Russian verb clusters
... while’ > щипнутьp ‘pinch/pluck once’ • дутьi ‘blow’ + подутьp ‘blow a while’ > дунутьp ‘blow once’ • скрипетьi ‘squeak’ + поскрипетьp ‘squeak a while’ > скрипнутьp ‘squeak once’ • работатьi ‘work’ + поработатьp ‘work a while’ > *работнутьp ‘work once’ [NB: Some are formed ...
... while’ > щипнутьp ‘pinch/pluck once’ • дутьi ‘blow’ + подутьp ‘blow a while’ > дунутьp ‘blow once’ • скрипетьi ‘squeak’ + поскрипетьp ‘squeak a while’ > скрипнутьp ‘squeak once’ • работатьi ‘work’ + поработатьp ‘work a while’ > *работнутьp ‘work once’ [NB: Some are formed ...
A Computational Semantic Lexicon of French Verbs of Emotion
... Française 1971-1994 ), the Lexicon-Grammar of French Verbs studied by Gross (1975), and a large electronic corpus, Frantext, (2004) which contains 1250 texts from novels and stories, were used to build this classification. A large panel of native speakers verified this classification. From a prototy ...
... Française 1971-1994 ), the Lexicon-Grammar of French Verbs studied by Gross (1975), and a large electronic corpus, Frantext, (2004) which contains 1250 texts from novels and stories, were used to build this classification. A large panel of native speakers verified this classification. From a prototy ...
introduction to sumerian grammar
... This grammar is intended primarily for use in the first year of university study under the guidance of a teacher who can describe the classic problems in greater detail, add current alternative explanations for phenomena, help the student parse and understand the many textual illustrations found thr ...
... This grammar is intended primarily for use in the first year of university study under the guidance of a teacher who can describe the classic problems in greater detail, add current alternative explanations for phenomena, help the student parse and understand the many textual illustrations found thr ...
Grammar Tweets - Queen`s University
... November 30, 2012 – Homonyms and Homophones ........................................................................................... 24 Winter 2012 .................................................................................................................................................... ...
... November 30, 2012 – Homonyms and Homophones ........................................................................................... 24 Winter 2012 .................................................................................................................................................... ...
pronominalised himalayan languages limbu - rai
... trilingual strength in respect of these languages,even if it is below 100 speakers,have been taken separately and not clubbed under "Others" 1.5 SOCIOLINGUISTIC SETTING ...
... trilingual strength in respect of these languages,even if it is below 100 speakers,have been taken separately and not clubbed under "Others" 1.5 SOCIOLINGUISTIC SETTING ...
Syntactic category information and the semantics of
... It is generally assumed that word-formation rules contain, among other things, information on the semantics of the suffix and the syntactic category (or word-class)1 of possible bases. This is true for both generative approaches to word-formation (à la Aronoff 1976) and traditional work (such as Mar ...
... It is generally assumed that word-formation rules contain, among other things, information on the semantics of the suffix and the syntactic category (or word-class)1 of possible bases. This is true for both generative approaches to word-formation (à la Aronoff 1976) and traditional work (such as Mar ...